Fear The Walking Dead, Survival Rule Of The Week: Too Good To Be True

Fear the Walking Dead season 7 finale

In the Fear The Walking Dead season finale, Madison learned a hard lesson working for P.A.D.R.E.: If something seems too good to be true, it probably is. The Fear TWD season finale reintroduced us to Madison Clark and introduced us to P.A.D.R.E., which was supposed to be the U.S. government’s attempt to rebuild the nation in the event of a disaster. The key phrase there is “supposed to be.”

As we would learn, P.A.D.R.E. wasn’t exactly as advertised. They had employed Madison as a collector, someone who collected other people’s children on their behalf. How did they get Madison to participate in this? By promising to help her reunite with Nick and Alicia. They promised this after her first collection, but after she completed it, they required her to repeat the act again and again.

Stringing Madison along through the promise of what she wanted most is the sort of thing that could easily happen in an actual zombie apocalypse, where ill-meaning groups could offer you something they know you want but have no intention of providing. This made me realize something else: Sometimes, things in the apocalypse are too good to be true.

So, for this week’s Fear The Walking Dead, Survival Rule Of The Week, I’m going to focus on how things can be too good to be true and how the allure of such things can be used against you.