"Los Muertos" Fear The Walking Dead Season 2 Episode 15 Summary & Review · 4:00am Aug 29th, 2016
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This blog summarizes the episode in a nutshell and there are spoilers ahead. You have been warned. IF you do not care, then, by all means, please continue.
SUMMARY
Ok, so, the episode starts out with Nick waking up to an abandoned town. I almost lost it here. I even screamed "What the fuck?! Too many cliches!", but then I saw that guards were patrolling the walls and I calmed down. Nick went to explore around and found ever everyone at "The Wall" and watched as they sacrificed a Mexican (whom I found out was already bitten and was gonna die anyways) to the walker horde that acts as the towns defense. I got steamed at this because I thought it was another cliche. Insane townspeople in a zombie apocalypse... it turns out I was right, but ill get to that later.
Then, it transitions over to Strand and his group. They went back to the boat and found out it was gone. The US Coast Guard took it... But they left a raft behind. So, instead of taking the raft and sailing the coastline towards the destination, avoiding herds and roaming maniacs, they decide to get into their almost-outta-fuel truck and drive on dangerous land towards their destination. They left a perfectly good boat behind.
It transitions.
Nick and this Mexican chick (whose name I did not catch because I left to make a soup) went out to get water from these Mexican gangsters. They pay in drugs. They go in to this little mini-mart (this scene in the episode reminded me of Somber's Fallout Equestria - Project Horizons faction called The Finders) and start filling their cart with whatever can fit. Nick decides to steal some cookies. Yay.
They leave and Nick gets searched and almost loses his hands before threatening the gangsters with losing their drugs. Nick was an addict before the outbreak so he knew what he was talking about and knew how to get off scot-free. I thought he stole the cookies for himself but it turns out he stole them for the Sacrificed Mexican Guy's little girl.
It transitions.
Strand and the others (whose names I still do not know) are at a seaside hotel. They go inside and split up (Great Idea! Not.) Strand and Nicks mother gets drunk and makes a lot of noise. And two teenage girls go and search the hotel. One of them takes a shower after they discover the building still runs hot water, leaving the other unattended. She steps out only to see that the other girl is missing. Now note this other girl is hopeless and believes they are doomed.
Essentially, she is suicidal.
The girl then looks around for her and watches as a walker plummets off the roof. She investigates to find walkers plummeting from balconies and rooftops and coming from the water and nearby buildings to eat Strand and Nicks mom because they are drunk, smashing bottles, and playing the piano.... badly.
It ends with Nick attending a cult sermon at the town. "We will not die. We are the chosen ones. This is our world." That type of shit. He chants it too. It also ends with Strand and Nicks mother fighting for their lives, surrounded and with no way out and no weapons.
Review
8/10. It was way better than the last episode. The reason it is an 8 is because there is no explanation for why Nick was stupid in the last episode, and then suddenly he develops brain cells in this one.
Honestly, I went in wanting to hate this episode. As the last one was terrible. I don't even know most of the main characters names XD. But, I actually ended up enjoying this episode. I thought it was pretty funny the way the walkers began doing leaps of faith off of the hotel balconies and shit. XD. I also enjoyed the mini-mart scene. It almost felt like it was ripped straight from Project Horizons. The only things it was missing? A giant gun on the roof inside, and talking magical ponies.
But I did think it was also kinda idiotic. Why are there so many fucking crazy settlements in a post-zombie world? What the fuck? Cant there be any normal people? I mean, i'm a huge "The Walking Dead" fan, but come on.... Not every settlement should filled with cults and crazies and cannibals... I think Alexandria was the first normal one... Ahh, whatever. Crazy settlements means we don't get bored all that quick and we keep watching. Bravo, AMC. I mean it.
Overall, this episode was better than the last. Lets hope it stays that way.
Sláinte mhaith!
Technically, Woodbury was normal too. It was just the Governor who was crazy.
4179398 I wouldn't classify them as normal from my viewpoint.
4179495 Oh yeah, they did have that walker gladiator pit, didn't they?
4179506 Yeah. Those people were jack to the asses.