Fear the Walking Dead (season 6)

The sixth season of Fear the Walking Dead, an American horror-drama television series on AMC, premiered on October 11, 2020,[1] and will conclude on June 6, 2021, consisting of sixteen episodes.[2][3][4] 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. 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 as showrunners for the third consecutive season.

Fear the Walking Dead
Season 6
Promotional poster
Starring
Country of originUnited States
No. of episodes7
Release
Original networkAMC
Original releaseOctober 11, 2020 (2020-10-11) –
present (present)
Season chronology

The season follows Morgan Jones (Lennie James) who has been left for dead by Virginia (Colby Minifie), while the remaining members of Morgan's group have been separated by Virginia and her Pioneers and are dispersed across her various settlements. The season will also feature multiple time jumps.[1]

Cast
Lennie James (Morgan Jones), Alycia Debnam-Carey (Alicia Clark), and Maggie Grace (Althea Szewczyk-Przygocki)
Colman Domingo (Victor Strand), Danay García (Luciana Galvez), and Garret Dillahunt (John Dorie)
Austin Amelio (Dwight), Karen David (Grace), and Jenna Elfman (June Dorie)

Main cast
Main article: List of Fear the Walking Dead characters
  • Lennie James as Morgan Jones: A mentally unstable and ruthlessly pragmatic man, formerly a part of Rick Grimes' group on The Walking Dead.[1]
  • Alycia Debnam-Carey as Alicia Clark: The fiery yet compassionate daughter of Madison, and Nick's sister.[1]
  • Maggie Grace as Althea "Al" Szewczyk-Przygocki: A curious and tactical journalist.[1]
  • Colman Domingo as Victor Strand: A smart and sophisticated conman-turned-businessman, who formed friendships with Nick, Madison, and Alicia.[1]
  • Danay García as Luciana Galvez: A strong and cautious former member of the La Colonia community in Tijuana, Mexico.[1]
  • Garret Dillahunt as John Dorie: A lonesome and friendly police officer who is married to June.[1]
  • Austin Amelio as Dwight: A reformed former lieutenant of the Saviors, who was exiled from Virginia by Rick Grimes' group on The Walking Dead. He is currently searching for his missing ex-wife Sherry.[1]
  • Mo Collins as Sarah Rabinowitz: The adoptive sister of Wendell and a former Marine.[5]
  • Alexa Nisenson as Charlie: A young girl who was a spy for the Vultures.[1]
  • Karen David as Grace: A mysterious woman who used to work at a nuclear power plant that melted down near the site where the plane of Morgan's group crashed.[1]
  • Colby Hollman as Wes: A survivor who allies with Morgan's group.[5]
  • Zoe Colletti as Dakota: A member of the Pioneers who is Virginia's younger sister.[5]
  • Jenna Elfman as June Dorie: A kind nurse who is married to John.[1]
  • Rubén Blades as Daniel Salazar: A courageous and practical former Sombra Negra member who formed a parental bond with Charlie.[1]
  • Christine Evangelista as Sherry: Dwight's long-missing ex-wife who fled across the country to Texas after escaping the Saviors.[6]

Supporting cast
  • Colby Minifie as Virginia: An antagonistic leader of the Pioneers who is older sister of Dakota.[1]
  • Brigitte Kali Canales as Rachel: A pregnant woman who is Isaac's wife.
  • Peter Jacobson as Jacob Kessner: A rabbi who joins Morgan's group.
  • Holly Curran as Janis: A woman who called Alicia and Strand for help and was saved by Wes. She later joined Morgan's group. She is Tom's sister.
  • Craig Nigh as Hill: A high-ranking member of the Pioneers.
  • Devyn Tyler as Nora: A woman who is one of the remaining survivors living in an office building where she once worked.
  • Daryl Mitchell as Wendell: A wheelchair-bound man and the adoptive brother of Sarah.
  • Cory Hart as Rollie: The former member of Logan's crew, who works with a group of survivors to destroy the Pioneers.
  • Justin Smith as Marcus: An arrogant member of the Pioneers.

Guest cast

Episodes
See also: List of Fear the Walking Dead episodes
No.
overall		No. in
season		TitleDirected byWritten by [7]Original air date [8]U.S. viewers
(millions)
701"The End Is the Beginning"Michael E. SatrazemisAndrew Chambliss & Ian GoldbergOctober 11, 2020 (2020-10-11)1.59[9]
Several weeks after being shot by Virginia, Morgan has managed to escape the Pioneers' grasp, but is in bad health from his gunshot wound that has become infected and gangrenous. Virginia hires a bounty hunter, Emile, to find and kill Morgan. While scavenging for supplies, Morgan meets Isaac, who helps him hide from Emile. Isaac takes Morgan to a hidden valley where his pregnant wife, Rachel, is located. Emile finds Morgan, but Isaac rescues him and reveals that he was previously bitten prior to meeting him. Morgan kills Emile and steals his clothes, axe, and a key he was carrying with him. The next day, Morgan awakens to find the bullet extracted and that Isaac died from his infection, but not before Rachel gave birth to a girl, named Morgan. Morgan leaves the head of the bounty hunter for Virginia to find, leaving her stunned. Morgan tells Virginia over the radio, "Morgan Jones is dead. You're dealing with somebody else now." Elsewhere on a beach, a man spray paints "THE END IS THE BEGINNING" on a washed-up submarine. He speaks to another man, who says "they" should have arrived by now, and they need the key.
712"Welcome to the Club"Lennie JamesNazrin ChoudhuryOctober 18, 2020 (2020-10-18)1.55[10]
After an incident with a high-ranking member of the Pioneers, Alicia and Strand are taken to a warehouse to eliminate a large herd of walkers, and are later joined by Charlie and Janis. Meanwhile, Daniel appears to be suffering from amnesia, causing confusion among his allies. Dakota, Virginia's younger sister, joins them in clearing the walkers, and inadvertently kills two of the Pioneers. In the midst of the battle, Strand secretly stabs a fellow prisoner, Sanjay, and sacrifices him to the walkers in order to gain the upper hand. Later, Virginia praises Strand for his work as a leader, and gives him an important position for the community. Strand, feeling guilty for his role in Sanjay's death, assigns Alicia to another settlement. That night, Daniel is attacked by a walker, but is saved by Morgan, and reveals he still has his memory.
723"Alaska"Colman DomingoMallory WestfallOctober 25, 2020 (2020-10-25)1.50[11]
Morgan returns to the valley hideout, bringing Rachel and her baby food and other supplies. He tells her he has a man on the inside (Daniel), and vows to save his friends, rebuilding his signature staff into the new handle of his axe. Elsewhere, Virginia assigns Althea and Dwight to investigate various locations, and document the walkers and how they may have died. While at a funeral home, Althea hears Isabelle on her walkie-talkie discussing a nearby rendezvous point. Dwight overhears this and together they head to the building where Isabelle plans to land her helicopter. As they ascend the building, they find numerous rats and "THE END IS THE BEGINNING" spray painted on a wall. Eventually, they come across a group living there who are suffering from the bubonic plague. The group's leader, Nora, warns them not to continue to the helipad, saying the last time the helicopter arrived, one of her friends was shot. Despite Dwight's pleas, Althea continues to the roof, and later notices that Dwight himself is infected. The two are later saved from walkers by Nora, who leads Althea to the roof. While anxiously waiting for Isabelle, she has a change of heart and fires a flare gun; she then warns Isabelle via the walkie-talkie (without revealing her identity) to not fly to the building due to the plague. Isabelle thanks her, and leads her to a supply crate containing beer and medicine for Nora's group. Afterwards, Althea confides in Dwight her belief that the rats were planted to spread the sickness. Once they leave, Althea hears a woman on her walkie-talkie who saw the flare, and is about to arrive at the building. The woman turns out to be Sherry, who is finally reunited with Dwight.
734"The Key"Ron UnderwoodDavid JohnsonNovember 1, 2020 (2020-11-01)1.28[12]
John begins to read the letter that he wrote to June. Suddenly, he feels pain in his teeth, revealing that he has cavities. On one morning, the ranger Cameron does not show up for his shift, confusing John. Suspicious, John checks behind his house, finding an undead Cameron entangled in barbed wire with two walkers. During his investigation, John finds an earring at the crime scene. During Cameron's funeral, Janis tries to flee but the rangers captured her. Janis, who was secretly dating Cameron, takes credit for the murder and is executed by the Pioneers by tying her to a tree outside with a radio blaring loud music, attracting nearby walkers that swiftly dismembered and devoured her. Later, John finds Janis' zombified remains and shoots her in the head, putting her down. On the way back to Humbug's Gulch for answers, Morgan is struck by another car. He steps out and walks to the driver's seat of the other car, watching the man from the car stumble out. Morgan holds him at axe point, questioning if it was an accident. The man's companion stumbles out also, getting behind him. The men threaten Morgan, asking where Emile is and then demanding the key from him. Morgan is suddenly attacked, dodging them both and swinging his axe into one man's stomach, disemboweling him. He is then pulled into a chokehold by the other, narrowly breaking loose and stabbing him in the chest with the spear end of his weapon. He looks down at the key he was wearing around his neck, realizing it was what the men were after.
745"Honey"Michael E. SatrazemisAshley CardiffNovember 8, 2020 (2020-11-08)1.24[13]
Dwight and Sherry are in a room talking, when suddenly, Sherry gets up and disappears. Dwight begins to hear noises and some masked men capture him. The next day, Dwight appears in a skatepark with those men, where Sherry confesses that she is a part of them. They plan to destroy the SWAT armored truck, but Al, who is also captured, reveals that it is better to steal it. The assault on the truck is successfully achieved with the unexpected help of Morgan. At night, Sherry reveals to Morgan that she plans to kill Virginia, but Morgan refuses to participate, due to his experience in the war against Negan, since he reveals that he has planned to make a new community away from Virginia. Sherry convinces Dwight to ambush Virginia's henchmen and proceeds into the trap. Shortly after seeing that Morgan and Al refuse to attack Virginia's men, she locks them up and finally Dwight. That same night, Morgan manages to convince Dwight to stop her, and he manages to escape to convince Sherry, who reluctantly cancels the attack with Virginia not even showing up. The next day, Morgan and Al convince Dwight to leave with them, but Sherry refuses to join them, intending to continue her war against Virginia. When the refugees from the center of the building arrive, they go to form a community, and Dwight leaves a clue to Sherry to give her their whereabouts.
756"Bury Her Next to Jasper's Leg"Sharat RajuAlex DelyleNovember 15, 2020 (2020-11-15)1.27[14]
June and Sarah now run a mobile clinic, but have a slew of bad luck with saving people, including losing a man to a burst appendix. June is reunited with John who attempts to convince her to flee to his cabin with him, but they are interrupted by a message from Luciana of a disaster at Tank Town due to a new well exploding. Virginia, John, June, Sarah, Luciana and the Pioneers work to save the survivors of the disaster, but a spray painted message reading "THE END IS THE BEGINNING" convinces Virginia that it was not an accident. Finding a wounded Wes' art supplies, Virginia tortures him for answers, believing him to be responsible before being stopped by June. The two women are trapped by an explosion and Virginia is bitten in the hand. June hesitates to amputate it, blaming Virginia for everything going wrong around them, but Virginia insists that there is a bigger threat than her and that her methods are geared towards protecting the people in her communities. June chooses to save Virginia who agrees to give June her own hospital. Tank Town is destroyed and in the aftermath, June refuses to leave with John, instead intending to build her hospital with the help of Luciana, Sarah, Wes and Wendell. Though devastated by June's choice, John nevertheless decides to enact his escape plan on his own.
767"Damage from the Inside"Tawnia McKiernanJacob PinionNovember 22, 2020 (2020-11-22)1.09[15]
A convoy of rangers escorting Dakota to a safe house is attacked and killed, leaving Strand and another ranger named Samuels as the only survivors. Strand enlists the help of Alicia and Charlie to find Dakota whom they locate at an old hunting lodge occupied by a taxidermist named Ed who has augmented the walkers around his lodge with antlers in order to scare people away. Alicia contacts Virginia and offers to trade Dakota for their freedom, intending to retake the stadium, but Ed snaps, draws the walkers in and refuses to let them leave. During a scuffle, he is accidentally impaled on antlers by Alicia and sacrifices himself to the approaching walkers, telling Alicia that his family's deaths were his fault and to not make his mistakes. Morgan shows up and helps Alicia to put down the walkers, but intends to trade Dakota for the rest of their people, leading to an argument when Alicia realizes that Morgan attacked the convoy. Morgan agrees to take Dakota with them to the place that he is building, but Strand refuses to come and remains with Virginia and the Pioneers. Virginia leads Strand to a visibly-pregnant Grace and tells him that she wants him to get everybody back that she took from Humbug's Gulch.
778"The Door"[7]TBAIan Goldberg & Andrew ChamblissApril 11, 2021 (2021-04-11)TBD
789TBATBANick BernardoneApril 18, 2021 (2021-04-18)TBD
7910TBATBAChanning PowellApril 25, 2021 (2021-04-25)TBD
8011TBATBATBAMay 2, 2021 (2021-05-02)TBD
8112TBATBATBAMay 9, 2021 (2021-05-09)TBD
8213TBAAisha Tyler[4]TBAMay 16, 2021 (2021-05-16)TBD
8314TBATBATBAMay 23, 2021 (2021-05-23)TBD
8415TBATBATBAMay 30, 2021 (2021-05-30)TBD
8516TBATBATBAJune 6, 2021 (2021-06-06)TBD

Production

On July 19, 2019, AMC renewed the series for a sixth season.[16]

Casting

In December 2019, it was announced that Zoe Colletti would join the main cast for the sixth season as Dakota, and that Mo Collins and Colby Hollman were promoted to series regulars after having recurring roles since the fourth and fifth seasons, respectively.[5] In January 2020, it was confirmed that Christine Evangelista would reprise her role as Sherry, who last appeared in the seventh season of The Walking Dead; she is the third character to crossover from the parent series to Fear the Walking Dead.[6]

Filming and writing

Production began in November 2019 in Texas.[17] In March 2020, production for the sixth season was shut down due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[18] Prior to the shutdown, the series had almost completed production on the first half of the season and showrunner Andrew Chambliss confirmed that every script for the sixth season was completed.[19] Production was reported to have restarted in late August 2020.[20]

Showrunner Ian Goldberg stated that the sixth season would take on an "anthology format", where episodes will focus on individual or pairs of characters, similar to previous episodes like season 4's "Laura". Goldberg also described it as "a darker season".[21]

Cast member Lennie James made his directorial debut this season, and was mentored by fellow cast member Colman Domingo who had previously directed episodes for the series; Domingo also directed his third episode of the series in this season.[21]

Reception

Critical response

The sixth season has received positive reviews, in contrast to generally mixed-to-negative reviews for the previous two seasons. On Rotten Tomatoes, the season has a rating of 86% based on 7 reviews, with an average rating of 7/10.[22]

After a mixed-to-negative reception to the fourth and fifth seasons, the series has received a renewed positive critical reception during its sixth season. Dalton Ross of Entertainment Weekly wrote that the series "is having its best season ever" and was positive about the series' take on different genres, writing "The end result is a bolder, more badass collection of stories that manages to feel narratively cohesive while, at the same time, visually and tonally independent."[23] Paul Tassi of Forbes has been positive towards the season and also noted the positive reactions from fans as well.[24] Emily Hannemann of TV Insider also noted the series' improvement over previous seasons and praised the character development, plot and dialogue.[25]

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