AMC released the first three minutes of its new series Fear the Walking Dead. The new series, a The Walking Dead spinoff, premieres Sunday on AMC at 9pm.
The show begins in classic zombie/contagion style with a person waking up to a world that’s just not quite right. This time it’s man waking up after what seems to be a heroin-induced sleep in some kind of drug den that is an abandoned church (classic). The addict stumbles around in a haze, much like a zombie, looking for someone name Gloria, who he eventually finds.
Fear the Walking Dead takes place at the onset of the Walker outbreak which means, if you’re a fan of The Walking Dead, this is the time when Rick Grimes (Andrew Lincoln) was in a coma. This fact makes the companion show even more enticing because we may actually get answers to why/when/how and where the outbreak started. GAH!!!
Also, the premise of the show is solid, creative and very honest – A highly dysfunctional blended family is forced together when they realize a reported virus is actually the onset of the undead apocalypse.
Just the fact that a newly blended family is trying to survive together gives the show’s characters immediate conflict and connection as they go into this apocalypse. Whereas The Walking Dead characters grew into a dysfunctional family out of necessity and survival, Fear the Walking Dead starts with one. So while this show is in the same universe as The Walking Dead, the tone will be slightly different.
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