“Fear The Walking Dead” Season 5 has been teasing fans about the return of former frontliner Kim Dickens’ Madison Clark. Season 4 saw Dickens’ character lost in a baseball stadium after heroically sacrificing herself by leading a horde of walkers into it so that the others may escape. The fifth installment of FTWD seemed to have alluded to her return by introducing some mysterious writings on trees that Alicia Clark, Madison’s daughter, started investigating.
But episode 11 of Season 5 disappointed fans when it was revealed that it was not Madison returning, but a new character, Colby Hollman’s Wes, was being introduced instead. As saddening as this was for fans, some people believe that Madison’s returning to the show may not change anything for the dying series at all.
“Fear The Walking Dead” has seen a decline in its viewership over the last year. Fans on popular discussion website Reddit have started to complain about the poor quality of the latest season and the steady corruption of a formerly good storyline. Some have theorized that Madison’s return might be a comeback to better days, but writer Paul Tassi of Forbes believes otherwise.
This does not seem like a logical choice for Dickens herself as she was forcefully killed off from the show. Now that the actress has been getting a steady line of new projects, returning to a series that booted her off seems like a bad move for her career at this point.
“Dickens did not seem terribly pleased when she was written out of the show back in season 4, and it’s hard to blame her,” Tassi explained. “The show really threw that chance away, and Dickens is currently filming other projects.”
More than that, the character of Madison changed from the previous seasons and may have partially contributed to the “boring” storyline that viewers have come to dislike. Dickens’ character in the fourth installment was much less “ruthless” and “bloodthirsty,” which Tassi explains was Madison’s whole appeal to begin with.
“In a perfect world, I would love to see ‘old Madison’ return and serve as a direct contrast to the likes of Morgan and John and June and their super do-gooder attitude with a return to her ‘survival at all costs’ mentality,” said the writer.
“That would almost certainly not be what happens, however, as Fear the Walking Dead is currently a cult where no one is allowed to do anything morally questionable and everyone spends all day everyday making up for past misdeeds, both real and imagined,” Tassi added.
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