Fear The Walking Dead Is a Dud

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I'm a big fan of The Walking Dead and was intrigued when the creators of Fear The Walking Dead said they wanted the new show to be different.

It would be set in LA for one, and months before the outbreak had spread so widely. It would also have less gore. All of that made sense--who needed a Walking Dead clone?

Well, they replaced gore with bore. The show feels as if it's stalled. People keep repeating themselves. Endlessly. Within the same episode.

The junkie son keeps asking for drugs from his mom.

His mother keeps frowning. At everything.

The totally clueless sister keeps wondering what's going on, but nobody tells her.

They turn on tons of lights to let the zombies know they're home.

The quasi-heroic boyfriend/stepfather keeps denying that the "sick" people are incurable and that the world is collapsing around him.



And the same holds for most of the other characters. Going through the motions. Oh so slowly.

They seem almost as zombie-like as the turned neighbor in this week's episode who stands at a ragged wooden fence, weakly growling, her arm thrust through it. Can zombies be dull? Yup.

And you wonder: how is it possible that so many of the characters in Fear the Walking Dead have never seen a single effin zombie movie or read a zombie book? How unbelievable is that?

The show is brainless. Pun intended.




Lev Raphael is the author of the Vampyre of Gotham and 24 other books in many genres. -- This feed and its contents are the property of The Huffington Post, and use is subject to our terms. It may be used for personal consumption, but may not be distributed on a website.












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