Fear the Walking Dead Season 4 Finale Review

Whether you like it or not – and a very vocal fandom contingent did not really – you have to respect Fear the undeadfourth season for taking a big, crazy swing. The dead who walk the spin-offs turned into a different show in season 4. Not figuratively, but the way the mothership show will bring stylistic changes every half-season, but literally. He now has only one character who has been with the show since the pilot, Alicia Clark of Alycia Debnam-Carey, and is almost entirely composed of new characters, led by Morgan Jones of Lennie James, who became the leader after Madison Clark Kim Dickens was controversially killed in the mid-season finale. It has a unique pastel gray color scheme that makes it look like a Sunday cartoon. And in a twist that was not fully established before the final of Sunday's season, he finally found a distinctly different thematic engine. The dead who walk: hope.

Before the start of Season 4, Andrew Chambliss and Ian Goldberg took over from Dave Erickson, co-creator of the series with Robert Kirkman, whose vision was even darker than ever before. The dead who walk& # 39; s – and from their first interviews the duo started pushing the idea Fear the undead Season 4 would be about hope. The isolated people were and were building a community. The world as we know it may be over, but that does not mean that the next version of the world has to be defined by tribal warring factions. Madison explored this idea for the first time during the first half of the season while she was building a colony inside a baseball field and she was welcoming all those who wanted to participate. Of course, that did not mean it would work in this bloody world.

Her opening eventually led to her death, but the show believed that she was right in principle, and in the second half, she refocused on Morgan as he joined the race. human after leaving metaphorically The dead who walk, and literally in the first season. He started the season running, before settling in an abandoned denim factory and training his friends on a search and rescue mission. He does his best to find people who need help. This is an optimistic view of the future. It will surely be tested in Season 5, but Fear The idea that killing is a bad thing should be avoided as much as possible, and it seems likely that it remains a base. This is different from The dead who walkthe point of view; In the end, this show always decides that violence is the solution.

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That does not mean that Fear is necessarily better, or that all of its changes have worked. The second half antagonist, Filthy Woman (Tonya Pinkins), has never really made sense (she thinks that helping people makes them weak because no one helps her when needed, but she helps people to become zombies?), and the first half of the season turned Madison into a character so different from what she was in the first three seasons that she made no sense either. That's probably why she was killed. She was no longer part of the series. Erickson's design of her was like breaking BadWalter White, a normal person who is gradually turning into a ruthless killer, and Chambliss and Goldberg have taken a different direction. Dickens was unhappy. Fans too, because Reddit thinks that Season 3 was an almost perfect season of television. Personally, I do not consider the season 3 or the performance of Kim Dickens with such esteem. I found them both a bit boring and they never lived up to their potential. Dave Erickson seemed to want to do a different, more emotionally complex show than AMC wanted, and that always seemed to be in conflict with himself. Season 4 at least knew what it was: a big western broad with zombies and a sense of pleasure that bordered on the weird.

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Seriously, some stuff from the second half of season 4 have taken place odd. The scene where Morgan's restroom was interrupted by a wheelchair man asking why he was using the disabled stall and Morgan responded that it was "like a small apartment". Now, whenever I use the big booth, I see it as a small apartment. The show did something that will stay with me. Other things stayed with me too, but because they were good, not just because they were weird, like the introductory soliloquy of John Dorie (Garret Dillahunt) in the first ("Platypus!"), The murderous vision of Nick Clark (Frank Dillane) himself lying in a field of blue caps and the self-contained episode where John and June (Jenna Elfman) fell in love. These moments were cool, more rooted in real emotion how specific they were.

If you did not like season 4, I understand. It was strange, which was all the more true as it was a new show that was posing as an old series. If you liked Season 3, you felt cheated. And apparently, there were more fans of Season 3 than AMC was anticipating because the ratings are down compared to last year and half of what they were for the Walking Dead-boosted season 4 premiere. Season 5 should be the end of Fear as the franchise looks at its next phase. And when that ends, it will have been an interesting turn.

The dead who walk Season 9 of the first Sunday, October 7 at 9 / 8c.