TheWalkingDead franchise is about to end its flagship show — but maybe it's time to say goodbye to this broken-down, facepalm-inspiring zombie-apocalypse universe once and for all?
The Walking Dead and Fear the Walking Dead
made the most of a brutalizingly basic premise: Due to reasons that were never entirely explained, the dead come back to life and try to munch everyone in sight. Meanwhile, the survivors of this zombie apocalypse lurch from one safe space to another, often fighting among themselves or villains they regularly encounter.
Season Six, which wrapped up this past June, introduced a crazed cult leader, Teddy, who, as played by John Glover, looked like the star oftruly went there: Teddy actually unleashed a batch of nuclear missiles sitting dormant in a beached submarine. Characters, watching helplessly as mushroom clouds sprang up around Texas, were either instantly incinerated or took cover in shelters.
But in light of ongoing climate disasters and daily apocalyptic news on nearly every front, the demented thrill of watching a dying world doesn’t seem so thrilling anymore. Even if zombies aren’t in our foreseeable future, watching these series — and their depictions of people being forced to do whatever it takes to survive in a world that no longer resembles anything from their pasts — now feels like it may be like to watch the news in 2045.
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