We Are Back! For this episode 84 of Fear the Walking Dead Talk Through, Kyle, Brian (in limited fashion), and LT talk through Season 7 Episode 1 of Fear the Walking Dead, the season premiere, titled The Beacon, which was written by co-showrunners Ian Goldberg & Andrew Chambliss and directed by co-executive producer Michael E. Satrazemis. In the aftermath of nuclear destruction, Strand thrives in the new world.

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FTWDTT 084 – The Beacon (S7E1)

Talking Through The Beginning We’re late this time out AGAIN, but for this episode 83 of Fear the Walking Dead Talk Through, Brian and LT talk through Season 6 Episode 16 of Fear the Walking Dead, the season finale, titled The Beginning, which was written by co-showrunners Ian Goldberg & Andrew Chambliss and directed by co-executive producer Michael E. Satrazemis. This was mostly a positively received season finale, but the episode had one flaw… We ended up recording the episode over two nights. We started late on Wednesday night, so we finished it on Thursday night. During the two recordings, I started thinking about what I thought didn’t make sense, so I watched the episode a second time and did a detailed analysis of how the timeline of the end of S6E15 USS Pennsylvania fits with this episode. The answer: For the most part, it doesn’t. There are several examples where either not enough time has passed, or too much time has passed, and there are also some distance issues that aren’t related to where the warheads landed. You’ll have to listen to the podcast to get more information. There were a lot of good things about the finale though… We thought that, although creepy, the writers got Teddy’s true motives and actions right on the money, and the scene with Teddy, Dakota, JD Sr and June, we enjoyed Strand (how it was written anyway), Dwight and Sherry, Daniel figuring out Rollie was the mole, and Morgan and Grace finally sharing their feelings once and for all were all highlights. Also, with a radioactive, Chernobyl-like Texas, the showrunners have laid out for what looks like what could be an interesting Season 7. Chapters 00:00:00 Intro00:01:40 Feedback on Previous Episodes00:19:27 About The Beginning00:20:11 Ratings00:21:54 Awesome Sauce00:37:00 Weak Sauce01:21:49 What Sauce01:58:50 Sad Sauce02:07:17 Listener Feedback02:23:09 Our Notes02:24:42 News, Ratings and Info02:28:30 Wrap Up We have ratings for the season finale and they are up!!! We didn’t have the ratings for S6E15 USS Pennsylvania when we recorded last week but we posted them on the blog post. We’ll post them again. Last week, the episode received an all-time low of 0.17 in the 18-49 demographic, with 872,000 viewers, down from the S6E14 Mother’s 0.23 and 940,000 viewers, which was the all-time viewers’ low at the time. The season finale got a 0.20 in the 18-49 demographic but was up in total viewers with 1.045 million viewers. I speculated that it was because the episode did better with 25-54 and 50+ viewers, but I didn’t have the ratings for those demos. Unfortunately, I did not have any ratings information for Talking Dead, though it returned for the season finale. We’ll be off until August, unless we have something good to talk about… LT and I will be taking a hiatus over the rest of June, July, and the first three weeks of August, unless we have something really good to talk about! We think that the web series Dead in the Water will be released during the hiatus, plus there are potential Comic-Con trailers, news, etc. If something good comes up, we’ll come back with a shorter episode. Otherwise, expect us back as The Walking Dead Talk Through soon after The Walking Dead returns Sunday, August 22, 2021. For the season 11 premiere or for any off-season thoughts, please leave your feedback! Get in your feedback for that when it comes by 7 PM Eastern/6 PM Central on Tuesday, August 24, 2021. One of the best ways to submit feedback is on our Facebook group. You can also send us an email at our new email: walkingdead@talkthroughmedia.com or call our new voicemail at 216-232-6146. We could use your help when the podcast returns! This season, doing the podcast has been challenging, and we could use your help. Our availability is limited for each of us on Tuesdays when the bulk of the feedback comes in. We have to grab it from the various sources, including the Facebook group, the feedback form, email, and voice mail; put it into a Google doc; separate it into the appropriate sections of the podcast: Ratings, sauces, and feedback; and then fix things like spelling mistakes, grammar, and format, and then divide it by who will read it. If you are available most Tuesdays that we have an episode to record and want to help the podcast out, please drop us a line, either using the feedback form, the Facebook group, or if you are friends with us on Facebook, over Messenger. We’ll work out something if you can. Subscribe and Support! Don’t forget that we have our Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/WalkingDeadTalkThrough! I have a press pass but need some help with the costs of getting and staying there. Please remember to subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts or whatever is your podcast client of choice. Subscribing to us helps us move up in the rankings, so it’ll help us out tremendously! You’ll also get new episodes when they’re released. And while you’re in there, leave us a rating or review! It only takes a few minutes and it also helps us out! And join our Facebook group! apple podcasts Google Podcasts Stitcher PocketCasts RSS Listen to the episode on YouTube!

FTWDTT 083 – The Beginning (S6E16)

Talking Through USS Pennsylvania We’re very late this time out AGAIN, but for this episode 82 of Fear the Walking Dead Talk Through, Brian and LT talk through Season 6 Episode 15 of Fear the Walking Dead, titled USS Pennsylvania, which was written by Nazrin Choudhury & Nick Bernardone and directed by Heather Cappiello. This was was a mixed review, but not so mixed… We were split with this episode. LT gave it a 5, while Brian gave it an 8. Neither of them thought it was the worst episode, but clearly, Brian liked it more. Listener reactions were similar to LT’s than Brian’s. Just go? And a strange use of resources… One thing that we all had a problem with was Morgan telling Teddy and Riley to go. That just seemed dumb for everyone. Also, it seemed weird that everyone went to the sub, but they weren’t used very well. Only Strand and Morgan go forward. Why were the rest of them there? What did they do? Chapters 00:00:00 Intro00:08:17 Feedback for Previous Episodes00:22:41 About USS Pennsylvania00:23:46 Ratings00:26:50 Awesome Sauce00:36:11 Weak Sauce00:56:07 What Sauce01:13:49 Sad Sauce01:18:33 Listener Feedback01:31:59 Our Notes01:32:50 News, Ratings and Info01:38:41 Wrap Up We finally have ratings for last week, and this week’s ratings are lower… We didn’t have the ratings for S6E15 USS Pennsylvania when we recorded but we do now. After skipping a week, it got an all-time low of 0.17 in the 18-49 demographic, with 872,000 viewers, down from the previous episode’s 0.23 and 940,000 viewers, which was the all-time viewers’ low at the time. Send in your feedback! Please leave your feedback! Next time, we will be covering the season finale, S6E16 titled The Beginning. Get in your feedback by 7 PM Eastern/6 PM Central on Tuesday, June 15, 2021. If you don’t make it in time, send it anyway and we’ll cover it in the finale episode! One of the best ways to submit feedback is on our Facebook group. You can also send us an email at our new email: walkingdead@talkthroughmedia.com or call our new voicemail at 216-232-6146. We could use your help when the podcast returns! This season, doing the podcast has been challenging, and we could use your help. Our availability is limited for each of us on Tuesdays when the bulk of the feedback comes in. We have to grab it from the various sources, including the Facebook group, the feedback form, email, and voice mail; put it into a Google doc; separate it into the appropriate sections of the podcast: Ratings, sauces, and feedback; and then fix things like spelling mistakes, grammar, and format, and then divide it by who will read it. If you are available most Tuesdays that we have an episode to record and want to help the podcast out, please drop us a line, either using the feedback form, the Facebook group, or if you are friends with us on Facebook, over Messenger. We’ll work out something if you can. Subscribe and Support! Don’t forget that we have our Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/WalkingDeadTalkThrough! I have a press pass but need some help with the costs of getting and staying there. Please remember to subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts or whatever is your podcast client of choice. Subscribing to us helps us move up in the rankings, so it’ll help us out tremendously! You’ll also get new episodes when they’re released. And while you’re in there, leave us a rating or review! It only takes a few minutes and it also helps us out! And join our Facebook group! apple podcasts Google Podcasts Stitcher PocketCasts RSS Listen to the episode on YouTube!

FTWDTT 082 – USS Pennsylvania (S6E15)

Talking Through Mother We’re very late this time out AGAIN, but for this episode 81 of Fear the Walking Dead Talk Through, Brian and LT talk through Season 6 Episode 14 of Fear the Walking Dead, titled Mother, which was written by Channing Powell & Alex Delyle and directed by Janice Cooke. I was just too soon! We get a great scene in the cold open. We see Teddy on death row, just as the apocalypse is starting. A fellow death row inmate gets lethal injection, and then starts a zombie attack in the prison. Teddy just thinks he had the right idea all along. He was just too soon. Old friends gone astray… Teddy takes Alicia and new arrival Dakota on a road trip and they meet up with old friends from the stadium: Douglas, his wife Viv, and Cole. Do you remember Cole? He was a character who had a thing for Victor, but they never consumated the relationship. Unlike Alicia and the gang, Cole, Viv, and Doug became bad guys. You know, I hadn’t thought of it when we recorded, but, for a time, Alicia, Nick, Luciana, and Victor had turned to be the bad guys for a short while before they ran into John Dorie and Morgan. Chapters 00:00:00 Intro00:00:52 Feedback for Previous Episodes00:04:10 About Mother00:06:12 Ratings00:10:30 Awesome Sauce00:24:11 Weak Sauce00:40:29 What Sauce00:52:36 Sad Sauce00:57:47 Listener Feedback01:12:09 Our Notes01:17:58 News, Ratings & Info01:25:04 Wrap Up We finally have ratings for last week, and this week’s ratings are lower… We finally have the ratings are for S6E13 J.D. It got a 0.27 in the 18-49 demographic, with 1.091 million viewers, up from the previous episode’s 0.25 and 988,000 viewers. For S6E14 Mother, it got a 0.25 in the 18-49 demographic, with an all-time low of 940,000 viewers. Send in your feedback! Please leave your feedback! Next time, we will be covering S6E15 titled USS Pennsylvania. With the Memorial Day weekend off for Fear the Walking Dead, remember to get your feedback in by 7 PM Eastern/6 PM Central on Tuesday, June 8, 2021. If you don’t make it in time, send it anyway and we’ll cover it in the finale episode! One of the best ways to submit feedback is on our Facebook group. You can also send us an email at our new email: walkingdead@talkthroughmedia.com or call our new voicemail at 216-232-6146. We could still use your help! This season, collecting feedback has been challenging, and we could use your help. Our availability is limited for each of us on Tuesdays when the bulk of the feedback comes in. We have to grab it from the various sources, including the Facebook group, the feedback form, email, and voice mail; put it into a Google doc; separate it into the appropriate sections of the podcast: Ratings, sauces, and feedback; and then fix things like spelling mistakes, grammar, and format, and then divide it by who will read it. If you are available most Tuesdays that we have an episode to record and want to help the podcast out, please drop us a line, either using the feedback form, the Facebook group, or if you are friends with us on Facebook, over Messenger. We’ll work out something if you can. Subscribe and Support! Don’t forget that we have our Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/WalkingDeadTalkThrough! I have a press pass but need some help with the costs of getting and staying there. Please remember to subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts or whatever is your podcast client of choice. Subscribing to us helps us move up in the rankings, so it’ll help us out tremendously! You’ll also get new episodes when they’re released. And while you’re in there, leave us a rating or review! It only takes a few minutes and it also helps us out! And join our Facebook group! apple podcasts Google Podcasts Stitcher PocketCasts RSS Listen to the episode on YouTube!

FTWDTT 081 – Mother (S6E14)

Talking Through J.D. We’re very, VERY late this time out AGAIN, but for this episode 80 of Fear the Walking Dead Talk Through, Brian and LT talk through Season 6 Episode 13 of Fear the Walking Dead, titled J.D., which was written by Nick Bernardone & Jacob Pinion and directed by superfan Aisha Tyler. Two new family units While looking for clues about these underground dwellers, June meets up with John Dorie Sr., who has a connection to our bad guy Teddy. It’s ironic that John Dorie’s dad was so close by for so many years but they never saw each other. It turns out that the criminal John’s dad framed was none other than Teddy. Sherry intends to say goodbye to Dwight while she heads to Virginia to kill Negan, but that ends up not happening. Instead, Dwight and Sherry decide to start over and have their own family unit. Chapters 00:00:00 Intro00:01:06 About J.D.00:05:43 Ratings00:08:43 Awesome Sauce00:24:04 Weak Sauce00:39:35 What Sauce00:48:09 Sad Sauce00:53:08 Listener Feedback01:15:29 News, Ratings and Info01:21:39 Wrap Up We don’t know what the ratings are… We don’t know what the ratings are for S6E13 J.D., even though I’m writing this more than a week after we recorded the episode. The website where we have been getting ratings, showbuzzdaily.com, had been down for several days, and now, although they have the pages up, they can’t add new ones, so we until then, the chart will stay the same. If you recall, S6E12 In Dreams got a 0.25 in the 18-49, with an all-time low of only 988,000 viewers, the first time Fear the Walking Dead was under 1 million viewers in first-run. Send in your feedback! Please leave your feedback! Next time, we will be covering S6E14 titled Mother. Get your feedback in by 7 PM Eastern/6 PM Central on Wednesday, May 26, 2021, which will be a quick turnaround for most of you, since we’re getting this out on the same day. If you don’t make it in time, send it anyway and we’ll cover it in the next episode! One of the best ways to submit feedback is on our Facebook group. You can also send us an email at our new email: walkingdead@talkthroughmedia.com or call our new voicemail at 216-232-6146. We could still use your help! This season, collecting feedback has been challenging, and we could use your help. Our availability is limited for each of us on Tuesdays when the bulk of the feedback comes in. We have to grab it from the various sources, including the Facebook group, the feedback form, email, and voice mail; put it into a Google doc; separate it into the appropriate sections of the podcast: Ratings, sauces, and feedback; and then fix things like spelling mistakes, grammar, and format, and then divide it by who will read it. If you are available most Tuesdays that we have an episode to record and want to help the podcast out, please drop us a line, either using the feedback form, the Facebook group, or if you are friends with us on Facebook, over Messenger. We’ll work out something if you can. Subscribe and Support! Don’t forget that we have our Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/WalkingDeadTalkThrough! I have a press pass but need some help with the costs of getting and staying there. Please remember to subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts or whatever is your podcast client of choice. Subscribing to us helps us move up in the rankings, so it’ll help us out tremendously! You’ll also get new episodes when they’re released. And while you’re in there, leave us a rating or review! It only takes a few minutes and it also helps us out! And join our Facebook group! apple podcasts Google Podcasts Stitcher PocketCasts RSS Listen to the episode on YouTube!

FTWDTT 080 – J.D. (S6E13)

Talking Through The Holding & In Dreams We’re very, VERY late this time out, but for this episode 79 of Fear the Walking Dead Talk Through, Brian and LT talk through two episodes of Fear the Walking Dead: Season 6 Episode 11, titled The Holding, which was written by Channing Powell and directed by K.C. Colwell, and Season 6 Episode 12, titled In Dreams, which was written by Andrew Chambliss & Ian Goldberg & Nazrin Choudhury and directed by Michael E. Satrazemis. Land of the Crazies? We first discuss Season 6 Episode 11 The Holding, which members of our gang go undercover to meet the underground bad guys. Wes finds out his brother didn’t die, but has instead taken up with this underground cult. We also meet the charismatic Teddy and his from death brings life. We then discuss Season 6 Episode 12 In Dreams, which was a very different episode than the preceding one. Grace is in a dream state after an explosion, as she’s going into labor with her baby. This is an uplifting episode until the very end, when it delivers the worst of gut punches. Chapters 00:00:00 Intro00:03:40 Feedback for Previous Episodes00:19:05 About The Holding00:20:34 Ratings for The Holding00:22:29 Awesome Sauce for The Holding00:30:48 Weak Sauce for The Holding00:41:05 What Sauce for The Holding00:50:26 Sad Sauce for The Holding00:51:40 Listener Feedback for The Holding01:01:43 Our Notes for The Holding01:03:53 About In Dreams01:05:00 Ratings for In Dreams01:07:22 Awesome Sauce for In Dreams01:13:15 Weak Sauce for In Dreams01:24:36 What Sauce for In Dreams01:33:56 Sad Sauce for In Dreams01:40:09 Feedback for In Dreams01:59:56 Our Notes for In Dreams02:00:37 News, Ratings, and Info02:05:48 Wrap Up Ratings are down… Ratings for S6E11 The Holding and S6E12 In Dreams were down from S6E10 Handle With Care. S6E11 The Holding got a 0.26 in the 18-49 demographic, with 1.033 million viewers, down from the 0.26 and 1.102 million viewers. S6E12 In Dreams was slightly down to 0.25 in the 18-49, but reached an all-time low of only 988,000 viewers, the first time Fear the Walking Dead was under 1 million viewers in first run. Send in your feedback! Please leave your feedback! Next time, we will be covering S6E13 titled J. D. Get your feedback in by 7 PM Eastern/6 PM Central on Tuesday, May 18, 2021, which will be a quick turnaround for most of you. If you don’t make it in time, send it anyway! One of the best ways to submit feedback is on our Facebook group. You can also send us an email at our new email: walkingdead@talkthroughmedia.com or call our new voicemail at 216-232-6146. We could still use your help! This season, collecting feedback has been challenging, and we could use your help. Our availability is limited for each of us on Tuesdays when the bulk of the feedback comes in. We have to grab it from the various sources, including the Facebook group, the feedback form, email, and voice mail; put it into a Google doc; separate it into the appropriate sections of the podcast: Ratings, sauces, and feedback; and then fix things like spelling mistakes, grammar, and format, and then divide it by who will read it. If you are available most Tuesdays that we have an episode to record and want to help the podcast out, please drop us a line, either using the feedback form, the Facebook group, or if you are friends with us on Facebook, over Messenger. We’ll work out something if you can. Subscribe and Support! Don’t forget that we have our Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/WalkingDeadTalkThrough! I have a press pass but need some help with the costs of getting and staying there. Please remember to subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts or whatever is your podcast client of choice. Subscribing to us helps us move up in the rankings, so it’ll help us out tremendously! You’ll also get new episodes when they’re released. And while you’re in there, leave us a rating or review! It only takes a few minutes and it also helps us out! And join our Facebook group! apple podcasts Google Podcasts Stitcher PocketCasts RSS Listen to the episode on YouTube!

FTWDTT 079 – The Holding/In Dreams (S6E11/12)

Talking Through Handle With Care We’re late this time out, but for this episode 78 of Fear the Walking Dead Talk Through, Brian and LT talk through the mid-season premiere Handle With Care. Fear the Walking Dead Season 6 Episode 10 was written by Ashley Cardiff & David Johnson and directed by co-executive producer Heather Cappiello. Daniel! Daniel? After complaining that we haven’t had enough Rubén Blades this season, we get a big Daniel Salazar episode this week. Unfortunately, by the end of the episode, our former Salvadoran torturer has yet again been made toothless by the showrunners, and we’re not talking about his shocking bridge plate. This one was an interesting episode, with some issues. How did Daniel do all this without getting detected by anyone else? Or was he framed? Only time will tell. Chapters 00:00:00​ Intro00:01:33​ Feedback from Previous Episodes00:13:30​ About Handle With Care00:18:07​ Ratings00:20:00​ Awesome Sauce00:36:38​ Weak Sauce01:05:03​ What Sauce01:16:22​ Aww Sauce01:18:57​ Listener Feedback01:30:21​ Our Notes01:44:14​ News, Ratings, and Info01:50:34​ Wrap Up Ratings are down… Ratings for S6E10 Handle With Care were even with the last episode, S6E9 Things Left to Do. It got a 0.26 in the 18-49 demographic, with 1.102 million viewers, down from the previous episode’s 0.22 and 1.119 million viewers. Talking Dead was not on again this week. Send in your feedback! Please leave your feedback! Next time, we will be covering S6E11 titled The Holding. Get your feedback in by 7 PM Eastern/6 PM Central on Tuesday, May 4, 2021. One of the best ways to submit feedback is on our Facebook group. You can also send us an email at our new email: walkingdead@talkthroughmedia.com or call our new voicemail at 216-232-6146. We could still use your help! This season, collecting feedback has been challenging, and we could use your help. Our availability is limited for each of us on Tuesdays when the bulk of the feedback comes in. We have to grab it from the various sources, including the Facebook group, the feedback form, email, and voice mail; put it into a Google doc; separate it into the appropriate sections of the podcast: Ratings, sauces, and feedback; and then fix things like spelling mistakes, grammar, and format, and then divide it by who will read it. If you are available most Tuesdays that we have an episode to record and want to help the podcast out, please drop us a line, either using the feedback form, the Facebook group, or if you are friends with us on Facebook, over Messenger. We’ll work out something if you can. Subscribe and Support! Don’t forget that we have our Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/WalkingDeadTalkThrough! I have a press pass but need some help with the costs of getting and staying there. Please remember to subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts or whatever is your podcast client of choice. Subscribing to us helps us move up in the rankings, so it’ll help us out tremendously! You’ll also get new episodes when they’re released. And while you’re in there, leave us a rating or review! It only takes a few minutes and it also helps us out! And join our Facebook group! apple podcasts Google Podcasts Stitcher PocketCasts RSS Listen to the episode on YouTube!

FTWDTT 078 – Handle With Care (S6E10)

Talking Through Things Left to Do We’re late this time out, but for this episode 77 of Fear the Walking Dead Talk Through, Brian and LT talk through the mid-season premiere Things Left to Do. Fear the Walking Dead Season 6 Episode 9 was written by Nick Bernardone and directed by co-executive producer Michael E. Satrazemis. MAJOR SPOILERS AHEAD!!! Again, for the second week in a row, there are major spoilers in this episode, so if you haven’t seen this episode of Fear the Walking Dead, stop now!!! Go watch it and then come back and listen to us! This time, our main villain so far this season, Virginia (Ginny) was killed, by none other than John’s wife, June. This one was a tense episode, with lots of action, drama, and conflict, but it wasn’t without issues. Chapters 00:00:00​ Intro00:01:45​ Feedback for Previous Episodes00:24:56​ About Things Left to Do00:28:10​ Ratings00:29:32​ Awesome Sauce00:39:37​ Weak Sauce01:07:32​ What Sauce01:18:50​ Sad Sauce01:22:13​ Listener Feedback01:42:42​ Our Notes01:45:15​ News, Ratings, and Info01:50:31​ Wrap Up Ratings are down… Ratings for S6E9 Things Left to Do were even with the last episode, S6E8 The Door. It got a 0.22 in the 18-49 demographic, with 1.119 million viewers, down from the previous episode’s 0.26 and 1.171 million viewers. The 18-49 rating was the program’s lowest to date, and the total viewers’ figure was the second-lowest to date. Talking Dead was not on this week. Send in your feedback! Please leave your feedback! Next time, we will be covering S6E10 titled Handle With Care. Get your feedback in by 7 PM Eastern/6 PM Central on Tuesday, April 27, 2021. One of the best ways to submit feedback is on our Facebook group. You can also send us an email at our new email: walkingdead@talkthroughmedia.com or call our new voicemail at 216-232-6146. We could still use your help! This season, collecting feedback has been challenging, and we could use your help. Our availability is limited for each of us on Tuesdays when the bulk of the feedback comes in. We have to grab it from the various sources, including the Facebook group, the feedback form, email, and voice mail; put it into a Google doc; separate it into the appropriate sections of the podcast: Ratings, sauces, and feedback; and then fix things like spelling mistakes, grammar, and format, and then divide it by who will read it. If you are available most Tuesdays that we have an episode to record and want to help the podcast out, please drop us a line, either using the feedback form, the Facebook group, or if you are friends with us on Facebook, over Messenger. We’ll work out something if you can. Subscribe and Support! Don’t forget that we have our Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/WalkingDeadTalkThrough! I have a press pass but need some help with the costs of getting and staying there. Please remember to subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts or whatever is your podcast client of choice. Subscribing to us helps us move up in the rankings, so it’ll help us out tremendously! You’ll also get new episodes when they’re released. And while you’re in there, leave us a rating or review! It only takes a few minutes and it also helps us out! And join our Facebook group! apple podcasts Google Podcasts Stitcher PocketCasts RSS Listen to the episode on YouTube!

FTWDTT 077 – Things Left to Do (S6E9)

Talking Through The Door We’re late this time out, but for this episode 76 of Fear the Walking Dead Talk Through, Brian and LT talk through the mid-season premiere The Door. Fear the Walking Dead Season 6 Episode 8 was written by the showrunners Ian Goldberg & Andrew Chambliss and directed by co-executive producer Michael E. Satrazemis. MAJOR SPOILERS AHEAD!!! If you haven’t seen this episode of Fear the Walking Dead, stop now!!! Go watch it and then come back and listen to us! Unfortunately, we lost a fan favorite this week. John Dorie, who has been a favorite since Season 4, died in this episode. John Dorie was almost universally loved by fans, and Garret Dillahunt was also loved by fans for playing him. I personally believe this is one of those examples that you reap what you sow. This is speculation on my part, but I think the poor storylines of Season 4b and 5, as well as the fan reaction to Garret/John vs. the show, were the reasons why Garret left the show. It was probably a mutual decision. The showrunners probably realized that they needed to kill off a character, and when Garret got wind of it, he probably volunteered. Chapters 00:00:00​ Intro00:01:36​ Feedback from Previous Episodes00:24:17​ About The Door00:25:10​ Ratings00:29:20​ Awesome Sauce00:51:37​ Weak Sauce01:10:12​ What Sauce01:26:21​ Aww Sauce01:36:02​ Listener Feedback02:17:00​ Other Notes02:24:49​ News, Ratings, and Info02:34:44​ Wrap Up Ratings are even, total viewers are up… Ratings for S6E8 The Door were even with the last episode, S6E7 Damage From the Inside. It got a 0.26 in the 18-49 demographic, with 1.171 million viewers, improving from the previous episode’s 0.26 and 1.085 million viewers. At the late hour, Talking Dead rated out of the top 150 cable shows Sunday night, with a 0.03 and only 132,000 viewers, down from the midseason finale’s 0.04 in the 18-49 and 254,000 thousand viewers. Send in your feedback! Please leave your feedback! Next time, we will be covering what would have been the original midseason premiere of Season 6, had COVID not stopped production, S6E9 titled Things Left to Do. Get your feedback in by 7 PM Eastern/6 PM Central on Tuesday, April 20, 2021. One of the best ways to submit feedback is on our Facebook group. You can also send us an email at our new email: walkingdead@talkthroughmedia.com or call our new voicemail at 216-232-6146. We could still use your help! This season, collecting feedback has been challenging, and we could use your help. Our availability is limited for each of us on Tuesdays when the bulk of the feedback comes in. We have to grab it from the various sources, including the Facebook group, the feedback form, email, and voice mail; put it into a Google doc; separate it into the appropriate sections of the podcast: Ratings, sauces, and feedback; and then fix things like spelling mistakes, grammar, and format, and then divide it by who will read it. If you are available most Tuesdays that we have an episode to record and want to help the podcast out, please drop us a line, either using the feedback form, the Facebook group, or if you are friends with us on Facebook, over Messenger. We’ll work out something if you can. Subscribe and Support! Don’t forget that we have our Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/WalkingDeadTalkThrough! I have a press pass but need some help with the costs of getting and staying there. Please remember to subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts or whatever is your podcast client of choice. Subscribing to us helps us move up in the rankings, so it’ll help us out tremendously! You’ll also get new episodes when they’re released. And while you’re in there, leave us a rating or review! It only takes a few minutes and it also helps us out! And join our Facebook group! apple podcasts Google Podcasts Stitcher PocketCasts RSS Listen to the episode on YouTube!

FTWDTT 076 – The Door (S6E8)

Talking Through World Beyond Season Finale For this episode 75 of Fear the Walking Dead Talk Through, LT, Kyle and Brian talk through the Season Finale of World Beyond. We had some scheduling and recording issues this week so I had to make some creative editing so it will sound a little different then what you are used to. A World Beyond felt more like a World Apart. This was the end of Season 1 of the TWD spinoff World Beyond. And, well it felt like as viewers, it was more less Walking Dead and more Scooby-Doo. With what we have seen in this universe these kids just didn’t seem really in danger or surviving but more like caught in the drama of being….. Dramatic. We do get CRM’s master plan regarding Hope and why Lieutenant Colonel Kublek gave the map to Hope and Iris to find their dad but again why was it necessary to wipe out the entirety of the Campus Colony? We also get some insight with their Dad and his distrust about the Military arm of the Civic Republic, Felix has a boyfriend, Will, that we never knew about and they reunite in the end, and Elton finds Percy, and later they find Silas who takes one for the team. Overall it was interesting and some episodes were better than others but overall we don’t understand what the whole point is. Guess we will find out in Season 2. Ratings are down The World Beyond Finale S1E9-10 got a 0.15 in the 18-49 demographic with 618,000 thousand viewers. We had a Talking Dead, but only on the AMC apps and it didn’t even make the top 150. Subscribe and Support! Don’t forget that we have our Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/WalkingDeadTalkThrough! I have a press pass but need some help with the costs of getting and staying there. Please remember to subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts or whatever is your podcast client of choice. Subscribing to us helps us move up in the rankings, so it’ll help us out tremendously! You’ll also get new episodes when they’re released. And while you’re in there, leave us a rating or review! It only takes a few minutes and it also helps us out! And join our Facebook group! apple podcastsGoogle PodcastsStitcherPocketCastsRSS 

FTWDTT 075 – World Beyond Finale (S1E9-10)

Talking Through Damage From the Inside For this episode 74 of Fear the Walking Dead Talk Through, LT, Kyle and Brian talk through the Mid-Season Finale Damage From the Inside. Fear the Walking Dead Season 6 Episode 7 was written by Jacob Pinion and directed by Tawnia McKiernan. We also discuss a little bit about World Beyond Episode 8 titled The Sky Is a Graveyard. A Taxidermy Nightmare… well, not really. So we get from the start Dakota is being escorted to safety by Strand and his Rangers with one of them looking like Virginia’s Doppelgänger. We don’t know if that was on purpose, or if maybe this actor is Colby Minifie’s stunt double. But in any case, something happens and Strand and Ranger Samuels investigate only to come back and everyone is dead and Dakota is missing. Cue, Alicia, and Charlie are just sitting on some outpost, and Strand calling for them to help find the missing girl. Then things get strange but visually was fun to see. The creepy hunting lodge, stuffed animals, and a creepy lone survivor who likes to play dress-up with walkers as a way to keep the living away. This wasn’t the best episode this season and finally getting Alicia some screen time was a welcome sign but seemed a wasted opportunity by the showrunners. For a Mid-Season Finale is really lacked some punch and felt like more of a weak attempt at a B-Horror film. We did get to see Alicia finally reunite with Morgan which was a really great scene. Strand is still sticking to his conman ways and I guess we did get some sort of payoff with the whereabouts of Grace. In the end, with knowing that Covid interrupted their plans and the real Mid-Season finale wasn’t finished we just hope the back half, when it returns, pays off.  Send in your feedback! Please leave your feedback! We will be covering the two hour finale of The Walking Dead World Beyond in it’s entirety now that Fear is on hiatius but if you have feedback about Fear’s Mid-Season finale we will cover that too! Next time, we’ll cover feedback we get for the two hour finale of World Beyond S1E9 The Deepest Cut, and S1E10 In This Life. Get your feedback in by 6 PM Eastern/5 PM Central on Tuesday, December 1, 2020. One of the best ways to submit feedback is on our Facebook group. You can also send us an email at our new email: walkingdead@talkthroughmedia.com or call our new voicemail at 216-232-6146. Ratings are down Ratings for S6E7 Damage From the Inside were down from the last episode, S6E6 Bury Her Next to Jasper’s Leg. This week, Fear was able to get a 0.26 in the 18-49 demographic, with 1.085 million viewers. World Beyond S1E8 The Sky Is a Graveyard got a 0.15 in the 18-49 demographic with 627,000 thousand viewers. We had a Talking Dead after all this time and it got a 0.04 in the 18-49 with 254,000 thousand viewers. We could still use your help! This season, collecting the feedback has been challenging, and we could use your help. Our availability is limited for each of us on Tuesdays when the bulk of the feedback comes in. We have to grab it from the various sources, including the Facebook group, the feedback form, email, and voice mail; put it into a Google doc; separate it into the appropriate sections of the podcast: Ratings, sauces, and feedback; and then fix things like spelling mistakes, grammar, and format, and then divide it by who will read it. If you are available most Tuesdays that we have an episode to record and want to help the podcast out, please drop us a line, either using the feedback form, the Facebook group, or if you are friends with us on Facebook, over Messenger. We’ll work out something if you can. Subscribe and Support! Don’t forget that we have our Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/WalkingDeadTalkThrough! I have a press pass but need some help with the costs of getting and staying there. Please remember to subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts or whatever is your podcast client of choice. Subscribing to us helps us move up in the rankings, so it’ll help us out tremendously! You’ll also get new episodes when they’re released. And while you’re in there, leave us a rating or review! It only takes a few minutes and it also helps us out! And join our Facebook group! apple podcasts Google Podcasts Stitcher PocketCasts RSS 

FTWDTT 074 – Damage From the Inside (S6E7)

Talking Through Bury Her Next to Jasper’s Leg For this episode 73 of Fear the Walking Dead Talk Through, LT, Kyle and Brian talk through Bury Her Next to Jasper’s Leg. Fear the Walking Dead Season 6 Episode 6 was written by Alex Delyle and directed by Sharat Raju. We also discuss a little bit about World Beyond Episode 7 titled Truth or Dare. June you had your chance and you didn’t take it! AARGH! Wow, in the episode it looked like the tides would turn for our group but kind of was surprised on June’s decision. I’m not sure if it was a power move or a stupid one and seemed to put a wedge between her and John in the end. We are reunited with Luciana and while its good to see her alive and working Tank Town but the apparent sabotage by The End is the Beginning people really looks like a death throw to Ginny and the rest of the settlements. No Oil, No Life! I can only imaging this is going to make everyone’s relationship on both sides more tense. This season so far has been getting better and better so I just hope that continues. Send in your feedback! Please leave your feedback! We will be covering Fear The Walking Dead in it’s entirety but if you have feedback about the Spinoff World Beyond we will cover that too, but the main focus will be with Fear! Next time, we’ll cover feedback we get for the mid-season finale S6E7 Damage from the Inside, and then briefly talk through any feedback for The Walking Dead: World Beyond S1E8, titled The Sky is a Graveyard. Get your feedback in by 6 PM Eastern/5 PM Central on Tuesday, November 24, 2020. One of the best ways to submit feedback is on our Facebook group. You can also send us an email at our new email: walkingdead@talkthroughmedia.com or call our new voicemail at 216-232-6146. Ratings are down Ratings for S6E6 Bury Her Next to Jasper’s Leg were a mixed bag again from the last episode, S6E5 Honey. This week, Fear was able to get a 0.32 in the 18-49 demographic, with 1.27 million viewers, up in the viewers this time but down demo from 0.35 and 1.244 million viewers. World Beyond S1E7 Truth or Dare got a 0.20 in the 18-49 demographic with 783,000 thousand viewers, up from 0.21 and 726,000 thousand viewers last week. We could still use your help! This season, collecting the feedback has been challenging, and we could use your help. Our availability is limited for each of us on Tuesdays when the bulk of the feedback comes in. We have to grab it from the various sources, including the Facebook group, the feedback form, email, and voice mail; put it into a Google doc; separate it into the appropriate sections of the podcast: Ratings, sauces, and feedback; and then fix things like spelling mistakes, grammar, and format, and then divide it by who will read it. If you are available most Tuesdays that we have an episode to record and want to help the podcast out, please drop us a line, either using the feedback form, the Facebook group, or if you are friends with us on Facebook, over Messenger. We’ll work out something if you can. Subscribe and Support! Don’t forget that we have our Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/WalkingDeadTalkThrough! I have a press pass but need some help with the costs of getting and staying there. Please remember to subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts or whatever is your podcast client of choice. Subscribing to us helps us move up in the rankings, so it’ll help us out tremendously! You’ll also get new episodes when they’re released. And while you’re in there, leave us a rating or review! It only takes a few minutes and it also helps us out! And join our Facebook group! apple podcastsGoogle PodcastsStitcherPocketCastsRSS 

FTWDTT 073 – Bury Her Next to Jasper’s Leg (S6E6)

Talking Through Honey For this episode 72 of Fear the Walking Dead Talk Through, LT, Kyle and Brian talk through Honey. Fear the Walking Dead Season 6 Episode 5 was written by Ashley Cardiff and directed by Michael E. Satrazemis. We also discuss a little bit about World Beyond Episode 6 titled Shadow Puppets. Kyle fixes his mistake and we included Brian’s Ratings, Sauces for last episode of The Key and hopefully can get him out of the doghouse Sherry is not so sweet but we don’t blame her after all she’s been through! In this episode, we see Dwight and Sherry together again but that doesn’t last so long. Sherry has been with a mask-wearing group of Ginny misfits with plans to try and rid the apocalypse of her but again Morgan seems to come out of nowhere to spread his word of a place where they all can be safe… again lol. We do get some insight on how bad Negan’s scars are on our crossover characters and I really did enjoy seeing that even if it was brief. In the end, Dwight sides with Morgan and AL and Sherry decides that she’s just not ready to walk away from her new friend’s plans. Send in your feedback! Please leave your feedback! We will be covering Fear The Walking Dead in it’s entirety but if you have feedback about the Spinoff World Beyond we will cover that too, but the main focus will be with Fear! Next time, we’ll cover feedback we get for S6E6 Bury Her Next to Jasper’s Leg, and then briefly talk through any feedback for The Walking Dead: World Beyond S1E7, titled Truth or Dare. Get your feedback in by 6 PM Eastern/5 PM Central on Tuesday, November 17, 2020. One of the best ways to submit feedback is on our Facebook group. You can also send us an email at our new email: walkingdead@talkthroughmedia.com or call our new voicemail at 216-232-6146. Ratings are down Ratings for S6E5 Honey were a mixed bag from the last episode, S6E4 The Key. This week, Fear was able to get a 0.35 in the 18-49 demographic, with 1.244 million viewers, up in the demo but down with total viewers from 0.31 and 1.276 million viewers. World Beyond S1E6 Shadow Puppets got a 0.21 in the 18-49 demographic with 726,000 thousand viewers, down from 0.18 and 742,000 thousand viewers last week. These ratings represent an all-time low for both shows. We could still use your help! This season, collecting the feedback has been challenging, and we could use your help. Our availability is limited for each of us on Tuesdays when the bulk of the feedback comes in. We have to grab it from the various sources, including the Facebook group, the feedback form, email, and voice mail; put it into a Google doc; separate it into the appropriate sections of the podcast: Ratings, sauces, and feedback; and then fix things like spelling mistakes, grammar, and format, and then divide it by who will read it. If you are available most Tuesdays that we have an episode to record and want to help the podcast out, please drop us a line, either using the feedback form, the Facebook group, or if you are friends with us on Facebook, over Messenger. We’ll work out something if you can. Subscribe and Support! Don’t forget that we have our Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/WalkingDeadTalkThrough! I have a press pass but need some help with the costs of getting and staying there. Please remember to subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts or whatever is your podcast client of choice. Subscribing to us helps us move up in the rankings, so it’ll help us out tremendously! You’ll also get new episodes when they’re released. And while you’re in there, leave us a rating or review! It only takes a few minutes and it also helps us out! And join our Facebook group! apple podcastsGoogle PodcastsStitcherPocketCastsRSS 

FTWDTT 072 – Honey (S6E5)

Talking Through The Key For this episode 71 of Fear the Walking Dead Talk Through, LT, Kyle and Brian talk through The Key. Fear the Walking Dead Season 6 Episode 4 was written by David Johnson and directed by Ron Underwood. We also discuss a little bit about World Beyond Episode 5 titled The Madman Across the Water. We had some issues this week when trying to record and Kyle couldn’t make it due to work and other issues so everyone recorded their own parts and Kyle edited together so it’s a little different but in the end it worked out fine. BRIAN’S NOTE: Actually, everything did NOT work out fine. Most of my segments were left out of the recording this week, due to a lack some confusion as far as how many segments I had recorded, although a few of them were read by Kyle. I had recorded a segment for each segment we have in the episode. My rating was 9.4/10, which I believe was one of the things left off. I’ll have to go back and update this after I do. John Dorie gets pushed to the limits! In this episode, John Dorie seems to be adjusting to this new Ginny controlled world and top cop of Lawton. That all changes with the murder of another citizen of Lawton and Sherif John is on the case. But we are not in a right vs wrong kind of world and in the end, Ginny is the one who calls the shots. This pushes him to his limits and we see again that there is no justice in the ZA. Morgan is looking for Grace and has Rufus the bloodhound on his side but he gets derailed by those two tagger boys. This does finally clarify that whatever that Key that Morgan has is going to be something important but to whom? Again, Fear the Walking Dead just keeps getting better and better and there is still so much more to come. Send in your feedback! Please leave your feedback! We will be covering Fear The Walking Dead in it’s entirety but if you have feedback about the Spinoff World Beyond we will cover that too, but the main focus will be with Fear! Next time, we’ll cover feedback we get for S6E5 Honey, and then briefly talk through any feedback for The Walking Dead: World Beyond S1E6, titled Shadow Puppets. Back to the normal deadline this week! Get your feedback in by 6 PM Eastern/5 PM Central on Tuesday, November 10, 2020. One of the best ways to submit feedback is on our Facebook group. You can also send us an email at our new email: walkingdead@talkthroughmedia.com or call our new voicemail at 216-232-6146. Ratings are down Ratings for S6E4 The Key were down from the last episode, S6E3 Alaska. This week, Fear was able to get a 0.31 in the 18-49 demographic, with 1.276 million viewers, down from 0.39 and 1.501 million viewers. World Beyond S1E5 Madman Across the Water got a 0.18 in the 18-49 demographic with 742,000 thousand viewers, down from 0.28 and 1.020 million viewers last week. These ratings represent an all-time low for both shows. We could still use your help! This season, collecting the feedback has been challenging, and we could use your help. Our availability is limited for each of us on Tuesdays when the bulk of the feedback comes in. We have to grab it from the various sources, including the Facebook group, the feedback form, email, and voice mail; put it into a Google doc; separate it into the appropriate sections of the podcast: Ratings, sauces, and feedback; and then fix things like spelling mistakes, grammar, and format, and then divide it by who will read it. If you are available most Tuesdays that we have an episode to record and want to help the podcast out, please drop us a line, either using the feedback form, the Facebook group, or if you are friends with us on Facebook, over Messenger. We’ll work out something if you can. Subscribe and Support! Don’t forget that we have our Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/WalkingDeadTalkThrough! I have a press pass but need some help with the costs of getting and staying there. Please remember to subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts or whatever is your podcast client of choice. Subscribing to us helps us move up in the rankings, so it’ll help us out tremendously! You’ll also get new episodes when they’re released. And while you’re in there, leave us a rating or review! It only takes a few minutes and it also helps us out! And join our Facebook group! apple podcastsGoogle PodcastsStitcherPocketCastsRSS 

FTWDTT 071 – The Key (S6E4)

Talking Through Alaska For this episode 70 of Fear the Walking Dead Talk Through, LT, Kyle and Brian talk through Alaska. Fear the Walking Dead Season 6 Episode 3 was written by Mallory Westfall, and directorial return of Colman Domingo. We also discuss a little bit about World Beyond Episode 4 titled The Wrong End of a Telescope. AL and Dwight go for a walk and find love! In this episode, we are paired with Al and Dwight on one of Ginny’s errands roaming around who knows where to document the fall of civilization. Not that we don’t already know that most didn’t survive, but I guess that doesn’t stop Ginny’s giving out some ZA busy work. This was a good episode focused on Al and Dwight’s budding friendship and their struggles with this new reality that our group has been in since the Ginny takeover. AL is still stalking Isabelle on the walkie that leads them to some office dwellers who seem to not have moved on outside of their workplace. In any case, we get some highs and lows but overall a really good character-driven episode, again. Fear is running on all cylinders and this is a great thing this season. Oh, and we get a surprise (well did we not already know this was going to happen, at some point?) at the end that I know for one, got me a little misty-eyed. Send in your feedback! Please leave your feedback! We will be covering Fear The Walking Dead in it’s entirety but if you have feedback about the Spinoff World Beyond we will cover that too, but the main focus will be with Fear! Next time, we’ll cover feedback we get for S6E4 The Key, and then briefly talk through any feedback for The Walking Dead: World Beyond S1E5, titled Madman Across the Water. New Deadline this week! Get your feedback in by 6 PM Eastern/5 PM Central on Wednesday, November 4, 2020. One of the best ways to submit feedback is on our Facebook group. You can also send us an email at our new email: walkingdead@talkthroughmedia.com or call our new voicemail at 216-232-6146. Ratings are up Ratings for S6E3 Alaska were just slightly down from total viewership from the last episode, S6E2 Welcome to the Club. This week, Fear was able to get a 0.39 in the 18-49 demographic, with 1.501 million viewers, down from 0.44 and 1.546 million viewers. World Beyond S1E4 The Wrong End of a Telescope got a 0.28 in the 18-49 demographic with 1.020 million viewers, down from 0.30 and 1.040 million viewers last week. We could still use your help! This season, collecting the feedback has been challenging, and we could use your help. Our availability is limited for each of us on Tuesdays when the bulk of the feedback comes in. We have to grab it from the various sources, including the Facebook group, the feedback form, email, and voice mail; put it into a Google doc; separate it into the appropriate sections of the podcast: Ratings, sauces, and feedback; and then fix things like spelling mistakes, grammar, and format, and then divide it by who will read it. If you are available most Tuesdays that we have an episode to record and want to help the podcast out, please drop us a line, either using the feedback form, the Facebook group, or if you are friends with us on Facebook, over Messenger. We’ll work out something if you can. Subscribe and Support! Don’t forget that we have our Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/WalkingDeadTalkThrough! I have a press pass but need some help with the costs of getting and staying there. Please remember to subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts or whatever is your podcast client of choice. Subscribing to us helps us move up in the rankings, so it’ll help us out tremendously! You’ll also get new episodes when they’re released. And while you’re in there, leave us a rating or review! It only takes a few minutes and it also helps us out! And join our Facebook group! apple podcastsGoogle PodcastsStitcherPocketCastsRSS 

FTWDTT 070 – Alaska (S6E3)

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