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Fear the Walking Dead – Season 1, Episode 5 Cobalt

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Fear the Walking Dead – Season 1, Episode 5

Cobalt

Aired Sep 27, 2015

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Horror

Sci-Fi

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The National Guard's plan for the neighborhood is revealed; Travis and Madison make a difficult decision.

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In the penultimate episode of Fear the Walking Dead's first season, "Cobalt" injects new life into its sequestered group of survivors with an intriguing new character.

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Paul Vigna

Wall Street Journal

09/28/2015

It is easily the best episode yet.

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Noel Murray

Rolling Stone

09/28/2015

So long as the writing and the characters can stay as strong as they are here... then Fear's future looks bright. Or at least as bright as a zombie apocalypse can ever be.

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Emily St. James

Vox

09/28/2015

A fascinating ride through the sequestered neighborhood at the show's center.

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Angela L. Harmon

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12/11/2019

Fear the Walking Dead is, almost surprisingly, concerning itself much less with the presence of the undead than examining the ugliness of the panicked human condition...

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Alex Mullane

Digital Spy

11/18/2015

We know them a lot better than we knew the cast of the original at this point; they should be at least as fascinating. But they're not.

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M. King Adkins

PopMatters

09/30/2015

6/10

The end of Cobalt... suggest[s] change is coming to the show's plotline and level of action. For the first time, the walkers appear as a large-scale threat (if one that has so far been contained) rather than a distant worry.

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Synopsis

The National Guard's plan for the neighborhood is revealed; Travis and Madison make a difficult decision.

Executive Producer: Robert Kirkman, Dave Erickson
Network: AMC
Rating: TV-MA (L|V)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Original Language: English
Release Date: Sep 27, 2015

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