Is Fear the Walking Dead About to Collide With World Beyond?
(This article contains spoilers for the season 6 finale of Fear the Walking Dead)  Now that is follow-through. During this entire story arc with Teddys doomsday cult, I never really thought the nuke was truly a threat. But I held out some small hope that the bad guys would succeed, that they would deliver a massive jolt not to just Fear the Walking Dead but also to the entire Walking Dead TV universe. And they did it. They really did it. And I think I can speak for most viewers when I say Im extremely curious about whats gonna happen next now that Isabelle, Als girlfriend from the Civic Republic  those are the baddies from The Walking Dead: World Beyond  is apparently now taking an active role in events on Fear.  Fear has been dropping nods to the Civic Republic folks fairly regularly for the past two seasons, though though only actually appeared once: in the season 5 episode in which we met Isabelle. Now, a season of World Beyond and a nuclear explosion later, Isabelle is back with a CRM helicopter helping carry Als pals to safety. The biggest obstacle to crossovers between the various Walking Dead shows, however, is that none of them is taking place at the same time. TWD and Fear briefly matched up so that Morgan and Dwight could switch shows, but then the main series took a six-year time jump, putting it more than a decade into the apocalypse. World Beyond is a couple years before that, ten years into the zombie situation, and Fear is still at least a few years before that. The way this episode split up the cast feels like it provides an easy crossover opportunity, though. The folks who got on the helicopter  thats Luciana (Danay Garcia), Daniel (Reuben Blades), Wes (Colby Hollman), Charlie (Alexa Nisenson), Rabbi Kessner (Peter Jacobson) and Sarah (Mo Collins)  can leave Fear and head to other corners of this universe, while everybody else stays behind. The helicopter crew could have their own personal time skip, and then perhaps pop up again when Iris, Hope and their crew finally make it to the place their dad is in New York. That would be cool, but Ive got a better idea. They could run into Rick Grimes. Rick left the main series on a CRM helicopter before the big time jump, and that clearly puts him in play here  or at least it makes it hypothetically much easier for these characters to catch up with him. The problem is we havent gotten any updates in years on the movies that Rick is supposed to return in, but theyve continued to lay the groundwork for that story with Michonne running off after him in early on in TWD season 10, not to mention the heavy focus on the Civic Republic in World Beyond.  All of this is, presumably, adding up to something. The pandemic no doubt affected AMCs plans for the big picture of the Walking Dead universe, and with none of these shows matching up on the timeline it was already pretty hard to figure out how these pieces fit together  especially as the Commonwealth enters the fray in the main series. There are a lot of balls in the air. But the Fear the Walking Dead season finale seems to be pointing, at least, at some more crossovers between the shows.