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There is a scene about 2/3 of the way into the movie when the teenagers are talking about their fear of going into an area that is no longer within their safe, predictable manicured suburbs. They talk about how they used to need permission from their parents to even travel to the border of the city which is portrayed as dark, decaying and ultimately existentially threatening. Their stage of life mirrors this border. They are dependents who are about to be independent. They are secluded in the suburbs and about to be among the diverse society. They have parents who child proof the world but soon their responsibilities will impact them directly and follow them.
Instead of jump cuts you get long takes of the entity lurching toward her. Instead of a main character's personality remaining constant or her getting stronger, jay goes from a normal teenager to showing real trauma. Real trauma makes you zone out. You see safety as camouflaged threat. Life is plodding haunted survival.
The end is ambiguous. She chooses not to hide in her room, to make impossible decisions and opts for connection with someone who believes in and cares for her.
Instead of jump cuts you get long takes of the entity lurching toward her. Instead of a main character's personality remaining constant or her getting stronger, jay goes from a normal teenager to showing real trauma. Real trauma makes you zone out. You see safety as camouflaged threat. Life is plodding haunted survival.
The end is ambiguous. She chooses not to hide in her room, to make impossible decisions and opts for connection with someone who believes in and cares for her.
If you're still watching this in season 8 you have made peace with the writing being astonishingly terrible. Bad in a surreal, disorienting way. Bad like a B movie that you laugh at/with for an hour. I judge the show thru a curve: by how poor it is relative to the other episodes in show's history. And it's not the worst Fear The Walking Dead episode.
And yes it's bad. How is an old de-conditioned sick Madison able to swing an axe like Thor and drop two grown men? It's hysterical how certain death is always curtailed by the sudden miraculously timed appearance of an established character. Why tell her you're her mom and dad just to tell her later "we're not your mom and dad." I don't like kid actors because they are usually poor at acting. Not many Bella Ramseys in the world. The girl who plays Wren gives an earnest but flat and contrived performance.
It's the last season. I've decided to appreciate this show as something to put on in the background and spend some final moments with this bonkers world and these lackluster, ridiculous but enduring characters.
And yes it's bad. How is an old de-conditioned sick Madison able to swing an axe like Thor and drop two grown men? It's hysterical how certain death is always curtailed by the sudden miraculously timed appearance of an established character. Why tell her you're her mom and dad just to tell her later "we're not your mom and dad." I don't like kid actors because they are usually poor at acting. Not many Bella Ramseys in the world. The girl who plays Wren gives an earnest but flat and contrived performance.
It's the last season. I've decided to appreciate this show as something to put on in the background and spend some final moments with this bonkers world and these lackluster, ridiculous but enduring characters.
