Fear the Walking Dead (2015) S8 E12
DownrightDebonaire 1 points 6 months ago. (Contains Spoilers)

I blame the “Showrunners” They turned this show into a giant ego stroke. Why do y’all think at the end of every episode you’re forced to sit in their bland crappy apartments and listen to them pat themselves on the back about the decisions they made.

They force decisions and pull rank to get done what they want. Then sit around telling everyone how creative they are, when the writers and directors are trying to work around their decisions and egos. Padre was a waste of a season. All the Madison returns BS was awful. So many other options and people they could have brought in from other shows. Just awful.

Researcher 2 points 6 months ago*. (Contains Spoilers)

So true on all points!
I watched one “inside the episode” and recognized it for what it was: “Mommy, look what I made!” I always thought that these explanations were necessary when there was so much nuance that viewers would need it. But with this last season, I don’t think so.
Will definitely agree with you on “The Madison Season.” I couldn’t figure out why they needed her to come back. And her flip-flopping from “help the children” to “kill everybody” to “find Alicia” was horrible.
FTWD should have quit after s2 or s3…there was no weight to anything that came after. Actually, I lost interest after John Dorie’s death.
I get that they had to attract Lennie James and Kim Dickens with whole seasons worth of “soul searching” but these two characters had waaay too much screen time. I kept waiting for FTWD to meet up with TWD characters that had hit the road, but that never happened. I guess spinoffs were a bigger ROI.
These two shows are a clear example that too much of a good thing becomes a bad thing!