'Fear the Walking Dead' Goes Out on a Grim Note

Warning: This article contains spoilers, so if you haven't yet caught the season's last episode of FTWD, read ahead at your own risk.

After a second season marked by steadily declining ratings, Fear The Walking Dead wrapped things up last weekend with a season finale that did little to put the series on firmer footing. The finale was almost universally panned by critics, and ratings for the episode continued to be concerning compared to last season's numbers.

Sunday's two-hour finale consisted of two back-to-back episodes titled "Wrath" and "North." The average rating for the two episodes was a 1.4 in the 18-49 age demographic, a number that's in line with the trend for the series in the second half of this season, and it also marks a series low point. Ratings were also off by about half from last season's finale. Interestingly, the size of this year's audience fell by 17 percent from the first half of the finale to the second, suggesting that almost one in five viewers didn't like what they were seeing enough to stay tuned until the end.

Those who did stick around might have been disappointed to find out that the series played the character-death cliffhanger game, a tactic that's been causing some fan irritation over at the parent series, The Walking Dead. It also didn't help that the alleged death of Chris on FTWD happened off camera; fans of TWD have learned to stick to the "pics or it didn't happen" rule, given that on TWD, major-character off-camera deaths generally turn out to not be deaths at all.