Actually no, take me out of here.
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Emphasizing suspense and atmosphere over action and gore, Sunday’s 90-minute premiere of AMC’s “Fear the Walking Dead” begins with a slight variation on the memorable opening moments of “The Walking Dead”. It was followed by a special episode of The Talking Dead, which talked about the spinoff and Season 6 of The Walking Dead, which is expected to be better than ever, according to host Chris Hardwick.
We can’t wait to see where this series eventually takes us, especially if it continues taking us in the direction of people thinking the zombie apocalypse is a hallucination due to PCP, because that’s hilarious. Just like that, we find ourselves in the midst of the first episode of “Fear the Walking Dead“.
The central difference of the two series, however, is family vs. community, and the difference between Fear the Walking Dead and The Walking Dead is as wide as Ordinary People compared to Stagecoach. No, it’s all grim moodiness and ominous foreshadowing in this episode.
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US Correspondent Ron Hogan is kind of sad that only the first episode of Fear The Walking Dead is going to be shot in LA.
Madison Clark (Kim Dickens) and Travis Manawa (Cliff Curtis) try to protect their blended family from the zombie apocalypse in Fear the Walking Dead. But in the regular world, Nick would be all but finished: strung out, prospect-free, and guilty of more than a few crimes, including theft and murder. Meanwhile, Travis wants to help, so he goes to the church that night armed only with a flashlight – because that’s safe – and I guess he didn’t find anything gruesome enough to go to the police with, although there was someone there screaming not to kill him.
The first episode opens with addict Nicholas in an abandoned church searching for his partner in drug use Gloria. Like most of you, I had reservations when rumors of this show came calling.
Naturally, when Nick tells them what he saw his mom thinks he is hallucinating due to his drug issues.
My only concern is that Nick’s trials seem to come and go pretty quickly.
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Alicia is also a natural onscreen and connects without saying much;, hopefully her role will grow as the show does. Or is it to just make us feel like we’re actually walking through the depths of hell? There is even going to be more walkers than ever, according to the show’s creator, Scott Gimple.
Then he sees a gruesome sight: A man whose neck has been torn to shreds.
Madison is still skeptical and thinks Travis is enabling Nick, but when she goes to see for herself she starts to realize she was wrong.
With Maddie and Travis stuck in a traffic jam on the highway, we finally see the onset of the zombie apocalypse as police fire on a man who comes back from the dead – offscreen. He knows what’s ahead and so do we-all we can do is hang in there and hope it’s worth sticking around.
It’s going to be hard to explain this one. Nick seems like a bit of a drug addict with a lot problems. We got Rick getting shot in the head and waking up in a world already fallen, but not much in between.
Even with video proof of the dead coming back to life, people believe it’s a stunt, not batting an eye at the senseless violence or the mysterious missing students. Again, that said, it is fun watching all this unfold with a sly grin. Nick meets with Calvin at a diner because he is anxious that the heroin sold to him was laced with something. It turns out that Calvin has been supplying Nick and his fellow junkies with drugs, and now he’s anxious that Nick has spoken with the cops. In addition, they track down one of Nick’s old friends, Calvin (Keith Powers), but he says he hasn’t spoken to him in a while. That latter scene is tremendous for both Dillane and Dickens, and it’s made all the more poignant by the ambivalent relationship that’s been established between Nick and Madison. No one believes poor blubbering Nick again, and Travis and Maddie drive the defeated boy back through the tunnel. After all, this show takes place in the three weeks that Rick Grimes (you do know him?) is in a coma in The Walking Dead.
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Nick’s mother, Madison, is trying to wrangle her younger kid, Alicia, for school when she gets a call that Nick is in the hospital.
