“The Walking Dead” was a ratings juggernaut, but at least one of the stars of its new spinoff, “Fear the Walking Dead”, isn’t anxious about repeating the first series’ success. Set in Los Angeles during the period when Rick Grimes is stuck in a coma on The Walking Dead, Fear will give us insights into how humanity began to lose its footing. But who or what is he running from?
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This Sunday ushers in the premiere of AMC’s new Fear the Walking Dead TV show, a companion series to the network’s long-standing and still popular The Walking Dead series.
The Walking Dead showrunner David Alpert revealed a few details about the upcoming prequel to the website Zap2it. We should comment, though, that the majority of this episode was spent watching behind-the-scenes video and reflecting both on season 5 and the show itself.
While Kim Dickens plays a high school guidance counselor, Cliff Curtis plays an English teacher who “just wants to get along with everybody”. “I hope that all Latina women feel they can identify with my character”, she said. I end up leaving my family and becoming really fancy in this story. Will “Fear the Walking Dead” enjoy the same success as the original, which in five years became one of television’s all time success stories? More feasible though, is an appearance by a certain Walking Dead character on Fear The Walking Dead. With variations of wealth and status, Fear isn’t about those best poised to make it through the worst but those who are scrambling to figure out what is going on – let alone what to do about it as Hell on Earth emerges.
We wanted to show an area that was not only representative of Los Angeles, but also representative of many urban communities throughout the United States. We start exploring conspiracy theories that go around the Internet at the school and people are seeing things on their camera phones.
“You don’t want to be starting from behind in the zombie apocalypse”, she said.
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“Colonel Kurtz embraces a belief system that for us is inhumane and immoral, but it makes total sense to him”, continued Erickson. He also expects that they will “come out of the gate strong and then hopefully people will recognize that there are differences”. As they unknowingly journey to the place’s certain undead-related doom (which fans have a lot of knowledge about), the group will sort out their own issues.
