Fear The Walking Dead, Season Six: Who ISN’T The Worst?

3) Teddy

Teddy probably was the most difficult villain this season to read. Don’t get me wrong: When we first met him, I pegged him as a top contender for most irredeemable. I mean, he was a utopianist serial killer leading a death-cult that sought to destroy North America. First with the black plague, and then, with nuclear missiles. How could he not be a top seed?

Then, came “Mother”.

As that episode concluded, Teddy brought Alicia, and all the wide-eyed youths he could find, to the Tramlin Hotel, to seal them all away in the hotel’s fallout shelter. This had been built by the government at the onset of the Cold War, in order to protect them from the impending nuclear doom he intended to unleash on the continent.

As he locked Alicia in the bunker and walked away, Alicia shouted “I’m not going to make the world the way you want it!”  to which Teddy replied, “I’m counting on it.”

That was what made me start to reconsider Teddy. I couldn’t ignore what he was doing, but I also couldn’t ignore his commitment to “making things better.” Even though he, obviously, wasn’t so committed to the cause to actually die for it. He was committed enough to not leave himself in charge. Instead, he chose Alicia to lead his followers because she wasn’t a devotee to him because she wasn’t going to just blindly do what she thought he wanted because she only killed when absolutely necessary, and because she still had hope in people where Teddy didn’t. This is why he chose her to be their “mother,” he apparently believed that she would make the world a better place.

It’s just too bad he wasn’t willing to actually die for his cause, and make me question whether or not he intended to try to swoop in after the fact and take over, or else, he might have walked away with the crown.