Fear The Walking Dead (6×08) The Door Review

For our review of the last episode of Fear The Walking Dead, click here.

Synopsis: A reunion with an old friend helps pull John Dorie out of his darkest moment yet. Back at Lawton, Virginia demands answers. (IMDb)

The back half of Season 6 of Fear The Walking Dead just throws away a decent character for nothing.

The Door begins with Dorie in his childhood shack, getting ready to end it all but walkers keep interrupting him and using up the majority of his bullets. Following those walkers’ trail, he found an injured Morgan (those injuries would be an issue) and Dakota cooped up in a general store though they soon had a close call with some company. Morgan wanted to bring a now broken-down Dorie to his hideout but he was still transfixed on that case he couldn’t quite solve. Meanwhile, Virginia still wanted her sister back therefore wanted to facilitate an exchange for Grace and the others who got captured. However, she obviously cannot be trusted.

In order to go further, Dorie, Morgan, and Dakota needed to find a new mode of transportation and the only one around was an old pickup truck that would need to get fixed while the threat of more rangers was still an issue (they killed the one that followed them from the store to Dorie’s shack). Morgan caught on to Dorie’s true intentions which were to not go with him for a start. The episode title referred his need to find a new door to his shack, not to keep walkers out and rather to keep him in. Nevertheless, Morgan got the truck running but he still had to pull Dorie off his ledge first. Whether or not he was successful remained to be seen while the reliability of the truck was also in question which proved to be an issue as the three attempted to scale a walker-infested bridge, In the end, they made it because obviously.

Morgan didn’t give Dorie a choice about not going with him, revealing the location of his hideout to Virginia. Also, Dakota happened to have the knife Dorie was looking for and then admitted to the murder to protect her secret about her way to sneak out of Lawton. Virginia in turn covered for her in the hopes of seeding doubt amongst the townspeople. Cornered once again, Dakota shot John and pushed him off the bridge where he found a picture of his father in the water. Morgan figured it out too but he wasn’t going to let her get the upper hand on him too. Dakota was also the one who patched him up a while ago. She had a plan for Morgan which was to kill her sister. Of course Dakota thought highly of herself and her power over him.

Virginia, June, and others showed up at Dorie’s shack but Morgan’s concern was more towards Dorie. Meanwhile, he geared up the others for the fight that was about to come. June found Dorie but by then, he became a walker. Killing him was emotional for June.

That was a tough start as the end of Dorie’s story got swept under the rug and didn’t get what it deserved. Propping up Dakota at the expense of Dorie was a questionable choice. It seems like the mediocrity of the main show is rubbing onto this one.

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Keith Noakes

The EIC of the coincidentally-named keithlovesmovies.com. A Canadian who prefers to get out of the cold and into the warmth of a movie theatre.