The first time I saw this episode, I would have bet anything Nick was sharing his room with the next zombie to rise, especially since Nick was chained to a hospital bed and, thus, would prove the perfect zombie bait. The wheezing old man's rasping lungs prove just part of the episode's unsettling soundscape (about which more in a bit). Will Nick's roommate turn out to be a zombie? Nah. 3) It sure seems like something's up with Nick's hospital roommate Explanation would only get in the way of that. The zombies are here because the zombies are here. Nobody is going to figure out just where this zombie pandemic came from in the time they have before civilization falls.įear the Walking Dead is more of a mood piece than its parent series, and that extends to any sort of traditionalist backstory. However, there's also the frequent suggestion that some sort of superbug is running rampant in other states. Notice how often the zombies are backlit in this episode, as if to suggest they're phantom intrusions.
2) There's much speculation that the drugs Gloria took turned her It's the rough story beat the pilot follows throughout - whatever you think would happen on the parent show, the opposite will happen here, for better or worse. The point is this: If we didn't know that this series took place slightly before the outbreak of the zombie apocalypse (i.e., if we were reading this in the script), we might be just a little gobsmacked to realize that Los Angeles had yet to turn into zombie central. That's not so far from something that might happen on the show's parent series, and, as many characters on that parent series do, he turns tail and runs. You'd have a character waking up in an isolated, seemingly abandoned building, looking for his companion, only to come upon a zombie. To see why this works as a reversal, try to forget everything you know about this series and imagine first encountering this sequence on the page. Nick runs out of a bad situation and into an even worse one.
1) Nick runs away from a zombie - only to be hit by a car Here are 13 of them, as they occurred throughout the hour. But when it comes right down to it, the pilot mostly works because of all those tiny lies it tells you. Fear the Walking Dead 's pilot just foregrounds that to a degree that's slightly hilarious. But throughout, the premiere is stringing you along, hoping that your desire to see zombies is so strong that you'll stick with the otherwise ordinary antics of its central family.Ī lot of TV is about this, about waiting for the bad stuff to start happening. Sometimes they're over-the-top and stupid. Sometimes the ways it does so are subtle and thrilling. To do that, the show has to play unfair, just a little bit. Related Read our review of the first two episodes of Fear the Walking Dead
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