Yesterday we reached the mid-season finale of “Fear The Walking Dead” Season 2. A bit of family drama, a schizophrenic flashback and a lot of gossip - with that “Fear The Walking Dead” says goodbye to the summer break without much fanfare or cliffhanger. When the series starts again in August, it has to be clearer in order to continue to convince.

Fear The Walking Dead: Review of the midseason finale and date for the start of the second half of the season

In its first midseason finale, “Fear the Walking Dead” delivers zombies, flames, destruction and drama, but unfortunately without any meaningful combination of the elements. All aspects are so distributed and partly geographically and unfocused that there is no conclusive picture. The episode begins as calmly as it ends. After Strand showed his friend his last mercy in the last episode, he has to leave the premises. Celia's view of faith is no doubt shared by all but the newcomers. From this perspective, Strand did not save his friend from the terrible infinity as a walker, but denied an afterlife in the new world. Meanwhile, Daniel is busy with his past. At the beginning he was the competent and fearful man for the tough decisions, but after arriving at the winery, Daniel gradually broke in. A conflict with one's personal past has long been simmering beneath the tough surface, which, together with different views on how to fight the zombies, is now becoming a dangerous mixture. Daniel is long rooted next to the flames after he radically said goodbye to the ghost of his wife and his past, but we will also be able to see him again after the summer break. Just like Celia, we see him fleeing from the wine cellar at the end, so the landlady should have survived this hell of flames.

Fear The Walking Dead: Review of the midseason finale and date for the start of the second half of the season

Meanwhile, Travis pursues his son across the confines of the safe winery to a house where Chris has taken another man's son hostage. Chris' storyline is definitely the most controversial in the entire series to date. Chris' doubts are justified. Reed increased the fears of the already insecure son, but in principle Chris also knows that the zombie apocalypse results in a reduction to the nucleus of society, the family, and the porous structures of the blended family were a reason for even before the zombies Doubts about Travis' commitment to his son. The fact that Chris now receives the direct assurance of his father's support, with all the consequences that this entails, will calm him down, normalize him and bring him back into the group, even if father and son remain alone in the mountains for the time being. How things will go on for them will be shown in the next episode in August.

Fear The Walking Dead: Review of the midseason finale and date for the start of the second half of the season

Basically, the separation of the characters probably means that after the summer break we can expect individual episodes with a focus on character development. In principle, there is nothing wrong with this, it would only be desirable if it were not made quite so obvious. The separation of the characters seems plausible, as the rifts became deeper and the differences larger in the last few episodes. The smoldering conflict between Nick and his mother in particular offers interesting approaches. While the Beisser in the original series and especially in the comic jerks into the background after the initial apocalypse and are reduced to a natural disaster, which only serves as a frame story for the actual drama, “Fear The Walking Dead” offers a much deeper approach. This makes Nick's figure possible, and not without reason. Nick is the first person we see and he also made his first contact with a walker in Los Angeles. His perspective on the zombies is central and thus the two-episodic detour to Celia's winery is necessary, because it is her that Nick accepts and welcomes. She sees the zombies only as pitiful creatures who have taken the next step - unwanted and at the same time innocent - and are now extremely hungry. As a former junkie, Nick is very familiar with this hunger, this need against better knowledge.

Fear The Walking Dead: Review of the midseason finale and date for the start of the second half of the season

The zombie as a junkie is definitely not a new interpretation, but the simultaneous mercy, pity, concern for the fate of companions after the victory of the zombie virus - all of these seem promising and new approaches for the further course of “Fear The Walking Dead”, if you dare to follow it and think it through to the end. Nick, who walks through the horde as a blood-smeared zombie and feels more accepted and at home there, is definitely one of the most exciting pictures in the entire series universe. If “Fear the Walking Dead” manages to raise more than one character to this level, Kirkman and Co. could get the curve. We are excited to see how things will continue after the summer break on August 21! For the second half, the team promises some interesting new characters, especially Hispanic origins ...


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