Even though fans have known for weeks that Fear the Walking Dead was gearing up for a potentially nuclear ending for Season 6, thanks to the deadly machinations of Teddy’s “End Is the Beginning” cult, I still wasn’t fully prepared for the finale to actually GO THERE.
CinemaBlend spoke with Fear the Walking Dead executive producer Michael Satrazemis, who directed the finale, titled “The Beginning,” as well as the devastating installment “In Dreams” and others.
I had a lot of time to wrap my head around it, just knowing that I was going to direct it, but really how to how to accomplish it technically.
With up to ten different warheads going off in up to ten different places, that meant a lot of thought had to go into where each and every main character would be during the explosions, and what their proximity would be to all of the detonations.
It is a unique perspective that most of us never will ever, ever, ever see, that most people in the history of the world would never get to see.
The relatively quiet and somber way “The Beginning” handled its catastrophic climax made the explosions all the more disturbing and doom-laden, as opposed to a more kinetic and pulse-pounding resolution.
Yeah, we used some of that material as examples for things when we were trying to calculate what degree we wanted to do for visual effects.
Even after watching the episode a couple of times, I’m still shocked that Fear the Walking Dead raised the nuclear bar with its Season 6 finale, which is going to make the wait for Season 7 all the more patience-testing.
While all of Fear the Walking Dead’s main protagonists made it through the finale safely enough – seemingly defying the poster-centric theory that pointed to Dwight’s possible death – Zoe Colletti’s allegiance-flipping Dakota and John Glover’s murderous cult leader Teddy were not part of that lucky group.
They’re both immensely talented, and just great people to be around, so there’s a little bit of a personal loss every time you lose somebody like that.
Thus, there was something vaguely poetic about the character taking her horrific demise head-on, as much as I would have probably enjoyed seeing Jenna Elfman’s June getting further revenge for the death of Garret Dillahunt’s Dorie Jr.
She’s this bubbly, amazing, young, vibrant soul who, when asked to give a deep and emotional performance, will just hit the switch.
A lifetime spent in the vicinity of a television screen led to his current dream job, as well as his knowledge of too many TV themes and ad jingles.