by Thom Yee

Fear the Walking Dead images courtesy of AMC

2×06: “Sicut Cervus”

A lot of sh*t has happened to the fear team in a relatively short amount of time, or rather we’re supposed to feel like a lot has happened. That whole thing with ol’ whatshisname… Connor? I guess that really messed everybody up insofar as most families never have to go through a father-daughter-pirates hostage situation. Beyond that though, it doesn’t feel like a whole lot has happened, at least not much that we could really care about, so all the wild turns some of these people take this episode kind of come out of left field. Continue reading →

by Thom Yee

Fear the Walking Dead images courtesy of AMC

2×05: “Captive”

Well… I guess that’s one way from getting from point ‘A’ to point ‘B’.

For a while through watching “Captive”, I kept saying to myself, “This isn’t so bad, it’s okay, it’s okay.” “Oh, this is the part where Alicia stabs Jack, it’s making sense, it’s making sense.”  “Oh, cool, Alex is back? Maybe they did have a plan for her. They’re doing stuff, they’re telling a story.” And then the show ended and the whole thing kind of didn’t go anywhere. Kind of really didn’t go anywhere. Continue reading →

by Thom Yee

Fear the Walking Dead images courtesy of AMC

2×04: “Blood in the Streets”

Jon Snow lives!!! Also, there was another episode of Fear the Walking Dead…!

“Blood in the Streets” actually starts off with a pretty good hook as Nick made his way to shore, swimming under cover of darkness to the Mexican border, still guarded by border patrol helicopters, presumably now more concerned with the infected than illegal immigrants. We soon find that he’s been sent on a mission from Strand to pick up Luis, a fixer of sorts who’s in league with Strand, and on the way Nick purposefully covers himself in zombie guts so that he can move uninterrupted towards his goal. It’s kind of jarring seeing Nick (or any one of our Fear cast members) on a very specific, mission-focused course of action, and it reinforced my [relative] love of Nick, who’s turned out to be surprisingly good at everything in this world. Continue reading →

by Thom Yee

Fear the Walking Dead images courtesy of AMC

2×03: “Ouroboros”

Early on in “Ouroboros”, only the third episode in this new, 15-episode-long season, Strand tells Madison, and by extension us, that the real danger on the ocean is people. Which… y’know, duh, we just spent an entire season on the parent show building up to the leader of one group beating a member of our group to death with a barb-wire-wrapped baseball bat he named Lucille, so I think we all know a little about people being the real danger in the post-zombie apocalypse if there was ever any doubt. If anything, the real danger for Fear the Walking Dead right now is probably Game of Thrones stealing and and all of the post-Sunday-night television discussion.

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