Fear the Walking Dead benefits from its slow build

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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, its prequel nature hurts as much as it helps, Fear scarily mirrors our own age, Fear would rather make us care than freak us out, the real trick will be keeping the zombie insurrection at bay to focus on the early days of the outbreak, and Kim Dickens calls it her most demanding role to date.