"Stop acting like this is normal!" I, like most people, am a fan of the Walking Dead comic books. I, like a lot of comic book readers, believe it either should have ended already or should wrap up very soon. I, unlike apparently quite a lot of people, do not find the Walking Dead television show to be anything better than decent at best. Still, I figured despite that I would give Fear the Walking Dead a solid chance since the "society falling apart" part of the zombie apocalypse formula tends to be the most entertaining. Right off the bat, Fear the Walking Dead greatly bungles the pacing of the show. Of the main characters, three of them are either useless or already insufferable, which is not a great start. It is only six episodes in to what will most likely be 1000 episodes of show since the general public for some inexplicable reason still devours zombie stuff with a spoon, but those six episodes have done nothing to really make me believe any of these characters have potential. Salazar is kind of great - mostly because Ruben Blades does a hell of a job. Colman Domingo's Strand is so mysterious and actually intelligent that he immediately gets rocketed up to the top of the Interesting Character List. Kim Dickens is a great actress but the wishy washy and frankly generic motivations of Madison Clark give her very little to work with. Cliff Curtis on the other hand has even less to work with through Travis, and seems to put next to no effort into it. Travis goes from "hey don't teach my kids to shoot guns during the zombie apocalypse" to "well guess I better start beating people to death" and Curtis doesn't add anything to either performance. So far, Travis Manawa is the front runner for the 2015 Arthur from Showtime's Camelot Award for most show shattering lead character. Looks like you've finally got some competition Ephraim Goodweather! Things don't get much better as the show goes along. The human element and the social commentary aspects of zombie fiction have been almost entirely excised from the medium, so the success of zombie stuff tends to fall on how exciting or suspenseful or scary or whatever the actual zombie scenes are. Fear the Walking Dead sadly does not offer much in that regard either. After so many seasons of the main show, and countless other zombie properties ebbing and flowing through pop culture, there isn't a ton of room for Fear the Walking Dead to offer anything different. When it does try and ramp up and give you something exciting, it feels like it is on such a small scale that it doesn't even matter. How you can take the literal end of the world and make it feel like its more the end of a sound stage in Burbank I don't know. The worst part though, beyond everything else, is that the child show inherits the most damnable trait of the parent show - every major moment hinges entirely on a character or characters being a complete moron. The military can't shoot 2000 zombies, Travis doesn't want somebody teaching his kid how to shoot a gun in the fucking zombie apocalypse, oh we should just leave the addict alone I'm sure that would be fine, i'm sure its just light reflecting off a disco ball or something kid don't worry about it and trust the military, sure guy who is part of the group that wants to kill us all I'll let you go since you seem so trustworthy, hey man stop beating on that guy who just shot one of us, hey do you think maybe somebody should guard the giant building full of shambling death monsters, etc etc etc. Nothing here feels organic at all, because the only way the writing team knows to move anything forward is by either killing somebody or making somebody more brain dead than the creatures they are fighting. Fear the Walking Dead suffers from the exact same problems that the Walking Dead does, except without the comic book's established plot and a constant stream of strong acting performances to fall back on. This makes it a far less enjoyable watch. It still has room to grow and isn't nearly bad enough to completely give up on, but these six episodes are not a strong start. WATCH if you only buy new Call of Duty games for zombie mode bro. DON'T WATCH if you know you won't be able to look past every character passing the idiot ball around to kill time.

What the F? This show in no means even comes close to the original. First of all it’s poorly written. Almost every character is making one dumb decision after the next, questionable actions as well. Common sense? Not at all. Examples: why is Madison not explaining to her daughter the dangers going on right now? cheap way to cause drama. I can’t get by stupid writing like that, it makes me angry. When they already kinda figured out what’s going on they light the street with their flashlight through the windows... you wouldn’t even do that if there are no zombies because it draws attention to you, but apperently no one in LA knows how to get around drawing attention at night. There’s a riot going on at the hospital and army is shooting at zombies but our families are driving by at 15mph to have a good view at the landscape? Whatever I get if some people like this kind of suspense I just think it’s too dumb to sell. But there is one thing no one can deny who watches a lot of TV/Movies and know a bit about acting. In this show it’s mostly terrible. Most of the main cast simply acts dull and boring, so you can’t establish a connection with the characters. But some actors are topping even that. I mean seriously Kim Dickens: what is wrong with you? It doesn’t matter the cause, tired, sad, angry, happy, scared... she ALWAYS looks exactly the same, I mean EXACTLY. No expressions on her face at all. That’s ether serious bad acting or simply not caring about her acting! It’s so bad it’s already annoying me because once noticed you can’t unsee it it’s so bad. Also Cliff Curtis mostly acts really dull almost bored at set. It’s a complete different story with Frank Dillane. He’s holding up the flag. His acting is brilliant, Emmy worthy in the first season! But he’s pretty much the only one acting at that level... Overall the first season is pretty dumb. I can’t recommend watching it if you’re not really into the material.

On the edge of ur seat action with awesome gore. Robert Kirkman is the man!!! In my opinion the modernization of the zombie apocalypse could have not been better. I was hooked by the third episode - if your a fan of TWD then you'Ll love this!

I was once attacked by a zombie with no teeth. It sucked the life out of me!