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Troy was never here for redemption, he came back to be an antagonist and die. It's your fault if you're upset by his death.

I completely forgot about Crane, I wonder if I'd've even noticed that loose end if they never brought him back. He mainly acts as an introspective dump to Madison & Troy, but mostly Madison. His death and the action altogether throughout is all thin and boring. I did like the car trap in the opening minutes.

This season has had a theme of 'Can people fundamentally change their character or only their behavior?' which is most prominent with Troy, Victor, Daniel, & Madison. Whether or not they can actually change their character, the behavior is separate and ultimately up to them. Troy may have changed his behavior toward the end, but Madison could not trust his character, and that ended in his demise. It was nice to have Daniel Sharman back and he did a wonderful job as always, though I do wish they gave him a little bit more classic fun Troy bits to play with.

For the penultimate episode in the series, I can't call it a decent setup for the finale because I'm not sure what they're building up to, so I'm going in with no expectations for anything. Let's hope Ian & Andrew somehow, someway brought back the inspiration and energy they had for S6 when writing the finale and landed it well.

So, the journey for Fear the Walking Dead and it's story comes to an end, and I can only speak for myself, but as a 'completionist', I'm very happy I stuck it out until the end. I feel rewarded. That being said, if you've hated this show since s4 and sat all the way thru, completionist or not, you're a loser. I'm so happy I can walk away from this fulfilled and you can't. :)

There's not much I expected or was asking for, but it surpassed my expectations by a mile. I appreciated the concept and message of Madison's sacrifice living without her actually having to die. That coupled with the good luck charm medallion being the preventive of Tracy killing Madison was brilliant.

This was a surprisingly impressive episode, and I can sit here and wish that the whole season was like this, but I'll take what I can get. Hats off to Ian and Andrew, they did their big one with this. I was thrilled to have Alicia return and get that reunion with Madison. It was a reward. Out of each season finale, I found this to be one of if not the best (especially in contrast to a rather poor final season building up to it) and as a series finale that really counts. It had good rhythm, twists, heartwarming reunions and endings for our characters, and it all came full circle in the final minutes - the Clark family is finally going home.

Bravo, & I do not think an encore is needed. AKA, no spinoffs for these characters please. Let's leave them here.

I'm getting a little worried. I have a bad feeling they're not going to wrap everything up in the finale, especially after seeing the 45 minute runtime for this episode. The finale needs to be 1 hour & 30 minutes to even have a remote chance at wrapping everything up properly. I can't lie, as a fan I'm feeling pretty disappointed. As a viewer, I think the episode is good, I'm satisfied. If this weren't the final season, I think this would be a perfect episode to set up for the finale, but since it's the series finale, there's so much more than just a few arcs that need finishing. I'm hoping for the best, but also tapering my expectations down as best as I can. The Wendy cameo was a little weird. Initially I thought they were trying to hint at the Sam Crow spinoff with her and Nero, but I imagine that's long out of the question now unless Sutter were to return. I have to interpret the Wendy scene in a way that doesn't make it feel useless, so my interpretation is that Ezekiel needed to hear from an outside party, one who is all too familiar with the outcome and ending to the path that EZ is on, that if he doesn't buckle down and grasp the things he has in life, he'll lose them. That being said, I still suspect Ezekiel will die, which would kind've make the scene filler. So we won't know until next week I guess. This could have been better. I expected more from the penultimate episode and a much longer runtime. They'd better make up for it with an extended finale, but who am I kidding?

As someone who is not familiar with the source material, I cannot make my review based on that, so I found this finale to be a solid finish to an overall wonderfully mysterious first season. This episode wraps up a few loose ends, answers a couple questions while presenting new ones to be answered in future seasons, and establishes just how little we (non-readers) still know about the lore. This adds a lot of potential and anticipation for it's second season. Rebecca Ferguson is excellent as Juliette and I'm very fascinated with her character whenever she's on screen. Tim Robbins, Harriet Walter, Chinaza Uche are all great in their roles as well, though I'm not quite sold on Common yet. The last few episodes were gripping enough, but this finale really drove it home. I think this is Apple TV's next hit!

Lots of things work here. They weren't as risk-averse, and I liked most of the deaths, and they almost had me at a 10/10 but nope. Luisa's death was not earned. Too hamfisted. I'm not impressed with the writing for her death. That was atrocious. They got everything else right in the episode, and I figured Luisa would die, but this death was stupid. I can tell they tried to go for a full circle arc with her, and be poetic with mini killing her, but it's not earned. Far too contrived and spontaneous. I honestly would've rather Ezekiel and her had a showdown and he killed her, as that would've been the perfect final nail in the coffin for Angel to kill Ezekiel. It's a shame, because this was otherwise one of the better episodes in the season and the series overall. Starting to consider (and fear) that they didn't know this would be the final season until they started filming episode 6.

Happy dying doesn't erase his scenes from Sons of Anarchy, cry a river and go rewatch that if you can't handle SOA characters dying in Mayans. They're not untouchable because they came first lmao

The slow pacing is pretty much what I expected after episode five, as well as it focusing on less stories. I probably would have rated this a 6 or 7 if it weren't for the scene with happy and the scene with Luisa preparing to kill Ezekiel. I think Luisa might team up with Ezekiel and take soledad down instead. If she does try to kill him, I reckon he would overpower and kill her. I'm also curious to see what Luisa meant by it'll soon be time for Adelita to strike. She has always been my favorite character and I'm glad they've tied her into the main story for the final season. They dropped the ball with Emily way back in season 3. I do not care about Sofia or her backstory as I can't imagine any of it will be relevant, It's just extra padding for her. They want to humanize her a bit. Oh well. What happened to Taza? I know he's gone nomad, but are they really going to wait until the last few episodes to tie him back in? That being said, they brought Happy back and killed him within one scene. Not to suggest they'll bring Taza back just to kill him, but clearly they don't mind limiting characters and their screen time. I think these last four episodes should be well over an hour long each, as that's what Sons of Anarchy did and I think there's way too much story to tell in just under four hours. Excited to see where it all lands, I hope they don't drop the ball.

No, It's not anything like Black Mirror, but on it's own it's good. I think all the downvoting is because there's always a limited amount of episodes, so I'm sure the ones voting it 1/10 feel that a slot was wasted on this, which is fair. Even for the shortest episode of the batch, the pacing is slow, but I think the final 15 minutes really make up for it, and make the viewing worth it. The character arcs are a little boring, but I was most interested in Bo, and the last shot of her snapping a pic of the celebrity as she commits suicide was dark but also profound. She got what she went there for, and it's also evidence for what happened. She tried to be altruistic but she's a vulture just like the rest of them. I don't think anyone could have possibly predicted what would come of this episode or it's ending, and that alone passes for a Black Mirror episode for me. No, It's not in Scotland or the UK, a new futuristic technology isn't present, but if that's what people need to deem it a proper 'Black Mirror' episode, then said people are watching for the wrong reasons. That being said, the camera is technology, but it isn't advanced, and it causes the moral demise of the protagonist and the complete demise of the deuteragonist. Food for thought.

This is subjective, and I don't speak for anyone else but myself, but this isn't good enough for the final season. Four episodes in and we're still stuck on developing characters and adding completely new ones in, and we don't even know if those new ones will be relevant or not until after the series is over. It's a slow burn, but this is needlessly slow. Four episodes to buildup to what I expect to be a more engaging episode five is unnecessary. What are we waiting for? The most we got from this episode is that Katie finds out Ezekiel is the rat, that's essentially the biggest takeaway from this episode for me, and I'm just not sure if it's enough. Even if episode five is explosive, I imagine six will be slow because of it, and then fingers crossed for an explosively thrilling final 4 episodes otherwise the ball was completely dropped. We'll see!

I like where it's at, I think it's in a good spot. The first few episodes cram a LOT of story in, arguably too much, but this episode tightens everything up a bit, making it more coherent and engaging. I appreciate how different the dynamic between Angel & Miguel feels simply because the audience knows Miguel knows of their relation. I just wish we could see it with Ezekiel & Miguel a bit more. The story moves itself forward by lending more screen time to multiple characters & their arcs, but again, it feels less convoluted this time around. Patricia & Potter, Creeper & Katie, Miguel & Emily, Marcus' arc, and now Isaac's got his hands on Leticia & Hope. They probably won't, but I hope they maintain this pacing and storytelling for the remainder of the season, it would be nice to see it all end on a strong and neat note.

This show has so much potential to be so much better than Big Mouth, but it seems they might be running out of ideas as they're ending both shows. However, I believe they're ending this one prematurely. This finale was excellent, and this whole season has been above average. I found myself not only more engaged but more amused throughout the season than I was with S1 of Human Resources or the last two season of Big Mouth. I think a lot of character arcs were left unfinished, and even if they reintroduce them in Big Mouth and finish the stories there, it'll likely feel rushed or too crammed in. I'm not sure if they always planned to only have two seasons of the show, but ultimately what was the point if it's not going to affect Big Mouth S7 & S8. So for now, the spinoff is useless in terms of adding anything to Big Mouth, but it's excellent in it's own right and is very good entertainment. I only wish this series had 8 seasons and Big Mouth only had 5, as I feel Big Mouth dropped the ball in S6. Anyways, it was a fun finale to the season, but not a great series finale. 10/10 nonetheless.

Everything after S3 should just be considered as a spinoff for Fear the Walking Dead that focuses on Morgan. S1-S3 are tonally different than S4, S5, & S7. The writing becomes abysmal halfway through S4. It's so sad to think about what this show could've been, and to know how much better the original plan was. It's a shame that the two writers in S4-S8 are seemingly incompetent and hellbent on creating their own fanfiction rather than telling a decent & coherent story. If you decide to watch S4-S7, you'll notice S6 is substantially better than S4 & S5, and once you get to S7 you'll question whether Ian & Andrew (writers) are writing it poorly out of spite or not.

"Hey June, we need your help for experiments but we're gonna cut off your finger!" and "Hey no one cares more about kids than us but we're gonna let a little kid get bit as a power move and to prove some deluded point." It's ridiculous. It started off solid, I thought the trigger finger stuff was unique and adding a sniper skill to June made her significantly more interesting but as pretty much every arc and dropped plot in FTWD, they managed to snuff it out in the same episode. It's logistically bad, but also just unsatisfying. I love Jenna Elfman, and June is one of my favorite characters, but they lost me about halfway through this episode. I found it silly that Sherry & Dwight were ok with June and the other fella allowing Finch to follow them into the section of the train that had walkers in it. It's pretty silly in general how much kids gets away with in this entire universe. Morgan hinting that he never killed Jenny and/or Duane felt a little hamfisted for me, but I expected that from the trailer, and then Madison putting herself on the line again so Morgan can fulfill a deed that she doesn't even know the details of, is just not believable. Script & character actions are confusing, weak and cheesy. Even for The Walking Dead, it's feeling way too far fetched and ultimately silly. Like a CW show. I'm so angry at those two dweeb writers in charge. I find it amusing that everyone review bombed all of s7 & 8x01 and then when I speak up about how poor 8x02 is, suddenly everyone likes the show again. Lol. You guys are hysterical. One episode that isn't completely piss-poor and you guys are satisfied and thrilled, THAT'S how low the bar is. Will be going out of my way to review-bomb every episode and encouraging several others to do the same. Update: Now suddenly episode 3 is back to the usual rating it low LMAO i stuck my neck out once and got disagreed with. You're all insane.

I know it's a bit difficult, but I strongly encourage everyone to put the characters of S1-S3 out of your mind while watching the show. It's sad when characters leave, and I understand the urge to stop watching, but I'm getting the feeling that people return every year *JUST* to downvote the episodes and ratings, which is unfair to the actors currently on the show. That being said, some of the new additions like Bilal and Raul are both unbearable and uninteresting. I enjoy the focus on Nico, as well as the character in general. I don't think many people realize this, but Sara has the potential to be a combination of Polo & Carla, so for the people who liked them, I would keep an eye on Sara this season. I love that Isadora has become the main character, and I know not everyone loves the Blanco siblings, but I'm curious to see how their characters develop this season as well. Overall, it's so far a necessary tone shift from constant sex, drugs, and partying to a more grounded and serious season, focusing on more difficult topics with teased elements of homophobia, transphobia, physical abuse, etc. If they land the rest of the season successfully, S6 very well could be the show's return to form.

Originally I thought this episode would solely focus on a black out, but it doesn't factor too much into the story here, in the episode and in the overarching plot. However, we got probably the creepiest ending scene and scene overall in AHS in several years. The dialogue, the lighting, the claustrophobic setting, the obvious inevitability and the suffering while we waited, it just felt brilliant. Jeff Hiller adds a lot. More development is given to some side characters but it feels a little hollow or otherwise boring, and I'd like to see more from Kathy, Barbara, & Fran. Adam seems to be the protagonist of the season but he doesn't have much to work with, or rather, he doesn't do much with what he has to work with. I appreciated Gino's calling Adam out. Furthermore, Joe Mantello's performance as Gino overall has been riveting and palpable. He is dissolved into the role and his anger and emotions are convincing. I think that makes him a better and more interesting protagonist than Adam.

I'm quite disappointed we've lost Leslie Grossman so soon, but I guess she's had a lot of screen time and fun stuff to work with the last couple of seasons so it's her turn to be on the back-burner here. Jeff Hiller is superb as Mr. Whitely and I hope we get him for the rest of the season, though judging by his absence in the opening credits I'm guessing we won't. Then again, Leslie is in the opening credits so who knows. Either way, I'm fascinated by Jeff's performance and I'd like to see him back in future seasons. The tarot cards & fortune telling was fun and a little unsettling, whether or not it acted as filler doesn't really matter to me because of how entertaining it was, that being said, I hope (and expect) it to come back into play later on.

I'm having a lot of fun here. Joe Mantello is superb, and no, he doesn't need to go back to directing, he's portraying the part perfectly. The character work has been excellent, especially for Gino, Mr. Whitely, and Henry. In my opinion, this was easily the best episode of the season so far. I liked the reveal that Henry is a hitman of sorts, as well as Mr. Whitely being a sort of sidearm for Henry. The scene on Fire Island was shocking and lots of fun, it gave us Henry & Mr. Whitely's fascinating dynamic, as well as some backstory into both Sam & Patrick. I always assumed Big Daddy was a ghost of one of the killers' victims, or perhaps Sam went too far, but now I'm a little lost as both of them acted like it was the first and only time it happened, I can only imagine that Big Daddy is a victim of Mr. Whitely. Anyways, this season has been a slow burn but I'm finding it's so far been worth it, and I'm enjoying it a fair bit.

This episode was good, and quite frankly the whole season has been superb so far. Ackles has been phenomenal as Soldier Boy and I'm buzzing to see him finally face off against Homelander. However, I was disappointed to see Crimson Countess depart so soon, I love Laurie Holden. The development with A-Train this season has been pleasantly interesting as the writers double down on a redemptive arc of sorts for the character. Blue Hawk was an excellent super-cop esque character, and I imagine A-Train will regain his powers in order to kill him. But for me, the most interesting scenes in this episode contained Queen Maeve. I wasn't expecting a wee hookup between Maeve & Butcher, I was actually expecting a bit of a tussle. The scene wherein she talks down to Homelander was delicious, and was a good plant to mirror the Soldier Boy x Crimson Countess scene that would come later on in this episode. The Black Noir jump scare startled me a bit (I loved it), but it's interesting to know Homelander has him wrapped around his thumb as well as A-Train and The Deep. I expect Soldier Boy to come for Black Noir, which will inevitably put him fully on Homelander's radar. Now for my caption/title of this review, this show has ALWAYS been satirical, and has picked on both the left wing and right wing party. Of course they pick on the right wing more, look at those comical reactions! Get a grip, if you can't handle parodied (but very accurate) version of real life then stop watching! No one cares if it was one of your favorites and nobody cares to see any further reviews that are based in anger, spite, and political views.

Anyone who rates this a 7 or less should just stop watching and reviewing the series, as nothing will satisfy you at this point, especially if this episode didn't cut it for you. This was, for me, the most satisfying and productive episode of the season so far. There has been movement and development on just about every front. The war with SOA, Bishop & Taza's tension, Adelita & Angel's trauma, Emily moving back into the fold (likely to run to EZ), Canche finally dies in a shocking manner, Manny likely doesn't trust EZ anymore, and we have the little side story with the two women connected to the Mayans and SOA. On top of that there were some riveting character development scenes for both Creeper & Gilly, both of whom have been on the back burner for the first few seasons. I'm excited to see how the last two episodes play out, I can't imagine they'll disappoint.

It doesn't matter if they somehow flipped the writing completely and gave everyone what they want, the ratings will never change because of the sour reviewers that are upset over a poor quality S7. Nothing ever satisfies. This was the most entertaining episode of the season simply because Madison was present. What more could you all possibly want? But I digress, because again, it doesn't matter.

I understand. This season has been terrible. I agree. But I also think nothing can satisfy you guys (other reviewers) at this point, and the sour taste it's left in your mouths has clouded your judgement in reviewing this episode. This was exhilarating, there was a decent amount of action, character development with original characters, a good death, and what is hopefully the end to the tower. Rubén's performance alone should have people rating it higher than a 1/10. Andrew & Ian are horrible writers, but this was a good episode. Surely deserves higher than a 7.3.

If this doesn't call for a second season I don't know what would. This was insightful, fun, probing, and well worth it. The Autumn/Amy twist was something I theorized in episode two during their conversation. I felt it coming, and I even figured it'd be revealed through the scar on the forehead, but that being said it was still incredibly neat and shocking. With context, it's also a bit sad. Performances from Josh Brolin, Imogen Poots, and Tom Pelphrey may make it easy for one to look past Lili Taylor. Her meltdown at the rodeo felt rewarding and it was also insanely heartbreaking. Maybe even relatable for some, as she expresses her frustration at everyone's oblivion at the hysteria and weirdness going on. We leave off on a cliffhanger, which I would suspect from a Sci-Fi mind twister. If the final 20 minutes don't have audiences demanding a second season, I'm not sure what could. Superb.

I see a lot of people complaining about being lost and confused in a convoluted plot. I'm not seeing any of that. In fact, this episode had the biggest development in the last couple of episodes. This was never intended to be a mini-series, I don't know why some of the audience are expecting it all to wrap up by the next episode as I'm sure they have plans for a second season. Given the nature of the show, I'm sure it'll leave off on a cliffhanger. So did Severance. I think the setting of the show garnered a lot of the yellowstone redneck audience members, so of course they can't keep up with a mind twister.

As I said in my review for episode 13, this show should've had a fifth season or they should have made better use of the additional episodes they had this season. Before all that, I do have to mention I enjoyed the episode, and as always, the acting and cinematography was wonderful. This wasn't a bad season finale, it was good. I'm just not sure if it was an excellent series finale. Jason Bateman is just superb, I can't imagine anyone else as Marty. The passive-aggressive attitude, picking away at a sentence instead of blurting it all out, the facial expressions, everything. Jason plays a good comedy support character or even protagonist in films, but seeing him portray the seriousness and bleakness of Marty has been exhilarating for me. It was sad to see Ruth go, but it was inevitable. She flew too close to the sun too many times but she had clearly made peace with it and she didn't beg, she owned what she did. Julia Garner gave it her all throughout the season and I'm sure she'll win plenty of awards. I hope Laura Linney gets recognition for this season though, she portrayed a very frightening and antagonistic version of Wendy this year and it was refreshing and delightful. In this part, we also got to see a lot more of why Wendy is wired the way she is, and she has become very self aware and comfortable and I think that's a pretty big development for her. We are given a cut-to-black ending, very open ended, and again, it just doesn't feel like a series finale. What happens with Mel? What happens with Camilla? Do they stay? Do they go? What happens with Rachel? Are Marty & Wendy's facial expressions meant to imply they're proud of Jonah and want him to blow Mel away? (Which, cinematography-wise. I loved) I don't mind open-to-interpretation, but there's a fair amount of loose ends that do bother me a bit. However, it was fun, I liked it, none of my predictions were right, and I don't think it was a great series finale, but it was a wonderful episode. I can't be mad.

As for the overall season, the rating is the same. 7/10. I think they could've utilized the 4 bonus episodes in a much more effective way, but it was nice to get bonus content at all. I just can't help but wonder what would be different had they not been given those 4 episodes. Some of it was filler, some of it was used for character development. I think season three was the best season, but this was a riveting final season, just not a fan of loose ends, that's all.

It's fair that the gunman, Nelson, goes out by getting shot to death. As he's killed off a handful of characters the same way, it feels like a proper full circle moment. I like the concept of Wendy checking herself into a psych ward however it's far too late in the show for this song-and-dance, and in turn made the episode feel very stagnant when things should otherwise be much faster paced. Wonderful acting & cinematography as always, but I'm a little nervous as this is the penultimate episode and doubts are beginning to creep in. Camila makes for a good villain, but with all the plots and what-not being crammed in now, I can't help but feel the show should've had a fifth season or just made better use of the additional episodes they got for this season.

Laura Linney is superb! I cannot imagine anyone else in this role, she is captivating and Wendy is ruthless. The rift between Wendy and the kids only continues to grow with the presence of Nathan and as Wendy's true colors have surfaced (and stayed there). Mel makes his departure, but I think that (wonderful) shot of him looking at the urn/'cookie jar' is a hint that he could be back. On the other hand, it could just be a little wink to the audience on how close Mel was, a testament to his character and being an inspector. The ending shot was gorgeous visually, meanwhile the context of it is horrifying. I imagine Wendy will have something done to her father that will prevent the kids from going with him. Either way, it's clear, the last two episodes should be spectacular.