Fear The Walking Dead Season 2 Episode 8 Review: Nick, Why You So Stupid?

"Fear The Walking Dead" returns with an episode entitled "Grotesque". When we last saw our survivors, Daniel had burnt down Celia's house (and presumable died in the process). Travis and Killer Chris were off roaming the countryside. Nick refused to leave with Madison, Strand, Alicia and Ofelia. Instead he wanted to frolick with the zombies.

This week features Nick walking 100 miles to Tijuana and doing all sorts of stupid stuff in between. He could have gotten a nice car ride from Sophia and her son but nope. Instead he takes a jug of water and sets off through the desert. He loses all his belongings when he decides to bed down in an unprotected space. No need to worry. That fire won't draw any attention. He's just lucky a crazy woman with a bat found him and not a horde of walkers. Next he drinks from a cactus. Bad idea. He throws up all over the place. He's so thirty that he drinks his own urine. Gross. Plus that will only help short term. Nick needs to get some water stat

Dogs attack Nick as he sleeps and badly injure his leg. A swarm of zombies is nearby. Luckily, they eat the dogs instead of Nick. Nick has some dead doggie meat and hobbles away.

He joins the zombie horde. Are they really communicating with him or is Nick hallucinating? Is Nick the "Zombie Whisperer"? A guy is target practicing on the undead. The bullet's whiz past NIck but he isnt injured. The stupid guy drops his ammo and is eaten. Uh, just a thought but maybe you should have... I dont know... RAN FOR YOUR LIFE!

Nick passes out from his leg injury. A woman named Luciana spots him on the road but leaves him there. Nick finally gets to a town. He runs into Luciana's crew again. This time they take him to a doctor. The doc patches him up and reveals a thriving community.

Will Nick pull a "TWD" and cause all the nice townsfolk to lose their lives? Will he get bored and take off on his own again? Does anyone care? I'm afraid I dont. I really want to like you Nick but so far you're acting like a big dummy. You wouldn't survive 5 minutes during the "actual" zombie apocalypse... I mean if such a thing actually existed.

Grade: 3 Monsters (out of 5). I keep getting my hopes up, only to have "FTWD" dash them. Perhaps I'm being too hard on Nick. After all, he's never encountered zombies before. But how much do you need to know? They want to EAT YOU. It's not too difficult to figure out.

Yes I know Nick is an addict and addiction is a disease but he still acts irrationally. His life has been a lot easier than many peoples. He has a good support system. We see his time in rehab via a flashback. His girlfriend Gloria. Remember she was the first zombie we encountered on the show. His mom Madison is also there. Nick is mad at his daddy (who later dies in a car crash). Nick, you're a big ole whiner. I have the feeling Nick will always survive regardless of his behavior. Some one will always bail him out.

The good news is there are actually ZOMBIES in this episode. They were few and far between last year. Definitely an improvement. "Grotesque" was kinda boring though since it focused solely on one person. Hopefully we'll see more of Team Madison next week.