Review of Gone

The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live: Gone (2024)
Season 1, Episode 2
10/10
"Gone" focuses on Michonne and Danai Gurira is once again incredible in the role, brilliant writing and direction, a spectacular hour of television
5 March 2024
Whilst the season premiere "Years" focused primarily on Rick Grimes, showing Michonne in dream sequences and in the final scene with her finding him in a great but unexpected scene, episode two "Gone" follows Michonne after her final episode in The Walking Dead where she saw caravans and a community moving to a different place but also the glimpse from the series finale.

The new cast and characters for this episode are; Matthew August Jeffers as Nat, Breeda Wool as Aiden, Andrew Bachelor as Bailey and Erin Anderson as Elle. These are all likable characters with each actor bringing good performances to the episode, with Michonne being the one at the front and center, it's just easy to see why you love her and Danai Gurira so much who portrays Michonne like no time have gone by.

The episode's premise: After Rick's sacrifice to save his group everyone believed he was gone apart from a couple of people who dedicated a long time to search for their friend.

This week's episode of TWD: The Ones Who Live "Gone" was directed by Bert & Bertie and written by Nana Nkweti & Channing Powell, the direction and visual storytelling were excellent, and the writing was incredible. Gimple is great at world building but honestly he can't really write realistic dialogue, here in this episode and these compelling writers, we get dialogue and conversations we don't want to end. Situations and scenes we don't want to end, all thanks to the writing and direction but also acting. Danai Gurira is such a compelling actress with large range, able to do different amounts of emotions throughout the episode whilst also having the charisma and the skill to lead an episode. Back to the direction and visual storytelling, Bert and Bertie contribute so much to these two episodes and I would have liked to see more of them on the show but I'm quite sure Michael Slovis will be terrific who'll direct the next two episodes (who have directed a few episodes of The Walking Dead and a couple of other well known shows).

The production design and art direction is terrific, so is the mise-en-scene and cinematography for the show. The increased budget makes for better production design and visual effects, overall making a better show in every department along with the actors. The episode is suspenseful from start to finish, the suspense hits high when the chlorine gas attack scene happens, making it terrifying and you truly sit on the edge of your seat throughout the rest of the episode. "Gone" is an episode of loss and of losing hope, like the episode before it. The episode is full of emotion and drama, with incredible acting and writing, along with some perfect direction from the Berts. With an episode like this, Danai Gurira have shown as expected that this is very much her show as much as Andrew Lincoln's, it's their and about the relationship between their characters. This was an incredible episode and I'm really looking forward to the next episode!
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