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On this episode of Fear the Walking Dead Talk Through, Kyle, Mark, and I talk through Fear the Walking Dead Season 4 Episode 15, which is titled I Lose People… It was written by co-executive producer Kalinda Vazquez and directed by David Barrett. This was a pretty good episode! There were some cool stunts, nice story moments, and a few things we didn't like, but all in all, this one was probably the best of the second half so far.

I Lose People... got a 0.66 in the 18-49 demographic, with 2.033 million viewers. up from 0.57 and 1.871 million viewers last week.

Please leave your feedback for Fear the Walking Dead, Season 4 Episode 16, titled "…I Lose Myself", by 6 PM Eastern/5 PM Central on Tuesday, October 2, 2018. The best way to submit feedback is on our Facebook group.

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It's finally time for us to bring you our long-awaited Season 2 News and Picard Show Roundtable!!! Recorded on September 8th, Ruthie and I were joined by two past roundtable participants - Mark Des Cotes from Solo Talk Media, and Steve Brown of the Panels to Pixels Podcast, and two new participants - Mark Deal and Wes Huntington from The Minnesota Star Trek Nerd Podcast. We had some recording glitches during this episode, including some we didn't know about at the time. More on that later.

We reacted to the former co-showrunners Gretchen J. Berg and Aaron Harberts being fired from the show for both budget concerns and abuse in the writers' room. We discussed the announcement of Alex Kurtzman becoming the new showrunner and James Duff later made an executive producer and probable next showrunner. Then, we reacted to the casting announcements of Anson Mount as Captain Christopher Pike, Rebecca Romijn as Number One, and, most recently, Ethan Peck as Spock.

Most of us had seen the trailer (one exception... and you'll have to listen to find out who hasn't), but we talk about the trailer and our reactions to it. We also talk about what we would like to see in Season 2.

After that, we then spend a good deal of time discussing last month's announcement at Star Trek Las Vegas that the next Star Trek series will be focused around Jean-Luc Picard. We reacted to that announcement; we dissected some of what Patrick Stewart said about the show is and isn't, and we speculated what the show will be about. What we think some of the other shows might be was also discussed.

Ruthie and I finally go through some feedback that came in after the end of the season. We recorded that feedback separately, so the other panelists do not participate during that section of the podcast.

The "Short Treks", four shorts covering short stories within the Star Trek: Discovery universe, were not covered in this roundtable. In hindsight, we probably should have. On September 20th, CBS announced that the first of these Short Treks - a Tilly story called Runaway - would be released on October 4th. This would be followed by shorts in November, December, and January. We will definitely be covering the Short Treks next time. A few days after we recorded, CBS CEO Les Moonves resigned amidst allegations of sexual harassment, and since he's been the driving force behind CBS All Access, I'm sure we will have more to say about this next time. We also didn't talk much about the existin

On this episode of Fear the Walking Dead Talk Through, Kyle's out this week, so Mark and I discuss Fear the Walking Dead Season 4 Episode 14, which is titled MM 54. It was written by supervising producer Anna Fishko & co-executive producer Shintaro Shimosawa and directed by Lou Diamond Phillips. We get to see some backstory on the "Filthy Woman", who we now know is named Martha, but a lot of the backstory seemed forced and we found certain holes in how she became the psychotic zombie-apocalypse serial killer she is now. Both too much AND too little time had passed in the cold open, and how I ultimately liked the last scene with her connecting to Morgan.

Ratings for MM 54 are up from the previous week in the total viewers. Fear the Walking Dead got a 0.57 in the 18-49, which is the same from last week, with 1.871 million viewers, which is up from 1.712 million last week.

Please leave your feedback for Fear the Walking Dead, Season 4 Episode 14, titled "I Lose People...", by 6 PM Eastern/5 PM Central on Wednesday, September 26, 2018. We're going to be recording a day later than normal next week, so you'll have an extra day to get in your feedback! The best way to submit feedback is on our Facebook group.

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On this episode of Fear the Walking Dead Talk Through, we discuss Fear the Walking Dead Season 4 Episode 13, which is titled Blackjack. It was written by executive producer and co-showrunner Ian Goldberg & writer Richard Naing directed by Sharat Naju. This was a polarizing episode. I thought it was the best episode this half-season, as did Mark, but Kyle did not like it very much. The "Filthy Woman", as she's called on Talking Dead, became much more of a villain against our people, showing her chaotic evil. We thought the characters worked better this time, but some parts of the story were pretty forced.

Blackjack got a 0.57 in the 18-49 demographic with 1.712 million viewers, up from 0.48 and 1.521 million viewers last week. Charts below.

Please leave your feedback for Fear the Walking Dead, Season 4 Episode 14, titled MM 54, by 6 PM Eastern/5 PM Central on Tuesday, September 18, 2018. The best way to submit feedback is on our Facebook group.

If you want to help pay for the editing of this and other podcasts, I mentioned a while back that you can donate credits to my Auphonic account, which I use to make these episodes sound so good! That link is https://auphonic.com/donate_credits?user=bmeloche. Please remember to subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts. Subscribing to us helps us move up in the rankings, so it'll help us out tremendously! You'll also get new episodes when they're released. And while you’re in there, leave us a rating or review! It only takes a few minutes and it helps others to find us!

On this episode of Fear the Walking Dead Talk Through, we discuss Fear the Walking Dead Season 4 Episode 12, which is titled Weak. It was written by co-executive producer Kalinda Vazquez and directed by Colman Domingo, who plays Strand on this show, in his TV directorial debut. This was a well-acted and directed episode, with a few negatives. I liked it more than last week's episode, but there were some things I had to fault it for. We're not sure what makes the "Filthy Woman", as she's called in the credits, tick. She just seems to be a chaos agent. We're also seeing some characters are poorly developed. Althea is a self-defined "chick with layers", but we're not seeing those layers yet. She's pretty two dimensional. But if she's two dimensional, Jim is pretty one-dimensional. He's all beer, all the time!

Weak got a 0.61 in the 18-49 demographic with 1.827 million viewers, down slightly from last week's 0.63 and 1.855 million viewers. Charts below.

Please leave your feedback for Fear the Walking Dead, Season 4 Episode 13, titled Blackjack, by 6 PM Eastern/5 PM Central on Tuesday, September 11, 2018. The best way to submit feedback is on our Facebook group.

If you want to help pay for the editing of this and other podcasts, I mentioned a while back that you can donate credits to my Auphonic account, which I use to make these episodes sound so good! That link is https://auphonic.com/donate_credits?user=bmeloche. Please remember to subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts. Subscribing to us helps us move up in the rankings, so it'll help us out tremendously! You'll also get new episodes when they're released. And while you’re in there, leave us a rating or review! It only takes a few minutes and it helps others to find us!

On this episode of Fear the Walking Dead Talk Through, we discuss Fear the Walking Dead Season 4 Episode 11, which is titled The Code. It was written by co-showrunner and executive producer Andrew Chambliss & staff writer Alex Delyle and directed by Tara Nicole Weyr. This was a well-acted episode, with interesting new characters, but beyond that, the episode falls apart. For me, the plot of this episode was one of the weakest of the series, and maybe the entire franchise. How does Morgan not wake up even once while the truck he is sleeping in is being driven from Texas to Mississippi??? Trust me, I recently drove a truck 1200 miles across several states, and there is no way Morgan could have slept through it without being drugged. What were these characters doing BEFORE they met Morgan? Were Sarah and Wendell driving a different truck? If they weren't transporting these boxes, how did they know all the routes? What about Jim? How was Jim going to become "rich" in the apocalypse if he never left the brewery? It goes on and on from there. Listen to the episode for more.

Ratings for The Code were a 0.61 in the 18-49 demographic with 1.827 million viewers, down from last week's 0.63 and 1.855 million viewers. Charts below.

Please leave your feedback for Fear the Walking Dead, Season 4 Episode 12, titled Weak, by 6 PM Eastern/5 PM Central on Tuesday, September 4, 2018. The best way to submit feedback is on our Facebook group.

I also took a few minutes to give an AMC Premiere update. It does not let you watch past seasons of shows, which really sucks. I continue to have authentication issues. Although I had downloaded a copy of this week's episode on my phone through the app, which I was planning to watch on my lunch break, the app wouldn't let me watch the episode because it wasn't authenticating. I don't know if the problem lies with Spectrum or AMC, but it led to a bad user experience.

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On this episode of Fear the Walking Dead Talk Through, we discuss Fear the Walking Dead Season 4 Episode 10, which is titled Close Your Eyes. It was written by co-executive producer Shintaro Shimosawa and directed by co-executive producer Michael E. Satrazemis. This was a bottle episode, but a good one. It only featured two characters: Alicia and Charlie. Charlie became somewhat less annoying this episode, and Alycia Debnam-Carey got to shine with this episode. Compared to last week, this was definitely a better episode, but, for me, it wasn't outstanding. Though the acting was spot on, some of the dialog and scenes were a bit too on the nose. While the hurricane was definitely more believable this time around, there was one plot twist that I found a bit of a stretch.

Close Your Eyes got a 0.63 in the 18-49 with 1.855 million viewers, which is down from last week's 0.68 and 1.878 million viewers. Charts below.

Please leave your feedback for Fear the Walking Dead, Season 4 Episode 11, titled The Code, by 6 PM Eastern/5 PM Central on Tuesday, August 28, 2018. One of the best ways to submit feedback is on our Facebook group.

I also took a few minutes at the end of our episode discussion to talk about my recent experiences with AMC Premiere. When it works, it's not bad. You get to watch shows commercial-free, there is additional content available to Premiere subscribers, and I enjoyed my first week. I was able to sign up using a $5 credit I had from Google Play, so it's like having a free month. However, there were a few issues that make me fall short of recommending it right now. Listen to the episode for more.

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We are back! Fear the Walking Dead Through is back with an analysis of Fear the Walking Dead Season 4 Episode 9, which is titled People Like Us. It was written by supervising producer Anna Fishko and directed by Magnus Martens. The story of the mid-season premiere, itself, was decent. The special effects, on the other hand, were among the worst we have seen in the franchise. Of course, we were warned, but there's nothing like the actual episode to bring out more detail.

People Like Us got a 0.68 in the 18-49 demographic, with 1.878 million viewers, which is down from the mid-season finale's 0.73 and 2.320 million viewers. Charts below.

Please leave your feedback for Fear the Walking Dead, Season 4 Episode 10, titled Close Your Eyes, by 6 PM Eastern/5 PM Central on Tuesday, August 21, 2018. One of the best ways to submit feedback is on our Facebook group.

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Brian is back in the saddle again, with Mark and Kyle to discuss all the news, trailers, past discussions of The Walking Dead and Fear The Walking Dead that came out of Comic-Con this year.

As you may remember, Brian missed the last two episodes, discussing Season 4 Episode 7 and Season 4 Episode 8 as he was moving to Florida.

Brian gives us his thoughts (Rants) about the mid-season finale of Fear the Walking Dead as well as discussions of all our thoughts about everything we saw and predictions from the trailers about the coming of Season 9 of the Walking Dead and the back half of Season 4 of Fear the Walking Dead. So strap yourself in, prepare for the Walkernado, and join in our whisperings of this jammed packed episode of The Walking Dead Talk Through, Episode 82. Comic-Con, Other News and Brian Rants!

Please leave your feedback by 6 PM Eastern/5 PM Central on Tuesday, August 14, 2018. We will be discussing the Season 4b premiere of Fear the Walking Dead Episode 9. One of the best ways to submit feedback is on our Facebook group.

If you want to help pay for the editing of this and other podcasts, I mentioned how you can donate credits to Brian's Auphonic account, which he uses to make these episodes sound so good! That link is https://auphonic.com/donate_credits?user=bmeloche.

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Hey Survivors! WOW! What an episode. It sent shockwaves throughout the Walking Dead universe. Brian, as you may know, is in the process of moving to Florida and we thought he could join us for the finale, but was unable to. So we will have a special episode during the break where we can get all of his insights about this heart-wrenching episode. So Mark and I, with our viewers feedback, pop in a tape in Althea's camera and record our thoughts about the Past, Present, and Future of Fear the Walking Dead Season 4 Episode 8, No One's Gone.

No One's Gone got a 0.73 in the 18-49 demographic, with 2.320 million viewers. That's up from last week's 0.60 and 1.971 million viewers.

Please leave your feedback by 6 PM Eastern/5 PM Central on Tuesday, August 14, 2018. We will be discussing the Season 4b premiere of Fear the Walking Dead Episode 9.

If you want to help pay for the editing of this and other podcasts, I mentioned how you can donate credits to my Auphonic account, which I use to make these episodes sound so good! That link is https://auphonic.com/donate_credits?user=bmeloche. Please remember to subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts. Subscribing to us helps us move up in the rankings, so it'll help us out tremendously! You'll also get new episodes when they're released. And while you’re in there, leave us a rating or review! It only takes a few minutes and it also helps us out!