During quarantine I have had a lot time to catch up and watch a lot of my favorite television series. I’m a huge fan of anything involving The Walking Dead or even just anything zombie related, so it was a perfect time for me to really catch up with AMC’s Fear The Walking Dead. I will try not to spoil much, but here is the good and the bad of season 5.
Now even before I started watching season 5 of Fear The Walking Dead, I had heard many bad things about the direction the series had gone, and that fans just do not enjoy it anymore. Personally, I did not think it was all that bad, but it did have its flaws. Let us start with the bad. First off, we suddenly start off with no idea what is happening, the cast was on a plane that they were in the middle of crashing, heading to find a random person that apparently needed help. Also, a lot of the characters defiantly started acting way off from what they were before. For example, why would the characters suddenly risk their lives for random people when strangers literally just tried killing them. There needed to be more character development and reasoning for actions. This was my major problem with season 5, the reasoning behind why everything was happening.
Now the good is I found the season to be really entertaining and go at a nice pace. It was unique compared to anything else Fear The Walking Dead has done. From flying a plane, to radioactive zombies, and even having another crossover from The Walking Dead. It was a very fun ride, but it could get to a point of being too repetitive. Just the mission of the cast of constantly wanting to help and force themselves on people could get very annoying. People like seeing zombie fights, and good guys versus bad guys, even if that seems basic. That said though, it was a nice change and could lead to interesting character development that might cause conflict in the future.
Overall, I think people are overreacting on how bad it was. I found it interesting and enjoyable. If you are hesitating on watching it because of bad reviews, then I recommended giving it a watch. You might be surprised on how action packed and interesting the season really is.
Article on what went wrong in Fear The Walking Dead: https://www.tvinsider.com/819082/fear-the-walking-dead-season-5-review/
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