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Oh what a calamitous season of Fear the undead we have just witnessed.
What a desappointment.
It's a pity.
While the series, under the new comedians Andrew Chambliss and Ian Goldberg, certainly has positive results, we must generally say that this season is a colossal and irremediable failure. And it stinks because Fear the undead was finally good in season 3. Now I do not think it deserves a renewal.
Detractors, dear readers, obviously follow. Caveat reader.
Before we go to the list of the 10 biggest problems, give credit when credit is due.
- New characters like Althea (Maggie Grace) and John Dorie (Garret Dillahunt) were really nice and I'm glad they're on board.
- Some episodes were great. The first two or three episodes were captivating, captivating and intriguing. "Laura" remains one of the best episodes of this or of The dead who walk, period. I also liked the episode "Close Your Eyes" with Alicia and Charlie stuck in the storm.
- The writing of these few episodes was really good, and the acting game of Alycia Debnam-Carey, Jenna Elfman, Dillahunt and so on. was fantastic when you gave them something to work on.
- Some moments, like Nick's death, were really shocking and powerful. (Although I think the show died when Frank Dillane left, but we'll talk about it later.)
- Some other moments, like the scary water park, were very good too. But most of them have been confined to the first half of the season. The second half … not so much.
That's just about all I can muster in terms of praise. Unfortunately, it is already time to move to the dull, disappointing and ridiculous, which abounded.
1. Terrible plot, stimulation / fancy temporal tricks.
We will start with one of my biggest problems. The story and all of its components were just a mess. The stimulation, especially in the second half of the season, was a disaster. Let's summarize the entire season first in order to understand how bad it was.
In brief: Morgan travels to Texas where he meets John and Al. They are followed by children Clark, Strand and Luciana. In a second timeline, we see the Clark family and other survivors trying out civilization in a fortified baseball field. Instead of closing these two disparate chronologies, they continue throughout the first eight episodes with one or two chronologies added.
In one scenario, we have Morgan, John, Al and the cast members ambushing them in search of vultures, eager for revenge, tacitly avoiding the "Why?" Question. In the other timeline, we have Madison and co. under the weirdest seat I've ever seen. In the end, it is revealed that Madison is killed when Vultures drop all their zombies on the Diamond for no reason, and that's why Alicia wants to take revenge on … June, who has not nothing done.
Then, in the second half of the season, all this has been put aside and we move on to a scenario that boils down to this: a hurricane hits Texas. The group of not really companions is torn. Morgan ends up moving away from a few states but returns to save everyone. They are all together. A dirty and crazy woman tries to kill them and fails. The end.
You can not really fix those two half-seasons, but you can certainly improve them. Here is how I would have done it.
2. Artificial melodrama.
Do you remember the first half of the season when Al was filming Strand, Alicia and Luciana explaining how they should have convinced Madison to leave the Diamond? They literally ended each other's sentences with sad faces. Luciana has this season made replies straight from a bad soap opera.
There was a scene in the mansion in the second half of the season where Morgan spoke with Strand and Luciana and I think it was in two different rooms / moments, but she was ridden together to make it a stage . Simply an ugly melodrama throughout the season. Even the way Madison drove the zombies to the Diamond (instead of moving away from it) to its own death was painfully melodramatic and artificial.
Indeed, the entire second half of the season, while Morgan was trying to save his "friends", could be described as a series of melodramatic machinations. The dirty woman and her madness? Melodrama. Polar Bear dies in the car and asks Luciana why she would help a stranger? Melodrama. Bad writing and melodrama dominated the entire season, rather than the very real human conflict that defined Season 3.
3. Characters acting like idiots for no reason.
This is a feature of the whole Walking Dead frankness, but the characters who make stupid decisions without godly reason is probably my biggest pet peeve with these series. Boy oh boy was it full screen in season 4 of Fear the undead. For example (but barely limited to):
- Alicia and Nick do not leave the horde of zombies on the parking lot, forcing Madison and the others to come to them. Instead of hiding inside, in safe places, everyone came out like idiots. Why?
- Morgan leading the survivors to a hospital filled with dead instead of a quick refueling. Then take them on the roof.
- The survivors were not using ethanol that leaked when they died of antifreeze poisoning despite the fact that they had a container to retrieve it or, you know, a mouth .
- Madison leading the zombies in the diamond instead of getting away from everyone.
- Nobody rushed to Martha after Wendell hurt her, including Al, whose primary motivation was to pick up the van instead of Martha.
- Also what happened to Strand and Luciana? Strand had the habit of being complicit and too clever for his own good. Now he's drinking right. Luciana used to be a tough guy and now she is languishing. Nick and Madison may have died, but the series has murdered the remaining main cast (except Alicia to whom they simply do not give enough time to the screen).
I could go on and on, but that's what kind of weird choices, out of character and nonsense that makes me cringe while watching these two zombie shows. The dead who walk It's been years and years, although the situation has deteriorated a lot in the last two seasons. (For those who wear pink tinted glasses, looking at previous seasons of The dead who walk with a nostalgic desire, go back and observe the frequency with which the characters behave in a strange way to advance the plot. I've been knocking this drum for ages.)
4. Bad bad guys, uninspired and uninteresting.
The vultures were the bad guys during the first half of season 4. Hipsters who were mostly hungry for knowledge, not knowing how to organize a siege, finally decided that the best way to defeat their enemies was to release hundreds of zombies, making impossible to take things that they were so determined to take in the first place. Saviors-Lite hardly inspired fear, hatred or any other emotion. But a lot of eyes rolling.
The villain in the second half of season 4 was Martha, aka Filthy Woman. The less we say, the better. Her story comes down to her husband dying on the side of the road and people passing by and not stopping to help them. Then she lived on her own for a few years, surviving in the wild in total isolation, before cracking and starting to kill really stupid and seemingly deaf truckers because they were trying to get away from it all. helping people.
What ugly idiots, useless and weak compared to the interesting and complicated family of Otto. What a pity we did not have more of Proctor John of Season 3, who was preparing to become an interesting villain before he was … abandoned for no reason.
5. Special effects Blade.
Although I still think cinematography was generally very good in season 4, the special effects often left a lot to be desired. Zombie makeup was, of course, excellent. As I have said in the past, if these shows were just staging writers and writers in the same way as zombie makeup, we would have an award-winning television in the hand.
But in fears fourth season, the special effects left something to be desired. During the hurricane, there were scenes where zombies flew as if they were paper. Nothing else was blowing in the wind. No cats or dogs, no boxes, no debris. Just zombies. It seemed wrong. It was unreasonably unrealistic. The only good thing about flying zombies – the only glimmer of hope – was how hilarious they were to watch them being swept away by the "wind".
6. The filter of the camera.
Can we please get some color in this show? I understand the desire to differentiate deadlines by using two different camera filters (The dead who walk did this episode in black and white vs. color when Rick proposed one of his most silly plans), but I hoped that they would become all color again at the beginning of the second part of the season.
It's not that I'm against camera filters. May be Fear should look a bit more granular or a little less saturated. Honestly, the series has always had better cinematography than The dead who walk, and he often uses subtle filters to give him a darker tone. But they went completely to the sea in season 4. It's not quite black and white and there is not the stark contrast that black and white can bring to a scene. It's just a muted gray now that feels lifeless and, well, useless.
Season 4 would have been visually more visually appealing with a more saturated color scheme.
7. Morgan.
Listen, I love Morgan. I've always loved Morgan. It has been in some of the best times in the whole of The dead who walk. On this show, while Rick and his team were eager to murder Saviors in the middle of the night, while they had no knowledge of their organization or any personal reason to indulge in a Such an odious act, Morgan was the only voice of reason. Later, Carl and Jesus seemed to adopt his attitude of living and letting life, because apparently, writers are not able to develop a logical character and that Morgan continues to be that character, but I 'm not sure. away from the subject.
I like Morgan. I just think the writers and the spectators have let it go. The bad visions "You know what it is" that he had in TWD were the culmination of years of absurd character development on this show. Half of the things he said and that made no sense. After a fantastic bottle episode explaining how he went from crazy killer to a peaceful monk, The dead who walk his character was thrown into a mixer of bad writes and stupid decisions.
I really hoped everything would change Fear, and for a few episodes, it seemed like we were back on track. Morgan's phrase "I'm losing people and I'm losing myself" was really great, and some of his moments with Al and John Dorie and even, briefly, Nick, were fantastic.
It did not last. Scott Gimple and the new actors, Andrew Chambliss and Ian Goldberg, wanted Morgan to be the new lead. But Morgan is not just an important man. This is a great secondary character. It's an excellent medium for more violent tracks like Rick and Carol, and honestly, I think it could have been very interesting in front of Nick and Madison. But in the second half of the season, he was in the lead and that involved essentially traveling long distances, leaving or looking for his new friends. For reasons that nobody explains, he has been regularly placed in a leading role while he never really wanted it. It did not make sense from the point of view of the story or the character.
But we're here with Morgan, rather than Madison or Alicia, as the new main character in the series. Not only did we take a show run by a woman and entrusted her to a male role for no reason, we entrusted her with a male role that made more sense in a supportive role. Who could really shine in a supportive role on Fear, in fact, but who does not cut him off at all as a main hero. I like Morgan but that did not work for Fear no more than one the Lord of the Rings film with Sam as central protagonist. (I also like Sam, but it does not work.)
8. The death of Madison.
I have never hesitated to dislike Madison as a character. And even . . . now I miss her. I think what has bothered me the most about Madison is that it has been poorly written most of the time.
Too often, we have had to endorse his "hardness" in the face of other characters' exposure. How many times last season did we hear about his strength and strength from Otto or any other character? And why was she constantly integrating into everyone's business and getting away with it? And why did she wait so long to kill Troy – just enough time for us to warm up a bit and hope that her bizarre friendship with Nick could turn into something more?
Her mum instinct must also be a bit important – not just for me, but for her own children. And that led her to do really stupid things (while getting away with no consequences).
But then, just as she started growing on me towards the end of Season 3 and the beginning of Season 4, they killed her. And they did it in the most absurd and absurd way possible. I think it stings more than losing Madison. If she had a good death, I think a lot of people would have accepted it.
Instead, we had the nonsense Vultures unleashing zombies on the diamond for no reason; Alicia and Nick did not drive their perfectly functional car through the parking lot safely; so Madison led the zombies into the diamond at his death for no reason. No reason, it's beyond the shock value and weird desire to make Morgan the leader. This is insulting to Madison, insulting to Kim Dickens and insulting to the fans of this show, and audiences have collapsed afterwards.
You know what else does not make sense? Madison died before one of her children. Seeing Nick die would have been an emotional punch for the belly that could have tipped Madison overboard in a real psycho territory. She could have become a villain with a capital V. She could have set up the coolest Fear / TWD crossover ever, with Madison leading the new "villain" against Rick's band (or Daryl's band now that Rick is about to come out.)
Never mind. It will never happen now.
9. No gain.
In the end, season 4 of Fear the undead went nowhere. The second half of the season certainly did not go ahead, with no major changes in any of the characters and no major deaths. They started in Texas, tried to leave and ended up staying in Texas. Indeed, they teased this great return to Alexandria for Morgan and all those who wished to accompany him and, during the last five minutes, made a total of 180.
Nick died in episode 3. Madison died in episode 8. The vultures and Martha were killed without too much stories.
At the end of season 3, we had a crazy bow and a major ranch saga resolution with Nick pulling the trigger and killing Jeremiah Otto so his mom would not have to. Troy was the only remaining Otto alive (for a spell, anyway) and Ophelia was killed, leaving Daniel a complete wreck.
Then we arrived at the roadblock and had a crazy shootout with very bad people (which allowed Strand) before Nick hurt everything in the realm. And I scarcely scratch the surface of all the tension, drama and reward offered by Season 3.
All this so that we can meet some new characters (although interesting), losing two of the most important members of the cast, then. . . just a kind of fizz. This may be what the show needs to get off to a good start to season 5, but it certainly left the audience stunned, confused and perplexed: "What was the purpose of all this?"
That's all people.
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Kim Dickens as Madison ClarkCredit: AMC
Oh what a calamitous season of Fear the undead we have just witnessed.
What a desappointment.
It's a pity.
While the series, under the new comedians Andrew Chambliss and Ian Goldberg, certainly has positive results, we must generally say that this season is a colossal and irremediable failure. And it stinks because Fear the undead was finally good in season 3. Now I do not think it deserves a renewal.
Detractors, dear readers, obviously follow. Caveat reader.
Before we go to the list of the 10 biggest problems, give credit when credit is due.
- New characters like Althea (Maggie Grace) and John Dorie (Garret Dillahunt) were really nice and I'm glad they're on board.
- Some episodes were great. The first two or three episodes were captivating, captivating and intriguing. "Laura" remains one of the best episodes of this or of The dead who walk, period. I also liked the episode "Close Your Eyes" with Alicia and Charlie stuck in the storm.
- The writing of these few episodes was really good, and the acting game of Alycia Debnam-Carey, Jenna Elfman, Dillahunt and so on. was fantastic when you gave them something to work on.
- Some moments, like Nick's death, were really shocking and powerful. (Although I think the show died when Frank Dillane left, but we'll talk about it later.)
- Some other moments, like the scary water park, were very good too. But most of them have been confined to the first half of the season. The second half … not so much.
That's just about all I can muster in terms of praise. Unfortunately, it is already time to move to the dull, disappointing and ridiculous, which abounded.
1. Terrible plot, stimulation / fancy temporal tricks.
Wait, fuck?Credit: AMC
We will start with one of my biggest problems. The story and all of its components were just a mess. The stimulation, especially in the second half of the season, was a disaster. Let's summarize the entire season first in order to understand how bad it was.
In brief: Morgan travels to Texas where he meets John and Al. They are followed by children Clark, Strand and Luciana. In a second timeline, we see the Clark family and other survivors trying out civilization in a fortified baseball field. Instead of closing these two disparate chronologies, they continue throughout the first eight episodes with one or two chronologies added.
In one scenario, we have Morgan, John, Al and the cast members ambushing them in search of vultures, eager for revenge, tacitly avoiding the "Why?" Question. In the other timeline, we have Madison and co. under the weirdest seat I've ever seen. In the end, it is revealed that Madison is killed when Vultures drop all their zombies on the Diamond for no reason, and that's why Alicia wants to take revenge on … June, who has not nothing done.
Then, in the second half of the season, all this has been put aside and we move on to a scenario that boils down to this: a hurricane hits Texas. The group of not really companions is torn. Morgan ends up moving away from a few states but returns to save everyone. They are all together. A dirty and crazy woman tries to kill them and fails. The end.
You can not really fix those two half-seasons, but you can certainly improve them. Here is how I would have done it.
2. Artificial melodrama.
Let's stand there, holding our weapons like idiots.Credit: AMC
Do you remember the first half of the season when Al was filming Strand, Alicia and Luciana explaining how they should have convinced Madison to leave the Diamond? They literally ended each other's sentences with sad faces. Luciana has this season made replies straight from a bad soap opera.
There was a scene in the mansion in the second half of the season where Morgan spoke with Strand and Luciana and I think it was in two different rooms / moments, but she was ridden together to make it a stage . Simply an ugly melodrama throughout the season. Even the way Madison drove the zombies to the Diamond (instead of moving away from it) to its own death was painfully melodramatic and artificial.
Indeed, the entire second half of the season, while Morgan was trying to save his "friends", could be described as a series of melodramatic machinations. The dirty woman and her madness? Melodrama. Polar Bear dies in the car and asks Luciana why she would help a stranger? Melodrama. Bad writing and melodrama dominated the entire season, rather than the very real human conflict that defined Season 3.
3. Characters acting like idiots for no reason.
Strand is turned into a drinker and nothing else. Luciana is just … a person now.Credit: AMC
This is a feature of the whole Walking Dead frankness, but the characters who make stupid decisions without godly reason is probably my biggest pet peeve with these series. Boy oh boy was it full screen in season 4 of Fear the undead. For example (but barely limited to):
- Alicia and Nick do not leave the horde of zombies on the parking lot, forcing Madison and the others to come to them. Instead of hiding inside, in safe places, everyone came out like idiots. Why?
- Morgan leading the survivors to a hospital filled with dead instead of a quick refueling. Then take them on the roof.
- The survivors were not using ethanol that leaked when they died of antifreeze poisoning despite the fact that they had a container to retrieve it or, you know, a mouth .
- Madison leading the zombies in the diamond instead of getting away from everyone.
- Nobody rushed to Martha after Wendell hurt her, including Al, whose primary motivation was to pick up the van instead of Martha.
- Also what happened to Strand and Luciana? Strand had the habit of being complicit and too clever for his own good. Now he's drinking right. Luciana used to be a tough guy and now she is languishing. Nick and Madison may have died, but the series has murdered the remaining main cast (except Alicia to whom they simply do not give enough time to the screen).
I could go on and on, but that's what kind of weird choices, out of character and nonsense that makes me cringe while watching these two zombie shows. The dead who walk It's been years and years, although the situation has deteriorated a lot in the last two seasons. (For those who wear pink tinted glasses, looking at previous seasons of The dead who walk with a nostalgic desire, go back and observe the frequency with which the characters behave in a strange way to advance the plot. I've been knocking this drum for ages.)
4. Bad bad guys, uninspired and uninteresting.
No, it's not a good villain in any way.Credit: Ryan Green / AMC
The vultures were the bad guys during the first half of season 4. Hipsters who were mostly hungry for knowledge, not knowing how to organize a siege, finally decided that the best way to defeat their enemies was to release hundreds of zombies, making impossible to take things that they were so determined to take in the first place. Saviors-Lite hardly inspired fear, hatred or any other emotion. But a lot of eyes rolling.
The villain in the second half of season 4 was Martha, aka Filthy Woman. The less we say, the better. Her story comes down to her husband dying on the side of the road and people passing by and not stopping to help them. Then she lived on her own for a few years, surviving in the wild in total isolation, before cracking and starting to kill really stupid and seemingly deaf truckers because they were trying to get away from it all. helping people.
What ugly idiots, useless and weak compared to the interesting and complicated family of Otto. What a pity we did not have more of Proctor John of Season 3, who was preparing to become an interesting villain before he was … abandoned for no reason.
5. Special effects Blade.
It's a nice shot.Credit: Ryan Green / AMC
Although I still think cinematography was generally very good in season 4, the special effects often left a lot to be desired. Zombie makeup was, of course, excellent. As I have said in the past, if these shows were just staging writers and writers in the same way as zombie makeup, we would have an award-winning television in the hand.
But in fears fourth season, the special effects left something to be desired. During the hurricane, there were scenes where zombies flew as if they were paper. Nothing else was blowing in the wind. No cats or dogs, no boxes, no debris. Just zombies. It seemed wrong. It was unreasonably unrealistic. The only good thing about flying zombies – the only glimmer of hope – was how hilarious they were to watch them being swept away by the "wind".
6. Le filtre de la caméra.
Morgan sur une voiture.Crédit: Ryan Green / AMC
Pouvons-nous s'il vous plaît obtenir de la couleur dans ce spectacle? Je comprends le désir de différencier les délais en utilisant deux filtres de caméra différents (The dead who walk a fait cet épisode en noir et blanc vs couleur quand Rick a proposé l'un de ses plans les plus idiots), mais j'espérais qu'ils redeviendraient tout en couleur au début de la deuxième partie de la saison.
Ce n'est pas que je suis contre les filtres de caméra. Peut être Fear devrait sembler un peu plus granuleux ou un peu moins saturé. Honnêtement, la série a toujours eu une meilleure cinématographie que Les morts qui marchent, et il utilise souvent des filtres subtils pour lui donner un ton plus sombre. Mais ils sont allés complètement à la mer dans la saison 4. Ce n’est pas tout à fait noir et blanc et il n’ya pas le contraste saisissant que le noir et blanc peut apporter à une scène. C'est juste un gris en sourdine maintenant qui se sent sans vie et, bien, inutile.
La saison 4 aurait été pour le moins plus attrayante visuellement avec un jeu de couleurs plus saturé.
7. Morgan.
Morgan n'est tout simplement pas censé être un personnage central.Crédit: AMC
Ecoute, j'aime Morgan. J'ai toujours aimé Morgan. Il a été dans certains des meilleurs moments dans l'ensemble de Les morts qui marchent. Lors de cette émission, alors que Rick et son équipe étaient impatients d'assassiner Saviors au milieu de la nuit, alors qu'ils n'avaient aucune connaissance de leur organisation ni aucune raison personnelle de se livrer à un acte aussi odieux, Morgan était la seule voix de la raison. Plus tard, Carl et Jésus semblèrent adopter son attitude de vivre et laisser vivre, parce qu'apparemment, les écrivains ne sont pas en mesure de développer un caractère logique et que Morgan continue à être ce personnage, mais je m'éloigne du sujet.
J'aime Morgan. Je pense juste que les scénaristes et les spectateurs l'ont laissé filer. Les mauvaises visions "Vous savez ce que c'est" qu'il avait en TWD étaient le point culminant d'années de développement de caractère absurde sur ce spectacle. La moitié des choses qu'il a dites et qui n'avaient aucun sens. Après un fantastique épisode de bouteille expliquant comment il était passé de tueur fou à moine pacifique, The dead who walk son personnage a été jeté dans un mélangeur de mauvaises écritures et de décisions stupides.
J'espérais vraiment tout ce qui allait changer Peur, et pour quelques épisodes, il semblait que nous étions de retour sur la bonne voie. La phrase de Morgan "Je perds des gens et puis je me perds moi-même" était vraiment géniale, et certains de ses moments avec Al et John Dorie et même, brièvement, Nick, ont été fantastiques.
Cela n'a pas duré. Scott Gimple et les nouveaux acteurs, Andrew Chambliss et Ian Goldberg, souhaitaient que Morgan soit le nouveau rôle principal. Mais Morgan n'est tout simplement pas un homme important. C'est un grand personnage secondaire. C'est un excellent support pour des pistes plus violentes comme Rick et Carol, et honnêtement, je pense qu'il aurait pu être très intéressant en face de Nick et Madison. Mais dans la seconde moitié de la saison, il était placé en tête et cela impliquait essentiellement de parcourir de longues distances, de partir ou de rechercher ses nouveaux amis. Pour des raisons que personne ne l'explique, il a été régulièrement placé dans un rôle de leader alors qu'il ne le voulait jamais vraiment. Cela n'avait aucun sens du point de vue de l'histoire ou du personnage.
Mais nous sommes ici avec Morgan, plutôt que Madison ou Alicia, en tant que nouveau personnage principal de la série. Non seulement avons-nous pris un spectacle dirigé par une femme et l'avons confié à un rôle masculin sans raison, nous l'avons confié à un rôle masculin qui a plus de sens dans un rôle de soutien. Qui pourrait vraiment briller dans un rôle de soutien sur Peur, en fait, mais qui ne le coupe pas du tout comme héros principal. J'aime Morgan mais cela n'a pas fonctionné pour Fear pas plus qu'un the Lord of the Rings film avec Sam comme protagoniste central. (J'aime aussi Sam, mais ça ne marche pas.)
8. La mort de Madison.
Madison et Nick mourir dans la première moitié de la saison, c’était trop.Crédit: AMC
Je n'ai jamais hésité à ne pas aimer Madison en tant que personnage. Et encore . . . maintenant elle me manque. Je pense que ce qui m'a le plus dérangé à propos de Madison, c'est qu'elle a été mal écrite la plupart du temps.
Trop souvent, nous avons dû nous faire endosser sa "dureté" face à l'exposition des autres personnages. Combien de fois la saison dernière avons-nous entendu parler de sa force et de sa force de la part d'Otto ou d'un autre personnage? Et pourquoi s’intégrait-elle constamment dans les affaires de tout le monde et s’en tirait-elle? Et pourquoi a-t-elle attendu si longtemps pour tuer Troy – juste assez de temps pour que nous puissions nous réchauffer un peu et espérer que son amitié bizarro avec Nick pourrait se transformer en quelque chose de plus?
Son instinct de maman ours devait aussi être un peu important – pas seulement pour moi, mais pour ses propres enfants. Et cela l’a amenée à faire des choses vraiment stupides (tout en s’en tirant sans conséquences).
Mais alors, juste comme elle a commencé à grandir sur moi vers la fin de la saison 3 et le début de la saison 4, ils l'ont tuée. Et ils l’ont fait de la manière la plus absurde et la plus absurde possible. Je pense que ça pique plus que de perdre Madison. Si elle avait eu une bonne mort, je pense que beaucoup de gens l'auraient acceptée.
Au lieu de cela, nous avons eu le non-sens Vultures déchaîner des zombies sur le diamant sans raison; Alicia and Nick didn't drive their perfectly functional car across the parking lot to safety for no reason; then Madison led the zombies into the Diamond to her death for no reason. No reason, that is, beyond shock value and the bizarre desire to make Morgan the lead. It's insulting to Madison, insulting to Kim Dickens and insulting to fans of this show, and ratings absolutely collapsed afterwards.
You know what else doesn't make sense? Madison died before either of her kids. Seeing Nick die would have been an emotional punch to the gut that might have tipped Madison over the edge into true psycho territory. She could have gone full villain with a capital V. It could have set up the coolest Fear/TWD crossover ever, with Madison leading the new "bad guys" against Rick's group (or Daryl's group now that Rick is on the way out.)
Oh well. Never going to happen now.
9. No payoff.
Things started out so well and went downhill so fast.Crédit: AMC
Ultimately, Season 4 of Fear The Walking Dead went nowhere. Certainly the second half of the season went nowhere, with no major change to any of the characters and no major deaths. They started in Texas, tried to leave, and ended up staying in Texas. Indeed, they teased this big return to Alexandria for Morgan and anyone willing to accompany him and then, in the last five minutes, did a complete 180.
Nick died in Episode 3. Madison died in Episode 8. Both the Vultures and Martha were killed off without too much fuss.
By the end of Season 3 we had a crazy arc and major resolution to the ranch saga with Nick pulling the trigger and killing Jeremiah Otto so his mom wouldn't have to. Troy was the only Otto left alive (for a spell, anyways) and Ophelia was killed, leaving Daniel a complete wreck.
Then we got to the dam and had a crazy shootout with very bad people (who Strand enabled) before Nick blew the whole thing to kingdom come. And I'm barely scratching the surface of all the tension, drama and payoff that Season 3 offered up.
All so that we could meet a few (albeit interesting) new characters, lose two of the most important core cast members, and then . . . just sort of fizzle out. Maybe this is what the show needs to start fresh in Season 5, but it sure left viewers dazed and confused and wondering: "What was the point of all that?"
That's all folks.
I'm sure I'm missing some other Big Problems with Season 4—honestly, the season had some good episodes but it was largely just a massive letdown—and I think I've spilled enough ink on this show for the time being. If you have other observations, drop a comment on my Facebook page or hit me up on Twitter. Follows are always appreciated!
Oh, and if you think I should start reviewing other genre shows (zombies, superheros, sci-fi stuff, fantasy stuff) toss some recommendations my way. I'd appreciate it. Let me know what movies you'd be interested in me reviewing as well. It's hard to keep track of all this stuff so I rely on readers to some degree to keep me up to speed.
You can see my preview of The Walking Dead's 9th season here.
Thanks for reading!
Also, I sketched out a rough draft of how I'd change up Season 4 here. It's just a rough idea on how to make the events more plausible and interesting and tense, while still sticking to the major plot points that the showrunners came up with (major deaths, etc.) Let me know what you think (unless the extent of your feedback is "keep your day job" because I'm literally uninterested in the squawkings of fanboys and fangirls and would much rather have a decent conversation.)
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