FEAR THE WALKING DEAD
More undead veterans are making the leap to Fear The Walking Dead
Get set for more crossovers with The Walking Dead in season five.
Is it possible to live with a moral compass after the apocalypse?
That’s a question The Walking Dead has explored, and now it’s migrated to Fear the Walking Dead, specifically through Morgan Jones (Lennie James). A survivor from The Walking Dead’s pilot, Morgan is starting his second season on the spin-off series, doublingdown on his commitment to humanity with his intention of building a system to help other survivors in need.
Also starting their second season, as executive producers and co-showrunners, are Andrew Chambliss and Ian Goldberg, who tell Red Alert that what it means to do good is at the heart of the narrative this year.
“Our characters set out on this noble mission to find people to help them, to try to make the world a little bit better,” Chambliss explains. “But they’re going to find that the world may not make that as easy as they had hoped. And it’s really going to make them be creative about how they go about doing it, really finding ways to prove to the world that what they’re doing isn’t in fact a noble mission. But what we’re most interested about is it’s also going to force everyone to look inward.” Surrounding Morgan is an eclectic group who all need some redemption. From series veterans Alicia (Alycia Debnam-Carey), Strand (Colman Domingo) and Daniel Salazar (Rubén Blades), to newcomers Althea (Maggie Grace), John Dorie (Garret Dillahunt) and June (Jenna Elfman) – they all have a lot of baggage. And the show will welcome former Savior Dwight (Austin Amelio) to deal with his sins, too. Chambliss says of that crossover reunion, “Dwight and Morgan were part of the same larger story with the Saviors, but they hadn’t spent a ton of time together. This really is a chance to bring them together for the first time. And the interesting thing about Dwight is he’s one of the few people in our crew now that actually knows Morgan’s full history and saw it. He definitely will force Morgan, in some respect, to look back and not just see who he used to be, but how far he’s come in his journey.”
Another native reunion will be between returning cast member Blades and Domingo’s Strand, who’s been trying to be a better man since season four. “He’s confronted with the man who is a reminder of perhaps one of his greatest sins, one of the first people that he tried to kill,” Chambliss says. “It’s essentially his past coming back to haunt him. And not giving away too much about the specifics of it, but Strand is going to find himself in a very precarious position where perhaps he needs something from Daniel Salazar.”
As for how it will all play out, Goldberg teases, “There’s going to be lots of action, lots of scope, maybe even bigger than what we did last season. We’re telling a great big emotional story, and it won’t have the same structure as last year. You’ll be surprised.” TB
Fear The Walking Dead Season Five airs on AMC UK from 3 June.