IN DREAMS, while well-intentioned, may quite possibly be the worst episode of Season 6 so far. Many fans probably think this is the only bad episode, but I disagree as there have been a few clunkers this season to go along with the greatness. I have 3 other episodes that I thought were weak 6x02, 6x03, and 6x11. The only thing that those 3 episodes might have over 6x12 is that each of them probably had some good parts to keep them from being the worst and I'm not even sure about that. Bottom line, so far there are 4 bottom of the barrel episodes and this is most definitely one of them. This episode focuses on Grace, who in my opinion has been one of the most forgettable characters introduced during the Time Jump Morgan era of Fear. I'm just not impressed with her character at all. Like several of the newbies, Grace is just kind of there. And she and Morgan have ZERO chemistry. They just love each other and I have no idea why.
In Dreams goes the pretentious route of Grace having an out-of-body experience where her conscious is trapped in a reality 16 years in the future where she is dead and her daughter is being raised by a gray-haired Morgan at the group's compound. We also see older versions of several other characters, including June, Charlie, Dwight, Sherry, Daniel, and Strand. In parallel to Grace's dream subplot, there's Morgan in the real world trapped with unconscious Grace, who is in labor, while he's being hunted by the dubious new villains, the End is the Beginning cult, for the mysterious key that he stole from them.
There is this absolutely inane fight sequence where the bad guys, who actually have guns, instead opt to fight Morgan without them in hand-to-hand combat. He chops them up one by one, then for some inexplicable reason opts to only wound their leader Riley (played by Nick Stahl) and let him go free only for him to return and hold Morgan and Grace at gunpoint! So instead of just shooting Morgan in the leg or something and taking the key forcibly, Riley just stands there and threatens him, while a now fully conscious Grace does all this completely unnecessary shouting and pleading spouting nonsense about how her unborn child will be the savior in the future and the key to bringing down the cult. So Grace actually bought into her fever dream that 16 years in the future, her BABY will save the universe? And Morgan actually bought into this nonsense? And did any of it matter? Thanks to Morgan's stupidity, Riley already had the upper hand on the duo anyway. The episode concludes with a manipulative and hackneyed scene of Grace losing her baby.
This episode was so forgettable and poorly written, probably as bad as any of the episodes from the series-worst Season 5. These must have been some of the same writers from that season. And despite the positive reception, I didn't like the prior Wes-Alicia centric episode either due to me being as unimpressed with those 2 characters as I am with Grace. Both episodes involve this cult and the most boring main characters. And since there are still more boring main characters to focus on and the cult are the new villains who will be around for a while, my prediction is that Season 6 will go out on a whimper instead of a bang.
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