TMC
08-21-2015, 11:43 PM
http://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/tv/fear-the-walking-dead-not-much-gore-but-an-outbreak-sort-of-explained/2015/08/19/fb386376-42b4-11e5-846d-02792f854297_story.html
Zombies don’t appear on The Walking Dead companion series’ first few episodes, and that’s a good thing, says Hank Stuever. "In some ways,” he says, Fear the Walking Dead has the potential to become an illuminating and nuanced companion piece. It could be less like a video game (at its most reductive, The Walking Dead is mainly about working forward, through increasingly difficult levels) and more like a novella, a global crisis told in microcosm and finer detail. The new series is compelling in its own way, but it will take a while to see how it congeals. Or, more aptly, if it coagulates.” PLUS: Fear is basically Parenthood with zombies (http://www.vox.com/2015/8/21/9186301/fear-the-walking-dead-review-amc-spinoff), its prequel nature hurts as much as it helps (http://www.hitfix.com/whats-alan-watching/review-fear-the-walking-dead-goes-back-to-the-dawn-of-the-zombie-apocalypse), Fear scarily mirrors our own age (http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/television/2015/08/fear_the_walking_dead_is_a_zombie_parable_that_scarily_mirrors_our_own_age.html), Fear would rather make us care than freak us out (http://grantland.com/hollywood-prospectus/dead-again-amcs-promising-return-to-zombieland/), the real trick will be keeping the zombie insurrection at bay to focus on the early days of the outbreak, and Kim Dickens (http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2015/08/21/fear-the-walking-dead-kim-dickens-interview/) calls it her most demanding role to date.
Zombies don’t appear on The Walking Dead companion series’ first few episodes, and that’s a good thing, says Hank Stuever. "In some ways,” he says, Fear the Walking Dead has the potential to become an illuminating and nuanced companion piece. It could be less like a video game (at its most reductive, The Walking Dead is mainly about working forward, through increasingly difficult levels) and more like a novella, a global crisis told in microcosm and finer detail. The new series is compelling in its own way, but it will take a while to see how it congeals. Or, more aptly, if it coagulates.” PLUS: Fear is basically Parenthood with zombies (http://www.vox.com/2015/8/21/9186301/fear-the-walking-dead-review-amc-spinoff), its prequel nature hurts as much as it helps (http://www.hitfix.com/whats-alan-watching/review-fear-the-walking-dead-goes-back-to-the-dawn-of-the-zombie-apocalypse), Fear scarily mirrors our own age (http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/television/2015/08/fear_the_walking_dead_is_a_zombie_parable_that_scarily_mirrors_our_own_age.html), Fear would rather make us care than freak us out (http://grantland.com/hollywood-prospectus/dead-again-amcs-promising-return-to-zombieland/), the real trick will be keeping the zombie insurrection at bay to focus on the early days of the outbreak, and Kim Dickens (http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2015/08/21/fear-the-walking-dead-kim-dickens-interview/) calls it her most demanding role to date.