Laura Belsey delivers another home run for THE WALKING DEAD (with “Here’s Negan”). Her collaboration with (Jeffrey Dean) Morgan is the kind of director-actor output that we more commonly associate with cinema than with television, but the results are just as powerful. – FILMSPEAK
One of the best episodes of The Walking Dead ever… perhaps even the best, period. – AIPT COMICS
“One More” (THE WALKING DEAD) is one of the show’s masterpieces. – FILMSPEAK
THE WALKING DEAD‘s “The Calm Before” Is Tied For The Highest (Fan) Rated Episode Ever. I think you could make the case that it might actually be the best episode in series history, if you take stock of everything we’ve seen the last nine years. – FORBES
“The Calm Before” is easily one of the best episodes of what’s become one of The Walking Dead‘s best seasons. This was Laura Belsey’s first time directing an episode, but she’s a seasoned auteur, which shows in “The Calm Before’s” restrained and perfectly paced narrative. – CBR
The Walking Dead takes a page from Game of Thrones and unleashes one of the most ferocious pre-finale episodes in the show’s history. The extra-long penultimate episode of Season 9 is a stellar exercise in taking a television show and making it look like an event. To the credit of director Laura Belsey, she does just that. – DEN OF GEEK
“The Calm Before” is directed by a first-time Walking Dead director, a woman named Laura Belsey, and it shows. From the moment it begins, there’s a curiously different energy to this episode. Belsey demonstrates an immediate gift for naturalistic exchanges between these characters. From an execution standpoint, this episode was a brilliant breath of fresh air. – PASTE
The penultimate episode of The Walking Dead season 9 more closely resembled a season finale, and the extended run time gave it an almost cinematic feel. “The Calm Before” was a massive undertaking and it was director Laura Belsey who brought the episode to life. – UNDEAD WALKING
Preacher delivers dark humor and drama in one of its best episodes of the season. It’s Laura Belsey’s direction that pushes the episode toward comedic greatness. – DEN OF GEEK
A masterful episode… Laura Belsey’s direction compliments the writing perfectly, bringing life to the colourful proceedings – VODZILLA
Les Enfants du Sang, probably the episode’s most dense and successful of the new season of the series – BITFEED
“Human Target” (Arrow) is probably among the best directed Arrow episodes to date. – GEEKS WORLDWIDE
A beautifully directed Arrow digs into its characters’ heads:
“Human Target” is so well shot that I figured some hotshot guest director had stopped by for the evening, but credit actually goes to Laura Belsey, who far surpasses her pedigree, directing the hell out of this episode with a succession of shots that get us inside the heads of the characters.
What all these scenes accomplish—and we can throw in the jumpy, discombobulated opening shots that mirror Rene’s state of mind—is make Arrow feel more human, more intimate than it ever really has. – AV CLUB
I particularly love the way director Laura Belsey (Who proved she can handle Arrow’s more sentimental side in season 4’s “Canary Cry”), framed any conversation between Diggle and Rene; separated but claustrophobic (with the occasional Vertigo flourish). – OBSERVER
“Wednesday’s Child,” (LAW & ORDER SVU) the latest episode of the long-running crime series was one of the best paced, acted and produced episodes in recent SVU memory.
The direction in Arquette’s scenes have to be commended as her role is ripe for overacting, however all her scenes remained emotional yet tasteful. – THE POP BREAK