Each week, Fear The Walking Dead proves that even though we can't get any worse, they can. And hooboy can they?
The show's seventh season may be its worst so far, which says a lot when you remember that a good portion of Season 5 consisted of our heroes and villains filming competing PSA videos on their quest to make up for the bad things.
I say this with respect, but Morgan is a terrible character and this zombie drama is quite possibly the worst show on TV.
This is my opinion, but it is more than that.
For one thing, ratings are lower than ever.
Andrew Chambliss and Ian Goldberg should be removed. This is how bad things have gotten. Even though this is a popular TWD fan account, he is fed up with it.
It is putting it mildly that these survivors bicker in radiation. Ian and Andrew have not contributed anything to this show except for a marked improvement in cinematography. All they have done is drive this show into the ground.
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There are some things to say ahead.
I am late with my review of the Sunday episode. My apologies. I lost motivation to write about this episode after I watched it early.
Even though everyone on the show has a walkie talkie, Strand has become paranoid about it. They found a walkie talkie in Howard's room and he was going to kill him. He says it was planted there. Howard volunteers to investigate when Baby Mo goes missing. John Dorie Jr. is also investigating.
The men are dead by the end of the show.
The mess that follows is a predictable one because the characters in the show talk in jargon. They wanted this episode to be about legacy, so they decided to have Dorie and Strand worried about that now.
John Dorie Sr., and Baby Mo were played by Avaya White and Keith Carradine.
June and Grace are behind Mo’s disappearance. I am so surprised. What a shocking revelation. They’re trying to smuggle the baby out so that Morgan can attack the tower. He won’t do it with the baby in there. John initially stops them when he discovers this because he’s trying to use the baby as leverage to convince Strand that he’s making a mistake acting like a tinpot dictator.
Howard, meanwhile, gets a tragic backstory about his fraudulent historical discovery and his family so we pretty much know he’s a goner.
John has radiation poisoning, which is a super convenient way to kill off characters! Charlie got it and is dying and now John has it because he got it when he retrieved Charlie. It’s very random who gets it and how fast or slowly it kills different characters. Again, this is just a lazy, stupid narrative cheat that the showrunners are using so they don’t have to do any actual heavy lifting. It’s embarrassing.
John admits that he was the one who planted the walkie talkie in Howard’s room. Howard, a guy who we have seen on a walkie talkie tons of times with Strand never caring until now! Fun storytelling, bruh.
Strand is so impressed with this act of deceit that he has Howard thrown to his death anyways, despite being Strand’s most loyal lieutenant. Yeah, that makes lots of sense. Look, I’m sorry folks, but he may look and talk like Victor Strand, but the real Victor Strand is dead. Ian and Andrew killed the real Strand and replaced him with this evil doppelganger the moment they had him betray Morgan in the submarine for literally no reason and then propped him up as a crappy, one-dimensional villain for Season 7.
WE ARE WATCHING A SHOW ABOUT PEOPLE FIGHTING OVER AN OFFICE BUILDING. IN A STATE WITH LITERALLY HUNDRDS OF OFFICE BUILDINGS TO CHOOSE FROM. THIS IS NOT A SUSTAINABLE FARM OR A FORTRESS IT IS AN OFFICE BUILDING SURROUNDED BY ZOMBIES AND RADIATION.
So Dorie Sr. tries to convince Strand that he’s on the wrong path but Strand won’t listen (again, so shocking!) so Dorie almost shoots him but knocks him out instead.
Then Dorie Sr. goes and gets Mo and gears up in some RIDICULOUS armor and, noting that the baby he barely knows is now his “legacy” marches off with her through the zombie horde. Given that Strand and his people freely come and go here, there must be an easier and safer way to get out of the office building, but that wouldn’t be as dramatic.
Dorie gets Baby Mo to Morgan who awaits him on the far side of the horde, but he’s been bitten and he tells Morgan he’ll buy him some time and goes out in a blaze of glory.
There are two more bodies in a season that seems to be losing its cast. I suppose the pastures look better when you are on a show like that. There is more on that in a separate post.
The episode made little sense. They spent a lot of time getting the baby into the tower and now they have to get her out. It is very silly. It's silly to fight over the tower. Staying in Texas is silly. The contrived, convoluted plots and character motives are silly. This very, very bad show is silly because AMC continues to bankroll and greenlight it. Kim Dickens wants to come back to this show.
I think it's silly. A pox on it!
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