I’ve added 3 new videos from last night’s episode of Fear the Walking Dead to the video archive. Videos contain spoilers so make sure you’ve already seen the episode.
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Ok, after watching last night’s episode of Fear the Walking Dead all I can say is give Alycia all the Emmys. If you haven’t watched it yet, I recommend not looking below, and then drop everything and go watch it. I have added screencaps and stills to the gallery.
Warning: Interview contains spoilers for episode 409 “People Like Us”
Alycia Debnam-Carey, who plays Alicia on AMC’s Fear the Walking Dead, discusses how her character is healing and why she’s choosing to survive on her own now.
Q: Alicia tried to go off on her own before, thinking that being away from her family and friends was the best way to survive. Is any of that weighing on her now?
A: Yeah. We’ve seen Alicia go off on her own before and it reinforces the idea that she is better off on her own. The only thing that brought her back last time was her connection to her family – her mother and her brother – and she doesn’t have that anymore, so why should she be responsible for anybody else?… I think she’s feels better not being around people.
Q: Is there an underlying reason for Alicia seeking out the person soliciting help at the lumber yard?
A: I think Alicia being fixated on trying to save other people is part of her trying to redeem herself and make up for all the wrong she has done and the killing she was a part of. This is her attempting to balance that out again and find the core of who she was and who she used to like, which was someone who was compassionate and loving and caring and hopeful. She also wants to pay homage to her mother’s legacy, which is to go out and find people and save them. That’s what they did at the baseball stadium. They went out on missions to get people who were on the brink of destruction and death and brought them in… She’s become fixated on the idea that this will fix her and make her better.
Q: What’s it like for her once she does arrive at the yard and realizes it’s too late?
A: When she sees that the person has already turned, that’s a big blow for her. She can’t win. It confirms how much she’s failed and that she can’t do what her mother did or be the person she used to be… Things will never be the same for her.
Q: Is Morgan’s decision to go back “home” another loss to process?
A: There’s a connection between Morgan and Alicia, but at the same time, she’s not open enough to receive any of the help he’s trying to give her. For Alicia, this is just another example of how you can’t rely on anyone. I don’t think it’s a disappointment, but it’s something that catches her off guard. She’s at a depressed point. She’s beyond disappointment and hurt… You can’t count on anyone. Morgan is saying that you can count on people, but she’s holding a mirror up to him and showing him that he’s no different from anybody else.
Q: Where does she find the courage to go on? What’s fueling her now?
A: We’re seeing a new version of her. We’re seeing her completely untethered to any family and completely on her own. She’s trying to like the person that she once was and come to terms with her existence and perhaps honor her mother. Part of her is trying to process this grief and this loss. She doesn’t know what’s next. She’s been talked down from death and destroying other people’s lives and killing people, but I don’t think she knows what is next. I’m not sure she has hope or love yet. She doesn’t like herself. She’s not ready to tackle being with other people. Part of her journey is definitely to try to translate what her life will now mean.
Source: AMC
Warning: Article contains spoilers
The midseason premiere on AMC splits up the main cast in interesting new ways as an approaching storm brings sideways rain and flying zombies.
Huge props to the folks behind AMC’s “Fear the Walking Dead” for exploring something we haven’t seen yet on either show, giving us the most accessible and exciting premiere the franchise has had in years.
The first half of this season was a mishmash of ideas coming together, with Morgan (Lennie James) coming over from the parent series, a bunch of new characters showing up and the reintroduction of the original cast in starkly different iterations. On top of that, it played around with time making it an even more complex narrative.
After the midseason finale, though, “FTWD” has been stripped down to its new core, and with this premiere it felt very much like the opening act of a proper horror film, establishing the characters and their relationships, pairing them up in new and interesting ways, all the while teasing the hell that is about to break loose.
What makes this even more fun is that the hell is as simple as a massive storm. We’re talking the kind that has local weathermen taking off their jackets and rolling up their sleeves to report on it, only there are no more weathermen. Instead, there are flying zombies.
Admittedly, the special effects team wasn’t completely successful in selling the visuals of the zombies being tossed around by the coming storm, but they did a good enough job to get us excited about the chaos to come.
No matter how great Morgan and Althea (Maggie Grace) and Luciana (Danay Garcia) and Alicia (Alycia Debnam-Carey) might be at killing zombies, nobody is great in the middle of a Midwestern thunderstorm when it decides to start dropping high-speed winds and rotating clouds, as we see in the new intro sequence to the show.
Everything was about setting up the storm to come in this episode, with all the foreshadowing you’d expect to see in a classic horror film; clues that we in the audience get to see and then yell at the characters on-screen for missing!
Going Our Separate Ways?
The clear indication that some calamity was coming was how fragmented everyone had become in the aftermath of that bloody midseason finale that closed the chapter on the Vultures, the stadium and Madison Clark (Kim Dickens). Morgan making the rounds to announce he was leaving tomorrow to head back to Virginia was the classic setup that getting to tomorrow was going to be the real challenge.
The rest of the opening minutes revealed that John (Garret Dillahunt) and June (Jenna Elfman) had set up house with Charlie (Alexa Nisenson) in a school bus on a barricaded bridge, while Victor (Colman Domingo) and Luciana (Danay Garcia) were utterly despondent, living in an abandoned mansion. Victor was drinking himself into a stupor, while Luciana wiled away her hours listening to music and questioning her place in the world.
And then there’s Alicia, every bit her mother’s daughter, going on an ultimately fruitless quest to save a man trapped in a lumber mill. But it’s not about saving the man so much as it is about trying to hate herself and her own recent actions a little less by doing some atonement. That’s why she lashes out at the guy for dying before she could save him.
New Pairings
Horror films love to split everyone up into smaller groups so we can feel more of the tension as they each struggle to survive the terror. And so we have Morgan chasing Alicia, Luciana chasing a runaway Charlie while Victor and John look for her. Meanwhile, Al and June were headed upstream to figure out why zombies were washing into the river only to get trapped in Al’s truck on the road.
Eight cast-members paired off into unique pairings we’ve not really had a chance to explore yet, offering an opportunity to explore new character developments and dynamics, while looking at the coming storm and its dangers through vastly different lenses.
Victor is drunk and John is still recovering from his injuries, making the vulnerable. Luciana holds a lot of animosity toward Charlie, who remains a silent enigma, so that pairing should create plenty of tension. Al will likely prove very beneficial to June finally becoming comfortable in her own skin, while Morgan and Alicia will discover they are more alike than either would probably like to admit.
The Calm
It was a quiet episode, but if we think of this back half of the season like it’s an eight-hour movie, we’re just getting past the establishing scenes. One of the things that is remarkable about the episode and makes it feel so fresh and exciting is that there are no characters introduced beyond the eight remaining cast-members.
The only new “character” they have to contend with so far is the coming storm. And while that’s not likely to remain the case throughout its entire eight-episode run — as that’s a lot of screen time to fill with flying zombies — it created a beautifully serene foundation on which to build the rests of the story.
Probably the box filled with supplies and labeled “Take what you need, leave what you don’t” will come into play later, as it’s not like these shows to drop something interesting like that into a premiere without a payoff down the line. Whoever left that box will surely crop up, though on whose side remains to be seen.
We also finally started to get more of the promise that this show would have a little more humor than its parent series, with most of it coming from Dillahunt’s fantastically pure and idealistic John. This week, when asked if he thought his cabin would even still be there, he shot back, “I locked the door before I left.”
The new and improved “Fear the Walking Dead” airs Sundays at 9 p.m. ET on AMC.
Source: Too Fab
Press/Videos: Alicia and Charlie Have Issues in ‘Fear the Walking Dead’ Season 4, Episode 10 Preview
Warning: Article contains spoilers
After a mid-season summer vacation, AMC‘s Fear the Walking Dead returned on Sunday night riding high off of the strong positive reaction to the fourth season. By killing two main characters, introducing several new survivors, and transitioning Lennie James‘s Morgan from The Walking Dead to Fear the Walking Dead, showrunners Andrew Chambliss and Ian Goldberg have done a quality job of introducing new viewers to the FTWD “universe” while not abandoning the loyal fanbase (though they may not have always liked every decision they made).
But when the series resumed, things appear even more tense, distant, and hopeless than they did during the season’s first half. Grief, distrust, and fear have created situations that our survivors are going to be forced to deal with if they’re to survive — each other and the storm.
After a mid-season summer vacation, AMC‘s Fear the Walking Dead returned on Sunday night riding high off of the strong positive reaction to the fourth season. By killing two main characters, introducing several new survivors, and transitioning Lennie James‘s Morgan from The Walking Dead to Fear the Walking Dead, showrunners Andrew Chambliss and Ian Goldberg have done a quality job of introducing new viewers to the FTWD “universe” while not abandoning the loyal fanbase (though they may not have always liked every decision they made).
But when the series resumed, things appear even more tense, distant, and hopeless than they did during the season’s first half. Grief, distrust, and fear have created situations that our survivors are going to be forced to deal with if they’re to survive — each other and the storm.
Fear the Walking Dead s04e10 ‘Close Your Eyes’: Alicia’s forced to reckon with an agonizing past while seeking refuge from a storm.
With storm clouds gathering around — and among — our survivors, here’s a look at what viewers can expect from the fourth season of AMC’s Fear the Walking Dead:
The first half of season four began with one figure huddled around a campfire, and ended with nine. Characters who started their journeys in isolation collided with each other in unexpected ways and found themselves in one of the last places they ever expected to be…together.
In the back half of the season they will explore who they are now – as individuals and as part of the greater group – and how they will forge ahead. They will find themselves pitted against new adversaries – human, walker, and even nature itself. Theirs will be a journey wrought with danger, love, heartbreak, loss, and ultimately, hope.
Source: Bleeding Cool News
Warning: Contains spoilers for Fear the Walking Dead season 4 episode 8 ‘No One’s Gone’
In the shocking events of mid-season finale of Fear the Walking Dead, Madison (Kim Dickens) bravely sacrificed herself at the stadium to ensure everyone else could escape.
Our heroes lost their leader, with Alicia (Alycia Debnam-Carey) being the only remaining character to have been in the show since the start.
Could another character step in as the series’ lead to fill this Madison-shaped hole? The first episode, ‘People Like Us’, suggested that Morgan (Lennie James) was set to become the focus of the second half of the season.
With the show returning last night (August 12), showrunner Andrew Chambliss told Syfy Wire that there would be no replacement for Madison. The second half of season 4 will instead focus on how the stadium group cope after losing their leader and abandoning their quest for vengeance.
Chambliss said: “The back half of this season has all of our characters asking themselves… ‘What do we do to move forward? Who are we to each other? How can we come back from all these really dark things we did?’
“We really view this as an ensemble show, and we’re going to be telling stories throughout the back half of the season that will focus on different characters grappling with those existential questions in different ways.
“It’s really going to be finding all these characters who, at the end of the midseason finale, were sitting around a campfire, seemingly together, really asking themselves what is it that holds them together now that they’ve put revenge behind them, now that they no longer have Madison as the leader of the stadium.”
Madison’s exit has been just as difficult for cast members as it has been for viewers. Colman Domingo, who plays Strand, recently spoke about how it felt to be one of the few remaining actors to have been with the show since season 1 after Madison and Nick (Frank Dillane) were written out.
“I mean, just imagine losing two of your core in one season, and we found out right before we started,” he said. “You’re losing someone that you’re used to working with all the time, and that you enjoy working with so much.
“But you also understand the nature of it, and understand the storytelling. It’s a lot of things to process, because you also have to process new people coming in at the same time…
“I’ll be very honest with you, the first couple months in our season, we were all doing a balancing act, trying to figure it all out together. It required intense amounts of grace, and patience, and frustration, and being honest about your feelings.”
Source: Digital Spy
