Difficult though this journey may be for Travis, it does deliver us in “Wrath” to a kind of brutality that we’ve never witnessed on this show. Never mind Madison’s pep talks for Travis, his failure at losing Chris is nigh insurmountable. This is the stuff of drama, of tragedy-and FTWD makes great use of Travis in these moments by giving us a father who’s grieving his shortcomings as a parent. That the likes of Brandon and Derek encouraged Chris’ darker impulses only deepened the rift between father and son. It’s difficult to say that this coarsening of his son’s heart is a direct result of the times in which they now live, but it’s easy to imagine that Chris always had a darker side that he all too eagerly embraced once given the chance. But here, Travis must reconcile his own pacifist ideals with the cold reality that his son has become an unrepentant killer. Trying to save a teenager from himself is a difficult proposition even in the best of times. Here’s a person who’s struggled mightily to retain some semblance of compassion-even in the face of seemingly impossible odds. All of them are suffering in some way, some more than most, and it’s here that we need to talk about Travis. On paper, they don’t sound like much, but as embodied by this cast, FTWD was at its best when backing these normal people into a corner. Broken down to their simplest descriptions, over the course of two seasons we’ve followed the post-apocalyptic misadventures of an English teacher, a guidance counselor, a junkie, a golden child, a disaffected teen, and a real estate developer. The attendant storylines were less distinct, though no less compelling, given how much the group’s collective dysfunction has deepened in this terrible new world. But things picked up considerably once the story made landfall.įrom there, after the vineyard’s midseason demise, the main cast splintered into three groups (and later a fourth, with Ofelia), presenting viewers with three distinct locales: colony, seaside resort, farmhouse. And yes, this problem continued into season two’s early episodes. Yes, FTWD struggled a bit to find itself in season one. Strong performances and inventive gore help make these last two episodes of season two among the best of the entire series. On the whole, FTWD‘s two-part finale is a two-fisted powerhouse, alternating between envelope-pushing violence and heartbreaking drama.
Fear the Walking Dead Season 2 Episodes 14 & 15 This Fear the Walking Dead review contains spoilers.
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