Fear the Walking Dead

Unlike TWD, I wasn't instantly hooked on Fear. But I watched the pilot again and episode two last night, and am now hooked.

I like the pacing, and how they're showing how everything breaks down. Favorite character so far is Tobias.

 

The second episode did a great job of slowly building tension throughout. This is going to be must-see Sunday night viewing for me.

 

The actor who play(ed) Principal Artie never lasts more than a couple of episodes.

 

That dude looked exactly like a full-size Webster.
Watch the early scene of him walking down the hall. He has his back to the camera and then turns his head.
I said: "Webster growed up!"

 

No posts on the new episode?

The scene with the man coming home to find his wife had turned was well done, as was the kill shot when the military arrived.

 

Another good epsiode.
The difference in experience between Ruben Blades, who is always awesome, and the Travis character is a nice element. Not only when Ruben Blades saves Travis from the walker, but later in their responses to the arrival of the National Guard.

Also, when Travis stops the woman from killing the Margaret Cho walker, which direclty leads Margaret Cho almost eating her husband.

Travis is too slow to understand what needs to be done, plus Travis promised the woman he would be around for her = Travis is going to die.

 

Why doesn't Ruben Blades get more work these days?
The guy is just so cool.

 

He's an actor's actor.

 

And a musician.

 

I am very onboard with this show now.
As bad as the first episode was, and it was, these last two have been very good.

 

I just read the AV Club review.

• The Monopoly scene was dumb.
• The trellis maze was also dumb.
• Reviewer missed the point when Ruben Blades said "It's already too late." He's talking about the arrival of the military, not the plague. He's from El Salvador and does not see military response as a good thing.

 

I thing the Monopoly scene worked well. They're still in the very early stages of the zombie apocalypse, hoping things will get better, not knowing the horror that we know is coming. It takes them back to a more innocent time, when the father was still alive, when the boy wasn't a junkie, when the world made sense -- when they could laugh without looking over their shoulder. It's an attempt to ward off the creeping sense of impending ...