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Fear the Walking Dead showrunners promise 'a big change coming'
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September 29, 2019 at 09:00 AM EDT
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The call for help has been placed. At the end of season 5’s penultimate episode of Fear the Walking Dead, Morgan radioed to adversary Virginia for assistance after they had exhausted every other opportunity for survival. But what will be the cost of that call?
We spoke to Fear showrunners Ian Goldberg and Andrew Chambliss to get their insight and intel on what to expect on Sunday night’s season finale. What does the arrival of Ginny and the Pioneers mean? Where’s Dwight off to? Will things wrap up neatly or with a cliffhanger? Goldberg and Chambliss say to prepare yourself for a “game-changing” moment that could set the stage for a whole new show in season 6.
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ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Give me some words you would you use to describe the season finale.
IAN GOLDBERG: Western, Hope, Despair.
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Andrew, what do you want to add to that?
ANDREW CHAMBLISS: Ah, Ian took all the good words. Let’s see: Soggy. I’m just going to go with soggy.
We saw Morgan place the call to Virginia at the end of the last episode, so what does that mean moving into the finale?
GOLDBERG: Episode 515 was a very emotional episode for our group, and in a lot of ways it was about them making a stand against Ginny, both in the documentary they were making, but also in the way they were going about getting to the Gulch. They took this detour in order to get medicine for Grace, which led to them having to cross that bridge. And then Tom ended up losing his life and there were all these sacrifices that the group made. Ultimately, they ended in a place where they got to the Gulch and it wasn’t the place that they hoped it would be. So it was a rather big defeat. It was the last thing anybody wanted to do was to have to call and ask Virginia for help. But it was sort of a born out of necessity for their survival.
So when we find a group in the finale, they’re going to be in a pretty despondent place because they’re kind of doing exactly what they’ve been hoping to never have to do, which to take help from Virginia and to accept what that help means on her terms. So that’s where we’re going to find them and we’ll see how that ends up playing out over the course of the episode. But it’s certainly not a great place to start from for them.
Andrew, what can you add to that?
CHAMBLISS: I think we’re going to really see everyone question what they’ve been doing and whether it’s a path they’re going to be able to continue to walk down once Ginny arrives. And a lot of it feels like it’s kind of a calm before a storm, but it’s something that they’re definitely going to have to face and really reckon with.
Well, the one person that is not there is Dwight. Obviously, he broke off from the pack and we see that. So what can you say in terms of what the finale holds for Dwight?
CHAMBLISS: Obviously, Dwight is really triggered by the idea of accepting help from someone who is going to impose their way of living, their values on you just because of the ghost of Negan and the Saviors that you can see in Ginny and her people in a group that really tries to control you and doesn’t let you value the things you may have value. And I think what Dwight is going to learn over the course of the episode is that perhaps the people he has been with care about him more than he thought. And maybe not just that they care about him more than he thought, but that maybe he cares about them in the same way. We’ll see Dwight come to an understanding of who he is in a bigger way than he may have realized.
What can you all say in terms of how the season will end? Are things going to wrap up neatly or are we going to have a cliffhanger?
GOLDBERG: Well, I believe it was at Comic-Con where we kind of hinted at the fact that we were hurdling toward a bit of a game-changing moment at the end of season 5. And this is the episode where that’s going to happen. And the audience is going to start to piece that together as they watch the episode. But by the end of it, you’ll really see what we meant when we alluded to it being a game changer because this finale is going to be very emotional. There’s going to be a lot of surprises and it’s also going to set up where we’re headed in season 6 in a lot of ways and you’ll see sort of the scaffolding for how those stories might play out. And you know, the way that we leave everyone will start to set up what season 6 is going to look like and you’ll see that it’s very different than a how season 5 played out.
CHAMBLISS: It really is reinventing the show. We’re always looking for ways from season to season or every half season to change up the narrative. And what we’re doing here is really trying to fundamentally change these characters and allow us to explore new sides of them we haven’t seen before. There is a big change coming.
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September 29, 2019 at 09:00 AM EDT
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The call for help has been placed. At the end of season 5’s penultimate episode of Fear the Walking Dead, Morgan radioed to adversary Virginia for assistance after they had exhausted every other opportunity for survival. But what will be the cost of that call?
We spoke to Fear showrunners Ian Goldberg and Andrew Chambliss to get their insight and intel on what to expect on Sunday night’s season finale. What does the arrival of Ginny and the Pioneers mean? Where’s Dwight off to? Will things wrap up neatly or with a cliffhanger? Goldberg and Chambliss say to prepare yourself for a “game-changing” moment that could set the stage for a whole new show in season 6.
VAN REDIN/AMC
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Give me some words you would you use to describe the season finale.
IAN GOLDBERG: Western, Hope, Despair.
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Andrew, what do you want to add to that?
ANDREW CHAMBLISS: Ah, Ian took all the good words. Let’s see: Soggy. I’m just going to go with soggy.
We saw Morgan place the call to Virginia at the end of the last episode, so what does that mean moving into the finale?
GOLDBERG: Episode 515 was a very emotional episode for our group, and in a lot of ways it was about them making a stand against Ginny, both in the documentary they were making, but also in the way they were going about getting to the Gulch. They took this detour in order to get medicine for Grace, which led to them having to cross that bridge. And then Tom ended up losing his life and there were all these sacrifices that the group made. Ultimately, they ended in a place where they got to the Gulch and it wasn’t the place that they hoped it would be. So it was a rather big defeat. It was the last thing anybody wanted to do was to have to call and ask Virginia for help. But it was sort of a born out of necessity for their survival.
So when we find a group in the finale, they’re going to be in a pretty despondent place because they’re kind of doing exactly what they’ve been hoping to never have to do, which to take help from Virginia and to accept what that help means on her terms. So that’s where we’re going to find them and we’ll see how that ends up playing out over the course of the episode. But it’s certainly not a great place to start from for them.
Andrew, what can you add to that?
CHAMBLISS: I think we’re going to really see everyone question what they’ve been doing and whether it’s a path they’re going to be able to continue to walk down once Ginny arrives. And a lot of it feels like it’s kind of a calm before a storm, but it’s something that they’re definitely going to have to face and really reckon with.
Well, the one person that is not there is Dwight. Obviously, he broke off from the pack and we see that. So what can you say in terms of what the finale holds for Dwight?
CHAMBLISS: Obviously, Dwight is really triggered by the idea of accepting help from someone who is going to impose their way of living, their values on you just because of the ghost of Negan and the Saviors that you can see in Ginny and her people in a group that really tries to control you and doesn’t let you value the things you may have value. And I think what Dwight is going to learn over the course of the episode is that perhaps the people he has been with care about him more than he thought. And maybe not just that they care about him more than he thought, but that maybe he cares about them in the same way. We’ll see Dwight come to an understanding of who he is in a bigger way than he may have realized.
What can you all say in terms of how the season will end? Are things going to wrap up neatly or are we going to have a cliffhanger?
GOLDBERG: Well, I believe it was at Comic-Con where we kind of hinted at the fact that we were hurdling toward a bit of a game-changing moment at the end of season 5. And this is the episode where that’s going to happen. And the audience is going to start to piece that together as they watch the episode. But by the end of it, you’ll really see what we meant when we alluded to it being a game changer because this finale is going to be very emotional. There’s going to be a lot of surprises and it’s also going to set up where we’re headed in season 6 in a lot of ways and you’ll see sort of the scaffolding for how those stories might play out. And you know, the way that we leave everyone will start to set up what season 6 is going to look like and you’ll see that it’s very different than a how season 5 played out.
CHAMBLISS: It really is reinventing the show. We’re always looking for ways from season to season or every half season to change up the narrative. And what we’re doing here is really trying to fundamentally change these characters and allow us to explore new sides of them we haven’t seen before. There is a big change coming.
Fear the Walking Dead showrunners weigh in on Morgan's fate
By Dalton Ross
September 29, 2019 at 10:14 PM EDT
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We first met Lennie James’ Morgan in the pilot episode of The Walking Dead. But did Morgan just meet his end on the season 5 finale of Fear the Walking Dead? It sure appeared that way when he was shot by Ginny and then left alone crumpled on the ground with a walkie-talkie in hand urging his friends to “just live” while zombies closed in as the episode — and season — ended.
Showrunners Ian Goldberg and Andrew Chambliss would neither confirm nor deny that Morgan was, in fact, about to meet his maker when we got them on the line to ask about the big finale shocker. That seems to indicate that the seemingly impossible escape may be possible after all. We also talked to the showrunners about the John and June wedding, the revelation that Grace is pregnant (instead of sick), and what everyone being separated by Ginny means for what’s to come in season 6. Read on for intel and insight!
VAN REDIN/AMC
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Okay, let’s just jump right to it. You know the first question I have: Morgan has been part of the Walking Dead universe since the very beginning. Is he meeting his end here?
ANDREW CHAMBLISS: What I’ll say is we heard Morgan’s final message that he spoke over the walkie that he hopes everyone in his group hears. The last words he said were “just live”, and we’re going to see A) whether everyone else heard that, and B) whether they’re going to be able to do that. But the biggest question, which we’re not going to give an answer on one way or the other is whether or not Morgan can do the very same thing and follow his own advice.
Well, I mean, it looks bad! He’s been shot. He is sitting there alone, can’t really seem to walk or anything. And there are some walkers coming right up on him. What does that mean for him?
IAN GOLDBERG: Oh, you said it. It certainly doesn’t look good for Morgan. We’ve seen Morgan survive some pretty scary things in the past, but this might be the biggest test he’s faced yet. He’s completely alone. He’s without his entire group. He’s been shot. He’s got walkers encroaching upon him. So you know, as Andrew has said, he tells everyone else to live, whether he’ll be able to do that, we’ll have to see. And we’ll have to see if even his message reached the rest of the group because there’s nothing that tells us that anyone even heard. So that’s a question for season 6.
ANDREW CHAMBLISS: And I think it’s a larger question than just whether or not Morgan’s going to live. It’s whether this whole way of life that he was trying to build of trying to be better and trying to make the world a better place, whether that’s going to be able to live or whether that’s going to die as Ginny tries to have her own way.
I want to delve a little deeper into those last words of “Just live,” because ultimately so much of this episode is that question of: What is it to live? That’s the question they have to ask themselves when they place that call to Ginny, because “just live” can mean different things. Does “just live” mean to stay alive to fight another day, or does it mean to live your fullest while you’re still around to do it? I can put multiple interpretations of that.
ANDREW CHAMBLISS: Yeah, for sure. And I think Morgan’s intention in that moment was to let everyone know that the things they had been fighting for, the decisions they had made and, and namely the decision to try to keep Grace alive even though it looked like there was no future, we’re about protecting the future. Morgan finds out she’s pregnant, and I think he’s trying to deliver that little bit of hope. But I think on a more global scale it is addressing the questions that Morgan and everyone else had been wrestling with all season.
We saw one of the biggest examples of it in this episode, even though June and Dorie knew Ginny was on her way and knew that they were most likely going to get separated, they still decided to go forward and have this wedding. And that really is a viewpoint that everyone has come around to embracing in the apocalypse amongst our group. They’re living in a world where they don’t know what the fate is going to be from one moment to the next and they’re just going to make the most of every moment. And that’s why it was so important for the group to have that wedding and hold onto a piece of the way the world used to be, the things that make surviving worthwhile. So, that wedding was a very bittersweet moment because it was June and Dorie kind of professing their love to each other when they know that it may be the last time they ever see each other again.
VAN REDIN/AMC
We’ll see what happens to Morgan, but what was Lennie James’ reaction when you told him about this episode and how things were going to end up?
IAN GOLDBERG: When we pitched it to Lennie, he’s always very sensitive to what it means for Morgan and what it means in the journey of his character. And where we’ve taken him this season has been to some places that we had never seen him go before. The one that comes immediately to mind is his connection with Grace. The way that he’s able to in the finale articulate that he has feelings for her, which is something he hasn’t been able to do with anyone since the loss of Jenny and Duane. And even in the moment when he knows that they’re being separated and they may never see each other again, the fact that he’s able to articulate that he sees a future there, even if it’s one that they may never get, that’s huge for Morgan because that is him starting to heal the wounds and ghosts of his past.
So Morgan has come a long way. The bittersweet part of it is that this season was about rallying behind a philosophy in a way of being in the world of benevolence and helping people as a redemptive path both for Morgan and for everyone. And they were able to do that for a lot of people. And unfortunately, in the end, that way of life is meeting bit a roadblock right now with the way Ginny’s separating everybody. But it doesn’t mean that what Morgan did wasn’t kind of extraordinary with these people. And so despite all the progress he’s made, Morgan does end up alone at the end of the season. But that doesn’t mean that it was a loss. He was fighting for the right things. He came a long way personally, emotionally and as we said, we’ll have to see if this is the end of the line for him.
ANDREW CHAMBLISS: And I think one of the things that Lennie found attractive about that endpoint for Morgan this season, whether he lives or dies, is the fact that Morgan has gotten himself to a place where he feels like he’s made up for a lot of the things that he’s done. And Lennie described that feeling as he was delivering that final walkie message as one of pride that he and the rest of the group were able to hold onto who they were. And along the way, they were able to save a lot of people. So whether or not this is the end for Morgan, I think he in that moment feels satisfied knowing that he has made a real difference and come a very far away from where he was when he joined Fear in the beginning of season and definitely far away from where he was in the pilot of The Walking Dead.
AMC
Okay, I struck out in trying to get a definitive answer from you guys on Morgan’s fate, so I’m going to try to get a definitive answer on this one. Was that indeed Sherry that we hear over Dwight’s radio at the start of the episode?
ANDREW CHAMBLISS: I think you probably should know better about getting definitive answers. But I will say that there have been quite a few clues in the back half of the season pointing to the fact that Dwight might be getting closer to Sherry than he’s been before. And Dwight has found himself in such a conflicted place because of that. He doesn’t want to be reunited with Sherry in any way that is going to make him feel like he is obligated to anyone. And that’s one of the things that really made him feel so adamant that he didn’t want to come under Ginny’s control, because if he ends up with Sherry and if it’s because of Ginny, I think he is fearful that is just going to tarnish their relationship. And it’s going to essentially repeat the same exact thing that happened when Dwight and Sherry were together at the Sanctuary.
I think we can say in season 6 we probably will get some more answers and Dwight will end up perhaps ending his search. And I’ll leave it at that.
Obviously, the other big bombshell at the end is that Grace is pregnant. This is something they’ve dealt with on the other show before but a first for you guys in terms of a pregnancy and maybe possibly a birth at some point coming here on the show. Have you all mapped out what this is going to look like a moving forward for Grace?
IAN GOLDBERG: We have, and I can’t tell you what that map looks like right now, but yeah. I think what excites us the most about that story is kind of what Morgan says in his final speech to Virginia, which is, “It’s all about the future.” That she was pregnant and literally was carrying a symbol of the future inside of her is pretty amazing. And so what’s going to be interesting is Ginny’s also somebody who is obsessed with the future, and you saw kind of a smile cross her face and she laughed when she got the revelation from the doctor that Grace was pregnant. So that baby might have some significance and importance to her, too.
But yeah, it’s a very big thing. And also, we’ve talked about Morgan and his articulating his feelings for Grace, but there’s also now on top of his just feelings for her — if there’s a baby in the mix it would be tragic if just when Morgan finds out about that he were to meet his end.
Last year ended with everyone coming together on this new mission with the boxes. This year couldn’t be more different with everyone ripped apart into different cars. Even Daniel and Skidmark were separated for God’s sake. You monsters! What sort of tease can you give us in terms of what that means for season 6 when things pick back up?
ANDREW CHAMBLISS: I think what we’re really excited for in season 6 is the fact that everyone got split up and we’ve already heard Ginny reference the fact that she has quite a few settlements under her control. She is like a colonizer. She is like someone who franchises these settlements and comes in and fixes things and then kind of seizes control. But it means we’re going to see a lot of different places and get a lot of different flavors and we’re going to be able to dive in really deeply with our characters.
As you know, we watched them struggle to be apart, as we watched them fight to get back together. We will see whether or not some people buy into Ginny’s philosophy, or if they will try to hold onto those words that Morgan’s spoke out over the walkie. We’re really trying to set the stage for a different kind of storytelling than we’ve done before on the show. And you were very upset by Skidmark and Daniel being separated. We can say that Daniel’s going to want that cat back, and Skidmark may want to be back with the Daniel, so maybe we’ll see the apocalypse from the point of view of our own Milo and Otis.
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September 29, 2019 at 10:14 PM EDT
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SPOILER ALERT: Read on only if you have already watched Sunday’s season finale of Fear the Walking Dead.
We first met Lennie James’ Morgan in the pilot episode of The Walking Dead. But did Morgan just meet his end on the season 5 finale of Fear the Walking Dead? It sure appeared that way when he was shot by Ginny and then left alone crumpled on the ground with a walkie-talkie in hand urging his friends to “just live” while zombies closed in as the episode — and season — ended.
Showrunners Ian Goldberg and Andrew Chambliss would neither confirm nor deny that Morgan was, in fact, about to meet his maker when we got them on the line to ask about the big finale shocker. That seems to indicate that the seemingly impossible escape may be possible after all. We also talked to the showrunners about the John and June wedding, the revelation that Grace is pregnant (instead of sick), and what everyone being separated by Ginny means for what’s to come in season 6. Read on for intel and insight!
VAN REDIN/AMC
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Okay, let’s just jump right to it. You know the first question I have: Morgan has been part of the Walking Dead universe since the very beginning. Is he meeting his end here?
ANDREW CHAMBLISS: What I’ll say is we heard Morgan’s final message that he spoke over the walkie that he hopes everyone in his group hears. The last words he said were “just live”, and we’re going to see A) whether everyone else heard that, and B) whether they’re going to be able to do that. But the biggest question, which we’re not going to give an answer on one way or the other is whether or not Morgan can do the very same thing and follow his own advice.
Well, I mean, it looks bad! He’s been shot. He is sitting there alone, can’t really seem to walk or anything. And there are some walkers coming right up on him. What does that mean for him?
IAN GOLDBERG: Oh, you said it. It certainly doesn’t look good for Morgan. We’ve seen Morgan survive some pretty scary things in the past, but this might be the biggest test he’s faced yet. He’s completely alone. He’s without his entire group. He’s been shot. He’s got walkers encroaching upon him. So you know, as Andrew has said, he tells everyone else to live, whether he’ll be able to do that, we’ll have to see. And we’ll have to see if even his message reached the rest of the group because there’s nothing that tells us that anyone even heard. So that’s a question for season 6.
ANDREW CHAMBLISS: And I think it’s a larger question than just whether or not Morgan’s going to live. It’s whether this whole way of life that he was trying to build of trying to be better and trying to make the world a better place, whether that’s going to be able to live or whether that’s going to die as Ginny tries to have her own way.
I want to delve a little deeper into those last words of “Just live,” because ultimately so much of this episode is that question of: What is it to live? That’s the question they have to ask themselves when they place that call to Ginny, because “just live” can mean different things. Does “just live” mean to stay alive to fight another day, or does it mean to live your fullest while you’re still around to do it? I can put multiple interpretations of that.
ANDREW CHAMBLISS: Yeah, for sure. And I think Morgan’s intention in that moment was to let everyone know that the things they had been fighting for, the decisions they had made and, and namely the decision to try to keep Grace alive even though it looked like there was no future, we’re about protecting the future. Morgan finds out she’s pregnant, and I think he’s trying to deliver that little bit of hope. But I think on a more global scale it is addressing the questions that Morgan and everyone else had been wrestling with all season.
We saw one of the biggest examples of it in this episode, even though June and Dorie knew Ginny was on her way and knew that they were most likely going to get separated, they still decided to go forward and have this wedding. And that really is a viewpoint that everyone has come around to embracing in the apocalypse amongst our group. They’re living in a world where they don’t know what the fate is going to be from one moment to the next and they’re just going to make the most of every moment. And that’s why it was so important for the group to have that wedding and hold onto a piece of the way the world used to be, the things that make surviving worthwhile. So, that wedding was a very bittersweet moment because it was June and Dorie kind of professing their love to each other when they know that it may be the last time they ever see each other again.
VAN REDIN/AMC
We’ll see what happens to Morgan, but what was Lennie James’ reaction when you told him about this episode and how things were going to end up?
IAN GOLDBERG: When we pitched it to Lennie, he’s always very sensitive to what it means for Morgan and what it means in the journey of his character. And where we’ve taken him this season has been to some places that we had never seen him go before. The one that comes immediately to mind is his connection with Grace. The way that he’s able to in the finale articulate that he has feelings for her, which is something he hasn’t been able to do with anyone since the loss of Jenny and Duane. And even in the moment when he knows that they’re being separated and they may never see each other again, the fact that he’s able to articulate that he sees a future there, even if it’s one that they may never get, that’s huge for Morgan because that is him starting to heal the wounds and ghosts of his past.
So Morgan has come a long way. The bittersweet part of it is that this season was about rallying behind a philosophy in a way of being in the world of benevolence and helping people as a redemptive path both for Morgan and for everyone. And they were able to do that for a lot of people. And unfortunately, in the end, that way of life is meeting bit a roadblock right now with the way Ginny’s separating everybody. But it doesn’t mean that what Morgan did wasn’t kind of extraordinary with these people. And so despite all the progress he’s made, Morgan does end up alone at the end of the season. But that doesn’t mean that it was a loss. He was fighting for the right things. He came a long way personally, emotionally and as we said, we’ll have to see if this is the end of the line for him.
ANDREW CHAMBLISS: And I think one of the things that Lennie found attractive about that endpoint for Morgan this season, whether he lives or dies, is the fact that Morgan has gotten himself to a place where he feels like he’s made up for a lot of the things that he’s done. And Lennie described that feeling as he was delivering that final walkie message as one of pride that he and the rest of the group were able to hold onto who they were. And along the way, they were able to save a lot of people. So whether or not this is the end for Morgan, I think he in that moment feels satisfied knowing that he has made a real difference and come a very far away from where he was when he joined Fear in the beginning of season and definitely far away from where he was in the pilot of The Walking Dead.
AMC
Okay, I struck out in trying to get a definitive answer from you guys on Morgan’s fate, so I’m going to try to get a definitive answer on this one. Was that indeed Sherry that we hear over Dwight’s radio at the start of the episode?
ANDREW CHAMBLISS: I think you probably should know better about getting definitive answers. But I will say that there have been quite a few clues in the back half of the season pointing to the fact that Dwight might be getting closer to Sherry than he’s been before. And Dwight has found himself in such a conflicted place because of that. He doesn’t want to be reunited with Sherry in any way that is going to make him feel like he is obligated to anyone. And that’s one of the things that really made him feel so adamant that he didn’t want to come under Ginny’s control, because if he ends up with Sherry and if it’s because of Ginny, I think he is fearful that is just going to tarnish their relationship. And it’s going to essentially repeat the same exact thing that happened when Dwight and Sherry were together at the Sanctuary.
I think we can say in season 6 we probably will get some more answers and Dwight will end up perhaps ending his search. And I’ll leave it at that.
Obviously, the other big bombshell at the end is that Grace is pregnant. This is something they’ve dealt with on the other show before but a first for you guys in terms of a pregnancy and maybe possibly a birth at some point coming here on the show. Have you all mapped out what this is going to look like a moving forward for Grace?
IAN GOLDBERG: We have, and I can’t tell you what that map looks like right now, but yeah. I think what excites us the most about that story is kind of what Morgan says in his final speech to Virginia, which is, “It’s all about the future.” That she was pregnant and literally was carrying a symbol of the future inside of her is pretty amazing. And so what’s going to be interesting is Ginny’s also somebody who is obsessed with the future, and you saw kind of a smile cross her face and she laughed when she got the revelation from the doctor that Grace was pregnant. So that baby might have some significance and importance to her, too.
But yeah, it’s a very big thing. And also, we’ve talked about Morgan and his articulating his feelings for Grace, but there’s also now on top of his just feelings for her — if there’s a baby in the mix it would be tragic if just when Morgan finds out about that he were to meet his end.
Last year ended with everyone coming together on this new mission with the boxes. This year couldn’t be more different with everyone ripped apart into different cars. Even Daniel and Skidmark were separated for God’s sake. You monsters! What sort of tease can you give us in terms of what that means for season 6 when things pick back up?
ANDREW CHAMBLISS: I think what we’re really excited for in season 6 is the fact that everyone got split up and we’ve already heard Ginny reference the fact that she has quite a few settlements under her control. She is like a colonizer. She is like someone who franchises these settlements and comes in and fixes things and then kind of seizes control. But it means we’re going to see a lot of different places and get a lot of different flavors and we’re going to be able to dive in really deeply with our characters.
As you know, we watched them struggle to be apart, as we watched them fight to get back together. We will see whether or not some people buy into Ginny’s philosophy, or if they will try to hold onto those words that Morgan’s spoke out over the walkie. We’re really trying to set the stage for a different kind of storytelling than we’ve done before on the show. And you were very upset by Skidmark and Daniel being separated. We can say that Daniel’s going to want that cat back, and Skidmark may want to be back with the Daniel, so maybe we’ll see the apocalypse from the point of view of our own Milo and Otis.
Fear the Walking Dead season finale recap: Can this show survive? Should it?
By Nick Romano
September 29, 2019 at 10:14 PM EDT
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The biggest misstep Fear the Walking Dead ever made was killing off Madison (Kim Dickens) in season 4 and pivoting the whole show from a story about the Clark family to a vehicle for Morgan (Lennie James). The character is a contagion that spread to everything and everyone: His story arc about someone who feels compelled beyond reason to “do the right thing” and “do right by people” to make up for the sins in his past has become the story arc for practically every main character on the show to the point where they all willfully ignore logic. It’s not prolific, it’s just boring — as tired and dead as the titular animated corpses.
It’s hard to imagine suffering through yet another season after two irksome outings (the sixth season has already been ordered), but the season 5 finale appears to have made a sacrifice for the greater good. The problem is, A) we’re not sure if it’s gonna stick and, B) even if it does stick, is it better off for everyone involved to just finish off this show?
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Considering all the available evidence, it appears Morgan has been killed off. But, as we know, the FTWD writers don’t seem to care for the rules of their own world and the showrunner is being super cagey about Morgan’s fate in a new interview with EW, which seems to suggest Morgan may somehow find his way out of this predicament. If that’s the case, God help us. On the other hand, Madison’s death wasn’t explicitly shown on screen, leaving some fans to muse about a possible return that hasn’t come yet. So… who knows?
After Morgan accepts Virginia’s aid at the Gulch, she and her forces agree to some of his terms in that everyone — including Grace and the elderly in need of healthcare — gets to come with them, no one is left behind. The caveat is that they will go wherever she sees fit, which means splitting them up. John and June, who just got married, are separated; Daniel and his cat don’t get to travel together; Al is stripped of her camera and commanded to tell Virginia everything she knows about the helicopter; Alicia is carted off with Victor; Morgan and Grace profess their feelings for one another before getting split apart; and Morgan gets to stay at the Gulch. Why? Because Virginia hates his face and is going to kill him.
Once everyone else drives off, she goes to fire her gun. Morgan is able to whack her across the face with his staff, but the bullet lands in his shoulder. He’s unable to get himself off the ground, so he crawls towards the church. Virginia, having dropped and apparently lost her pistol (just one of the simple but oh so stupid plot points in this episode), goes to grab another gun off a nearby dead body. She points it at Morgan’s head and fires, but it’s faulty.
At the same time, she hears over the walkie that Grace isn’t sick or dying from radiation poisoning, she’s just pregnant and severely malnourished. Guess that sonogram could’ve come in handy, after all. Also, why the heck didn’t June, a nurse, not even consider this to be a possibility? We digress, but it’s stuff like this that makes this show so frustrating.
Anyway… As walkers start to approach, Virginia leaves Morgan where he sits –bleeding out without weapons — and says she hopes he dies. The final scene we see is Morgan sending a message out over the walkie to anyone who may hear, urging them all to “just live” … not to say that Virginia betrayed him and he’s gonna die. Whatever. It’s literally his funeral. Walkers are nearly upon him as he continues to heavily bleed out when the screen cuts to black.
The show needs to let him die and take his moral mission with him. As the writing dictates, the characters have become concerned about reverting back to who they used to be and it’s all for silly reasons: Alicia couldn’t kill walkers for the longest time because she felt killing was bad and peace was good, even though letting walkers (that are already dead) live would mean those walkers would kill others and cause more killing. June feared becoming a nomad scavenger again without John, so, like, don’t become a nomad scavenger. Easy. Victor and Daniel, two of the more interesting characters produced by the show, are now just 2D shells of human beings who are so utterly boring. And Morgan is just off-the-charts irritating. It took him the entire time from when we meet him in the premiere of The Walking Dead to season 5 in the spin-off to realize it’s important to make life worth living for others but also for himself… which, duh.
More of this silly storytelling ran rampant through this finale episode.
Over the walkie, Virginia lies to Morgan, saying those who used to live at the Gulch didn’t take her advice and died when the watering hole dried up. When Dwight returns, having found a group of rider-less horses, they learn there was a fight between Virginia’s forces and the people at the Gulch who defended themselves. Since they don’t have enough man or firepower to fend off Virginia, Morgan and the rest devise a plan to herd the walkers in the Gulch like cattle and unleash them on Virginia when the time comes.
Daniel and Victor remain by the SWAT van and their abandoned supplies to signal when Virginia arrives, but when she does, they see Luciana is with her. So, for some reason, they immediately call off the entire plan. Victor goes off by himself to speak with Virginia and give her the key to unlock their vehicles as a way of currying favor. (He tells Alicia later they can do more damage from the inside. It’s a sparkle in the eye of the man he once was.) Morgan and the others quickly lose control of the herd when Dwight’s horse gets spooked and he’s forced to flee on foot. They then lead the herd into a rushing river to be swept away in the current. Great plan, folks. Without the walkers, they’re not able to fight Virginia and are forced to accept whatever is coming their way.
Also, here are a couple more of those small flubs that happened: When Morgan gets off his horse to help Dwight and fend off the dead, he literally pushes one walker to the ground and that somehow kills it. Dwight keeps shouting at the group to stick with the original plan and lead the herd to attack Virginia, but all this shouting is what keeps drawing the dead to him, which seems counterproductive.
It mostly felt like a waste of an episode: the majority of this “extended” finale was spent trying to execute a plan and then promptly torpedoing said plan. When it came to the final minutes, they were all back to where they started the episode, only now they made a home for themselves that Virginia will take away. It’s not that the performances from the cast are bad. It’s poor narrative planning that breeds less confidence in those manning FTWD, even with the promise of never having to hear another Morgan life lesson.
By Nick Romano
September 29, 2019 at 10:14 PM EDT
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Fear the Walking Dead
S5 E16
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The biggest misstep Fear the Walking Dead ever made was killing off Madison (Kim Dickens) in season 4 and pivoting the whole show from a story about the Clark family to a vehicle for Morgan (Lennie James). The character is a contagion that spread to everything and everyone: His story arc about someone who feels compelled beyond reason to “do the right thing” and “do right by people” to make up for the sins in his past has become the story arc for practically every main character on the show to the point where they all willfully ignore logic. It’s not prolific, it’s just boring — as tired and dead as the titular animated corpses.
It’s hard to imagine suffering through yet another season after two irksome outings (the sixth season has already been ordered), but the season 5 finale appears to have made a sacrifice for the greater good. The problem is, A) we’re not sure if it’s gonna stick and, B) even if it does stick, is it better off for everyone involved to just finish off this show?
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Considering all the available evidence, it appears Morgan has been killed off. But, as we know, the FTWD writers don’t seem to care for the rules of their own world and the showrunner is being super cagey about Morgan’s fate in a new interview with EW, which seems to suggest Morgan may somehow find his way out of this predicament. If that’s the case, God help us. On the other hand, Madison’s death wasn’t explicitly shown on screen, leaving some fans to muse about a possible return that hasn’t come yet. So… who knows?
After Morgan accepts Virginia’s aid at the Gulch, she and her forces agree to some of his terms in that everyone — including Grace and the elderly in need of healthcare — gets to come with them, no one is left behind. The caveat is that they will go wherever she sees fit, which means splitting them up. John and June, who just got married, are separated; Daniel and his cat don’t get to travel together; Al is stripped of her camera and commanded to tell Virginia everything she knows about the helicopter; Alicia is carted off with Victor; Morgan and Grace profess their feelings for one another before getting split apart; and Morgan gets to stay at the Gulch. Why? Because Virginia hates his face and is going to kill him.
Once everyone else drives off, she goes to fire her gun. Morgan is able to whack her across the face with his staff, but the bullet lands in his shoulder. He’s unable to get himself off the ground, so he crawls towards the church. Virginia, having dropped and apparently lost her pistol (just one of the simple but oh so stupid plot points in this episode), goes to grab another gun off a nearby dead body. She points it at Morgan’s head and fires, but it’s faulty.
At the same time, she hears over the walkie that Grace isn’t sick or dying from radiation poisoning, she’s just pregnant and severely malnourished. Guess that sonogram could’ve come in handy, after all. Also, why the heck didn’t June, a nurse, not even consider this to be a possibility? We digress, but it’s stuff like this that makes this show so frustrating.
Anyway… As walkers start to approach, Virginia leaves Morgan where he sits –bleeding out without weapons — and says she hopes he dies. The final scene we see is Morgan sending a message out over the walkie to anyone who may hear, urging them all to “just live” … not to say that Virginia betrayed him and he’s gonna die. Whatever. It’s literally his funeral. Walkers are nearly upon him as he continues to heavily bleed out when the screen cuts to black.
The show needs to let him die and take his moral mission with him. As the writing dictates, the characters have become concerned about reverting back to who they used to be and it’s all for silly reasons: Alicia couldn’t kill walkers for the longest time because she felt killing was bad and peace was good, even though letting walkers (that are already dead) live would mean those walkers would kill others and cause more killing. June feared becoming a nomad scavenger again without John, so, like, don’t become a nomad scavenger. Easy. Victor and Daniel, two of the more interesting characters produced by the show, are now just 2D shells of human beings who are so utterly boring. And Morgan is just off-the-charts irritating. It took him the entire time from when we meet him in the premiere of The Walking Dead to season 5 in the spin-off to realize it’s important to make life worth living for others but also for himself… which, duh.
More of this silly storytelling ran rampant through this finale episode.
Over the walkie, Virginia lies to Morgan, saying those who used to live at the Gulch didn’t take her advice and died when the watering hole dried up. When Dwight returns, having found a group of rider-less horses, they learn there was a fight between Virginia’s forces and the people at the Gulch who defended themselves. Since they don’t have enough man or firepower to fend off Virginia, Morgan and the rest devise a plan to herd the walkers in the Gulch like cattle and unleash them on Virginia when the time comes.
Daniel and Victor remain by the SWAT van and their abandoned supplies to signal when Virginia arrives, but when she does, they see Luciana is with her. So, for some reason, they immediately call off the entire plan. Victor goes off by himself to speak with Virginia and give her the key to unlock their vehicles as a way of currying favor. (He tells Alicia later they can do more damage from the inside. It’s a sparkle in the eye of the man he once was.) Morgan and the others quickly lose control of the herd when Dwight’s horse gets spooked and he’s forced to flee on foot. They then lead the herd into a rushing river to be swept away in the current. Great plan, folks. Without the walkers, they’re not able to fight Virginia and are forced to accept whatever is coming their way.
Also, here are a couple more of those small flubs that happened: When Morgan gets off his horse to help Dwight and fend off the dead, he literally pushes one walker to the ground and that somehow kills it. Dwight keeps shouting at the group to stick with the original plan and lead the herd to attack Virginia, but all this shouting is what keeps drawing the dead to him, which seems counterproductive.
It mostly felt like a waste of an episode: the majority of this “extended” finale was spent trying to execute a plan and then promptly torpedoing said plan. When it came to the final minutes, they were all back to where they started the episode, only now they made a home for themselves that Virginia will take away. It’s not that the performances from the cast are bad. It’s poor narrative planning that breeds less confidence in those manning FTWD, even with the promise of never having to hear another Morgan life lesson.
I'd be running to download this shit if they did indeed kill off Morgan.
Man, I finished watching this show and Morgan is a bitch ass dude that didn’t learn a fucking thing from Alexandra, the Hilltop, the Kingdom, Oceanside, or even the Saviors. He is a weak ass leader. However, they should’ve never followed behind a nomad. These bamas ended up being a bunch of Gypsies. They had way more than Rick ever had to work with but Morgan pissed it all away. The should’ve took their asses to Alexandra. What a waste.
Yo first episode is fire
Bet you'll think different now, check out first episode of Fear Walking
I haven't watch this since the beginning of season 3.....
So .....
Does the season kickoff this evening??
'Fear TWD' showrunners answer season premiere burning questions
'Fear the Walking Dead' showrunners Andrew Chambliss and Ian Goldberg explain new Morgan, that submarine, and more from the season 6 premiere.
Fear the Walking Dead showrunners answer season premiere burning questions
By Dalton Ross
October 11, 2020 at 10:15 PM EDT
Warning: This article contains spoilers about Sunday’s season 6 premiere of Fear the Walking Dead titled “The End is the Beginning.”
Morgan Jones is dead. Okay, that’s not entirely accurate, but by the end of Fear the Walking Dead’s season 6 premiere, the Morgan Jones we all knew and loved was gone, and he even said so himself! “Morgan Jones is dead,” the person formally known as Morgan Jones told Virginia on the other end of a walkie talkie. “And you’re dealing with someone else now.”
It seems after being left for dead at the end of season 5, Morgan was saved and stitched up by a mystery medic. But his wound had burst open and Eastman’s prized pupil was on the verge of death… which did, it should be noted, have one advantage in that it allowed Morgan to move along unimpeded among otherwise flesh-eating zombies. (Nice perk!)
There was one figure looking to speed Morgan on his way to death in the form of an axe-wielding bounty hunter obsessed with social contracts and hired by Ginny to finish the job that she didn’t. But there was also another person hoping to help Morgan and receive help in return in the form of Isaac — a former ranger for Ginny who was so moved by Morgan’s previous do-gooderness that he and his wife had left the group. Just one problem: said wife was about to give birth and Isaac had been bitten by a walker. (Bad timing!)
Ultimately, Morgan helped Isaac back so the baby could be delivered before Isaac met his end. And Morgan put an end to his non-killing ways by chopping off the head of his bounty-hunting pursuer — stealing his axe and hat in the process.
We put on our own bounty hunter hat to track down Fear showrunners Andrew Chambliss and Ian Goldberg to get the inside scoop on Morgan’s journey, who exactly he has become now, and that mysterious graffiti-spraying group hanging out by a giant beached submarine. Read on!
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ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: First off, anytime you guys change up your opening credits, I'm going to ask you about that. Tell me about what you wanted to do here with the opening credits for season 6.
ANDREW CHAMBLISS: The impetus around that was the fact that we were leaning into the anthology format of the show. And we wanted something that went along with that and signaled to the audience that there was something new coming. And as you will see, as you continue to watch, each opening will evoke the tone of the show. It will feature the character whose journey we're on.
And the other element of it is we really wanted something that has a graphic look. And a lot of this came from looking at some Western posters. I mean, we saw, I think, one fan poster for Django Unchained, and it was really cool. And that was part of the inspiration of doing the silhouettes. It was part of us looking at the show and embracing the new format that we are using for the storytelling.
IAN GOLDBERG: The other cool thing that happens this season is our composers, Danny Bensi and Saunder Jurriaans, do very subtle variations on the main title theme music in each episode to kind of, as Andrew was saying, evoke what the tone of that particular episode is going to be. It's very subtle, just a note or a shift in tone here or there, but it's just another kind of way that we're mixing things up.
You all introduce this badass new bounty hunter, and I’m thinking to myself, “Here we go. We just met the new big bad for at least the first half of season 6. This is the new Melvin. This is the new Martha. This is the new Ginny.” And then you kill the dude before the episode is even over! Ever any thought to drawing his chase of Morgan out a little longer?
ANDREW CHAMBLISS: The character was brought to life by Demetrius Grosse in such an amazing way. When we started to see his performance, we kind of fell in love with him. And we were, I guess if I'm being honest, part of us was regretful that he wasn't going to survive the episode. But the decision to kill the character comes from the kind of stories we're telling. We want to be able to tell this complete story for Morgan, where he starts in a place where he thinks he's just hanging on to life long enough to do one little bit of good for Grace and the baby. And ultimately, he's pushed to such a place where he has to live. And the kind of sign of that is him taking the life of the man who is hunting him down.
And it also is about showing his growth as a character, as someone who is now able to take a life when necessary, to do the hard things that need to be done and not lose all semblance of who he is as we've seen him do so often in the past when Morgan, who was struggling with his own mental health, was very much a character who was all or nothing, either a complete pacifist or a walker-clearing psychopath. And we wanted him to be able to put together all the pieces of who he was and kind of synthesize them into a new person. And ultimately that meant he had to kill Emile. But we loved the character so much. Who knows? We could see him again through many different storytelling techniques that we're talking about.
IAN GOLDBERG: He did mention having a brother around the campfire. So that's just something to keep in mind.
Oh, nice! And Ian, I'll ask you to piggyback off that a little bit of what Andrew was saying, because Morgan has always had very complicated feelings when it comes to killing. And yet we see him slice this guy's head off, we see him put the stick down and pick up the axe. We hear him tell Ginny, "Morgan Jones is dead. You're dealing with someone else now." I mean, that lends the obvious question: Who is he now?
IAN GOLDBERG: Well, that is a complicated question. I think Morgan has had a lot of rebirths since we first met him in the pilot of The Walking Dead. He's been many different somebodies over the course of the apocalypse. He's endured a lot of trauma. And what we saw from him last season was it was probably the most hopeful Morgan that we'd seen. It was about uniting this unlikely family behind this philosophy of helping people out in the world. And they did do a lot of good, but at the end of the day, there was a great deal of loss that happened. And ultimately, they ended up under Ginny's control. Granted, all the work they did save Grace. And now there's a baby in the picture.
But it was not overall a win for Morgan. And I think Morgan realized that he had to change. Something in him had to change, and that also plays out with his interaction with Isaac in the episode. Isaac is someone who also felt he had to change. He was someone who had worked for Virginia, and through being inspired by finding Morgan's own videos of helping people in the world, that led to him leaving Virginia and finding the place that Morgan will now try and make a home.
For Morgan, likewise, realized that the way he was operating in the world before, it wasn't going to work for him going forward. It's not going to be the thing that helps unite everybody. And so, he realized he's got to become somebody different if that's a more morally-gray Morgan, then that's what he's going to be. And we're going to see that evolution in action as the season goes on.
So, for anyone wondering, Morgan’s stench of death is what made him immune to the zombies, correct?
ANDREW CHAMBLISS: Yes, exactly. He's so close to death, and that wound had been sadly treated by a mystery person, and it really is just kind of emitting the stench of death. And that is what kind of gives him almost this super-power where he can walk amongst the dead without being noticed.
It's a good news, bad news situation, though, right? It's like, you’ve got a super-power, but it's only going to last for so long.
ANDREW CHAMBLISS: Yeah, it's not exactly something anyone's going to try to replicate either.
So then, I want to ask you guys about these few instances we see throughout the episode where you see the zombies passing right by Morgan. And he keeps yelling at them, "I'm right here." He keeps saying that over and over, so he can fight them. What's that all about? Why is he doing that?
ANDREW CHAMBLISS: That is really about Morgan just trying to prove to himself that he's not gone yet. I think there's something very scary when you're living in this world where every moment of your life is about avoiding these walkers. But then when they start ignoring you, that's really disconcerting. And I think it really, for Morgan, shows just how close he is to death.
And particularly the first time we see him shout to the walker, Morgan doesn't want to die, because he hasn't finished what he thinks he needs to do for Grace and her child in setting up that water tower he has for her. And then he has another experience where he's literally walking by walker after walker after walker, and I think the thing that is going through his head there is he's realizing that he's not far off from being one of those. And that pride and he's trying to save Isaac. It's just him essentially saying there's still fight left in me. And ultimately, we see it as he takes out dozens of walkers.
You guys brought it up a minute ago that he tells Isaac that someone stitched him up while he was blacked out, and left him with that note that said “You don’t know me but I heard your message. You need to do the same. You still have things left to do.” We will ever learn the identity of this mystery medic?
IAN GOLDBERG: Yes, absolutely. That's about all I can say
You want to give any sort of timeframe for that?
IAN GOLDBERG: Within season 6. Actually, I'll go one further. You will find out within the first half of season 6. By episode 608, that mystery will be revealed.
The episode begins and ends with a dude spray painting “The End is the Beginning.” There’s talk of a key they need, and we see a giant beached submarine. What can you tell us about these gentlemen?
ANDREW CHAMBLISS: I can tell you that they like graffiti. Leaving the message, "The end is the beginning," and this won't be the last you'll see of these characters. It won't be the last you see of that message. And there also is a future for that submarine.
They need a key. Morgan just got his hands on a key. Seems like that might be the same key. Does the key have to do with the submarine or are those two separate things?
IAN GOLDBERG: Yeah, you'll have to watch and find out, but that's a very good theory.
Okay, each of you give me a tease for something that people are going to see in your next episode.
ANDREW CHAMBLISS: Some of the stickiest walkers we've ever seen.
IAN GOLDBERG: I would say you're going to see Victor Strand step to the forefront, that is both a return to form for the morally-gray Strand that we have come to know, but also someone entirely new.
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I've missed the last 2 seasons of this show and I actually liked it more than the main show
I start watching the main show years ago
The main show hit the wall a few years ago they was just throwing shit to the wall to see what sticks.
Been catching up on this season and finished up this morning.
Lots of surprise deaths this season. That's always been the case with this series and The Walking Dead.
The last episode finally answered some questions I have always had since the debut of The Walking Dead with the US Nuclear Arsenal and US Government Secret facilities. I always just went along that those things did not exist in their world similar to the word "Zombie" not being used.
The Nuclear Ballistic Submarine will be a good story plot. And I suspect it will play a part with the Civic Republic Military at some point in the future.
2 episodes left until the season finale.
Lots of surprise deaths this season. That's always been the case with this series and The Walking Dead.
The last episode finally answered some questions I have always had since the debut of The Walking Dead with the US Nuclear Arsenal and US Government Secret facilities. I always just went along that those things did not exist in their world similar to the word "Zombie" not being used.
The Nuclear Ballistic Submarine will be a good story plot. And I suspect it will play a part with the Civic Republic Military at some point in the future.
2 episodes left until the season finale.
Watched this week's episode this morning.
The crazy mofos managed to launch off one ICBM from the S ballistic sub USS Pennsylvania.
The missile went airborne but at this time, no word on when it will discharge the multiple warheads on it where they are going.
This show follows the same timeline as "The Walking Dead" and "The World Beyond". So when those shows return, we should find out the effects of the missile, that is if it detonates or just crashes back into Earth.
The season finale is this Sunday.
The crazy mofos managed to launch off one ICBM from the S ballistic sub USS Pennsylvania.
The missile went airborne but at this time, no word on when it will discharge the multiple warheads on it where they are going.
This show follows the same timeline as "The Walking Dead" and "The World Beyond". So when those shows return, we should find out the effects of the missile, that is if it detonates or just crashes back into Earth.
The season finale is this Sunday.
'Fear the Walking Dead' producers promise 'unconventional' finale
Fear the Walking Dead showrunners Ian Goldberg and Andrew Chambliss say there will be fallout from Strand and Morgan's falling out in the season 6 finale
Fear the Walking Dead showrunners promise 'unconventional' season finale
By Dalton Ross
June 11, 2021 at 10:15 AM EDT
The missile is in the air. So what's next? The penultimate episode of Fear the Walking Dead's sixth season ended with cult leader Teddy launching the warhead packed missile into the sky, with detonation now imminent. So what does that mean for our heroes who failed in their quest to stop the launch from happening and are now awaiting impact?
That's just one of the big questions heading into Sunday's season finale on AMC. Will there be fallout from Strand's attempt to sacrifice Morgan so he could be the hero saving the day? What's Alicia up to in that bunker Teddy locked her up in so she could survive and be the leader in his post-post-apocalyptic landscape? And will the finale wrap up the season 6 storyline, set the table for season 7, or both? We turned our launch keys at exactly the same time to fire some burning questions at showrunners Andrew Chambliss and Ian Goldberg heading into the big finale.
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ENTRTAINMENT WEEKLY: We ended season 6's penultimate episode with a missile in the air and 10 warheads on it. Where is that missile headed?
ANDREW CHAMBLISS: That missile is headed for Texas. It is designed to spread those warheads, to create kind of maximum impact on the area that our characters are. So even though it's one missile, the kind of payload that is on it could potentially do a whole lot of destruction to the landscape that our characters have lived in for this past season.
So, what does that mean in terms of our characters in this finale? This isn't necessarily the type of thing where you've got a bunch of bad guys coming and you can gear up for the big fight, and you can get ready, and you can prepare yourself. The missile in the air, so when we pick things up, what are they going to be doing? What's the plan?
IAN GOLDBERG: I can't spoil the whole episode. Those are great questions. We will answer all of them in the finale.
What is everyone's attitude when things first pick back up? Is it just resignation or is it more "We have to figure out something out!"?
GOLDBERG: I would say some characters might feel one way, some might approach it another way. Honestly, Lennie James in an interview talked about this episode as taking place over a held breath. And I think that's a really accurate way to describe it. I think we'll see that all the questions you're asking about: What do you do in the face of utter destruction and the end of everything, is something that the characters will be wrestling with in very different ways as we'll see in the finale.
So how does that impact Strand and Morgan? Because Morgan said in this episode, "We'll deal with this later, let's get to the weapons room." Strand left Morgan for walker chum. So, I don't know if that's sort of now backburnered a little bit with the missile in the air, but what are we going to see between those two guys?
CHAMBLISS: We definitely will be dealing with the fallout from what went down between Morgan and Strand. And I think that's really all I can say with that without giving away too much.
But we will be dealing with the fallout. It will be something that obviously is going to in one way or another play out in this episode?
CHAMBLISS: Yes, and perhaps beyond.
Lennie James and Karen David on 'Fear the Walking Dead'
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Alicia is locked up in that bunker. We didn't see her this past week. What can you say about Alicia heading into the finale, now with the missiles in the air?
GOLDBERG: I can say very little. Other than she's in a unique position, because she was locked in a place that was meant to withstand an event like this happening. That was by design for Teddy. He wanted her to survive if he was successful in launching this missile. So, we'll see.
Is it possible more people could end up in that bunker?
GOLDBERG: Anything's possible.
It seems like a pretty sweet place to be holed up right about now. All right, clearly you guys are not going to tell me how this season ends, but what are we looking at in terms of when all is said and done with season 6? Are we looking at a cliffhanger situation with this finale? Will it be wrapping up the season 6 arc? Will it be setting the table for season 7? Maybe a little bit of both? What can we expect in terms of that?
CHAMBLISS: I think it really is all of the above. The thing that excited us about the finale is we had this season where we really tried to tell these anthology stories that focused on individual characters in each episode, and give each character an arc within that episode. And then, a larger arc that crosses the season. So when we were looking at the finale and how we wanted to tell this story, we decided to do something a little bit unconventional that honors the anthology format in a different way.
And that's as much as I'll say about that, but it very much is about giving all of the characters closure to their stories from season 6, while at the same time really pivoting them towards their journeys for season 7.
GOLDBERG: Five words: The end is the beginning.
Just watched season finale.
I will hold out a few days to give you cats time to watch.
Without giving anything away, they closed out all storylines to get the story to move forward bringing all three shows together.
I will hold out a few days to give you cats time to watch.
Without giving anything away, they closed out all storylines to get the story to move forward bringing all three shows together.
Fear the Walking Dead Will Be a “New Show” in Anthology-Style Season 7
By CAMERON BONOMOLO - June 18, 2021 10:30 pm EDT
Fear the Walking Dead will carry over its anthology format from Season 6 into Season 7, but showrunners Andrew Chambliss and Ian Goldberg say the Walking Dead spin-off will reinvent itself once more in the new season set in the nuclear zombie apocalypse. The sixth season ended with Morgan Jones (Lennie James), Alicia Clark (Alycia Debnam-Carey), and villain-to-be Victor Strand (Colman Domingo) among the survivors of the near-dozen nuclear warheads that cult leader Teddy (John Glover) detonated across the Lone Star State, plunging them into a second apocalypse where survival means navigating nuclear fallout with new dangers — living, dead, and environmental.
"I can say that we were very excited about the new form the show took in the anthology format in Season 6, with telling more concentrated characters' stories. That will continue into Season 7," Goldberg told EW. "We will continue to tell the show in that structure, and in that format. That excites us, because like in Season 6, we're going to get to see a variety of different kinds of stories, different tones, different worlds within the episodes themselves, and we've been really happy with how that's been going so far. Look forward to sharing it."
Goldberg already dropped the first look at Season 7, revealing the new world our survivors are facing when Fear returns later this year on AMC.
"We really are creating a new world. The new show is going to look very different, the walkers are going to look very different. Everything is going to feel much more heightened, so we're really excited about that," Chambliss said. "At the same time, in terms of the character stories, I think there's going to be a lot of really interesting stuff ahead."
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"I think people will find that some characters, as we saw with Victor Strand in that tower at the end of [the Season 6 finale], he's in a place where he may be able to thrive. Whereas other characters like Morgan, outside the submarine with Grace, and the baby are perhaps going to find themselves in places that are almost impossible to live in," added Chambliss of the new challenges facing Morgan's family in Season 7. "It's the differences between how characters are able to survive that is really going to drive a lot of the conflict, going forward."
Season 7 - First Look - Morgan and Grace
Debuts Oct 17, 2021
Debuts Oct 17, 2021
This became my favorite and why I stopped watching the main show
But then I missed the last 2 seasons.
Is this on Netflix?
Man, I've missed several years bc it just got so redundant. Once the whispers came I called it quits...
Season 7 Trailer
Debuts October 17, 2021
Debuts October 17, 2021
What is going to make this season unique is there will be two Black men as the main characters going against each other.
Both of them are fan favorites. It’s obvious one of of them will die by season end.
Morgan Jones
Victor Strand
Both of them are fan favorites. It’s obvious one of of them will die by season end.
Morgan Jones
What is going to make this season unique is there will be two Black men as the main characters going against each other.
Both of them are fan favorites. It’s obvious one of of them will die by season end.
Morgan Jones
Victor Strand
Yeah my guess is Victor. Should be good.
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