Warning! Spoilers ahead for Season 6 finale of Fear the Walking Dead

Although fans have known for weeks that Fear the Walking Dead was getting set for a potentially nuclear ending for Season 6, thanks to the deadly schemes of Teddy's "End Is the Beginning" cult, I still wasn't ready for the finale to actually GO THERE. Only one of the missiles deployed, which is a depressing silver lining, but the one that did was equipped with ten warheads, and viewers saw some of the massive destruction that was caused by those that detonated. Since we didn't even see all the explosions, Season 7 could definitely bring the boom when it starts up later this year.

In a recent interview with CinemaBlend, producer Michael Satrazemis said, "It's just, in the initial setup of 'a rocket was launched,' nobody in their right minds would let it land. Not filmmaker-wise, you know? That's crazy moving forward; it's so hard to accomplish. So I hope that nobody ever thinks that it's really coming. And it is a big episode, so I got very excited. . . . I knew a lot earlier in the season, obviously, then Andrew and I would go through things in the pitch documents. But I probably asked a few times if it was real. I mean, I know for a fact I did. 'So we're really gonna let it land?... So we're really gonna let it land?' And the answer was still 'Yes,' always. That's just the big one, you know, and you're working towards that and you're like, 'Are we really going to do this?' And then there's a lot of questions. I had a lot of time to wrap my head around it, just knowing that I was going to direct it, but really how to how to accomplish it technically. 

"All of us - there was probably a little think-tank group of twelve that basically researched blast radiuses and everything. Fallout. Wind shifts. We had to map out warheads, the splitting of the warheads. Mapped out the groups; kind of where they were perspective-wise. There was a lot of mapping it out in prep and talking about it, and where it leads into the future of everything. We watched a lot of videos. [Laughs.] We saw a little too much for me, but we did a lot of research. I think you just have to. With something like this, you want to be as accurate as possible. You don't want to cheat the viewers out of anything, and you don't want to take any licenses. It is a unique perspective that most of us never will ever, ever, ever see, that most people in the history of the world would never get to see. So I think it's nice to bring in audience and fans a perspective that they would never have seen otherwise. . . . We definitely raised the apocalypse to a new level: the nuclear apocalypse."