Fear the Walking Dead So Close, Yet So Far (2015– ) Online

Watching this, the phrase "that just wouldn't happen" quickly became a running joke between us. If Unbelievable decisions, human interaction(or lack off) and out right stupidity to the point of the viewers frustration is your kind of thing, watch away.

Travis

what was the point on the build up of Travis teaching survival to the kids, even saying that his neighbour had the right idea stocking up food, if the guy watches a police office stock piling water clearly gives him look of approval, but doesn't think its a good idea for him to do that himself?(that wouldn't happen) I thought Travis was going to be the guy to get everyone organised, show them the MANY errors of their ways.

Madison

Anyone got a teenage daughter? tried getting them to do basically anything without at least some kind of explanation? how about getting your teenage daughter to leave her boyfriend to die, then get your teenage daughter to watch your neighbour get killed but not help, and do all of this while she is demanding to be told why but don't give here even one word of an explanation as to what's going on for the entire time.(that wouldn't happen)

Madison + tobias

anyone up for grabbing some food from the school, after you've got the food, ran it through the corridor, picked up the stuff you dropped along the way, then JUST LEAVE IT? did the writers just forget they had a trolley full of food earlier?(that wouldn't happen) Ignoring the just let the zombie head teacher walk up and try and bite me without even taking 1 step backwards(also wouldn't happen)

Alicia

so she doesn't seem to have much love for her step dad, and is pretty blunt with her mum, clearly loves her boyfriend(but she leaves him to die without any explanation) but through all this, she does seem to really care for her brother, seen with her conversations about him with her boyfriend and her sitting on the bed and feeding him. But she will happily leave him to go through withdrawals alone that she HERSELF said was very dangerous for him to go back to her boyfriends after promising her mother she wouldn't. she was happy to leave her boyfriend earlier when no one needed her, now she has a huge responsibility to her brother the only person she actually has been shown to care about, she ups and leaves?(that wouldn't happen)

Nick

So am I right in thinking, although basically all he's done is lay down and throw up a lot, the drugged up nick, has so far saved the most people, is drawn top with most zombies put down and has done nothing anywhere near as stupid as the other characters despite being off his tits most of the time?

All I can say is, if you cant write characters that have more brains than your average druggy, stop writing characters.

There's still a lot to like with Fear The Walking Dead. With a core of great performers, shows can overcome quite a bit. Nonetheless, I'm hopeful that the show continues to remember to give these actors good stuff to do, and not so quickly rely on the genre conventions and ever-familiar beats that we get each week with the original series. Fear needs to keep working to be different instead of rushing to look, feel, and move in the same ways as its cousin series.

Though it featured fewer walkers than the low-key premiere, this second helping of "Fear the Walking Dead" was far more intense, suggesting that series creators Robert Kirkman and Dave Erickson might be able to take their spin-off in some enjoyably dark directions over the next four weeks.

That slow escalation of visuals is going to work out really well for the show. We know what the world outside looks like. We know what the world of The Walking Dead looks like. Watching one become the other is going to be satisfying.

I don't understand why people expect two episode in to see a full on outbreak done and dusted are u kidding me!?! I love that the show is taking it slow and going at a different pace then the original slowly unveiling how the outbreak is taking place and the affect its having on its characters. The same people running the original which is a BRILLIANT show are running this one, so believe that all your questions will be answered with time, I don't want to even see a full outbreak by episode 6, remember this show has been renewed for another season! so telling the story of how it happened in 6 episodes and than just going on about how the character survive is interesting but will be too similar to the original, hence the slower pace.

Now I also see a few people complaining about the actors and that its bad acting, ARE YOU KIDDING ME! Which show are you watching, the acting isn't flawless yes, but There are very good actors in this show who already have a great reputation career wise. You will still need time to connect to these characters, I know i wasn't connected to anyone from GoT or TWD till mid-season. So give the show a chance sit back and stop being whiny children. If you do not think this show has potential Don't WATCH IT., and if you want to see zombie kill and gore and all out Resident Evil style, then go watch the embarrassment to the zombie franchise that is Z Nation.

Also for those thinking that that Tabys kid knowing everything is a plot hole, you haven't taken the time to think, the kid has been following this outbreak on the internet since new first broke out, we know in our world event like this many communities form on the internet and discussions, regarding what they saw and think, also he seems like a smart student, meaning he knows how outbreaks can work based on knowledge whether it was watching movies, or reading on previous world catastrophes on the internet. So I don't get why are some people so dumbfounded that he knows basic information that even I know about what events are probable unfold when a country or city is going through a major crisis, regardless of what it is

I want to like this show and I keep reminding myself of how bad the first season of Walking Dead was when compared to the latter seasons. Fear the Walking Dead is off to rocky start, but as it said on the poster in Fox Maulder's office... I want to believe!

The main problem with this show so far is the writing! Too often things just don't make sense, especially when it comes to the main character, Madison Clark. When she steals keys and breaks into lockers to get the meds her son, Nicholas, desperately needs as he starts to go through withdrawal, she seems capable, but a few minutes later she blankly looks at her zombified boss as he comes closer, repeatedly asking him if he is alright. Luckily, Tobias, a student at the high school where she works and a truly likable character who will not be a regular (let's hope he resurfaces in season two!) jumps in and our hero slowly... very slowly....comes to her senses, grabs a fire extinguisher and bashes the zombie's head in. No emotional reaction occurs! She and Tobias simply leave the high school WITHOUT all the food they had loaded onto a cart, begging the question of why three or four minutes had been spent on her and Tobias getting the food in the first place!

Arriving home, she gets attitude from her headphone wearing teenage daughter, Alica, who shuts her bedroom daughter as her mother walks by to the bathroom to wash the blood off her jacket. Magically, when Mom opens the door, the same daughter is standing there with eyes full of concern (for no apparent reason) asking her Mom if she is okay. I could go on and on...

Another problem is that viewers are not supposed to hope and cheer for main characters to have their guts ripped apart as they scream, yet many of us wish for that to happen. Alicia and Christopher are whiny teenagers and we wish they would just hang themselves with their headphones! The problem is NOT with the acting; it's with the writing. As well, maybe some key scenes in character development/interaction were deleted for unknown reasons. It's been known to happen!

All that said, I want to believe.. and I will keep watching! Alicia, the good child, was all set to go to university while her brother had become a drug addict. Will events to come reverse their roles? Will Travis ever have to chose between his girlfriend's son, Nicholas, and his own son, Christopher. This show has potential and could be blowing our minds in a few weeks!

Mr. Kirkman, if you happen to read this, please let a zombie bite into a pedestrian too absorbed in texting to pay attention to what is happening or have a hip-hop fan's saggy pants slow him down so that he gets ripped apart by a mob of flesh-eaters!

In Los Angeles, Alicia goes to Matt's house and finds that he is sick. Soon Madison, Travis and Nick arrive and ask her to leave Matt and they go home. Nick has a crisis due to the withdrawal and Madison goes to the school trying to find some medicine to calm him down. In the school, she meets Tobias and gives his knife back. When she sees Principal Artie, Tobias asks her to run but Madison decides to talk to him and finds that he is a zombie. Meanwhile Travis drives to the house of his ex-wife Liza and convinces her to seek Chris out. They find him in the middle of a riot and they seek shelter in a house of a stranger.

"So Close, Yet So Far" is a good episode specially the segment with Madison. Travis and his family is kind of pointless and boring, but Madison makes worth watching this show. Now the zombie epidemic has begun and the series is promising. My vote is seven.

Title (Brazil): "So Close, Yet So Far"

Seriously, Tobias and Madison first are gathering food from the school. After a silly zombie kill they leave the school without any food.... even for a smart prepared kid like Tobias this was just ridiculous to witness. Also a potato knife, man? you gonna fight 4 zombies with a silly knife like that...??! If I were him I'd look up a sword shop, buy me the best sword and a crossbow.

+ same thing for Travis, he knows about it, he's teaching youngsters about survival for god's sake and there he is, not shopping for food at a shop where he see's a cop taking a lot of water. It would only take him like 30-40 minutes.

Finally agreeing with other reviews about the miscommunication, it's unbelievable not telling everyone about this. People even talk about/photograph what they are eating on social media or what the weather is. But hey I'ts a different year and not as worse as these years.

This episode was much better the first episode / pilot but frankly, the two episodes should have been pulled together, condensed down to a two hour show (not actual show length but time including commercials) that would have had a much greater impact on the viewers than separating them like this. That said this episode still dragged in parts. As to the characters, someone said on another site, you're not supposed to want the main characters to die, but frankly, if they did, I'd be okay with that. the only character that I've found compelling is Tobias. He seems to be very much on top of what is actually going on. Least favorite character is the mother. Why she didn't tell her daughter what is going on there is beyond me. If she has a reason, we've not been told what it is. I'm not buying the mommy wants to protect her little girl reason... in the zombie apocalypse, ignorance of what is going it the single most dangerous threat to one's survival

So now a question that is burning in my mind. Why is AMC showing reruns next week instead of episode three? Is it because the ratings on Rotten Tomatoes is only 70% from the viewers? Is it because they don't have enough episodes ready? Doesn't make sense to me as people who are interested in watching the show may just decide to wait until the ca binge watch it. From my perspective, it's likely that I won't remember that it is on... two weeks from now.

These writers most have an iQ level below zombie, and a sense of human behavior at the level of doormat.

We followed the family through another day in midst of the chaos and the "communication" between the family members is NONE EXISTING.

No communication between the father and his x-wife nor son, neither communication about what he have experienced with the barbershop family.

Same goes with the neighbors, NO NO NO we don't talk with the neighbors.

NO one telling the daughter about what is going on, and why she cant stay with her boyfriend. And she is alone with her brother all day and he don't say anything either. Then the mom come home clearly upset, Does she start speak???? NO!!!! Then the daughter want to help the neighbors, but the mom hinders her, will the daughter get an explanation now???? NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! Listen! If the world was falling apart beside you - you don't think people would START talking about what was going on??? Or looking turning on the TV to watch the NEWS, or maybe check the INTERNET? Maybe the writers don't even know what the internet is... I wonder If there is NO action there should be COMMUNICATION and HUMAN INTERACTION.

As a colossal fan of The Walking Dead, I had keen interest and anticipation for Fear The Walking Dead as it was my understanding that we'd get to see more of how the outbreak begins and possibly even get some answers as to what exactly it is. Two episodes out of six completed for this season, and I'm stunned as to how stale this show is. Nothing exciting has happened thus far, the acting is truly woeful from everyone apart from the guy who's supposed to be coming off a heroin addiction, and 75% of these episodes are either people arguing with each other, establishing shots of the city, or musical scenes where characters sit around doing nothing. Let's get this out of the way...there's really no gore in FTWD. Everything is off camera. Why? Shouldn't a show with much less substance be even more gratuitous as compensation? So in essence there's nothing. It's painfully clear these writers have nothing to do with the original show, and have zero idea as to why it is popular. Case in point, when everything is going to hell in the city, all we as the audience gets is the ability to HEAR what's happening on the street directly outside. Has nobody in this production team heard that shows are also a visual language, and that is what sticks with people? Thus, we've waited for FTWD because we'll get to see what happened while Rick was in a coma, only we don't get to see it. To summarize, I sure hope this show makes a strong comeback in the final 4 episodes. As it stands right now, Fear The Walking Dead is looking like a shameless, cheap, as little effort as possible cash grab by AMC because of the demand The Walking Dead franchise has right now. I'll take Season 2 on the farm over this any day.

I personally loved this episode. As the walking dead did, fear the walking dead is moving at a fairly slow pace. This is giving time for character development and I personally like a couple of the characters already these being Nick and the step dad. The virus is slowly spreading and clearly more and more people are getting infected. I find the episodes to be fairly tense and I think that fear the walking dead has had a far better opening than the walking dead. I think the opening to the walking dead wasn't bad but it wasn't strong, it got stronger as the series progressed which I feel will also happen with fear the walking dead. I know that the season finale will be the make or break for this series and I hope it makes it.

This episode was average at best. The core characters of Madison, Travis and Junkie Nick are good, but there's a few already slipping into "Andrea" mode and becoming annoying. The daughter Alicia being one of them. "But I love him" yawn. OK fair enough her parents didn't explain there was some kind of demented virus out there, but she didn't even ponder why her sick boyfriend had a HUGE bite mark on his shoulder that was making him almost foam at the mouth. I mean c'mon.

Another "Andrea" contender is Travis' son Chris. Just kill him now please and spare us a whole season(s) of the moody, angsty, teenage Rebel-Without-A-Clue routine please, for the love of Romero. His Moms isn't much better. but the jury's out on that one at this point.

Tobias is the show's saving grace. Aside from being the only person in L.A. who seems to understand what's going on and the storm that's about to come, his attempts at taking down Principal Zombie was so comically inept that you can't help but love him. Plus the fact that he's determined to arm himself against the zombie hordes with a knife that looks like it came out of a Christmas Cracker.

I'm surprised I watched this after the awful pilot I made myself sit through. Having now seen this, I still can't really say anything much about it, as this episode was again uneventful and uninteresting. I'm glad the episode of shorter, as one of the principle problems of the one hour long pilot was its length. The episode revolved around the Clark family trying to find each other...And that was all. Seriously, nothing else happened. There were lots of different people doing different things the whole episode that made it convoluted; and frankly a lot of what happened was unnecessary. If perhaps one of these plots was at all intriguing, this would have been much more watchable, but I didn't feel particularly interested to dive into any of the story lines. Once again this is down to the stock, uninteresting characters and poor acting we are given, which makes it hard to watch at times. In my last review I said that "some" of the acting was good. I retract that. If there was any light there it has been long since distinguished. The characters are still people you cannot root for, either because they're just not unlikable or simply very uninteresting.

There was one memorable scene though, which was a surprisingly tense attack in a school where a pupil and his teacher ran into the security guard. This scene flowed nicely for the whole of it, and would have made some nice action if it weren't for how the camera angles obscured any gore and violence being shown on screen. It's embarrassing that a prequel to The Walking Dead won't show any gore. Asides from this there was still no action or excitement of any kind, and it all felt like the same type of thing happening over again. There is a silver lining in this scene though, as this episode still shows that Tobias is a likable character, and if there is a saving grace in this show its him. He detracted himself from the typical dull, clichéd and cringe-worthy type of uninspired writing that this show suffers from, and actually had a story ark that I would like to see more of. Asides from him though, what is there to like?

You've already read the title, yep, with the opening of episode 2, we get a glimpse at the civilization as it crumbles, which, if I need to remind you, we don't see too often in zombie movies or TV shows, as the producers are not really interested and they don't have such a high budget for that. But Fear The Walking Dead, being the small brother of The Walking Dead, has a budget big enough to realise this, and why not enjoy watching this. We have good actors, a messed up family, choices that most of us don't even want to think off, a better glimpse at the walking dead universe and so much more. So stay tooned for more content, as Fear The Walking Dead will bring you more carnage as time goes by. I'll give it a 10/10 because for the first time we will see the society crumble, and how the characters will evolve.

This show is awful, almost unwatchable... There is not a lot I can watch with my teenage son that we can both get into together. We started watching the Walking Dead a couple of years ago and both really dig it and have even bonded over it, but this mess is a HUGE disappointment. The acting is ridiculously bad. The effects are cheap and flimsy. The whole story line is dumb and contrived. The original series was set in what, 2010? Why do they all have 2015 technology? The riot scene looked like a high school film class project. The barbershop scene, really? Did anything ring true there? Could the acting and dialogue be any worse?

I mean the first episode was bad, I know but I figured it would get better. No such luck ... What a bunch of dummies. There is not one character I am rooting for, maybe the cop with the trunk full of water, at least he has some sense ...

Two episodes old and already this show is the most witless show on TV. Stupid characters portrayed by very weak acting, combined with amateur writing make for one on the worst TV series I've seen in quite some time.

Last week we saw the central characters react to seeing a zombie with less emotion than a person who finds someone ate their bag of Doritos.

This week we see Madison Clark, played by Kim Dickens, forced to make her 1st zombie kill by smashing the head of Artie, her longtime friend and co worker, and then react as if she just sprayed a few bugs with a can of Raid.

Madison shows no emotion whatsoever as she smashes Artie's head with a fire extinguisher. Hours later Madison sobs at her house, though we aren't sure exactly what finally got to her. But we do know she's not mourning poor Artie. And that bashing a human skull in didn't bother Madison in the least.

The rest of the episode was excruciating to watch as the impossibly stupid characters made impossibly stupid decisions.

The writing is a mess. We have riots taking place, bits of lawlessness here and there, while a couple miles away people act like it isn't even happening. They don't even watch it on TV. Word of the dead rising hasn't spread over the net, TV or through the many other means of communication that exists.

Fear The Walking Dead writer's really couldn't think of a believable way to transition the world we know into a zombie apocalypse. The show is so void of redeeming quality that there is not any potential in any part of the writing or character creation.

I have no doubt the ratings will slide. But considering how bad this show is, I think it is possible it will devalue the original series for some.

The second episode of the FEAR THE WALKING DEAD, "So Close, Yet So Far," picks up the pace from the pilot, which many complained was too slow moving and too lacking of any gory Zombie action. This was true, because the series starts a good six weeks or so before the original TWD began and there just aren't any hordes of Walkers wrecking havoc and devouring the living-yet. Nevertheless, as this episode makes clear, all that is coming as civilization begins to more than fray around the edges as LA rapidly becomes aware that something in going terribly wrong and our cast of extended family members are on their own.

The show picks up right where last week's pilot ended with the first big Walker encounter; this prompts Travis and Madison to decide that the proper course of action is to get the hell out of Dodge as fast as possible, a plan that quickly runs afoul of the fact that they dealing with teenagers here. Alicia has gone to the home of her boyfriend, Matt, because he hasn't been answering her texts; Travis's son, Chris, is downtown and finds himself quickly caught up in a mob when the police seemingly shoot a homeless man for no reason; and heroin addict Nick is on the couch going through some wicked withdrawals (puking, puking, and more puking). And all the while, an oblivious neighbor is throwing a birthday party for her daughter, complete with a bouncy house.

These complications force the core group to separate, always a good strategy in an apocalypse. Travis goes to get his ex-wife Liza, and the both of them head downtown to find Chris. Madison heads back to the high school where she works to retrieve some opiates to ease Nick's withdrawals. All of them run into complications and it looks like it might take the better part of season one to get everyone back together.

While the world as we know it has not crumbled, we can clearly see the coming Zombie Apocalypse beginning to take shape in the little things: a neighbor who is coughing and feverish; a cop being treated for a bite wound; another cop seen stockpiling bottled water in the trunk of his squad car; lights blink and 911 is busy; an empty high school-though not quite, as Madison and Tobias learn almost to their final regret; a mob scene that explodes in violence when a Walker chick, mistaken for an out of control druggie, is shot down by the police.

But most telling of all is the way the self preservation instinct has begun to kick in: Madison and Travis size up Alicia's fever stricken boyfriend and quickly decide he's a goner, then hustle her out of the house and leave him to his fate; Madison wielding a mean fire extinguisher to save Tobias from Artie the Principle turned Walker; and at the end of the episode when she prevents Alicia from going outside to help the lady across the street when a Walker crashes the party. We're still a long way from the Governor, Terminus and the Wolves, but the road leading there is clear. It's obvious the protagonists are going to have some very hard choices to make in the days ahead.

While I really liked this episode, there are things that compare poorly to the original, which had Robert Kirkman's epic comic to follow. There are times when the gears of plot are clearly showing, especially in the way the core group is easily divided to create dramatic tension. Also, there is the way Travis and Madison never stop and take the time to explain to Alicia, Liz, and Chris what they have seen and why it is critically important they get out of LA (not that fleeing to the desert would help matters, but they don't know that); why not take the time to convince them how dire the situation really is, which just might save their lives and prevent stupid ass decision's like Alicia's aborted attempt to return to Matt. Instead, we get a lot "I can't talk about it now" dialog.

The performances were fine and I'm really getting to like this group as we begin to see them under the gun. Though he spends a lot of time on the couch and the floor, Frank Dillane's Nick is still my favorite character and we do get to get much better acquainted with Elizabeth Rodriguez and Lorenzo James Henrie as Travis's ex and son. We are introduced to the Salazar family, a barber, played by Ruben Blades, who gives Travis, Liz and Chris shelter when things on the street take a very bad turn. Mercedes Mason plays his wife, while Patricia Spindola portrays his daughter; they're featured prominently in future episodes. The breakout character for this episode is Tobias, played by Lincoln Castellanos, the teenage geek who has been the first one to see things for what they are. Tobias has become an instant fan favorite and though he's not slated to be in any more episodes this season, the producers would be very smart to bring him back in season two.

Overall, the show is progressing nicely with the sure promise of ever increasing gore in future episodes. I liked it a lot, the only thing that would have made it better, would be if a certain Alice Cooper song were playing over the closing scenes.

In the second episode of "Fear the Walking Dead", LA is continuing to fall, as societal collapse due to the viral zombie outbreak causes wide-spread violence, confusion, and the reanimated dead attacking still-alive humans in and around the city. Riots, looting, protests as the police and quarantine-scientists try (and fail) to maintain order in LA, "Fear the..." further communicates and emphasizes that the come-apart-at-the-seams has overtaken the city and is all-too-obvious destined to reach out to the entire country (if not the globe). Madison heads to her abandoned school (Artie is there but he's no longer among the living but walking dead) to look for "pharmaceutical relief" for her "ill" son, Nick, meeting up with a student. Artie, Zombie Principal, interrupts their attempt to grab supplies and meds, but Madison and the student eventually do get away. Travis (Cliff Curtis) separates from Madison so he can go and find his son from a previous marriage with Liza (Elizabeth Rodriguez), Chris (Lorenzo Henrie), ending up in the middle of the LA protest, recording camera in hand. Rubén Blades is cast as a barber, Daniel Salazar, holed up in his shop with wife and daughter, agreeing to allow Travis, Liza, and Chris refuge inside. The episode shows signs of a city in disarray as smoke goes up from burning buildings and cars aflame, bodies accumulate to raid stores and complicate the police's efforts to subvert the eventual societal deterioration. Madison gets home with the meds but Nick had already fell to floor vomiting in a heap while Alicia had to tend to him the best she could, denied her desire to revisit boyfriend, Matt (Maestro Harrell). Matt was bitten and as a result he's got the sweats and weakness, unable to any longer move, but Alicia loves him so she wants to be with him...and the dangers of that she can't quite accept. Heading for the desert seems to be Madison's next plans, having to leave behind home for a future unknown. Of course, "Fear" fans know what lies ahead for her, sigh. Still seeing life before the zombie apocalypse is a bit jarring, although the decline is quite visualized such as when Chris is on the bus looking out the window, or later when he concerns himself with what is going on outside the barber shop. The auto traffic, police and ambulance sirens, and foot traffic just further echoed the downfall of society at large. The student, Tobias (Lincoln Castellanos), informs Madison of how technology, the grid, the power, communication avenues will all fall, sort of planting the seed in her mind towards leaving for the desert. Nick's issues are a problem Madison hopes to solve when they get away from the city while Alicia's patience is tested as her beau's health will ultimately lead to his demise and turn. The birthday party that soon results in the father chasing down the mother (due to the ensuing passage of the zombie virus) is used to spotlight how family activity in suburbia, something once typical and normal, is forever altered by the apocalypse.

The crisis deepens and is becoming more apparent in this second episode of "Fear The Walking Dead" . Now that our central family are aware of the effects of the virus they scramble to locate their missing daughter and head home, before they can get to somewhere less populated. They then split up as Travis heads off to find his son and Madison tries to find something to help her son with his withdrawal symptoms. Both storylines intersect with the increasing chaos enveloping Los Angeles; streets are gridlocked as people try to get out of the city, power and telecommunications are fluctuating and a police response to an attack leads to demonstrations and a full scale riot.

I enjoyed this episode more than the pilot, we're more settled into the characters now and it's interesting to see what the breakdown of society might look like in a populated area like L.A. The unrest seems like a genuine response that the scenario might engender (to this inhabitant of relatively rural England it does anyway). There are, as others have pointed out, some weird inconsistencies - For example, Madison and Tobias work really hard to liberate some food from the school canteen, only to drive off without it for some reason.

We also see the first characters go down a "this is what it will take to survive" arc as the effects of an earlier encounter lead Madison to refuse to let her daughter leave the house to offer assistance. This is both a chilling end to the episode and is an interesting counterpoint to the Hispanic family that allowed Travis, his son and ex-wife to hole up with them and escape the riots.

A definite improvement on the pilot, but there's certainly room for more.

Wow, this episode is making the Walking Dead look bad. Walking Dead is SO MUCH BETTER, I can't even compare the quality of these two shows. As a fan of the Walking Dead, I am embarrassed by this episode. I know we are only 2 episodes in, and I'm still hoping the show improves, but this was truly awful.

1. Nothing memorable happens. Commercials feel longer than the actual episode.

2. The characters are more unlikable by the minute. I am finding myself not caring what happens to them. The only interesting character is still the druggy son - nearly everyone else is annoying.

3. The acting is dreadfully bad, soap opera style bad (e.g. mother's reaction to the school zombie-- ffs).

4. There is no gore. (For example, the one zombie kill focuses more on the character's reaction to killing the zombie, not the zombie itself- and I guess that's the whole point of the show, why it's so different from the Walking Dead, and why in my humble opinion it will fail if it keeps going in that direction.)

5. Too many plot holes to name - why is Tobias the only person who knows everything about the virus? Is he the only teen on the planet surfing the web? This isn't a plot hole per se, but it sure is irritating not having these answers.

6. The first 2 episodes do a terrible job giving us the viewers real ANSWERS about the plague. Everything we have seen so far has been filtered through the beady little eyes of this horribly uninformed and seemingly socially illiterate family. This is what really bothers me the most. It seems like this family doesn't watch the news, nor read the papers, and perhaps that's why they don't know what the hell is going on. I loved when the female turns on the TV of the shooting protest only to keep it muted and continue talking; that scene serves as a metaphor to show exactly what is wrong with this show.

Poor ol' Tobias is the only sane person there - I will sleep safe knowing he finally got his knife back.

The first episode of the prequel series to The Walking Dead was truly excellent with a real sense of danger and terror about it and had a star making performance by Frank Dillane as junkie Nick who witnessed the start of the zombie apocalypse first hand,this second episode moves it up a gear as other characters join whilst the cast from last week get more to do,this is where this nightmarish world really starts.

After witnessing a person come back and become a zombie Travis Manawa,his girlfriend Madison and her drug addict son Nick know this dead rising scenario will get a lot worse and decide to escape town.

They go over to pick up Madison's daughter Alicia who is with her sick boyfriend Matt at his house but soon discover Matt has been bitten and is beginning to turn,after not wanting to leave him Matt tells her to go knowing she won't be safe around him anymore.

After returning to Madison's house to pack up Travis goes off to pick up his ex wife Liza and son Chris but Chris isn't home yet from school whilst this happens Madison goes to the abandoned school she worked at to collect oxycodone to help Nick with his withdrawal and bumps into her student Tobias but both encounter the now zombified principal Art who tries to bite them both and Madison is forced to kill him.

Whilst Madison drives Tobias home Travis and Liza have to collect Chris from a riot where police are shooting the dead who are now zombies but are forced to shelter at a barbershop owned by the Salazar family.

Travis rings Madison and tells her to pack up with the kids and leave without him and he,Liza and Chris will meet them later but Madison decides to wait for Travis.Alicia looks out and sees her neighbour across the street being attacked by another neighbour who is now a zombie but Madison tells her to keep the door locked as its too late to help her and they must remain quiet.

After Dillane stole the show last week we get some top acting from other cast members too especially Kim Dickens as Madison who shines in a heroine role as she rescues Tobias from her ex co worker turned zombie Art before helping protect her kids at their home,she plays a strong willed mother perfectly and is more interesting than say Sarah Wayne Callies as Lori Grimes in The Walking Dead.We get to see more of Alicia played by beautiful actress Alycia Debnam Carey as we witness a emotional scene at dying boyfriend Matt's place and turns caring big sister as Nick has a fit later on.Cliff Curtis is great as Travis who is always trying to keep the world as it is even though that looks impossible now plus we get to meet the Salazar family including the iconic Ruben Blades as father Daniel whilst Dillane is still fantastic as Nick who's fight with drug withdrawal is as gripping as the zombie apocalypse plot.

This is less chilling this week and more action packed and gripping where as the more the episode goes on the more nightmarish the world around the characters becomes with more zombies walking around and ordinary people becoming more brutal and selfish.There is still tension though as the riot is quite unnerving as you can imagine yourself there plus the scene at the school with Madison and Tobias against the former principal turned zombie is brilliant and the sequence where Alisha finds Matt dying keeps you gripped as you don't know before you see him if he is dead,dying or has become a proper zombie and finally the final moments when the family witness a neighbour killing another could give you a sleepless night.

Only two instalments in and FTWD is a tension filled cracker with a cast of very interesting characters who you can see yourself rooting for as they face this horrible new world.The actors like TWD are all excellent and I love the slow build up to the end of civilisation as you know it plus the action and horror scenes are both scary and absorbing to watch,can't wait to see the rest.

I have never written a review for an episode of any show in particular, but after watching this episode of 'Fear The Walking Dead' it almost seemed necessary; I have never felt so tense and anxious and it was a complete polar opposite compared to the feelings I had for the first episode. The episode starts off with the familiar characters of the Pilot; but the feeling of danger and fear only builds, similar to the feelings I felt when playing Final Fantasy 7 for the first time; waiting for the inevitable to happen, not knowing what is going to happen next. I think the first episode bored me, because it mostly consisted of talking, but this was interesting, well balanced, and 'realistic'.

With the garish childishness and b-rated horror antics of the Pilot, I didn't have much hope, however this episode provided some much-needed tension. The music was still poorly selected and the characters underdeveloped, but it's beginning to feel as though it's moving forward.

Sadly, I still don't know half of the characters names. I enjoyed the mother having her first real encounter, having to step up to the plate to protect a student. The teen stereotypes continue, but hopefully they'll evolve. I also found the beginning of the riots/police en force an interesting perspective, with most of the population unaware of the real threat. I'm hopeful things will pick up once they get out of the city and meet others along the way.