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Warning: Spoilers for Fear the Walking Dead season 8, episode 6

While laying the groundwork for a familiar face to serve as the final villain, Fear the Walking Dead hinted at a game-changing, offscreen death. Since season 7’s ending, it was easy to assume that Padre would be the spinoff’s last major antagonist. However, it would seem that Padre being the central threat was only the plan for half of the final season.

Fear the Walking Dead season 8’s midseason finale seemingly concluded the conflict between Morgan’s group and the Padre organization. Padre hasn’t exactly fallen, but the need for fighting ended when Shrike was bitten by her father’s zombie. Subsequently, Morgan let Padre have the coordinates, allowing them to get what they wanted. With Madison apparently taking over the organization, Padre looks to be headed in a different direction going forward. Of course, that doesn’t mean their troubles over.

The following contains spoilers for Fear the Walking Dead Season 8, Episode 5, "More Time Than You Know," which premiered Sunday, June 11 on AMC.

When The Walking Dead franchise started, no one expected it to run for 11 seasons and become one of the best series on television. But it did, and there were a number of reasons why it was so successful. One of the things that made Twd stand out was the feeling that anything could happen at any moment. More specifically, anyone could die in any particular episode. Carl, Glenn and Andrea had some of the most shocking deaths, and their demises sent the message that no one was safe in the apocalypse.

Fear the Walking Dead started with that same type of formula. Over its first few seasons, there were several shocking casualties, including Chis Manawa and his father, Travis. Further, Nick Clark didn't make it past the early...

Mike Clark, the film critic for USA Today from 1985 until 2009, died July 31 at a Reston, Virginia, hospital from a head injury sustained in a fall at his Virginia home on July 27. He was 73, and had been battling liver disease for several years.

Clark’s son, Nick Clark, told USA Today that the head injury “led to bleeding around the brain, in part due to his underlying liver issues.”

Clark, who appeared as a child contestant on The $64,000 Question in 1958, had been a film critic for the Detroit Free Press, a program planner and director of the American Film Institute Theater and then for Washington’s Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts when he joined USA Today several years after the launch of the national newspaper.

A member of the National Society of Film Critics, Clark wrote DVD reviews for the online publication Media Play News after leaving USA Today.

Clark...

The last time Fear the Walking Dead viewers saw Daniel Salazar (Rubén Blades) before he briefly appeared on one of Al's (Maggie Grace) tapes in the Season 5 premiere was in the Season 3 finale. He was on the Gonzales Dam in Mexico when Nick Clark (Frank Dillane) blew it up, and his fate was

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Fear the Walking Dead returns with a new season that’s clearly swinging for the fences—and zombies’ heads.

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This Fear the Walking Dead review is spoiler-free.

Fear the Walking Dead Season 5 Episode 1

I’ll admit, after last season’s disappointing finale, I approached this new season of Fear the Walking Dead with a fair bit of trepidation. As viewers know, season 4 was meant as a course correction for the show as new talent was brought in on both sides of the camera. Out was original showrunner Dave Erickson, Fear’s steward since day one, as well as show mainstays Kim Dickens and Frank Dillane, whose Madison and Nick Clark were killed off. Add to that a five-year time jump that jettisoned any kind of story threads and new supporting characters like Qaleteqa Walker and Proctor John, and suddenly viewers were left wondering why the first three...

Each year brings a raft of deaths and exits of our favorite TV characters, but 2018 saw them come at a dizzying pace. While this year’s list is numbingly long, Deadline looks at some of the most high-profile and memorable characters who left us in 2018.

Some we knew would be exiting, but the question was how, such as Kevin Spacey’s Frank Underwood in House of Cards and Danny Masterson’s in The Ranch, both of whom had been fired amid sexual misconduct allegations. Of course, there’s Roseanne Barr, whose meteorically successful Roseanne revival was canceled amid her racist Twitter rant against Valerie Jarrett, a former adviser to President Barack Obama. The question was how she would be written out of the subsequently greenlit The Conners spinoff.

Other memorable character deaths/exits included Andrew Lincoln’s Rick Grimes and Lauren Cohan’s Maggie Rhee in The Walking Dead, Clayne Crawford...

As the number of television series continues to grow, so too does the number of television character deaths. After all, what says “strong, emotional” material like asking actors to play grieving friends and loved ones of the newly deceased?

To cap off the year in television, Variety selected the series that provided the most impactful losses of prominent characters and proved that saying goodbye can sometimes just mean the start of a new chapter for those left behind.

“American Horror Story: Apocalypse” — Michael Langdon

It shouldn’t be easy to kill the Antichrist, and in all fairness, it didn’t seem to be for the majority of the eighth season of Ryan Murphy’s FX anthology drama. Bullets wouldn’t stop him and spells could only slow him down, so in the end, a combination of manpower and magic was needed to do the deed. Mallory (Billie Lourd) traveled back...

What if there is another dimension where the past, present, and future collide, and what if there was something watching us from that other side? The thin line between our world and a spatial dimension is explored in Astral, and with the new horror movie coming to select theaters and VOD and digital platforms beginning November 23rd from Vertical Entertainment, we caught up with co-writer/director Chris Mul in our latest Q&A to discuss shooting his film in two weeks, working with a talented cast of young stars (including Frank Dillane from Fear The Walking Dead), and his research (and unnerving real-life experiences) of astral projection and shadow people.

Thanks for taking the time to answer some questions for us, and congratulations on your first feature-length film, Astral. How and when did you and Michael Mul come up with the idea for this movie?

Chris Mul: I remember Michael...

(Warning: Spoilers ahead for the “Fear the Walking Dead” Season 4 finale!)

Season 4 of “Fear the Walking Dead” has come to an end, and boy, was this season a doozy. From losing major characters like Madison [Kim Dickens] and Nick Clark [Frank Dillane], to meeting some new favorites like John Dorie [Garrett Dillahunt] and journalist Althea [Maggie Grace], showrunners Andrew Chambliss and Ian Goldberg have led fans on an emotional 16 episodes.

In the finale, we saw Morgan [Lennie James] overcame Martha [Tonya Pinkins], a villain in which Chambliss and Goldberg say Morgan saw a bit of himself.

“The thing that I think ultimately made us go the route we did with Martha was the fact that we wanted a villain who Morgan, and all the other characters, could really understand and who, in any other world, these characters could have become,” Chambliss said. “Morgan knows if he had not had the right people...

The lackluster Fear The Walking Dead season finale falls short of its lofty aspirations.

This Fear The Walking Dead review contains spoilers.

Fear The Walking Dead Season 4 Episode 16

I’ll admit, I struggled a bit with this review of Fear The Walking Dead’s season four finale, “…I Lose Myself.” Several false starts and a couple thousand words later, I realized I wasn’t writing a review for a lackluster episode. Rather, I was writing a eulogy for a show I once loved.

And that was a bitter pill to swallow.

The problems with this episode started long before everyone but Morgan drank water tainted with antifreeze. Indeed, Fear ran into trouble when it killed off Nick Clark, arguably one of the show’s strongest characters. This was unavoidable, given that Frank Dillane wanted to move on to other projects. But killing off Madison Clark was avoidable, especially given that Kim Dickens wanted to stay.

[Editor’s note: The following contains spoilers for the first half of “Fear the Walking Dead” Season 4.]

“Fear the Walking Dead” has always had difficulty distinguishing itself from its forebearer. Sure, it focused on a single family, the Clarks, and had a number of significant changes in scenery, but it was still just another zombie survival show, with the detriment that it took place a few years earlier in the timeline of the main show, making it feel all the less vital.

So when new showrunners Andrew Chambliss and Ian Goldberg, along with franchise steward Scott M. Gimple, opted to do a soft reboot of the show at the beginning of Season 4, time-jumping to “The Walking Dead’s” present and adding fan-favorite character Morgan to the regular cast, it was the rare act of cynical corporate synergy that actually made a degree of creative sense. “Fear the Walking Dead” could revitalize itself while having deeper ties to the flagship show, with the...

The Season 4 midseason premiere of Fear the Walking Dead found our survivors still struggling with how to continue on after the deaths of Madison (Kim Dickens) and Nick Clark (Frank Dillane) and dealing with a new threat in the form of a hurricane that arrived in the closing moments of the episode.

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When Fear the Walking Dead returns for Season 4B on Sunday, it will be a very different show than it was when it left off (and it's already a completely different show than it was before Season 4).

Madison (Kim Dickens) and Nick Clark (Frank Dillane) are gone, leaving Alicia Clark (Alycia

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What happens after a Near Death Experience? In director Tom Lewis' The Periphery, a ghost returns from the other side. The Periphery is a psychological horror title, which will have its premiere June 3rd, 2014, at the Dances with Films festival. This indie horror title stars Nick Clark (The Girls Guide to Depravity), Andrew Olson (1000 Ways to Die) and Kristen StephensonPino. A trailer and movie poster for the feature are hosted here. For more on the story, The Periphery begins with an Nde and ends with the character Cassie Stevens (StephensonPino). Cassie is dealing with head trauma, while seeing strange visions. A ghost appears out of the corner of Cassie's eye, but what is this vision? Cassie must seek help, or lose any sense of sanity. The World Premiere for The Periphery will take place in Hollywood, California. Here, the film will play at the Tcl Chinese Theatre, at 9:00pm.

In case you're wondering what a periphery is, think of it as an area usually home to what you see with your peripheral vision. If you don't know what peripheral vision is then you probably get into lots of accidents and have a habit of bumping into stuff. In any event it's also the new home for horror!

From the Press Release

Seeing Shadows, LLC is excited to announce the world premiere of The Periphery, a chilling psychological horror-thriller, at the 17th Annual Dances With Films festival on Tuesday, June 3, 2014 at 9:30Pm Pdt at Tcl Chinese Theatres in Hollywood. The film stars new-comers Kristen StephensonPino, winner of the 2010 Miss Hawaii Young International Pageant, Nick Clark (The Girls Guide to Depravity, Murderers), and Andrew Olson (1000 Ways To Die), as well as Myron Natwick (The Unit, Masters Of Horror), along with an amazing cast of industry veterans and up-and-comers alike.

The Periphery...