Editor’s note: The below contains spoilers for Season 8 of Fear the Walking Dead.In the latest episode of Fear the Walking Dead‘s final season, our favorite moral guardian Morgan Jones (Lennie James) takes a trip down a memory lane littered with corpses.
The episode revisits Morgan’s family history and a location last seen in The Walking Dead: King County.
It also sees – at least to a certain extent – revert back to his fragmented “Clear” identity, Ptsd-plagued, seeing visions of his dead wife.
We also get to see Morgan dispatch skunk-eating walkers with a staff, skills acquired from his cheese-making mentor.
Don’t rejoice just yet; this episode is anything but a return to form.
This isn’t exactly a bottle episode or will be remembered as a classic.
The nods to what came before only serve to depressingly remind the viewers of the greatness that came before.
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