Stories We Tell Ourselves
- Episode aired Jul 13, 2023
- TV-MA
- 47m
IMDb RATING
7.4/10
2.6K
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Truths are unearthed and motives are revealed as Maggie, Negan and the others travel further into the city's depths.Truths are unearthed and motives are revealed as Maggie, Negan and the others travel further into the city's depths.Truths are unearthed and motives are revealed as Maggie, Negan and the others travel further into the city's depths.
Zeljko Ivanek
- The Croat
- (as Željko Ivanek)
Matt Bruzzio
- Burazi
- (uncredited)
Patrick Klein
- Walker
- (uncredited)
Daniela Rosario
- Burazi
- (uncredited)
Genoveva Rossi
- Walker
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaIn Here's Negan (2021), it was revealed that Negan was a Gym Teacher before the Apocalypse.
- GoofsWhen Croat enters the opera and the camera faces him with the door into the street on his background, there are cars in the street visible going back and forward.
- ConnectionsReferences Theater of Blood (1973)
Featured review
"Stories We Tell Ourselves" gives us answers and serves as a build up to the season finale, action and acting were great
"Stories We Tell Ourselves" was written by Brenna Kouf and was directed by Gandja Monteiro. For this episode, both the writing and direction is quite great, mostly the direction and acting. I'm so happy the writing and dialogue haven't changed since the first episode, consistent writing and great writing at that. The whole production is impressive and I'm glad AMC brought them the budget needed, everything looks great, even the VFX. Sound design and the musical score was great, which brought suspense and tension to every scene. This episode was beautifully shot, great cinematography! The editing deserves some praise too, especially the pacing which is perfect.
Truths are unearthed and motives are revealed as Maggie, Negan and the others travel further into the city's depths.
We are now on the fifth episode of The Walking Dead: Dead City. The direction in this episode is truly terrific and I can say the same about the writing, the dialogue and the different set pieces which were written into the script. Gaius Charles is great as Perlie Armstrong, giving this raw and interesting performance with believability, the more we see and learn, the less cartoonish he becomes after his introduction in the first episode. I can now say he's a well written character which brings much to TWD: Dead City, and Gaius Charles gave the episode's best performance. Lauren Cohan and Jeffrey Dean Morgan are once again terrific. Getting to know more of the backstory and what happened through flashbacks is needed to fill the gaps and explain what is exactly happening behind the scenes, I have long believed that something was off with Maggie and the more we see, the more antagonistic she seems which is a nice little twist to the beloved character. Moral choices have long been important to the franchise and seeing her character this way might feel bad for some but I enjoy it, as if you witness something like the thing she witnessed, I'm sure your psyche won't be good. We have finally got to see Maggie's trauma up close. The sewer sequence and the zombie action, unpredictable and terrifying, full of suspension. The Walker King or whatever you want to call it, it's cool but you see the inspiration from The Last of Us 2 which has a similar character called Rat King. I liked the scene though, also the whole sewer sequence. For The Croat's scenes, we get to see him converse and meet a new character which seems like the true leader of Manhattan, Lisa Emery plays the character "The Dama". Brilliant performer who does a fantastic performance. This was a good episode but serves mostly as a build up episode for the season finale.
Truths are unearthed and motives are revealed as Maggie, Negan and the others travel further into the city's depths.
We are now on the fifth episode of The Walking Dead: Dead City. The direction in this episode is truly terrific and I can say the same about the writing, the dialogue and the different set pieces which were written into the script. Gaius Charles is great as Perlie Armstrong, giving this raw and interesting performance with believability, the more we see and learn, the less cartoonish he becomes after his introduction in the first episode. I can now say he's a well written character which brings much to TWD: Dead City, and Gaius Charles gave the episode's best performance. Lauren Cohan and Jeffrey Dean Morgan are once again terrific. Getting to know more of the backstory and what happened through flashbacks is needed to fill the gaps and explain what is exactly happening behind the scenes, I have long believed that something was off with Maggie and the more we see, the more antagonistic she seems which is a nice little twist to the beloved character. Moral choices have long been important to the franchise and seeing her character this way might feel bad for some but I enjoy it, as if you witness something like the thing she witnessed, I'm sure your psyche won't be good. We have finally got to see Maggie's trauma up close. The sewer sequence and the zombie action, unpredictable and terrifying, full of suspension. The Walker King or whatever you want to call it, it's cool but you see the inspiration from The Last of Us 2 which has a similar character called Rat King. I liked the scene though, also the whole sewer sequence. For The Croat's scenes, we get to see him converse and meet a new character which seems like the true leader of Manhattan, Lisa Emery plays the character "The Dama". Brilliant performer who does a fantastic performance. This was a good episode but serves mostly as a build up episode for the season finale.
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