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Fear the Walking Dead - Season One - Sundays on AMC

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RatskyWatsky

Hunky Nostradamus


After the blockbuster success of The Walking Dead, AMC is trying their hand at a prequel spin-off series titled - you guessed it - Fear the Walking Dead. The series stars Deadwood favorite Kim Dickens and jazz musician Ruben Blades. Sons of Anarchy's Dave Erickson servers as the series' showrunner.

The first season will consist of 6 x 60 minute episodes. A second season of 15 episodes has been ordered, to air in 2016.

AMC said:
About the Show

Living in the same universe as The Walking Dead, Fear the Walking Dead is a gritty drama that explores the onset of the undead apocalypse through the lens of a fractured family. Set in a city where people come to escape, shield secrets, and bury their pasts, a mysterious outbreak threatens to disrupt what little stability high school guidance counselor Madison Clark and English teacher Travis Manawa have managed to assemble. The everyday pressure of blending two families while dealing with resentful, escapist, and strung out children takes a back seat when society begins to break down. A forced evolution, a necessary survival of the fittest takes hold, and our dysfunctional family must either reinvent themselves or embrace their darker histories.
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Cast and Characters



  • Madison Clarke is a popular guidance counselor at a high school in El Sereno who, prior to the zombie apocalypse, helped students prepare for their future. A widowed mother, she raised two children single-handedly, but has recently found love with a high school English teacher. The pressure of survival brings clarity for Madison and she is quick to make the hard choices that will keep her family alive. The outbreak reveals a past to Madison that she had tried to bury. Now, in this new world, she can’t hide who she really is.
  • Nick Clarke is a 19-year old drug addict. His mother, Madison, has sent him to rehab several times, but now Nick has reached a point where no one can tell him what to do or force him into recovery - he has to do that all by himself. When we first meet Nick, we meet a young man at a crossroads. Nick wants to prove he can rebuild his life - and the apocalypse may provide him an ironic opportunity to do so.
  • Alicia Clarke is a model student who overachieves with frustrating ease. She wants the hell out of Los Angeles, and she has her sights set on graduating and escaping to college where she will be free of her family’s drama. For years, she’s watched her older brother sink deeper into his addiction, and she is close to giving up on him when the apocalypse hits. Her ambition is in direct proportion to her brother’s screw ups. She loves her mother, empathizes, but it’s time to do for herself - time to escape.
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  • Travis Manawa is a father, high school English teacher and boyfriend to Madison Clark. He’s a good man - everyone’s All-American. As the group’s patriarch, he is protective, pragmatic and resolute in his conviction that anything can be fixed. He maintains a relationship with his ex-wife and resentful son while trying to become a father to Madison’s children. Travis wrestles with the challenge of blending a family - a challenge that is exacerbated by a new, unforeseen chaos.
  • Christopher Manawa is a rebellious teenager with a cause. He has both his father’s do-good attitude and his mother’s edge. The product of divorced parents, Christopher often feels that he and his mother are his father’s forgotten family. He resents his father’s insistence on bringing the two families closer because he wants nothing more than to break away from the Clarks and be his father’s sole priority.
  • Liza Ortiz is a single mother working to put herself through nursing school - she has no time for BS. For many years she was trapped in an unhappy marriage, but now that she’s on her own she’s finally chasing her dream. Liza is a multi-tasking whirlwind that doesn’t give herself any breaks when it comes to her future or raising her son.
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  • Daniel Salazar is a refugee from El Salvador who will protect his family at any cost. He owns a barbershop and takes great pride in his business but mostly keeps to himself within the community. Some of Daniel’s regulars have been going to Salazar’s Cuts for years, but they barely know the man who cuts their hair. When people begin rising from the dead, Salazar reverts to the man he once was, a man who will do anything to ensure the survival of his family.
  • Griselda Salazar is a devoted wife and mother who came to the U.S. with her husband to escape the political turmoil of El Salvador. She waited to start a family with her husband until she got to the States so that she could give her daughter a better life than the one she had. Griselda is deeply religious and finds solace from her past with prayer, but prayer won’t protect her in this new world.
  • Ofelia Salazar is a hardworking professional with immigrant parents. She is protective of her parents, believing they do not understand many of the harsher realities of living in the U.S. She is quick-witted, devoted and always ready to stand up for what she believes in. When faced with the apocalypse, Ofelia clashes with her father’s opinions on the best course of action -- identities are about to shift.
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Reviews

Andy Greenwald said:
Years of perfectly pierced foreheads and impeccably aimed crossbow bolts have lessened my fear of the walking dead. But I’m absolutely terrified at the thought of seeing these particular people die. So, mission accomplished? Fear the Walking Dead is surprisingly satisfying. I’m just not sure I’ve got the stomach for more.
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Vanity Fair said:
Fear the Walking Dead is not yet a truly frightening show—there aren’t enough zombies yet, for one—but it is certainly unsettling. After a year of Ebola panic, the show’s depiction of an epidemic’s swift spread is chilling. Though, I hope they take an episode or something to show us how the slowly shambling undead, even in big numbers, managed to take down an entire nation armed with machine guns and tanks. I never quite understood that.
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New York Post said:
The first two episodes are creepily suspenseful--they’re great examples of how effective a slow pace and a moody atmosphere can be.
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Alan Sepinwall said:
If Fear is a project with some noble intentions, it has uneven execution, with the prequel nature of it hurting as much as helping.

It's to everyone's credit that they've tried to rethink the formula a bit with the new show, and there are good building blocks in Dickens and Curtis. Maybe by the end of this abbreviated first season, the prequel of it all becomes more valuable.
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Tim Goodman said:
Actual zombies are few and far between in the first two hours, which makes Fear much more of a traditional drama until the spread of the unknown virus really takes hold.

Dramatically the appeal is twofold: seeing what hasn't been shown before — the confusion and then shock and then chaos of the early-days scenario; and, perhaps even more importantly, exploring (and toying with) the notion that viewers know more than the characters in Fear, so watching them be all-too-nonchalant when they should be running for their lives is fun and scary.
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jerry113

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They could've gone with a unique setting but instead they choose the second most overused city in television and movies next to NYC.

I wanted a zombie fiction in a northern harsh cold winter setting so badly. Lots of snow and blood.

That said, kudos to them for casting the demographics of LA pretty accurately. Decent latino rep.
 
styl3s

styl3s

Member
jerry113 said:
They could've gone with a unique setting but instead they choose the second most overused city in television and movies next to NYC.

I wanted a zombie fiction in a northern harsh cold winter setting so badly. Lots of snow and blood.

That said, kudos to them for casting the demographics of LA pretty accurately. Decent latino rep.
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I'm sure they would love a budget that could allow them to do it but even the main show that has probably twice the budget couldn't afford to do winter for an arc i doubt it's spinoff could afford an entire show based around that.
 
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TipsyArchmage

Neo Member
What an awful name though

all the ads I've seen on billboards and stuff just look like ads for the main show

fear the walking dead sounds like a tagline
 
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ZeroX03

Banned
Travis Manawa is a father, high school English teacher and boyfriend to Madison Clark. He’s a good man - everyone’s All-American. As the group’s patriarch, he is protective, pragmatic and resolute in his conviction that anything can be fixed. He maintains a relationship with his ex-wife and resentful son while trying to become a father to Madison’s children. Travis wrestles with the challenge of blending a family - a challenge that is exacerbated by a new, unforeseen chaos.
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But I still can't get past how he's clearly Maori and his accent slips.
 
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Ithil

Member
Still unsold on how this show isn't going to run into retreading territory TWD already covered after the initial outbreak story inevitably concludes.
 
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Savitar

Member
I'm kinda curious to see what happens when the show moves ahead far enough that everyone's like, yup hey, walkers/zombies/whatever they will be called sort of become the norm as it is with the original show. I mean the appeal of this one seems to be the actual outbreak and people not knowing what is going on.
 
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Pryce

Member
So apparently episode two
runs the problem of not being shot on location in Los Angeles since episode two onward is being shot in Toronto. Even when TWD ran through rough spots on dialogue and writing, the on location Georgia scenes made the show worth watching. Take that away and it's not nearly as good. That scares me about this. I don't want this show to be full of building shots because AMC is too cheap to film on location where the damn thing takes place in.
 
RPGCrazied

RPGCrazied

Member
I'm not expecting it to be as good as Walking Dead, but the same people are involved with it like writers, I think. I'll give it a shot.
 
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someday

Banned
Pryce said:
So apparently episode two
runs the problem of not being shot on location in Los Angeles since episode two onward is being shot in Toronto. Even when TWD ran through rough spots on dialogue and writing, the on location Georgia scenes made the show worth watching. Take that away and it's not nearly as good. That scares me about this. I don't want this show to be full of building shots because AMC is too cheap to film on location where the damn thing takes place in.
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Considering how boring the location of LA is, I don't mind building shots hiding the scenery. I would prefer someplace completely different than another warm weather location. Give me some rain even.
 
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Currygan

at last, for christ's sake
Travis looks like the American Clive Owen of Arabia

also, Griselda? having Order of the Phoenix flashbacks
 
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Effect

Member
Wonder who is going to be our "Rick" out of this group.

Also I can easily see the one son getting high at the worst time and getting his sister killed in the process. I'm going to be on the look out to see if that bit of story telling was easy to resist.
 
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Iadien

Guarantee I'm going to screw up this post? Yeah.
I didn't realize it was starting so soon. I'm looking forward to it after the last trailer I watched.
 
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Deleted member 325805

Unconfirmed Member
You can never have enough Walking Dead in your life.
 
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RatskyWatsky

Hunky Nostradamus
Dysun said:
It cant be worse than The Strain, I'll watch
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Speaking of The Strain...

Andy Greenwald said:
Kirkman & Co. to essentially do doughnuts on The Strain’s front lawn: While the FX show can’t seem to settle on a threat level for vampire-infected Manhattan, Fear provides a disturbingly probable ticktock for the breakdown of modern society. Every time the sun sets or a cell phone battery dies, a crucial bit of hope goes with it.
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JDSN

Banned
Please make Ruben Blades sing by the end of each episode and I might see it.



Nahh...I aint watching this shit.
 
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ElyrionX

Member
Awesome premise. The early period of the onset of an apocalypse is always my favourite part of the genre. Can't wait.
 
B

Bloodrage

Banned
The cast looks interesting. Not like the usual typical generic all white cast too many shows use. Then again, TWD always did good with diversity. I'll check this out.
 
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dead souls

Member
Damn, I just listened to Dan Fienberg demolish this on this week's episode of Firewall & Iceberg.

He sounded like he was embracing his inner dead souls. I'm even more curious to watch this now.
 
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Joni

Member
Now already? I always kinda assumed it was to be shown together with the actual show. Kinda a good surprise as my TV schedule is light now.
 
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dead souls

Member
Joni said:
Now already? I always kinda assumed it was to be shown together with the actual show. Kinda a good surprise as my TV schedule is light now.
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Nah, they'd never show it with the original. AMC wants to get Walking Dead level ratings for 32 weeks a year if this show takes off.
 
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Joni

Member
dead souls said:
Nah, they'd never show it with the original. AMC wants to get Walking Dead level ratings for 32 weeks a year if this show takes off.
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Yes, but I presumed they'd want to boost those first six episodes by bundling them. Move the show next year so people are already hooked.
 
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RatskyWatsky

Hunky Nostradamus
Joni said:
Yes, but I presumed they'd want to boost those first six episodes by bundling them. Move the show next year so people are already hooked.
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The Walking Dead IP is, in their mind, a self starter at this point. Plus, they're using the main TWD to launch Into the Badlands later this fall, which is the smarter move seeing as how new IPs aren't doing so hot on AMC lately.
 
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