Fear the Walking Dead: Fear the Brady Bunch
Fear the Walking Dead season 3 has been the story of a lady bringing up 2 kids, and a father bringing up two boys. It’s an apocalyptic Brady Bunch.
Fear the Walking Dead is a story of survival, but it’s also a story about families coming together in the face of adversity. With Madison and her kids at Broke Jaw Ranch, she’s seeing herself in the ranch’s leader, Jeremiah Otto, who is having similar struggles with his own kids. If Madison and Jeremiah came together to form a family, they’d be an apocalyptic Brady Bunch.
Back in season 2 of Fear the Walking Dead, we learned that Madison’s late husband wasn’t the guy her kids thought he was. He had an addictive personality, he was likely bipolar, and he didn’t fall asleep at the wheel — he steered into another car. Madison told Strand the story and it shines a new light on Nick’s battles with addiction, as well as the reason Madison was hands-off with Alicia, who didn’t need her help.
Jeremiah Otto had an interesting relationship with his late wife, Troy’s mother. Troy and Jake have different mothers, and the one who appears on the prepper videos is Troy’s mom. In the outtakes, we see a different side of the Otto family. Troy is too young to understand what’s going on, but his mother is clearly intoxicated and looking to pick a fight with Jeremiah, who isn’t the nicest guy either.
Looking at the kids, Jake and Alicia have grown up always trying to do what’s best for the family while their siblings have only caused problems. Jake minces no words when it comes to his brother’s disturbing behavior, and Alicia has confronted her mother about focusing all of her attention on Nick, who is a perpetual screw-up because of his addiction. Troy and Nick are searching for parental figured. Nick needs a strong male role model, and Troy needs a maternal influence. Troy has already latched onto to Madison, and in Fear 305 we might see Nick and Jeremiah getting along.
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If the Clarks and the Ottos continue to get comfortable with each other, there could be some blending going on. They might form a new unit, maybe not so much a “family” as a survival group working together should things at the ranch go south. It’s too early to tell, but it’s definitely something to consider.