Since then I have avoided hearing spoilers and synopses. I thought that once I retired I would have time to return to binge watching, but somehow I am just as busy, though now I could not really say what it is that is keeping my wheels spinning.
I can't help but wonder what I've been missing. For me the most important part of the sixth season of The Walking Dead was Carol's moral meltdown. Her inability to continue as part of the original group following the purposeful massacre of the Saviors fascinated me. Her trauma, her crisis, spoke to one of the qualities of the zombie narrative that fuels my interest in the subgenre.
In his 2017 book Living with the Living Dead, theologian Greg Garrett quotes a series of questions posed about the zombie narrative by Episcopal priest Torey Lightcap: "Where do we draw the line in doing harm to one another in order to save ourselves? how much stress can we take before we are fundamentally changed in who we are. ...When does the impulse to protect ourselves mean we ... start actively hurting others?"
I hope The Walking Dead and Fear the Walking Dead have avoided becoming mere entertainment and continued to portray through their separate cinematic narratives these and other questions that are worth consideration, now more than ever as we face a future that will be anything but a joyride.
The second half of Season 10 of The Walking Dead will begin airing in late February 2020, while the release date for the sixth season of Fear the Walking Dead is still pending as of this post, according to a report in The Buzz Paper.
Of course, now is also the time to return to the original comic books by Robert Kirkman, especially as the author has announced he will be concluding the series.
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