![]() Our perspective mainly comes through Travis, who offers up dull, meaningless, emotive platitudes like “he needs his father” and “I should have helped him”, once again pointlessly blaming himself for things he hasn’t done, and once again making terrible, futile decisions. Why not explore that more? As with so much in the show, we rarely feel like we get under the skin of these characters. Chris’ arc, from floppy-haired puberty-ridden mope to violent self-serving sociopath, offers huge potential. Remember Chris? The character that ended last week’s episode with an explosive near-murderous finale? Fear’s most interesting story thread in ages? The focus is suddenly abandoned this time around Chris goes missing while most of the episode’s screentime is devoted to far less absorbing subplots.įrankly, it’s baffling. Chris of deathĭescent of madness number 3: Chris. It just doesn’t seem plausible that he’d suddenly decide to blindly follow Celia’s fanatical nonsense. Nick is vulnerable, sure, but he’s not been presented as all that impressionable or stupid in this season he actually came across as pretty smart. Now, with his favourite Colonel-Kurtz-meets-Carrie blood splatter get-up a seemingly permanent fixture, he’s lost his way again, clumsily explained away with references to his drug-addled past. Having cleaned up his act during last season when the fall of Western society got in the way of a heroin addiction, Nick’s head finally seemed screwed on. Nick is another character who appears to be losing some sort of plot. So long Daniel – hope you’re still hairdressing in heaven. ![]() But it’s a shame to see one of the show’s more absorbing characters being roundly chucked on the bonfire – literally, as it turns out – while other thinly-sketched characters get to live another day. The first, a more straightforward flashback from the time Daniel was a child soldier in El Salvador, adds a bit of a shape to his enigmatic history the second, showing his daughter’s skin falling off her face, is among the more chilling moments from the show so far.ĭaniel’s descent into madness is at least less irritating than his fellow descenders (see below) – there seems to be legitimate reasons for a sort of PTSD-induced mental unhinging. The episode opens strong (as many episodes of this show have tended to do, without always maintaining that early promise), on two dreamlike sequences involving Daniel, both offering effective dollops of horror. Will the midseason finale bring paradise or ruination? (Hint: it's not paradise.)īe warned: this review contains major spoilers for Fear The Walking Dead throughout. Previously on Fear The Walking Dead: our merry band of seaborne survivors made their had finally made it to land, docking in Baja, Mexico for sea, sand, sunbathing, and zombie salvation. ![]()
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