"Fear the Walking Dead" has just concluded its season 2 with Episode 14, "Wrath," back to back with Episode 15, "North," on Sunday, Oct. 2. The two-hour season ender has gotten the house divided with some fans satisfied with the ending, yet some other viewers were more likely disappointed and confused.
AMC's "Fear the Walking Dead" season 2 is finally over but a number of reviews are still battling on how the finale really performed. Like every other show, "Fear the Walking Dead" got both positive and negative reviews. While some believed the show has significantly improved past its first season, others claimed the season finale could have used more development.
According to Forbes' review of "Fear the Walking Dead" season 2, the show was a mix of enjoyable and non-enjoyable moments.
"The thing is, Fear The Walking Dead still manages to be enjoyable in spite of all this. Not enjoyable as in a really good show with characters we care about and a story that keeps us on the edge of our seats, but enjoyable in a visceral, immediate, unthinking sort of way," the publication said. "Our characters do some really absurd thing or come up with some silly plan or other, and it results in a bloodbath, and that's fun, even if it doesn't make any sense," it added.
The ending episodes have taken fans into a sea of emotions, mostly of anxiety, thrills and shock. The intense wrap up even led to a number of bloodshed and failing fate, and the violence that was depicted in the finale to push justifiable killings apparently did not impress most of the viewers.
"Fear the Walking Dead" Season 2 Finale Recap
The deaths in the season finale were tailored to grotesque endings with a ripped off face, a headless Brandon, Nick's eye sockets poked with his own thumbs, and so much more.
Faith had been a constant issue and served as the big theme of the final episodes. Nick discovered that Marcus and his gang were then planning to take power and control of the place with murder as their weapon. He then asked Luciana to leave colonia but refused to go without Alejandro. They later believed fleeing was possible with their faith to get them through the armed men on their way. Alejandro's identity was later exposed, where Luciana learned that he was unblessed by God's immunity from the infection.
Meanwhile, Madison was in her own state of faith crisis when she saw Brandon and Derek back but without Chris. She then realized what might have happened to him from the hands of the duo but remained silent in the hope that Chris was still out there. She also feared how Travis might react once he finds out about his son's murder.
Chris, who many fans found an annoying character, is dead. The death of Chris was however revealed oddly, seeing it only in Travis' dreams. Going back to previous issues, Chris decided to leave with peers Brandon and Derek as his views became more in line with them than with his father Travis who resorted to killing to survive the apocalypse. This, however, backfired at him as Brandon and Derek agreed to kill Chris since he was already more of a physical liability to them. Prior to that, Chris broke his leg from destroying their car, which led his killers to believe that he was of no more use to them and would only slow them down. Fans would say Chris brought his fate to himself by deliberately choosing the duo over his own father.
On the other hand, Travis finally learned about what happened to his son and the first gore happened when he took the lives of Brandon and Derek for his son's life. This scene was however judged by most as dull. Madison then came warning that the spread of violence would only cause exile, which she would relate to Travis taking revenge.
Again speaking of faith, Alicia and Nick believed (despite the hopeless situation they were in) that they can flee to find a new home for them. But Alicia went a bit farther with her faith leading her to kill Andreas when Strand came to her rescue together with Travis and Madison from an unnamed assailant. However, Strand stayed behind with his faith consumed over his partner's death.
"I had a chance to kill myself. I chose not to," he told Madison. "I wouldn't die for him and I'm not going to die for any of you."
The final episodes have not been clear on how the remaining hotel guests will react to Strand when he let the crew get away.
Going back to Alejandro and Luciana, Nick convinced them to gather the people for a journey heading North. Nick then seemed to have power over the cult of wanderers. On their way, at the border, the militia group who also discovered Ofelia wandering in the desert threw fire over the refugees, where Luci got hurt through her stomach.
Finally, Alejandro's constant preaching came true when Marco and his group took over the colony. He let the zombies loose when he moved the school bus away. "The dead invade to cleanse the living," Alejandro would always claim.
The episodes did not reveal how quickly Marco turned into a vampire when Alejandro hasn't after he was bitten days earlier than him. He tried to survive long enough to inform Madison that Nick and the rest of the survivors are journeying towards North to a place which is yet to be disclosed in season 3.
