Season three, fortunately, brings the "fun" back with a new baddie embodied by Daniel Sharman. You can tell that he can be dangerous, but his motives might have a raison d'être.When the action moves to his father's ranch, the promise of stability is enough to give Madison hope, but she's also uneasy with the new group of survivors.
Eventually, as one would expect, the community is tested by threats not just of the undead kind, but from both other humans and the natural world.
The new locale once again raises hope that FTWD is on the path to longevity. The explosive season finale promises better things yet to come.
Grade - Season 3: 8
Season four starts out with the arrival on the scene of The Walking Dead's Morgan (Lennie James, great actor), which is not good news as far as I'm concerned for two reasons.One, I stopped liking Morgan, who initially was an interesting and tormented character, when he embraced his "We don't kill" philosophy. I'm sorry, but you now live in a world without law and order, where bad guys like the Governor and Negan will have no qualms and will stop at nothing to subjugate others. If you refuse to fight fire with fire, in that world, you won't survive long, which renders his character utopian and therefore not believable.
Two, when this spin-off was announced, the fans feared diluting the TWD brand, so the producers went to great lengths to pledge that FTWD would be its own show, untethered from TWD by both space (it started out in Los Angeles, so on the opposite side of the country) and time (it started out just prior to the onset of the epidemic, while TWD starts our well into Armageddon). Alas, having Morgan join this show now recants on those promises, even though I freely admit that if I really loved the character I'd be more forgiving...
This season we also say goodbye to the show's main hero, Madison Clark, brought to life by the amazing Kim Dickens. I had no idea she had left the show, so her demise was totally unexpected and shocking. It also reinforced my belief that the way Rick Grimes left TWD, without dying, deprived the fans of the finality we usually get on this show.
I've read that it wasn't Dickens' choice to leave the show (like in Andrew Lincoln's case) so I can only hope that the producers did not decided to kill her character off to make room for the arrival of Morgan. Otherwise, it would be really tragic.
Anyway, Morgan is not the only new addition. A seemingly solitary cowboy looking for his lost love and a mysterious collector of people's stories soon join him only to be intercepted by the FTWD cast.
The season is quite good. A new group of survivors, the Vultures, poses a simmering threat that Madison and company have to figure out how to endure. The stakes mount for everyone involved.
There's little time to mourn for Madison, however, since when the two groups of survivors join forces, a new threat emerges from the unlikeliest of characters.
All in all, with stakes this high, action galore, and constantly changing environments, it might be FTWD's best season to date.
Grade - Season 4: 8
Season five starts out with a plane crash, and the action keeps up the pace from there on. The new locale, however, soon reveals itself anything buy hospitable to life.More new characters are introduced, including Dwight from TWD after he was cast out by Daryl following Negan's demise.
The group keeps picking up survivors on the road and grows into a caravan, which makes it an easier target for a new foe.
Unbeknownst to all, however, an even bigger threat is closing in, with enough firepower to take everyone on and come out on top. But are they really bad or maybe somewhat good? Not so easy to tell.
Meanwhile, Al finds out some troubling details about a far away group of survivors that might be connected to Rick Grimes' survival (and the second spin-off, coming later this year, The Walking Dead: World Beyond).
One thing is sure, this show has definitely gotten better with the passage of time.
Grade - Season 5: 8
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