After two episodes of Tales of The Walking Dead that I thought were okay to lackluster, the series managed to knock it out the park with this week’s “Dee.”
That is because we got to learn more about Dee’s transformation into Alpha on the main series. Samantha Morton reprised her role as the character on this spinoff and by the end of it, I wondered if we could ever get a small spinoff of The Whisperers just like we did for 2021’s Dead in the Water.
I will admit that the setting was a little weird by The Walking Dead standards, but I was more open to it than last week’s mess of an episode. Dee and Lydia was part of a group in which they worked on a private boat where they have parties like it is the old times. They eventually leave after a conflict over a death of one of the members. It is at this point where Dee begins to teach Lydia how to handle the walkers while also Lydia having to witness Dee slice open Brooke’s mouth.
By the end of this episode, they encountered The Whisperers. I thought that it was an interesting twist for Dee and Lydia to join them instead of being the group’s founders. A good detail that I also liked is that the Whisperer mask Alpha had on the main show, is the face of the former leader of The Whisperers.
While all of this is great storytelling, I am puzzled by the timeline. Did this take place after her original backstory episode on season 10? or somewhere in between? Samantha Morton said at the Comic Con panel that her backstory episode on the main show was from Lydia’s point of view and not every detail is correct as it seemed. We learned the truth on Tales of The Walking Dead, but how much of that truth could we believe?
Furthermore, this is the best episode of Tales of The Walking Dead. Great storytelling all around as we got the birth of Alpha through this show!
