Nicholas Starkey | Reviews Editor
‘Fear the Walking Dead’ is the television infection that is spreading on a deadly scale.
Following the adaption of The Walking Dead, the spin-off show had enormous shoes to fill. However, it has proven to be quite the zombified drama that so many fans of original show think it may even be better.
Something’s gone wrong in the world, and none of the characters have a real grasp of the terrifying problems which now lie ahead. (Hint: zombies.)
The show follows a highly dysfunctional family, which consists of a single mother (Kim Dickens), her boyfriend (Cliff Curtis), and her two children; a son with a drug addiction (Frank Dillane), and a daughter who suffers forms of depression caused by events of the show (Alycia Debnam Carey).
This uncoordinated family, already under the usual stress of everyday life, now have the huge burden of a global infestation of a deadly virus.
Though the new show has spiralled out of AMC’s high demand original TV show, the story is brand new, and has an individual outlook on the events of a zombie apocalypse. It also adds a hint of family urban life to the traumatised circumstances.
It truly is a show to be caught.
8.5/10
