So on April 5, 2020, the second-to-last episode aired, leaving us on a cliffhanger until October 1, 2020, when the season finale finally aired, wrapping up the Whisperers storyline.
Season 11, the last one, premieres this summer. It's supposedly longer than normal (24 episodes instead of 16) and will be split in two, with the second half airing in 2022.
So far so good.
When AMC announced the return of the show in between the two halves of Fear the Walking Dead's season 6, I figured it was the first half of season 11, but I was mistaken.
AMC just aired six new episodes that don't belong to season 11, but rather are an addition to season 10, even though that one ended, very clearly, last October. Why? Who knows. Were they good? Hardly, except for the last one, because it was an origin story of Negan, one of the greatest villains of all time, and Jeffrey Dean Morgan is such a good actor, he made it good enough.
The others, while occasionally interesting, were hardly worth the time really. A couple even featured my favorite character, Carol, and yet they were overall a letdown.
And I believe the reason is simple: the scripts had very little to say, resulting in episodes that felt more like filler than anything else. It's what you'd ordinarily find on the floor of the editing room when you're making the final product. For some reason, the producers felt the need to put these scenes together and air them. Bad choice.
All in all, they added nothing to the canon (other than Negan's origin story, but even the books didn't bother with that), nor to the story overall.
Each episode also focused on one to three characters at most, sometimes introducing new ones, which probably increased the drag on the action. I've noticed the same dynamic in the current season of Fear the Walking Dead, and it's not going well on that show either . . .
So, watch them in case they're referenced later on, or as a curiosity. Just don't expect much from this add-on to season 10.
Grade - Season 10 addition: 6
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