Fear the Walking Dead S03E11 Preview: 'La Serpiente'

Fear the Walking Dead has the soul of a poet, and a poet’s job is as important as anyone else’s. Decide: Do you love it, hate it, or feel indifference?

The timelessly charming Victor Strand couldn’t have made his fourth wall breaking point anymore eloquent, direct, and poignant. It was Fear the Walking Dead’s script Magnum Opus. Screenwriter Ryan Scott deserves an Emmy for having the guts, the chutzpah, the iron brass of boldness to lay it all on the line on “The Diviner”.

Strand’s eyes might as well have pierced right through the TV screen when he candidly told Walker in no uncertain terms, “People either love me or hate me but they don’t feel indifference, so decide”. Red velvet curtains raised, lights forward on the audience.

Its powerful double meaning unveiled upon an audience of fog. The combination of loyal diehards to all flags of the Walking Dead crown… And merciless voyeurs waiting to soil Fear’s name an umpteenth time for not being its parent show, alike. The haze of Sunday viewer fidelity is finally put to the test: ‘You either like this show or you don’t. But at least feel something.’

Governance at the Local Level

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Fear the Walking Dead’s two-parter return on September 10th definitively set the tone of change with the exile of its most curious antagonist, Troy. Perhaps most striking is that Troy appears to have understood the community better than Jake, Nick, Alicia and Madison ever did. Ophelia might be her father’s daughter but Troy is no less his father’s son. Unafraid of death and willing to go down with the ship, giving up not in his credentials.

Troy promised this last stand, that the Alamo of his father’s estate would be a beacon of light to the rest of the original ranch community… That ended up being entirely correct, right as rain. Nick inherits the Otto destiny without asking for it. Sister Alicia, looming over with an article of truth over his head, the truth behind the death of Jeremiah Otto. Nick’s coronation of leadership tense on borrowed time, fragile. An egg teetering to fall down off the wall, never to be put together again. The burden as Alicia Clark says of ‘being the favorite’.

The figurative elephant in the room, Fear’s companion show is forever casting shade over its offspring. There’s six weeks left before time runs out. Not just the ranch’s supply of water. Six weeks of episodes left before The Walking Dead returns. Just as Nick and Alicia fight to establish Fear the Walking Dead’s stake at survival with breathing room from Madison’s leave, the show’s chance to shine on the airwaves is now, in the present and right this very second. No turning back, now or never.

Fear the Walking Dead S03E11: ‘La Serpiente’ Trailer Preview

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Tonight, on Fear the Walking Dead, Madison’s unforgiving struggle to keep the dream of the ranch alive continues. She’s taken Walker’s bargaining chips without permission and traded them for Victor Strand’s life, in the hope a blind gamble will bear fruits.

If she’s wrong, a whole ranch community will have been forsaken for personal attachment, including Madison’s own flock. Not to mention drawing Walker’s ire.

Particularly, his simultaneously taste for dishing punishment justice and erratic views on compassion. Not a man to be trifled with.

As we see in the trailer, he calls Madison a liar, and he literally holds the keys back at the ranch. All chips are down on Strand delivering an unfriendly dam. Otherwise, forget about long term solutions, there might not be any short term ones for this water drought.

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