This show just gets worse and worse every single episode. I love to hate it.
The PADRE storyline is one of the worst storylines in any of the Walking Dead shows thus far - and that's really saying something because there have been some tremendous stinkers over the years. The dialog is so horribly written that almost none of the conversations even make sense. Each "shocking revelation" in this episode literally had me laughing out loud at how incredibly dumb it all was. Everything feels like it was written by AI.
At one point one of the new characters, Crane, freaks out because his dad left his binoculars on a boat. He grabs them and says "I've gotta take these to him!" His sister, Shrike, says "why?" - His response? "Because how will he see what's coming without them?" - This is just a taste of how bad the dialog in this show has become. I've got old stories I wrote when I was still in grade school that are better than this absolute dreck.
Last season Daniel was suffering from serious dementia - he could barely remember anything, could hardly function without Luciana tricking him into doing things, and was, at best, a burden on everyone around him if not a dangerous threat to them. This season he's the leader of a group of parents searching for the kids that were stolen from them by Madison (for PADRE). His dementia seems to have been completely cured. This is explained via a throwaway line - Daniel is slurping on a drink and he says "yerba-maté - it's good for mental focus." Wow. Just wow. I can't believe nobody ever tried using yerba-maté to literally *cure* dementia before. Absolutely brilliant writing.
It just keeps getting worse from there. The writers on this show should never be allowed to work again.