Review of the Series: “Fear the Walking Dead” Season 6

 Well, first of all, there are just too many innovations. The creators of the show are jumping genres like a “skipping-stones” contestant of the show Takeshi’s Castle.

The show, which started out as a family drama in Season 1, turned out to be a noir thriller later on before eventually turning its head towards science fiction. At one point in time, the creators even imitated the film “Martian” and made the characters grow vegetables in an open stadium. Now, in Season 6, the creators of the show Andrew Chambliss and Ian Goldberg, notched up a little in making the show a collection of western-inspired anthological short stories.

Three episodes have been made available for reviewers, and though I haven’t seen it, a reliable source has informed me all about it. Each episode is almost like a take on a particular character (a similar thing we witnessed in “The Haunting of Hill House”), and when you combine all three episodes, you will get some sort of logical continuity, but even individually, each episode stands alone like a short feature film and goes into the skin of the character it explores.

Each episode adds to the tension building up between Virginia and the newcomers. Every episode jumps genres as we can expect from “Fear the Walking Dead,” but even the tone and the pace changes based on the character we are looking at. Several critics agree that three episodes of Season 6 can easily be regarded as the best in the shows’ history as it tells us that each person is important even if we are looking at the grand scheme of things and the mode of storytelling also gives an opportunity to each character to have their own fan following.

The way the series jumps genres has led some reviewers to draw comparisons with the Disney+’ Star Wars spinoff The Mandalorian. We go from drama to action to comedy to thriller as we move from one episode to another, but the show remained honest to the dreadful reality that the world of Walking Dead entails intrinsically. If you have noticed, then you know that the “Fear the Walking Dead” has been leaning towards the Western genre more and more with each passing season. With echoing to tribute to Baby Yoda and Friends, the show went in a serious Western direction as it brought horses and cowboys back to light.

You will be surprised to see that people are smiling and messing around in Season 3 despite the fact that dead bodies are piling up, and zombies are still lurking somewhere in the world. The light-hearted comedy is not a common theme in Walking Dead. (although we are used to snarling comments and stern look western jokes, this was something special).

While there is still a lot of work to be done to make the Walking Dead world reach the heights which it had attained during Jon Bernthal’s Shane Walsh time, there was a lot to rave about Season 6. We have to remind ourselves that we are talking about a show that many had opinionated that it will be a dead series after the creators killed off Kim Dickens’ character Madison. But, here we are anticipating the 6th Season of a so-called dead series with an unprecedented passion.

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