The 2 stars I'm giving are basically for visual and special effects, because everything else is a complete waste of time. Unlikable characters, unconvincing actors, a plot so thin that could exhausted in half an episode, even the make up and clothes departments are completely missing the point of what a post apocalyptic time would be. It gets really tiring to see TWD tv universe keep on making their actors look spotless and clean. Their clothes always stainless and tailor made. Hairstyles on point and full make up treatment. The black haired actress looks more like a insta influencer than a character in a post apocalyptic zombie world. People in charge of these issues should take a look at the movie The Road and draw a bit of inspiration from it.
This series also suffers from the exact same problem TWD and FTWD are facing: the issues the characters face are created by themselves and their stupid decisions. I wonder how these people would survive in a world like this when their survival instincts are an absolute disgrace. Your path leads you to a huge crater filled with zombies, abandoned cars and buses, there's dust, smoke and fog that makes visibility really hard. What do you do? Go right through it, or find a way around it? Of course you go through it...without stupid decisions there would be no TWD universe, right? When you force characters into unreasonable scenarios and you make them do things that are completely dumb, you lose the interest from your audience. How do you expect people to relate with your characters when all they do is contrary to common sense?
These kids look like they're trying. Also the idea of having them cross a lot of country might be promising. Let's see how it goes from here, but they need to do a whole lot better than this.
Review of The Blaze of Gory
