While waiting for the new season of The Walking Dead, Walker fans can sink their teeth into it's companion series Fear The Walking Dead which had it's worldwide premiere today.
Robert Kirkman, the co-creator of the original Walking Dead comic books and TV Series worked with executive producer Dave Erickson (Sons Of Anarchy) for the six episode first season.
If you recall the protagonist of The Walking Dead Rick Grimes (Andrew Lincoln) was in a coma during the beginning of the first season. Fear The Walking Dead covers the five week period where Rick was in his coma; it takes viewers out of the backwoods of Georgia to the concrete jungle of Los Angeles.
Kirkman and Erickson tell the story of a blended family led by Madison (Kim Dickens) a widowed high school guidance counselor struggling to raise her drug-addicted son, Nick (Frank Dillane), and ambitious teen daughter, Alicia (Alycia Debnam-Carey). Madison finds strength and companionship in fiancé Travis, an English teacher who has his own strained relationships with ex-wife Liza (Elizabeth Rodriguez) and son Chris (Lorenzo James Henrie) who are all in the middle of the domestic drama from which some middle-class American families would be familiar with.
“We start off with a slow burn in our first few episodes because we had the opportunity to explore the dysfunction that comes with family,” Erickson says. “We also wanted to have characters who were completely ill-equipped for the apocalypse.”
The first episode starts with some drugged up version of that Resident Evil scene I can't get out of my head from when I was a kid then it goes to the central family, their problems and drama (too much drama maybe) with some little clues as to the beginning of the end.
It's just dissapointing that the exact cause of the outbreak or the search for a cure will not be addressed. That's something that I have been salivating for (so to speak) in the original series. You'd think that when they'd go to "where it all began" they would at least brush on the origin of the outbreak.
It's interesting how the viewers know more than the characters themselves, they haven't exactly gone through Zombie 101 yet and will have to learn things as they go-so to speak. Then all hell breaks loose as the viewers watch society as they know it crumble to the apocalypse.
You can watch Fear The Walking Dead locally every Monday morning at 9:00 AM on AMC. Encore at 10:00 PM - the same day, Channel 106 on Sky Cable. We had it added on our package for P50.00 a month, it's a pretty good deal for one promising new show. I guess Monday morning errands would have to take a back seat.
Fear The Walking Dead has already been renewed for a 15 episode second season.
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