Showrunners Andrew Chambliss and Ian Goldberg discuss young love gone to hell.
Warning: This article contains spoilers for Sunday’s episode ofFear the Walking Dead, “Mourning Cloak.”
There was talk of big dreams and big fears and all the things that make people fall in love.
Alexa Nisenson on ‘Fear the Walking Dead’.Lauren “Lo” Smith/AMC
And then it all went to hell.
So now Ali’s dead and Charlie looks like she could be on the way.
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Ashton Arbab andAlexa Nisenson on ‘Fear the Walking Dead’.Lauren “Lo” Smith/AMC
And we’d been talking to [Nisensen] for a long time about it.
And she had expressed interest in playing opposite someone her own age and playing a romance.
So that’s why this felt like the right time.
And that’s how we ended up with all these kind of touchstones like the bowling alley.
It was fun to sit down and think about that.
You brought up the radiation poisoning.
IAN GOLDBERG:I’ll just say that Charlie is very sick.
And also, it’s a symbol of the cost of the war with Strand [Colman Domingo].
And this was driving her, and now she’s suffered consequences because of it.
So it’s going to be a difficult road for Charlie.
Now we know that radiation poisoning is very serious.
So that ultimately is the thing that drives her to want to then pull through for Morgan.
What about the flip side, then?
Why does Ali agree to turn it off?
Is this just puppy love, or is this a dying wish he’s trying to grant?
Why does he all of a sudden agree to go up there and turn it off?
Especially because he sees what’s happening to Charlie.
Dorie says he needs to get in Strand’s ear.
June says she thought the same thing with Virginia, and it won’t work.
CHAMBLISS:Well, you’re just going to have to keep watching.
GOLDBERG:There will be an entire episode about that coming up.
