For anyone who ’s wondering why we demand another Walking Dead tv set serial publication , we ’ve seen the first two episode of Fear the Walking Dead , and we have a ( pamperer - devoid ) answer . YES , there are law of similarity ; hem , zombies . But Fear is its own tense and gory creature , and we ca n’t wait for more .
We gave you asneak peek of the pilotright after we find out it at Comic - Con , and on 2d viewing , it holds up beyond that pumped - up ( big pic screen , all stars present , etc . ) display . The opening scene do as a reassurance that Fear is gon na equal up to its herald ’s standard of bloodline - spraying , pulp - ripping horror . But once we start meet the characters and ascertain a little bit more about the circumstance and the interest , Fear pulls back on the splatter a bit and settles into a frighteningly realistic look at what the first few days of a zombie apocalypse might look like , just as the undead virus begins its rapid spread .
Of course , we have the welfare of knowing a lot more about that rot menace than the characters , having seen not just The walk Dead but a square buffet of zombie flicks over the age . As two characters remark to each other at a central moment in the pilot , “ What the inferno is hap ? ” “ I have no idea . ” We had trouble not arrest an evil jape anticipating what ’s in storehouse , because THEY’RE get along TO GET YOU , BARBARA . But in this subject , it ’s in reality o.k. that we ’re quite familiar with the universal outline of the genre ( imminent : entire collapse of companionship , dystopian despair , subsister warfare , all that fun stuff ) .
The show take its metre establishing the moral force among its ensemble mold , making them an interesting and business organization - desirable gang , and it uses its urban Los Angeles determine wisely . dealings is tough enough on an median SoCal weekday ; of course it ’d be snap totally in the upshot of a lurching - stiff revolt even before anyone knew what was going on . In a earth in which everyone has a cellular telephone , first sightings of bushed the great unwashed behaving , ah , queerly would of track become viral television that spread as fast as the virus itself . And if the cop do something that seems louche , hell yes people are hold up to take to the streets and protest .
As episode one leads directly into episode two ( both are directed by TV veteran Adam Davidson ; the first is co - written by Robert Kirkman and Dave Erickson , while Marco Ramirez compose the second ) , there ’s less a sensory faculty of busy everyday animation in which everyone is too distracted to focus on the imminent crisis , and more a focusing on that crisis making itself recognise . The pilot introduces merge folk Travis and Madison and Madison ’s two kids , obstinate 20 - something drug addict Nick and talented but surly Alicia , who attends the high school where Travis and Madison both work . ( Gaining more prominence in installment two are Travis ’ x , Liza , and their own surly teen , Chris . )
It ’s a modern kinsfolk that ’s making it work , sorta , coping with Nick ’s belated run - in with the jurisprudence with all the tough sexual love they can come up . Alicia , of path , ca n’t hold back to get off from these jerks and head to college ASAP . finally , near the end of the second episode , we also meet barber - shop proprietor Daniel Salazar ( Ruben Blades ) and his family , who will clearly be important to the plot as it shape up .
By episode two , the primary fictitious character , and Los Angeles / the world in oecumenical , are all starting to ignite up to what ’s happening around them , despite a detoxing Nick ’s observation that “ No one is paying tending .. it ’s like it ’s not tangible . ” And what they do n’t know could kill them , as Maddie and Travis — who , along with Nick , have get a terrifyingly up - snug looking at what the world is up against — start to realise and frantically attempt to convey the position to everyone they wish about , let in sure surly youths who are in no frame of mind to listen to their parent . But it ’s apparent that going forwards , it ’ll soon be unsufferable to be unlearned of what ’s pass . Shit is aim real … and real scary … and real fast .
A few more takeaways : episode two eases up on sequence one ’s more gruelling - handed symbolization ( like make Travis ’ students read Jack London stories that write out a “ man vs. nature ” radical in 10 - foot - high letter of the alphabet ) , which is reassuring . And you should never discount the weirdo who go along tablet on tardily - breaking confederacy theories , and in all probability spends nights binge - watching Doomsday Preppers . That weirdo just might preserve your life .
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