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"Fear the Walking Dead" improved on itself slightly this week with "The Dog," in which all parties Clark and Manawa reunited and regrouped in order to finally start a caravan out of LA. This being the show that it is though, they never made it. Like last week, a plan was formulated but then a wrench got thrown into the mix and everyone wound up back at at the start, now surrounded by an intervening army. Which brings a whole new element and tone to the series going forward.
"The Dog" is the first episode where, I believe, it was appropriate for us to fully start assessing the characters based on their decision-making skills. I mean, good or bad, that's what we do on zombie apocalypse shows, right? The stupid and/or uniformed infuriate us while the cold realists stand out as heroes. And everyone came together under one roof here. Travis, Liza, and Chris, along with the Salazars, had fled the barber shop and made it back to home base (while passing some truly scary LA chaos marked with a nice, notable score/soundscape). And once home, with everyone squished together in a panic, people's true(er) personalities began showing.
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"Fear the Walking Dead" improved on itself slightly this week with "The Dog," in which all parties Clark and Manawa reunited and regrouped in order to finally start a caravan out of LA. This being the show that it is though, they never made it. Like last week, a plan was formulated but then a wrench got thrown into the mix and everyone wound up back at at the start, now surrounded by an intervening army. Which brings a whole new element and tone to the series going forward.
"The Dog" is the first episode where, I believe, it was appropriate for us to fully start assessing the characters based on their decision-making skills. I mean, good or bad, that's what we do on zombie apocalypse shows, right? The stupid and/or uniformed infuriate us while the cold realists stand out as heroes. And everyone came together under one roof here. Travis, Liza, and Chris, along with the Salazars, had fled the barber shop and made it back to home base (while passing some truly scary LA chaos marked with a nice, notable score/soundscape). And once home, with everyone squished together in a panic, people's true(er) personalities began showing.
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