When one sits down to watch the chapter “The Raft” (7×13) of Fear the Walking Dead (7×13) You don't have them all with you. Not yet. Although “Sonny Boy” (7×12) managed to raise the level of the spin-off after the setbacks caused by “Mourning Cloak” (7×10) and “Ophelia” (7×11), the disappointment still makes us fear that they may offer us another nonsense. Because we had gotten used to the misadventures in this zombie apocalypse going really well, and boom!
His approach, with two different enigmas and frequent situations , fits into the usual schemes of the AMC television series. Which includes the back and forth about what Austin Amelio's Dwight and Christine Evangelista's Sherry want for themselves in this life with walking corpses and monstrous human beings in the manner of Colman Domingo's Victor Strand, which contributes nothing love relationships triumph in the face of adversity.
But what the writers of Fear the Walking Dead, the regulars Nick Bernardone and Nazrin Choudhury, make very clear again here after having written another seven episodes since “Leave What You Don't” (5×13) and six from “Welcome to the Club” (6×02) respectively, is that these characters continue to weigh heavily on their stage under the orders of the former Negan Smith by Jeffrey Dean Morgan between the sixth and eighth seasons of the mother series ( since 2010).
Recovering an iconic weapon
AMC But they are not the only ones to whom something like this happens. Lennie James' Morgan Jones refers to the very reason why the first crossover with The Walking Dead exists thanks to himself; because, despite the important new links he has been able to build after joining the Alicia Clark group of Alycia Debnam-Carey and company, other good friends have been left behind. And there seems to be no choice but to wonder if it will be possible to reunite them in the future.
It is not the only question we ask ourselves, however. A pleasant surprise, with which the second layer of Sherry's mysterious motivations is removed, pushes us to fear that the matter will end up like Karen David's Grace Mukherjee in the strange and devastating chapter “In Dreams” (6×12 ). On the other hand, if there is a certain fetish for the iconic weapons of the franchise, this episode of Fear the Walking Dead shows that it continues to exist.
We have the pistol and red-handled machete wielded by Andrew Lincoln's Rick Grimes, Norman Reedus's Daryl Dixon's crossbow, Danai Gurira's Michonne's samurai sword, Lucille, Negan's spiked bat Smith, or the wooden club used by Morgan Jones, now with the ax of the late Emile LaRoux by Demetrius Grosse. And, for what we are interested in “The Raft”, Alicia Clark's razor-sharp machine gun barrel cover.
Calming our fears in 'Fear of Walking Dead'
AMCThe horror of the zombies and the tribute to the viewers of the AMC fiction who go crazy over the blood are not lacking in the chapter, made by the Californian Gary Rake, who had previously only directed a couple of episodes for The Orville (since 2017), but has worked on a number of occasions as assistant director on The War of the Worlds, Munich (2005), The Departed (2006) , Fringe (2008-2013) or The Walking Dead itself.
But, although he does not offer us in “The Raft” an audiovisual planning that is too brilliant for being imaginative, but rather stays in the strictly functional, in this way he fulfills what is expected of him, someone who is making his way in the direction of productive television in the American industry. And, in the end, we are once again struck by the sensation that Fear the Walking Dead offers us the most varied elements of the franchise about the hecatomb of the hungry corpses.
