Fear the Walking Dead season 8

12 episodes · 2023

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what happens

Morgan, Madison and the others they brought to the island are living under PADRE's cynical rule. With our characters demoralized and dejected, the task of reigniting belief in a better world rests with the person Morgan and Madison set out to rescue in the first place -- Morgan's daughter, Mo.

how it went

Left to right is the season — its first episode to its last. Each remark sits in the episode it was made about.

FUN

how good a time it was

MEANINGFUL

how much it moved you

Two separate readings, not parts of the score — the score says how much of it held you, these say what kind of watch it was.

Read from 218 comments — 69 said when · across 6 episodes.

💀 flatline — One note, start to finish. Hard going most of the way through. In the last stretch it was tender and painful at the same time, which is the state people mean by being moved. Very little of it ever resolves.

Hover the curveDrag across the curve to see what people said at any point.

height: how intense it got, 0–100
gold above: how tender it felt. violet below — what it cost. Thick on both at once means it was doing both.
tension rail: how much was still unresolved
grey haze: how sure we are — wider means fewer people described it

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💀 flatline — one note, start to finish

what people actually wrote

Grouped by where it was written, because a considered review and a reaction typed an hour after the credits are different things. Every quote links to its source.

Reddit24 read

“I wish the reunion was a bit more emotional”
DimensionFamiliar272▲ 199about 80–100% inread it ↗
“The part where Skidmark (a cat who’s been missing for 7 years and was lost in a nuclear wasteland in a different state) walks up to Daniel and he doesn’t even question it might be the funniest thing in the entire show.”
▲ 153about 0–100% inread it ↗
“The last two episodes were all over the place.”
BlackBalor▲ 134about 80–100% inread it ↗
“Strand and Luciana had their best arcs this half season”
FreazyWolf▲ 118about 50–100% inread it ↗

episodes

6 of 12 with a score

Every episode has a page — its synopsis, who was in it, and a place to rate it. A number appears when discussion or ratings support one; where there is neither, the dash is the honest answer.

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