DJariya

Episode 2 of 6



Week 1 was the highest rated cable series premiere ever.

http://deadline.com/2015/08/fear-the...mc-1201508698/

With Live + 3 factored in, it got 13.3M viewers and 8.5 in the demos.

redrum

Haha nobody watching?

Still a pretty shitty episode but atleast it got things rolling

Cusm

Much better than the pilot. It ammused me that LA with a emergency happening and he can drive anywhere.

Giles

*snore* ... given how graphic the violence/gore is on NBC's TV-14's rated 'Hannibal' - 'Fear' is whimpy on delivering the grue

Abob Teff

As I am watching ... Yeah, I'm bitching ...

Right off the bat, that was too big of a leap in logic too fast. Why did they associate "the flu" with a healthy person who has been shot and run over (twice!) rising from the dead? Why did Papa Smurf start inspecting sick boyfriend for bites?

I did like the guy on the radio talking about a "catastrophe of Biblical proportions; we are losing the best pocket passer in the league!" (Also note: the other stop on the radio dial was talking about a spike in police shootings in the last 48 hours.)

Edited: Just finished. After the slow start, now we are really jumping in. I thought we would continue the slow build. Other than my earlier complaint, pretty good ramping up.

Abob Teff

Budget, budget, budget.

Koby

Fat kid was stupid this episode. He seems to act like he knows about zombies and what to do, but he takes a tiny knife to a zombie fight and starts stabbing the zombie in the chest... Of course it didn't do crap, and so Ms. C saves him using a fire extinguisher. -_-

I sure hope drug-boy manages to detox and doesn't go back to drugs. I don't want to see it go on and on about him making dumb choices from being unable to break the habit.

I don't get why they don't come right out and tell the girl though whats going on so she'd stop trying to go after her boyfriend who is probably a zombie at this point.

If people would just talk and explain shit, it'd go a long ways.

Other then that, I don't really have any complaints. This episode has been fairly good imo. It's at least a bit more interesting than The Walking Dead has been for a while.

randian

Must be the same alternate LA as 24.

Shazam

Stupid dad should text the kids.

Also the show is totally unrealistic - people walking in LA????

Jackskeleton

It was pretty clear which parts were Vancouver and which shots were East L.A. That took me a bit out of it, but then again, that's to say that it had me at all. I mean, the whole purpose of killing another black character was to get out of there with the rations... which the kid didn't even do. Ha.

Meh. Not doing it for me.

windom

I must have missed it...how did the principal die in the first place?

Tom Banjo

Blood on his back, maybe a zombie snuck up and took a bite while he was snooping over the intercom.

Josh-da-man

Autoerotic asphyxiation.

jwb0323

So are people turning without being bit? Is that how it all starts? Like a virus? Or is it just someone already dead walks out of the morgue and then goes on a spree? I'm confused at that.

coli

I think this is the flaw in the show (or any prequel) in that the audience is ahead of the characters, so we aren't thinking like they are thinking. If Fear the Walking Dead started before The Walking Dead, then you never would have made that comment because you wouldn't know how they kill zombies yet because its not explained or shown.

I read an interview with the creators last night, and they talk about this and this will be better explained in Episode #3. Supposedly there is some stuff from Madison's past that they will reveal as the season goes on and that is will explain why she is acting this way towards her daughter and the 'supposed' virus outbreak. They weren't specific but I think there are more to these characters then we know, so once they flesh them out alot of things will make more sense.

Atleast I'm hoping that happens or these are going to be really generic characters.....

mnementh

I don't understand the entire situation unless forces are intentionally keeping the police out of the loop. Unless people are dying due to something other than zombie attacks, the zombie epidemic would have to be far along to cause all the absences at the school. I'd assume that hospitals would be under constant siege long before the general population of school kids ended up sick or dying.

0073735963

Yes, the "never to be explained" cause of all of this that "everyone has in them" has happened (airborne virus, aliens, who knows) and so now when anyone dies of natural causes or any cause, they come back as a zombie. Looks like just the U.S. averages around 2.5 million deaths a year, so almost 7,000 new zombies each day just from that.

Then of course those zombies bite people and turn them that way too. Did the pilot show that people were actually sick without being bit? I thought that it was just news reports of an "infection" that really are zombies and not people sick with a fever etc? Like the media and govt are trying to cover this up by not talking about it on the radio, the policeman hording water already, hospital actions, etc.

I thought the 2nd episode was much better and I hope the fall of civilization is shown in a much better way than it has been on The Strain.

fumanstan

This is one of my bigger annoyances with these shows; was the same with the Dad/Boyfriend guy not telling his ex-wife or son what he saw, or the barber shop family. Everyone seems so vague about what's happening. If it were me, I'd be screaming about seeing a dead kid come back to life.

Shannon Nutt

Help me out guys...the slow-motion scene where Madison is looking out her car window at the two kids in the back seat of another car with masks...that's moment is taken (i.e., stolen) from something else...a famous movie or TV show or something, and I can't pinpoint where I've seen that shot before - maybe not necessarily with kids in the backseat, but something else that implied a moment of horror/fear.

Any ideas?

DJariya

What?? 2 weeks until the next episode. I see that AMC is repeating the Pilot and this episode next week. Why?

I enjoyed this more than episode 1. Liked seeing more tension and chaos happening. I presume in that final scene the neighbor's husband turned and that's why she was being attacked.

windom

Labor Day weekend. I think the remaining episodes will finish the Sunday before TWD starts.

Hannibal

The Purge?

Draven

You're probably thinking of The Town.

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TGM

this is so fucking mediocre it hurts my brainspace.

Jason

Not that unrealistic