by Thom Yee

Fear the Walking Dead images courtesy of AMC.

1×06: “The Good Man”

So they let them out.

This is the final episode of the season and the one where our heroes try to save their three taken loved ones — Nick, Liza, and Griselda — by committing the slow, shambling, long-term, horrific genocide of the remaining L.A. residents. We knew that the arena full of crashing-at-the-gates, yearning-to-be-free-and-eat-brains zombies were most likely going to be some sort of trump card for one group or another, but it’s disappointing (if not predictable) to see our heroes responsible for the overrunning of L.A. by zombies, our heroes packing up and running away without telling anyone, our heroes basically killing a bunch of innocent people to achieve their own ends. Their evils weren’t direct, they didn’t set out to bring about the apocalypse, but in releasing that crashing, brain-eating zombie horde to distract the military and get Nick, Liza, and Griselda back, they were responsible for the killing of L.A. They didn’t even close the gates of their community behind them when they left. Continue reading →