As much as I enjoy Debnam-Carey being back in the mix, “Damage” doesn’t really know what to do with her. That is, until the convoy is ambushed and Dakota is kidnapped.Įnter Alicia (Alycia Debnam-Carey) who is summoned by Strand to track down Dakota. In other words, it’s the perfect time to put Strand’s escape plan into effect. She also conveniently summarizes Ginny’s recent setbacks: Tank Town, gone. She even hints as much to Strand (Colman Domingo) during his mission to escort her to a safe house. As we learn in “Damage,” Ginny (Colby Minifie) killed their parents, which seems like pretty sufficient motivation for Dakota to undermine her sister’s accomplishments. So maybe it’s fitting that the death knell for this current iteration of Fear is titled “Damage From the Inside.”Īt this point I think it’s safe to assume that Ginny’s sister Dakota (Zoe Colletti) is responsible for much of Lawton’s current woes. By the end of season 4, “ Fear 2.0” was slowly sabotaged from the inside. And for a while, this gamble to overhaul the show initially paid off, only to eventually go off the rails with weak antagonists like the Vultures, and later, Martha. Morgan, too, was brought over from The Walking Dead to kick off what was meant to be a fresh start for Fear. Remember season 4’s strong start? New characters were brought into the mix, like John Dorie and Al. Honestly, I don’t know what to say about Fear at this point as it’s difficult to witness so much squandered potential yet again.
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So I’m willing to cut “Damage” a bit of slack in that regard. Still, the episode simply doesn’t work on its own merits. Certainly showrunners Andrew Chambliss and Ian Goldberg never intended it as such, but because of happenstance (re: the pandemic), this is the last episode of Fear AMC has in the pipeline. I realize it seems a bit unfair to judge “Damage” as a mid-season finale. And Morgan turns up to stir the plot yet again. After all, I gave very high marks to “Alaska.” But if that episode represents a high point for the season, “Damage From the Inside” is most certainly its nadir. Greige is, in a word, the very color of boredom itself. Greige is the color of long-in-the-tooth zombies.
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If this season could be described as a single color, it would be greige, the nearly nonexistent color that exists between beige and grey. And this is a difficult thing to admit, since season 6 showed so much promise.
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Unfortunately, history seems to be repeating itself. Rather, I was writing a eulogy for a show I once loved.” The last time I struggled to write a review for Fear the Walking Dead was the season 4 finale, “…I Lose Myself.” I wrote at the time, “Several false starts and a couple thousand words later, I realized I wasn’t writing a review for a lackluster episode. This Fear the Walking Dead review contains spoilers.