Would she experience a change of heart so quickly if the narrative didn’t require it of her in a moment of extreme duress?
But this, too, feels a bit contrived-and very rushed-especially when you consider Grace was ready to pack it all in mere hours before. Is it worth mentioning that Grace is able to let Athena go and finally embrace Mo as her own? Maybe. But rather than head toward the unknown, Morgan and Grace opt to return to the familiar confines of the submarine. We may not know exactly what it is, but we now know where it is-just southeast of Victoria, Texas. One saving grace of “Six Hours” is that we learn a little bit about Padre. We are trying so hard to fix ourselves we can’t even recognize it might be all right to be a little bit broken.” Amen to that, Morgan. Morgan himself sums it up best in a strangely meta moment when he tells Grace, “Maybe we’re just trying too hard, reaching for too much. It’s no surprise that their car would break down, pitting Morgan’s ability to find a replacement part against that relentless six-hour countdown. Still, this atmospheric, apocalyptic aesthetic isn’t enough to rescue a rather convoluted episode that’s rife with contrived perils. (Interestingly enough, Lennie James has a small role in that movie.)
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Plus the muted, mustardy palette calls to mind the blighted future of Denis Villeneuve’s Blade Runner 2049. By layering in the more immediate (and invisible) threat of radiation poisoning, suddenly just venturing outside requires a whole other level of preparation and fortitude. After six seasons, our heroes had become quite proficient zombie killers, robbing the undead of their bite, if you will. I have to admit, I like the overall direction Fear the Walking Dead has taken this season with its hybrid end-of-world scenario. So he’s come up with a plan: a road trip of sorts, in a modded Mad Max-style ride, no less. And who doesn’t like a road trip? He understands the sort of despair that’s darkening her brow and burdening her broken heart. He suffered a similar trauma himself after losing his wife and son early on in the apocalypse. Kudos to Morgan for recognizing Grace’s unhappiness. Little Mo wasn’t the answer to her prayers indeed, what Grace wants is to die and leave her pain and misery behind. Why else would she tell Mo, “You didn’t ask to be here and neither did I”?
This hasn’t stopped Grace from going out in search of supplies, though her motivation for doing so stems more from profound survivor’s guilt and the trauma of losing her baby, Athena. There’s a limit to how long someone can endure such high radiation levels-six hours, to be exact. So out into the wastelands the trio goes in search of something that may no longer exist-at least outside of Strand’s thriving enclave.īut that’s easier said than done. Even if there’s baby formula to be found, it’s highly radioactive. That is, until the group’s rations run dangerously low. While it’s understandable that a beached nuclear sub doesn’t make for the most welcoming nursery, it sure beats braving the harsh elements beyond its walls. (Hell, even the Clarks and Manawas were a blended family, right?) If the apocalypse has taught us anything about families, they’re no longer nuclear, if you’ll forgive the pun. Which brings us back to Morgan and Grace, Mo’s adoptive parents. (You can read my review of “The Beginning” here.) She died in last season’s finale after changing her truck’s flat tire went horribly, horribly wrong. You remember last season’s Rachel, don’t you? She was one of the founding members of Morgan’s failed utopia. Indeed, in the months since Teddy’s nuclear warheads rendered a large swathe of Texas uninhabitable, Morgan and Grace are struggling to parent Rachel’s orphaned baby, Mo. (And I say “would-be” as Alicia remains conspicuously absent.) While they may have finally confessed their love for one another in the face of nuclear annihilation, it quickly becomes apparent in this week’s “Six Hours” that all is not rosy in their cozy submarine. Oh boy, where to even begin with this one?Īfter setting up Strand as this season’s big bad in last week’s premiere, “The Beacon,” Fear the Walking Dead now shines the spotlight on its would-be saviors, namely Morgan and Grace.
This Fear the Walking Dead review contains spoilers.