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Color Page 2 • Terre Haute Tribune-Star • October 22 - 28, 2023 It's the beginning of the end of the trail for some apocalypse survivors in the return of the final season of "Fear the Walking Dead." The "Walking Dead" spinoff series' midseason premiere airs on AMC Sunday, Oct. 22, just in time for an early celebration of the eeriest holiday of the year. Kim Dickens ("Friday Night Lights") stars as Madison Clark, a high school guidance counsellor before the outbreak who now oversees the recon- struction of a survivors' island colony. "Fear the Walking Dead" closes out an impressive eight-season run with six epi- sodes to go before the big, two-part series finale set to air Sunday, Nov. 19. The first of now six spinoffs of the original se- ries, "Fear the Walking Dead" premiered in 2015 and followed an extended family as they tried to survive in post-apocalyp- tic Los Angeles. The series detailed the survivors' journey as they travelled and settled in California, Mexico and now an island off the Georgia coast. The island, known as PADRE, was constructed after the walker outbreak as a military operation intended to distribute supplies to new communities of survi- vors. A tragic walker invasion decimated PADRE, and since then, desperate survi- vors have used the island's resources that once represented a more hopeful future. In the first half of the final season of "Fear the Walking Dead," Madison landed on PADRE after a hard-fought journey to find the island with Morgan Jones (Lennie James, "Save Me"). The pair reunited Morgan with his daugh- ter, Mo (Zoey Merchant, "The Price of Fame"), by force at PADRE before the show leaps seven years into the future. Madison is imprisoned on PADRE while Morgan spends most of the first six episodes of the season on his own mission, trying to save Grace Mukher- jee (Karen David, "Legacies") from ra- diation sickness before sadly losing her and setting off to Alexandria. With the dangerous former co-lead- ers of PADRE no longer a problem, Madison attempts to reinvigorate the spirit of PADRE and the island with the remaining resources available to them. While the final episodes of "Fear the Walking Dead" could certainly detail the establishment of a post-apoc- alyptic paradise, this is the Walking Dead universe after all, so there will undoubtedly be danger lurking in the shadows of PADRE. This season also stars Rubén Blades ("The Counselor," 2013) as resistance leader Daniel Salazar; Colman Domingo ("Sing Sing," 2023) as antihero Victor Strand; Danay Garcia ("Prison Break") as survivor Luciana Galvez; Austin Amelio ("Hit Man," 2023) as PADRE member Dwight; Christine Evangelista ("Mrs. Fletcher") as Dwight's wife, Sher - ry; Jenna Elfman ("The Twilight Zone") as nurse June Dorie, who is on the run from PADRE; and one former cast member whose appearance in a trailer for the upcoming return of the series may have come as a surprise to "Fear the Walking Dead" fans. Daniel Sharman ("A Town Called Malice") returns as Troy Otto, a mem- ber of the Broke Jaw Ranch community who last appeared in the third season of "Fear the Walking Dead." It seemed un- likely that Troy would make any sort of comeback after he was bludgeoned, but leave it to the Walking Dead universe to bring someone back from the dead. In an official trailer for the upcoming season, Troy spits, "Madison, been a while," before removing his sunglasses, revealing his chilling new appearance. Though one icy-white iris doesn't seem too bad for having survived a hammer attack. The trailer also teases, in addition to some gruesome walker kills, a sword-wielding Victor teaming up with Madison to "save PADRE"; Daniel, Lu- ciana and June all preparing for battle; nearly everyone staring down the barrel of a gun; explosions, car flips and mud- dy battles. coverstory BY SARAH PASSINGHAM Jenna Elfman in "Fear the Walking Dead" 'Fear' the undead: 'Fear the Walking Dead' returns with final episodes One of the best movies of Charlton Heston's later career, the 1973 sci-fi drama "Soylent Green" leads off the final night of Turner Classic Movies' Star of the Month tribute to the actor Wednesday, Oct. 25. Since it's set in 2022, some viewers may get a rueful chuckle out of its portrait of a densely pol- luted, overpopulated New York … but there's also something quite moving about its rumination of the world the way it used to be. Heston plays a policeman whose investigation of a tycoon's (Joseph Cot- ten) murder exposes him to the good life the slain man lived. That encom- passes such then-novelties as fresh beef and strawberries, some of which the cop spirits away to share with his friend and assistant – or "book," in the parlance of this tale. That role marks the final performance of Edward G. Robinson, who's thoroughly moving and simply wonderful here. Leigh Tay- lor-Young, Chuck Connors and Brock Peters are among other familiar faces on hand. Charlton Heston and Brock Peters in "Soylent Green" Charlton Heston's "Soylent Green" offers food for thought classiccorner BY JAY BOBBIN "Adventures of Superman" (Heroes & Icons, Sunday, Oct. 22): The show added a major element – color – to its fourth season, which opened with the story "Joey." The Man of Steel's outfit previously had been seen in black-and-white in live ac- tion, but series star George Reeves displayed the official Super- man colors for the first time as the hero came to the aid of Joey, a promising, Daily Planet-owned racehorse with a special and continuing connection to its previous owner (Janine Perreau). "Law & Order: Criminal Intent" (Charge, Sunday, Oct. 22): Now part of the lineup on this channel, the series presents the fourth-season episode "Keep," pitting detective partners Goren and Eames (Vincent D'Onfrio, Kathryn Erbe) on the trail of a serial killer who is keeping the bodies of the women he targets. The sleuths eventually suspect a shy fellow (played by guest star Neil Patrick Harris), assessing that he might not want to be challenged by anyone he chooses to keep company with. more retro rewinds