S6E16

The Beginning

Fear the Walking Dead · 2021-06-13 · 58 min

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from 49 comments

COMMUNITY

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nobody yet

YOURS

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what happens

Everyone struggles desperately to live the destruction that is approaching on their own terms.

how it went

Left to right is this episode — its opening to its closing minutes. This is the one span the comments were always describing.

FUN

how good a time it was

MEANINGFUL

how much it moved you

Read from 49 comments — 18 said when.

The number holds — it is read from every comment. The shape is not settled: only 18 said when something happened, and below 20 the same evidence split in half draws two different pictures. Drawn faint for that reason.

Not enough people said when to name this shape. The line is what the evidence draws, not a finding.

Hover the curveDrag across the curve to see what people said at any point.

height: how intense it got, 0–100
gold above: how tender it felt. violet below — what it cost. Thick on both at once means it was doing both.
grey haze: how sure we are — wider means fewer people described it

openingending

what people actually wrote

Grouped by where it was written, because a considered review and a reaction typed an hour after the credits are different things. Every quote links to its source.

Reddit24 read

“the shot of her all burnt up was actually pretty disturbing”
▲ 137about 75–100% inread it ↗
“The opening scene, with Rachel and baby Morgan, and what she did to give her child the last chance at surviving, is so heartbreaking. I really felt a mother's love through that portrayal.”
ToWhistleInTheDark▲ 99about 0–10% inread it ↗
“Strands ending monologue to Howard and how Strand was ready to die as a “hero” in a way we’re really well done.”
WhatsGoingOn1879▲ 93about 85–100% inread it ↗
“Only half way through the episode, but this is pretty terrible so far.”

who made it

directed: Michael Satrazemis
written: Ian B. Goldberg, Andrew Chambliss

guest cast

Billed for this episode only — the turn people remember an episode for.

Peter Jacobson as Jacob Kessner
Keith Carradine as John Dorie
John Glover as Teddy Maddox
Cory Hart as Rollie
Austin Alexander as Acolyte
Brigitte Kali Canales as Rachel
Julia Barnett as Kim Larson

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