Fear the Walking Dead - the new spin-off

25 Aug 2015

Fear the Walking Dead debuted on AMC last Sunday and became the No. 1-rated cable series launch of all time.

Did you watch, or do you plan to follow this spin-off show? What did you think? Casting/acting? Storyline? Do you like the style switch-up from The Walking Dead or do you think the spin-off will fail to maintain momentum?

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AMC's ‘Fear the Walking Dead’ Sets All-Time Cable Ratings Premiere Record. Nielsen estimates that the 90-minute debut of “Fear the Walking Dead” became the No. 1-rated cable series launch on record with 10.1 million viewers, including 6.3 million adults 18-49.

In total viewers, “Fear” surpasses TNT’s “Raising the Bar” (7.7 million in 2008) as top dog among cable premieres. The previous record in the 18-49 demo was AMC’s “Better Call Saul” (4.4 million) earlier this year. In fact, AMC now has three of the top five cable launches of all time, with “Walking Dead” ranking fifth.

In both 18-49 and total viewers, Sunday’s premiere out-rated all 22 episodes from the first two seasons of “The Walking Dead.”

26 Aug 2015

I taped it... and it's killing me. I can't wait to hook in on the weekend.

I'm really excited to see how it all goes down. It's a great idea to take the audience back to the beginning, rather than just pull a CSI/Law & Order style Zombies LA. It should give the spin-off a really good chance of success. Unless of course the first five minutes misled me and it's just more of the same with palm trees.

The characters didn't blow my skirt up, but like I say, I only saw a couple of minutes worth. Give 'em a chance and all that. If nothing else, if they don't grow on me, they might get eaten quickly...

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26 Aug 2015

I recorded it and watched it on Tuesday. I've been looking forward to it, but I didn't watch any previews before it aired. I never do on anything I watch, as they tell you far too much too soon.

As for the show, I think it will be pretty cool. I'm not sure if I'm going to like how it is simply based off this one family. I was more looking forward to the lead up to Rick waking up in hospital. Since this show isn't based in GA, that's obviously not going to happen.

The cast of the family, so far I think the girl is useless. She has no real reason to be, thus far. She was just a background figure in the first episode. The mother is already kind of annoying to me. She reminds me all too much like Andrea. The husband seems like he's going to be a bad ass and will take the strong lead into keeping them safe. As for the son, well, let's just say, I don't have much hope for that boy. He's a little crazy.

I do want to see where it goes and will faithfully watch the next five episodes, just to see what happens. Hopefully, fingers crossed, I'll end up liking it. Right now, I could live without it.

26 Aug 2015

I don't know. At least the mom is decent eye candy.

The dad seems to,lack any useful skills. He's a teacher, so maybe he will show book smarts, but he doesn't seem like the rugged, outdoors type to me.

I agree with Poppet about the daughter. I think anything beyond loading her iPod would seriously challenge her skill set.

Her son... Junkie and zombie bait.

His, dark, moody uselessly entitled. Right, like he's gonna save anyone.

I live in LA, and can tell you that they are in about the worst place they could be when this hits the fan. It will be interesting to see how they survive.

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26 Aug 2015

I had been hoping they would touch on the origins of the virus ie. what started it, how did it become airborne so quickly (and globally). I read an interview with Robert Kirkman who said the show isn't about that (or concerned with it), however I thought one of the strongest episodes on TWD was the one with Dr. Jenner, the scientist, at the CDC explaining how the virus reanimates the basic core of the brain. I would love to see more of that.

It also might have been cool to see a glimpse into different pockets of characters (eg. EMT, hospital staff, government, news reporters etc). I think it would have been interesting to go beyond this core family and then have all the characters converge later on.

Re the main family. I agree with others, I'm not feeling the parental units at the moment, or the sulky teenage girl. Unlike everyone else however, I absolutely love the Nick character. He's by far and away the most interesting one on the show and Frank Dillane's acting is absolutely stellar. He approached the role of a junkie with considerable complexity and vulnerability and I was kind of blown away actually. I thought he stole every scene he was in and I started feeling like maybe he was the main protagonist and the parents were the backseat characters. I'm already invested in him. The others.. not so much (yet).

There were a few lapses in believability that were frustrating with the parents and maybe that's why I'm turned off them - ie. why would Travis hear about a massacre at a drug den (involving blood and viscera) and then think the smartest thing to do was to go there... to the drug den. At night. And then, after seeing the mess himself, instead of calling the cops, he brings his wife there, who shrugs it off as "well, bad things happen all the time in places like this." What?? Come on, did you not see the viscera?? lol

Anyway, I get they were trying to move the plot along, but I'm hoping to see more genuine reactions in the next few episodes... sometime more along the lines of Frank Dillane's Nick character rather than this furrowed-brow, confused but weirdly calm, "what's going on here", styled take on everything. Especially in the final scene with the drug dealer... I'm kind of missing the shock and panic with those two. Maybe since it's LA, they're a little slower to startle.. dontknow

I do like the pacing though. I appreciate the slow-burn compared to TWD and I think the show has a lot of potential (as long as they don't kill Nick). I'm looking forward to the next episode.

ps. Anyone else think the first zombie, Gloria, was kinda hot? Embarassed

27 Aug 2015

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ps. Anyone else think the first zombie, Gloria, was kinda hot?

Yes! She was hot! A shame she had so little on-screen time.

29 Aug 2015

8 Sep 2015

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I had been hoping they would touch on the origins of the virus ie. what started it, how did it become airborne so quickly (and globally). I read an interview with Robert Kirkman who said the show isn't about that (or concerned with it), however I thought one of the strongest episodes on TWD was the one with Dr. Jenner, the scientist, at the CDC explaining how the virus reanimates the basic core of the brain. I would love to see more of that.

It also might have been cool to see a glimpse into different pockets of characters (eg. EMT, hospital staff, government, news reporters etc). I think it would have been interesting to go beyond this core family and then have all the characters converge later on.

Re the main family. I agree with others, I'm not feeling the parental units at the moment, or the sulky teenage girl. Unlike everyone else however, I absolutely love the Nick character. He's by far and away the most interesting one on the show and Frank Dillane's acting is absolutely stellar. He approached the role of a junkie with considerable complexity and vulnerability and I was kind of blown away actually. I thought he stole every scene he was in and I started feeling like maybe he was the main protagonist and the parents were the backseat characters. I'm already invested in him. The others.. not so much (yet).

There were a few lapses in believability that were frustrating with the parents and maybe that's why I'm turned off them - ie. why would Travis hear about a massacre at a drug den (involving blood and viscera) and then think the smartest thing to do was to go there... to the drug den. At night. And then, after seeing the mess himself, instead of calling the cops, he brings his wife there, who shrugs it off as "well, bad things happen all the time in places like this." What?? Come on, did you not see the viscera?? lol

Yeah, I think it's a bit of a missed opportunity not to get into the virus itself, as well as the story arcs for other groups of characters. I'm especially craving the first responder point of view and some good old fashioned nuts and bolts zombie stuff. I would have liked to see it from the very beginning, rather than the disjointed half of LA is getting the fuck out of town to escape the virus, while the other half rages against the authorities for being heavy handed for some reason thing.

The family's not blowing my skirt up either. It's almost as if they've wandered over from the set of the last generic disaster movie - cliché mum with the heart of gold, loser dad trying too hard to prove himself, angry teen kid #1 and troubled teen # 2... sigh. I don't like any of them yet.

It was the whole junkie thing that set off my believability hackles. Nick would have been a mess in the hospital coming down off the gear, rather than having quite comfortable D&Ms with the stepdad. Allowing for something given to him by the doctors to help with the detox, he at least would have been a sweating, spewing, agonised train wreck when meeting up with his dealer later on. But the bridge too far was him actually being able to overpower the dealer under the overpass. Supersmack ex machina I guess.

Still, I'm absolutely hooked, and I can't wait to see how it all goes to shit. The neighbours getting eaten on their front lawn at the end of last week's episode was chilling. The break three weeks in though... what the fuck?!

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8 Sep 2015

I adore The Walking Dead but the new show has been bought by BT (a pay channel in the UK.) I'm not prepared to buy the whole channel every month on a subscription just to watch the one show that in Series One has just 6 episodes. Fingers crossed a few months down the line another channel will pick it up and I can watch it then.

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8 Sep 2015

Bad spinoff