Fear the Walking Dead took pointless stabs at social commentary Travis is just sad Chris doesn’t want to be his best friend any more. Yes, personal problems might override questions of immediate survival at some point, but it really feels like the post-zombie world is neither the time nor the place.
Madison, at least, is making bad choices in the name of finding her son, Nick ( Frank Dillane), but he long ago made it clear that he doesn’t really want anything to do with her.
They continue to blunder into obvious traps, make stupid decisions that lure ever more dangerous bands of vigilantes toward them, and repeatedly get in the way of their own survival, all in the name of family. It’s been weeks and weeks since civilization fell, and the characters on Fear the Walking Dead continue to behave as if they expect the cavalry to be around every corner. On the other hand, do these people know a zombie apocalypse has happened? Rather than fight to hold on to what she’d built, Madison fights to hold onto her family. The season finale first shows her longtime boyfriend, Travis ( Cliff Curtis), beating two tourists to death (more on that in a bit), and then Madison deciding to accompany him and her daughter, Alicia ( Alycia Debnam-Carey), back out into zombie land. Over the course of the half-season, as she set up a safe haven at a hotel and then had to make tough decisions about whom to admit and whom to turn out into the dark, zombie-filled wasteland, it was easy to see how someone might go from having the best of intentions to doing truly horrible things in the name of their family and tribe’s safety.ĭickens has always been a better actor than the material Fear the Walking Dead has given her, and to say I was intrigued by the notion of her slowly becoming a loathsome leader would be an understatement.īut, nah. If season two has made one thing clear, it’s that Fear the Walking Dead is about Madison, the family matriarch played by Kim Dickens, and the more the show progresses, the more it seems like she might evolve into a riff on Apocalypse Now’ s megalomaniacal Colonel Kurtz. The show desperately wants to be a family drama with zombies, but the family at its center has rarely been worthy of the attention bestowed upon it.
What makes this story rut so frustrating is that Fear the Walking Dead has always had a slightly mushy core. Without stronger characters, Fear the Walking Dead is doomed Madison could become the Colonel Kurtz this show needs if it would just let her do so. The half-season started strong, with several episodes that functioned as a pseudo-travelogue about the series’ new setting in Mexico.īut by the last few episodes, it was obvious that Fear the Walking Dead would fall back into the same old patterns the larger franchise keeps returning to: A seemingly viable fortress would be found, and then the characters would do something stupid to screw it all up. The show’s trouble with endings has perhaps never been more pronounced than in the second half of season two, which concluded with the two-hour season finale "Wrath"/ "North" on Sunday night.
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The spinoff series has now aired three sets of episodes within its two seasons, and all three of them started out promisingly, only to fall apart in the end. I can hardly count the number of times I’ve written a review of the early going of a season of The Walking Dead by declaring that the show seems to have finally found its course, only to watch the season slowly unravel because the characters can never stay in one place too long, lest the show lose its sweet zombie core.Īnd now the same is true of Fear the Walking Dead. Why are Walking Dead-related projects so good at starting stories and so bad at ending them?
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