Fear the Walking Dead (season 4)

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Country of origin United States
No. of episodes 16
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Original network AMC
Original release April 15, 2018 (2018-04-15) – September 30, 2018 (2018-09-30)
List of Fear the Walking Dead episodes

The fourth season of Fear the Walking Dead, an American horror-drama television series on AMC, premiered on April 15, 2018, and concluded on September 30, 2018, consisting of sixteen episodes.[1][2] The series is a companion series to The Walking Dead, which is based on the comic book series of the same name by Robert Kirkman, Tony Moore, and Charlie Adlard, with the season premiere containing the first crossover between the two series. The executive producers are Kirkman, David Alpert, Greg Nicotero, Gale Anne Hurd, Scott M. Gimple, Andrew Chambliss, and Ian B. Goldberg, with Chambliss and Goldberg assuming the role of showrunner after Dave Erickson's departure from the series, while the series also moved to a new filming location, Austin, Texas.

The season marks a departure from the previous entries, with the story shifting from being a prequel to running concurrently with The Walking Dead. In addition to the group of Madison Clark (Kim Dickens), her daughter Alicia (Alycia Debnam-Carey), her drug-addicted son Nick (Frank Dillane), his lover Luciana Galvez (Danay García), and grifter Victor Strand (Colman Domingo) from the previous seasons, the story follows original series character Morgan Jones (Lennie James) as he encounters them amid their conflict with the antagonistic Vultures. Several new characters are also introduced in the fourth season, including journalist Althea Szewczyk-Przygocki (Maggie Grace), police officer John Dorie (Garret Dillahunt), and nurse June (Jenna Elfman).

Cast

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Kim Dickens (Madison Clark), Frank Dillane (Nick Clark), and Alycia Debnam-Carey (Alicia Clark)
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Maggie Grace (Althea), Colman Domingo (Victor Strand), and Danay García (Luciana Galvez)
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Garret Dillahunt (John Dorie), Lennie James (Morgan Jones), and Jenna Elfman (June)

Main cast

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Main article: List of Fear the Walking Dead characters

The fourth season features nine actors receiving main cast billing status, with five returning from the third season, while four new cast members are introduced. Lennie James (who was a main cast member in The Walking Dead), moved to the main cast after his departure from The Walking Dead. Maggie Grace, Garret Dillahunt and Jenna Elfman were added to the main cast. This is the first season not to include Cliff Curtis, Mercedes Mason, Daniel Sharman, Sam Underwood, Dayton Callie, Rubén Blades and Lisandra Tena (since their first appearances), who were all credited as main cast members in previous seasons.

Supporting cast

  • Kevin Zegers as Melvin: The antagonistic leader of the Vultures and the brother of Ennis.[4]
  • Evan Gamble as Ennis: A member of the Vultures and the brother of Melvin.[5]
  • Sebastian Sozzi as Cole: A resident of the community within the baseball stadium.[6]
  • Rhoda Griffis as Vivian: A resident of the community within the baseball stadium and the wife of Douglas.
  • Alexa Nisenson as Charlie: A young girl who is a spy for the Vultures.
  • Kenneth Wayne Bradley as Douglas: A resident of the community within the baseball stadium and the husband of Vivian.
  • Aaron Stanford as Jim Brauer: A survivor who brews for a living.[7]
  • Daryl Mitchell as Wendell: The adoptive brother of Sarah who uses a wheelchair.[7]
  • Mo Collins as Sarah: The adoptive sister of Wendell and a former Marine.[7]
  • Tonya Pinkins as Martha: A mysterious antagonistic woman who kills every survivor that tries to help someone else.[7]

Guest cast

Episodes

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See also: List of Fear the Walking Dead episodes
No.
overall		 No. in
season		 Title Directed by Written by Original air date U.S. viewers
(millions)
38 1 "What's Your Story?" John Polson Scott M. Gimple & Andrew Chambliss & Ian Goldberg April 15, 2018 (2018-04-15) 4.09[8]
39 2 "Another Day in the Diamond" Michael E. Satrazemis Andrew Chambliss & Ian Goldberg April 22, 2018 (2018-04-22) 3.07[9]
40 3 "Good Out Here" Dan Liu Shintaro Shimosawa April 29, 2018 (2018-04-29) 2.71[10]
41 4 "Buried" Magnus Martens Alex Delyle May 6, 2018 (2018-05-06) 2.49[11]
42 5 "Laura" Michael E. Satrazemis Anna Fishko May 13, 2018 (2018-05-13) 2.46[12]
43 6 "Just in Case" Daisy von Scherler Mayer Richard Naing May 20, 2018 (2018-05-20) 2.31[13]
44 7 "The Wrong Side of Where You Are Now" Sarah Boyd Melissa Scrivner Love June 3, 2018 (2018-06-03) 1.97[14]
45 8 "No One's Gone" Michael E. Satrazemis Ian Goldberg & Andrew Chambliss June 10, 2018 (2018-06-10) 2.32[15]
46 9 "People Like Us" Magnus Martens Anna Fishko August 12, 2018 (2018-08-12) 1.88[16]
47 10 "Close Your Eyes" Michael E. Satrazemis Shintaro Shimosawa August 19, 2018 (2018-08-19) 1.86[17]
48 11 "The Code" Tara Nicole Weyr Andrew Chambliss & Alex Delyle August 26, 2018 (2018-08-26) 1.83[18]
49 12 "Weak" Colman Domingo Kalinda Vazquez September 2, 2018 (2018-09-02) 1.52[19]
50 13 "Blackjack" Sharat Raju Ian Goldberg & Richard Naing September 9, 2018 (2018-09-09) 1.71[20]
51 14 "MM 54" Lou Diamond Phillips Anna Fishko & Shintaro Shimosawa September 16, 2018 (2018-09-16) 1.87[21]
52 15 "I Lose People..." David Barrett Kalinda Vazquez September 23, 2018 (2018-09-23) 2.03[22]
53 16 "... I Lose Myself" Michael E. Satrazemis Andrew Chambliss & Ian Goldberg September 30, 2018 (2018-09-30) 2.13[23]

Production and writing

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New showrunners Andrew Chambliss (left) and Ian B. Goldberg (right).

On April 14, 2017, AMC renewed the series for a 16-episode fourth season and announced that Andrew Chambliss and Ian Goldberg would replace the departing Dave Erickson as showrunners.[24] Production began in November 2017 in Austin, Texas.[25] Michael E. Satrazemis, a director of photography for The Walking Dead and director of 12 episodes, joined Fear the Walking Dead as a directing-producer.[26]

In November 2017, it was reported that Lennie James who portrays Morgan Jones on The Walking Dead would crossover and join the main cast in the fourth season.[27] The fourth season also sees the additions of several new series regulars, played by Garret Dillahunt,[28] Jenna Elfman,[29] and Maggie Grace.[30]

On April 21, 2018, Colman Domingo revealed that he would be directing the twelfth episode of this season.[31]

The fourth season features a redesigned title sequence with new theme music. Each episode of the season has a different title card, and tells a story which will become apparent once the season is completed.[32] The Hollywood Reporter reflected on the new intro, calling the new season, "a Western with zombies, very much by design."[33]

Goldberg spoke of the season's narrative structure, which features multiple timelines:

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"We're playing with the structure, depending on which story we're telling in the episode. What we find so exciting about telling stories across time is it allows for mystery and for finding characters in an emotional place and exploring how they came to be that way, and finding them in a very different emotional place in the flashback storyline — not only from a plot perspective of piecing it together, but also showing how people became who they are by charting them in the present and comparing it to where they've been in the past."[33]

The new showrunners also were inspired by Westerns; Chambliss stated, "It all started with the themes we set out at the beginning: isolation and community. Those themes run through a lot of classic Western stories." Visually, the season is inspired by John Ford and Sergio Leone's Westerns, using Once Upon a Time in the West as a template for directors. Chambliss said, "it's all about having wide shots, not moving the characters, but moving the characters within the frame. When we get to the editing room, it's really about slowing down the cutting pattern, and harkening back to that style of filmmaking. It does infuse the show with a different feel than what we've seen before. It's something that we're very excited for people to see."[33]

The third episode of the season features the death of Nick Clark, played by Frank Dillane. In an interview after the episode had aired, Dillane revealed he asked to leave the show prior to the fourth season. The actor explained:

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"I had been doing it for three or four years, the show has undergone many changes in terms of different people in charge, all of this stuff, and I just felt like the beginning of this season kind of felt like the end of an era with this show. And television is hard work, and you have to shoot a lot. I also missed Europe very much. I'm not American, so after a while I get quite homesick and all of those things. I also felt like we had achieved what needed to be achieved in the first few seasons, so I thought it was time to keep moving."[34]

Release

On March 15, 2018, it was announced that the season premiere and the season eight finale of The Walking Dead would be screened at AMC, Regal, and Cinemark theaters across the United States on April 15, the same day as the televised airing, for "Survival Sunday: The Walking Dead & Fear the Walking Dead". The episodes marked the first crossover between the two series. The cinema screening also included an extra half-hour of exclusive bonus content.[35]

Reception

Critical response

On Rotten Tomatoes, the fourth season has an approval rating of 80% based on 6 reviews, with an average rating of 6.85/10. The site's critical consensus is, "Fear the Walking Dead shuffles onward confidently in its fourth season with a bevy of horrifying set-pieces and heartbreaking twists, but some viewers may be dispirited by the series' constant reshuffling of its characters."[36] TVLine reevaluated the series for its fourth season, giving it a "B+" grade. Reviewer Charlie Mason wrote, "it's gone from being an adequate stopgap between seasons of The Walking Dead to a show that's as good or arguably even better than the one from which it was spun off." He also praised the addition of Jenna Elfman and Garret Dillahunt and that season 4 has had several genuine surprises in its storytelling.[37]

However, the decision to kill off lead character Madison Clark, portrayed by Kim Dickens, was met with intense criticism.[38][39] Writing for The Hollywood Reporter, television critic Maureen Ryan highlighted the character as "one of TV's — and cable's — rare mature female leads" and cited her "baffling" demise as an example of Hollywood's ageist practices, adding, "the fact that this decision comes from The Walking Dead franchise, which has come under fire for its treatment of women and people of color in the past, is even more depressing."[40]


Fear the Walking Dead (season 4): Critical reception by episode
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Season 4 (2018): Percentage of positive critics' reviews tracked by the website Rotten Tomatoes[36]

Ratings

No. Title Air date Rating/share
(18–49)		 Viewers
(millions)		 DVR
(18–49)		 DVR viewers
(millions)		 Total
(18–49)		 Total viewers
(millions)
1 "What's Your Story?" April 15, 2018 1.6 4.09[8] 0.9 2.01 2.5 6.11[41]
2 "Another Day in the Diamond" April 22, 2018 1.1 3.07[9] 0.5 1.18 1.6 4.25[42][lower-alpha 1]
3 "Good Out Here" April 29, 2018 1.0 2.71[10] 0.6 1.50 1.6 4.21[43]
4 "Buried" May 6, 2018 0.9 2.49[11] N/A N/A N/A N/A
5 "Laura" May 13, 2018 0.9 2.46[12] 0.6 1.47 1.5 3.94[44]
6 "Just in Case" May 20, 2018 0.8 2.31[13] N/A N/A N/A N/A
7 "The Wrong Side of Where You Are Now" June 3, 2018 0.6 1.97[14] 0.5 1.19 1.1 3.16[45][lower-alpha 1]
8 "No One's Gone" June 10, 2018 0.7 2.32[15] 0.6 1.52 1.3 3.85[46]
9 "People Like Us" August 12, 2018 0.7 1.88[16] 0.4 0.96 1.0 2.84[47][lower-alpha 1]
10 "Close Your Eyes" August 19, 2018 0.6 1.86[17] 0.5 1.15 1.1 3.01[48]
11 "The Code" August 26, 2018 0.6 1.83[18] 0.4 0.99 1.0 2.82[49][lower-alpha 1]
12 "Weak" September 2, 2018 0.5 1.52[19] 0.4 1.24 0.9 2.76[50]
13 "Blackjack" September 9, 2018 0.6 1.72[20] 0.5 1.26 1.1 2.98[51]
14 "MM 54" September 16, 2018 0.6 1.87[21] 0.5 1.30 1.1 3.17[52]
15 "I Lose People..." September 23, 2018 0.7 2.03[22] 0.3 0.93 1.0 2.97[53][lower-alpha 1]
16 "... I Lose Myself" September 30, 2018 0.7 2.13[23] 0.4 1.02 1.1 3.15[54][lower-alpha 1]
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