14. 2x08. Grotesque.

Fear the Walking Dead: A Podcast.
Show episode 2x08. Grotesque.
Podcast epiode 14.
     Quinn Warner, Stephen Payne, and Bruce R. Magee discuss this week's episode. Nick spends most of the episode trying to survive in the desert, either by himself or with a herd of infected.

     Quinn likes this episode a lot because it focuses on Nick, her favorite character. And she and Bruce like the focus on Nick's internal life.  This is the first time that we've really gotten to see the impact of Gloria's death in the first episode on Nick, since in the earlier episodes we haven't known what was going on for him emotionally. We also find out why Nick's father is missing from his life; he died in a car wreck while Nick was in rehab. 

     Nick's journey through the desert is also in internal journey as he has to face the memories and emotions he's been avoiding.  The infected are dangerous but not evil; true evil has to have actual malevolence, like the murderous trio who kill for fun until they get too close to the infected. Nick seems to want to join the infected in eating the men they killed, but he settles for eating a freshly killed dog. By the end of the episode, Nick has joined a new group near the U.S. border. With Nick in their midst, how long can they survive?  Tune in to find out.