Month: October 2020

The long anticipated sort-of tenth season finale of The Walking Dead has finally aired after having been delayed for six months (because Angela Kang has tacked six episodes into the 10th season, it’s also no longer technically the season finale). It was a good episode, even if it didn’t quite live up to the expectations put upon it by a six-month delay. The episode was more low-key than the episode where Alpha was killed, and that would have been finem had it aired back in April; but it’s not an episode that benefits, exactly, from airing in isolation.

However, the episode accomplished what it needed to accomplish: namely, to end The Whisperer War, reintroduce Maggie, and tease the next arc. It did, however, leave us with a few outstanding questions.

Where has Maggie been? Good question, and the episode does not offer much by way of answers. We know that she was off in another community, and somehow capable of receiving mail (given Alexandria’s isolation from the rest of the country, this needs an explanation all on its own). Maggie was apparently helping out Georgie and her community, but it remains unclear what community that is. Is it The Commonwealth? Is it one of the three communities represented in The World Beyond?

Moreover, why did Maggie choose to return now? And who is her friend with the mask and the ninja skills?

The current speculation is that the extra six episodes in Season 10 will fill in Maggie’s backstory. We know that Lauren Cohan is in Georgia currently shooting those episodes, but so is Norman Reedus, which at least suggests that all six episodes will not focus entirely on Maggie’s backstory.

Is Stephanie even real? I know we met The Commonwealth soldiers at the end of the episode where Eugene was expecting to meet Stephanie, but I do wonder how real Stephanie is. Did she actually have feelings for Eugene and want to meet him? Or was she a character created by The Commonwealth to lure people out and into their community? If she’s not real — or was conning Eugene all along — Eugene is gonna be absolutely crushed. Don’t toy with Eugene’s emotions!

Are Luke and Jules still a thing? It sure seems like it! Jules is the reason that Luke relocated to the Oceanside, and though we have only seen a few scenes with Luke and Jules together, it certainly appears that the two are very much romantically interested in one another. In fact, during this episode, while they were walking among the zombie hordes, Luke very sweetly reached out and held Jules’ hand, which was very nice, but also reckless! Don’t hold hands while walking among zombie hordes!

Did anyone die in the episode? Alpha and a few unnamed members of The Whisperers died, but only one person in the Alexandria alliance died. Her name is Beatrice. She got chewed up by a zombie horde and left behind by Carol, who saw the writing on the wall and left Beatrice before she got eaten, too. Beatrice (an Oceansider) hasn’t had a lot of screentime, but she is best known here for not trusting Lydia, which is reason enough for her to die.

How long did they listen to “Burning Down the House”? Seriously, they must have had that song playing for hours, because there is a time skip in the middle of the episode, in which time jumps from day until night, and they are still playing the same song. Did it not drive anyone crazy listening to the same song on a loop? The walkers were following noise, but not a specific noise. Couldn’t they have switched up the song every once in a while, if only for their own sanity? No wonder Carol almost threw herself over a cliff!

“Do you know who that asshole is? It was fun to see Negan briefly starstruck by the identity of Beta underneath his mask, although Daryl was completely nonplussed. “He’s nobody.” That’s a super cool casual reaction, but come on, Daryl. If we found out that, say, Garth Brooks was Beta, we’d sh*t our pants.

In case you missed it, Beta is a very famous country musician in the universe of The Walking Dead. We found that out in an episode of Fear the Walking Dead last season.

Is Virgil going to move in on Connie? — Connie didn’t die, which is great news. However, the fact that she got picked up by Virgil — whose carelessness led to his family’s death, which led Virgil to a bout of insanity compounded by hallucinogenic tea — is maybe not the best thing in the world for Connie. But look: We know that Carol and Daryl are getting their own spin-off. There’s no room for Connie on that bike, so maybe her and Virgil can hit it off and stay together. Daryl and Connie would have made a cute couple, but then again, I’m not sure that Daryl is cut out for romantic adventures.

Did Carol and Daryl continue to lay the groundwork for their spin-off? They sure did! Earlier this season, the two talked about getting on Daryl’s motorcycle and riding away on adventures together. After defeating Beta and The Whisperers, Daryl suggested that they maybe do exactly that and ride out to Mexico (Angela Kang calls the Daryl and Carol spin-off a road-trip drama). Carol, however, insists that they still have things to do, so I suppose they will put that road trip off for exactly 30 more episodes.

HBO’s ‘Lovecraft Country’ is ambitious and astounding and will undoubtedly blow your expectations away. Created by Misha Green, who’s working with Matt Ruff’s 1950s-set dark-fantasy novel as source material, the show counts horror visionary Jordan Peele and sci-fi maestro J.J. Abrams as executive producers. The show is full of literary and musical references, along with monsters, both in-your-face and figurative; we’ll discuss the resulting symbolism on a weekly basis.

Lovecraft Country began as a road trip that highlighted the horrors experienced by Black Americans and then took monster-chomping vengeance upon bad guys. Over the past few months, the show’s explored a cult and a haunted house traveling into the cosmos, and there’s no telling where Hippolyta is right now. In his week’s episode, “Jig-A-Bobo,” the bad-guy-chomping returned, big time, but there’s a lot of layers along the way.

We also learned what happened when Atticus slipped into one of Hiram’s time-machine portals: (1) He briefly journeyed into the future; (2) He learned that his son, George (named after Courtney B. Vance’s late character), penned the Lovecraft Country novel that’s authored in real-life by Matt Ruff (and is the basis for this show). It’s all so circular but still delightfully maddening. On a more serious note, grim plights go down during this episode. We’ll work through that, but let’s begin with the most climactic turn of events.

1. Atticus wanted magic, and as a result, he’s got a new pet:

During the episode’s final moments, a monster burst out of a city street and saved Tic from a bullet meant to kill him. In the process, Leti and Ruby were also saved, and the creature tore down the street, killing a bunch of racist cops. Then the beast nuzzled up to Atticus, all cute-like. Justice served? Sure. And where does this leave Tic, other than looking a lot like Chris Pratt with Blue the raptor in those Jurassic World movies? I hope they take this further, and we’ll see Jonathan Majors toss a saddle on one of these creatures and joyride on the beast through downtown Chicago. It’d only be fitting to see him tame a monster that’s inspired by the virulently bigoted H.P. Lovecraft. I’m here for it.

This is also a fine turn of events for Tic to look like a hero again. After all, he’s been laying low for a few weeks and staring at pieces of paper while Leti, Hippolyta, and Ruby have been getting sh*t done, and while Christina’s been pulling strings. Yes, Atticus the Nerd might rise victorious. He’s been attempting to decipher those pages from the Book of Names and track down the rest of the book, and perhaps it’s all paying off now? It also helped that Tic and Montrose managed to stop trying to kill each other and executed a successful spell. I’ve got more to say about Atticus when it’s time to talk about Christina.

2. Diana only wanted to be a kid, so please leave her alone, ghosts:

In less fun news, Dee (portrayed by the outstanding Jada Harris) needs serious help. She was already traumatized enough by her father’s death, her mother being in the wind, and attending the funeral of her friend, Bobo. (Yep, his nickname not only feeds into the episode title, but he’s representative of the real-life Emmett Till, who was lynched at age 14 in a horribly racist act of kidnapping and murder.) Then Captain Lannister (who tracked Dee after finding her comic-book artistry near Hiram’s time machine) placed a hex upon her, and a copy of Uncle Tom’s Cabin (the 1952 novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe) hopped off a shelf. Is that all? Nope.

Poor Dee spent the rest of the episode being terrorized by nefarious ghost twins who resemble the controversial Topsy character (who was described in Stowe’s prose as “imp of darkness” and the “blackest little pickaninny”) from the book. Stowe did not intend for the character to be carried forth as an offensive caricature, but that’s exactly what society did. And Lovecraft Country, of course, isn’t afraid to throw Topsy at its audience in addition to other horrors from Black American history. Also of particular resonance is Dee uttering Eric Garner’s “I Can’t Breathe” plea (now used as a slogan for the Black Lives Matter movement). While being put in a headlock, Dee also gazed up to see the Cream of Wheat ad (and original mascot, who has since been declared a racist caricature by scholars, and finally, the corporation itself), which is haunted as well.

Dee’s suffering throughout the episode, and the refusal of any adult to listen to her stories or take her trauma seriously, is heartbreaking. She ended up suffering in silence, and Montrose eventually came to Dee’s aid late in the game. It’s about damn time.

3. Christina wanted immortality, and she’s achieving it:

The absolutely brutal beat down and shooting of Christina by cops was, apparently, done by request (and she survived while cackling over her healing wounds). This lady is absolutely insane and definitely dangerous. She’s also now the biggest wild card of the season with only a few episodes to go and her motives remaining nebulous:

– With Atticus: Christina wants those missing pages from Atticus, but does she also want him (and Black America) to perish? She seemingly revealed all to Tic and even called him “cousin,” but he refused to trust her, and for good reason. Atticus later mentioned to Montrose that his son’s novel included a part where Christina (who was actually a male named Caleb in Matt Ruff’s novel) killed Atticus. Yet Atticus seemed confident while telling his Korean ex-girlfriend (Ji-Ah, the tentacle-sex woman) that her vision was wrong, and he won’t die soon (hey, he did dodge that bullet at the end).

– With Ruby: So, I guess this is really happening now. At this point, the sex scenes in this show are somehow even more memorable than HBO’s True Blood.

Christina is still transforming into William to have sex with Ruby, who transformed into Dell to do the deed, but she reached such, uh, heights that she inadvertently sloughed off Dell’s skin in the process. Christina remarked that Ruby was “being reborn” while they had sex. Well, Ruby’s angry at first at Christina not understanding her own white privilege and acting like all oppression is down to gender. (Note: Christina’s behavior sparks plenty of thoughts over here about intersectionality, which didn’t emerge as a concept until the late 1980s, but I assume the references are intentional.) However, Ruby seemed to start buying what Christina is selling (“You took that potion so you didn’t have to think about being a woman.. Who wanted what she wanted…”), and then things grew more curious when Christina lured Leti into whatever she’s scheming.

– With Leti: Again, it seems like those missing pages are key here. Christina followed Leti to a church, and they did some negotiating, which led to Leti offering photographic negatives to Christina in exchange for protecting Atticus. Leti wanted invulnerability for Tic, but Christina suggested that she’d rather protect Leti. And she gave Leti the Mark of Cain, which should (as it did in the Bible) aim to protect Leti from premature death. The trailer actually made it look like this moment was Leti feeling abdominal pain from some Rosemary’s Baby scenario, but since Tic and Leti’s son is apparently not an alien or devil, all good? We’ll see. (He’s a writer, and writers do love to make sh*t up — and now, I’m being silly.)

On the idea that Christina’s yanking both Ruby and Leti’s chains, are they both being manipulated? Probably, and this tweet sums this situation up quite nicely.

HBO’s ‘Lovecraft Country’ airs Sundays at 9:00pm EST.

Billboard has been the defining name in music charts for decades, but they’ve had to face new competitors in recent years. Rolling Stone launched their own charts in 2019, and the year before that, Apple Music rolled out daily charts. Now, the biggest name in music that hasn’t been mentioned yet, Spotify, has entered the chart space: The platform has introduced its own set of charts, the first of which were revealed today.

In a post on its website, Spotify describes its set of Spotify Weekly Music Charts as “a new way for artists and their fans to celebrate milestones on Spotify” and notes, “Listeners have long been able to view the top daily songs on Spotify, but this new weekly offering brings recognition — and celebration — to a whole new level. Expanding our charts allows fans and artists alike to better share and enjoy pivotal music moments, as well as get a definitive snapshot of what music is having the most global impact — from new album releases to new hit singles.”

Included in the initial rollout is a set of Weekly Top 50 charts, which track listening data between Fridays and Thursdays and includes a US Weekly Album Chart, Global Weekly Album Chart, US Weekly Song Chart, and Global Weekly Song Chart. These charts are set to be published on Mondays. Additionally, there are also the US Top 10 Debuts and Global Top 10 Debuts charts, which “capture the biggest new releases on Spotify, Friday through Sunday” and “incorporate data from the first 72 hours a song or album is live, giving an exciting early take on new music.” The post also notes that “market-specific versions of each of these charts” are coming soon.

Spotify has launched the initiative with the creation of the @SpotifyCharts Twitter account, which this morning has unveiled the inaugural lists. Leading the first Top 50 Global Albums chart (counting streams from September 25 to October 1) is Pop Smoke’s Shoot For The Stars, Aim For The Moon. Meanwhile, 24kGoldn leads the Top 50 Global Songs chart with the Iann Dior-featuring “Mood,” Joji’s Nectar is on top of the Top 50 Albums USA chart, and Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion’s “WAP” is No. 1 on the Top 50 Songs USA chart.

Check out the inaugural charts below.

Some artists covered here are Warner Music artists. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.

Free Guy originally sat on the release schedule for July 2020, and everyone knows what happened there. Heck, the first trailer for the movie surfaced in December 2019. It’s been a hell of a year, but the movie will come out eventually (kinda wondering if we’ll see a VOD release, rather than a continued wait, given this new trailer), and the movie’s now embracing the chaos. That’s fitting, since the movie’s about Ryan Reynolds playing a background character (Guy, natch) who realizes that he’s living inside a video game.

Cue the explosions and a Grand Theft Auto-style living environment, along with Jodie Freaking Comer (as Molotov Girl) in a wig that doesn’t belong to an assassin. How unusual, but this might be the action-comedy that people need right now, despite the endless supply of nefarious parties with dodgy weapons. While this does look like a movie that would look great on the big screen — with Michael Bay-style booms all over the place, courtesy of director Shawn Levy (Night at the Museum) — and officially, this is scheduled for a December 11 theater release, a VOD hot drop wouldn’t be unwelcome! We could use a Good Guy now.

Free Guy also co-stars Taika Waititi (acting like a smartass in this trailer) and Joe Keery. In this teaser posted over the weekend, the cast covered all bases while projecting a true release date. They’re rolling with the punches, like Reynolds in the trailer.

Netflix might want to toss a coin (or many coins) to Henry Cavill.

Enola Holmes, where he plays old brother Sherlock to Millie Bobby Brown’s younger sister Enola, continues to lurk in the most-viewed top-10, while on Monday, the Mission: Impossible – Fallout star also shared the first look at season two of The Witcher, one of the streaming service’s most popular shows. If it wasn’t for Cavill, well, Netflix would be fine, but it would be worse without Geralt of Rivia and Jaskier.

“‘It may turn out,’ said the white-haired man a moment later, ‘that their comrades or cronies may ask what befell these evil men. Tell them the Wolf bit them. The White Wolf. And add that they should keep glancing over their shoulders. One day they’ll look back and see the Wolf.’ – From the writings of Andrzej Sapkowski,” Cavill wrote on his Instagram page (Sapkowski is the author of The Witcher book series), along with two photos of himself as Geralt. One shows his new armor; the other, his mighty sword.

The Witcher returned to production in August for season two, which showrunner Lauren S. Hissrich explained will be less confusing than last season. “We get to do flashbacks, we get to do flash-forwards, we get to actually integrate time in a completely different way that we weren’t able to do in season one,” she said. Because, if you can imagine, if we were in three different timelines [in season one] and then flashed forward or flashed back, we would have been in four or five or six timelines — even I know that’s too much. So I think it will be a lot easier for the audience follow and understand, especially a new audience coming in. But there are still going to be some fun challenges with time.”

Also more infuriatingly catchy songs.

President Trump’s COVID-19 diagnosis led to a series of weekend spectacles, including one in which he risked the health of Secret Service members to take an outside jaunt outside Walter Reed like he’s in North Korea. As Dan Rather summed up on Twitter, “Covid motorcades, signing blank papers, and tear gas walks to a church: the tragedy of Donald Trump’s photo ops.” No matter what side you’re coming at these developments from, this has been a truly exhausting weekend for the American people.

Fast-forward to Monday morning, and it sure looks like it’s been a long weekend for POTUS as well. He’s on steroid treatment to combat the virus, and it’s clear that he’s experiencing side effects. Yes, the president is literally tweeting on steroids. As a result, he is Hulking out on Twitter, which explains why “ROID RAGE” is sitting in the sidebar. It is… something, and as writer Amee Vanderpool observed, “The last time I took steroids was in March for Covid. I ripped a t-shirt off of my body from the neck down because the material was scratchy and irritating my skin.”

That’s a perfectly apt explanation for the seventeen all-caps tweets that Trump unloaded within one hour. He’s letting the rage fly with tweets like “SPACE FORCE, VOTE!” along with entries for the 2nd Amendment and religious liberty. The tweet that launched the avalanche ended with, “[R]emember that the Stock Market is getting ready to break its all time high. NEXT YEAR WILL BE THE BEST EVER. VOTE, VOTE, VOTE!!!!!

This healthcare entry is truly baffling, considering that Trump’s enjoying taxpayer-funded healthcare for an infection that he acquired after calling it a hoax.

And like The Terminator, he did not stop.

It’s not even 10:00am EST yet, so watch out, America. Someone’s got the rage of the ‘roids, and no one has taken away the phone charger (yet).

The internet doesn’t always make sense, but that’s what makes it fun. Recently, Nathan Apodaca, better known as @420doggface208 on TikTok, posted a selfie video recently of himself skateboarding on the street, drinking cranberry juice and lip-syncing along to Fleetwood Mac’s 1997 classic “Dreams.” The clip went viral: It has over 20 million views as of press time and caused streams of “Dreams” to nearly double and sales to triple.

The band caught wind of the video, sharing it in late September and tweeting, “We love this!” Mick Fleetwood liked it so much, in fact, that he decided to bring things full circle by recreating the viral clip. The 73-year-old rocker joined TikTok over the weekend and went full @420doggface208, riding along a paved path, taking swigs out of a bottle of Ocean Spray cran-raspberry juice, and singing along with his band’s classic track.

He captioned his post, “@420doggface208 had it right. Dreams and Cranberry just hits different.” Apodaca later re-shared Fleetwood’s post and wrote, “What a day,” along with hashtags like “cloud9,” “king,” “legend,” and “happyhippie.” Apodaca’s reshared video also included screenshots of an exchange between him and Fleetwood in the comments of the rocker’s post. Apodaca commented, “YoOoOoOoo so dope an blessed stay Steady Vibin homie,” to which Fleetwood responded, “Maybe when all this is Covid business is over we create one together !!”

Watch the original video and Fleetwood’s remake above.

In another timeline, Melania Trump basically saying “f*ck Christmas” (her actual phrasing: “I’m working… my ass off on the Christmas stuff, that you know, who gives a f*ck about the Christmas stuff and decorations? But I need to do it, right?”) would deserve an entire episode of Last Week Tonight. But because last week was so jam-packed with other, bigger headlines, like the president refusing to condemn a white supremacy group during his debate with Joe Biden, the first lady coming after Santa only got a brief mention by John Oliver in the lead-up to the segment.

Instead, Oliver focused on Donald Trump (and Melania, and Hope Hicks, and Chris Christie, and John Jenkins, and…) testing positive for coronavirus after months of downplaying its severity. “It was news that was felt shocking and utterly inevitable,” he said. “So many of the decisions that Trump and those around him made this week look absolutely appalling in hindsight, from his family refusing to wear masks at Tuesday’s debate, to failing to notify anyone on the Biden team that they may have been exposed, to the fact that the fundraiser he attended just before testing positive was a fucking buffet,” adding, “But maybe the event that looks the worst took place last weekend.”

That would be the ceremony in the White House Rose Garden to celebrate Trump’s latest Supreme Court nominee, Amy Coney Barrett (who tested positive for coronavirus over the summer). There was hugging and handshakes, but few masks. Oliver said:

“Much like the slew of utterly horrifying Supreme Court rulings over the next few decades, it seems we may look back on Saturday’s White House event and say, ‘All of this began there.’ And there is something utterly infuriating about watching them hugging each other when many in this country haven’t seen their families for months or have died alone in a hospital. And it’s not just that they’re putting themselves at risk, more importantly, it’s that they’re risking infecting others. The thing about a highly contagious virus is your recklessness could end up killing someone you never meet.”

Oliver ended the segment by echoing Trump’s message for the Proud Boys: “This week more than ever, proves that in the midst of a pandemic, when you act without caution, you cannot expect a virus to stand back and stand by.” He also covered the election (oh yeah, that!) during Sunday’s episode, which you can watch below.

21 Savage and Metro Boomin only got a handful of guests on Savage Mode II, but the ones they got made a splash. Drake, for example, used his verse on “Mr. Right Now” to reveal he previously was in a relationship with one of today’s best R&B singers: “Yeah, said she wanna f*ck to some SZA, wait / ‘Cause I used to date SZA back in ’08.”

Now, SZA herself has spoken out about the lyric, confirming that Drake was mostly correct.

Taking to Twitter last night, SZA confirmed the relationship but noted that Drake’s timeline was a bit off. She wrote, “So It was actually 2009 lol.. in this case a year of poetic rap license mattered. lol I think he jus innocently rhymed 08 w wait . Anybody who really knows me and was around during this time can confirm.. it’s all love all peace.” She later added, “I just didn’t want anybody thinking anything underage or creepy was happening . Completely innocent . Lifetimes ago .” At this time (October 5) in 2009, SZA was 18 years old, whereas she would have been 17 at this time on 2008. At this time in 2009, Drake was 22.

Meanwhile, Drake had another big collaboration on Friday aside from this one, as he also joined Bryson Tiller on “Outta Time.”

The first episode of the new The Walking Dead spin-off, The World Beyond, has premiered, and the show immediately throws us into a new mystery. The limited series — scheduled to run for only two seasons and 20 episodes — is designed to answer this question: “What is the Civic Republic, and what are their motives?”

There’s a new cast of characters here, and an explosive secret between them, namely that Elton’s mom killed Hope and Iris’s mom on Monument Day ten years ago, while Hope accidentally killed Elton’s mom in retaliation. Now, Hope, her sister Iris, Elton, and Silas are all on a journey from Nebraska to New York to find the father or Hope and Iris, who is working in New York to help the Civic Republic find a cure for the zombie virus. Silas, meanwhile, appears to be zombie chum, but I suspect he’ll be the Carol Peletier of the group: a character who starts out weak but who evolves when confronted by zombies. Elsewhere, two other characters, Felix (head of security) and Huck, are tracking the other foursome.

Meanwhile, the end of the episode reveals that the CRM liquidated the Campus Colony in Nebraska. Elizabeth and the military, it appears, killed absolutely everyone there, which certainly suggests that the Civic Republic is made up of very bad people. But like a lot of other villainous groups we’ve seen in The Walking Dead universe, the Civic Republic probably thinks they are serving a greater good. They are, after all, ostensibly searching for a cure for the virus.

In the meantime, before Elizabeth — who is the head of the CRM — liquidated the Campus Colony, she had a conversation with Hope and Iris, in which she gave them a map and told them where their father is, which suggests that she wanted Hope and Iris to escape before everyone in the Campus Colony was killed. Why? That remains unclear.

However, there was one exchange between Elizabeth and Hope and Iris that’s very intriguing for fans of Fear the Walking Dead. “I have a daughter,” Elizabeth tells Hope and Iris. “She’s a bit older than you. She’s a soldier in the CRM. She’s away from me a great deal, and that makes me scared sometimes.”

Elizabeth doesn’t come right out and say her name, but it’s worth combining that exchange with what Scott Gimple said during Comic-Con a couple of months ago — namely that we will “find out more about Isabelle in the future.” Who is Isabelle? Isabelle is a CRM soldier (a little older than Hope and Iris), who we met on Fear the Walking Dead. She’s the CRM soldier who was searching for gas for her helicopter in Texas and fell in love with Althea.

It doesn’t take a big leap to put two and two together here and draw the conclusion that Isabelle is likely Elizabeth’s daughter. It’s worth noting, too, that Isabelle told Althea in Fear the Walking Dead that she is from Indiana, which could possibly answer one lingering question on The World Beyond: Where is the Civic Republic? Is it Indiana? Possibly. Elizabeth, after all, noted that she had to travel a long ways to get to the Campus Colony in Nebraska, and Indiana and Nebraska are 800 miles away from each other. That’s a “long way,” but not so long that the alliance of three — between Portland, Nebraska, and possibly Indiana — isn’t out of the question (Nebraska to Oregon, after all, is 1200 miles).

Likewise, remember what Isabelle told Althea? “If you see someone wearing this [CRM] jacket, you should be afraid…” That was made abundantly clear in the final seconds of The World Beyond premiere when the CRM took out hundreds of people. “We are a force who are not living for ourselves or for now. You have your stories, already making every day the past. We have the future,” Isabelle told Althea on Fear the Walking Dead. That language syncs perfectly with the damage that Elizabeth and the CRM did to the Campus Colony, which was almost certainly more about the future than the now.

I bet it won’t be the last connection between The World Beyond and the other two shows, either. Scott Gimple may have planted another future Easter Egg by having Huck and Felix spray-paint zombies blue to track how far they travel. I bet we end up seeing the odd blue zombie in the other shows in the future. We’ll find out in the coming weeks.

The World Beyond returns next week with its second episode, along with the sixth season premiere of Fear the Walking Dead on AMC.