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Average episode. It had a few good moments, Madison walking around outside the fence and stumbling into the military looking all creepy with gas masks and guns was tense, slapping her junkie son all over the room was strangely satisfying and Travis seeing gunfire lighting up the distant building (the "hospital"?) was eerie, Junkie Nick getting his second beating of the day and carted off to the "Hospital", I also enjoyed hearing more from Mr Salazar and his El Salvador stories, that was one chilling memory.

The bad is still frustrating as hell. Travis & Madison having a domestic in the kitchen, Madison having the same expression on her face in whatever emotional situation she finds herself in (Botox syndrome?), Alicia swapping her short shorts for a short skirt and basically confirming my worry that she's only there as eye candy for the younger male viewers, and the cast spending the first half of the episode like they were in a remake of Dynasty, lounging around the pool or having sex. Don't know about you, but I was in the middle of that apocalypse I'd probably be huddled in a corner rocking to and fro, contemplating life and the universe endlessly. The tan can wait.

Love the show but a few things need to be said: I read a lot about people complaining about the acting of the drug addict son. I think he is very convincing and his character is acting way more logical than the teenage daughter (ok teenage girls act irrational but i just hope she dies next).

Now my main criticism:

A real mum usually puts the life of her children before anything else. She never does. She doesn't even freak out when the military takes her son. She has already killed zombies and she knows what's out there. However for the third time in the series she knowingly risks her life just for the sake of curiosity. What would be worth this risk? Not even a million Dollars (to a real mother). If a country would be struck by Ebola and you'd be in a safe zone, would you cut the fence and run out to the infected?

Last criticism:

Why on earth use the cast of "Orange is the new black"? You would't see John Snow from GOT in TWD Still love Kirkmans stuff, even if it's a quick buck on the side.

Big step up in quality with this episode.

The plot leaps forward 9 days and the army have set up the families estate as a fenced off safe zone. Though insisting that those inside a "the lucky ones", the army are keeping any knowledge they have of what's gone on outside the safe zone to themselves. Even more worryingly for those inside the houses, they are periodically rounding up the sick and the injured and taking them to a "military hospital" outside this safe zone. Separate incidents make it clear to Madison and Travis that it's not just the infected that have fallen to soldiers bullets.

There's nary a walker in this episode, but this is comfortably the most threat that we've felt so far. The army power dynamic is a familiar one to the Walking Dead.... Those with the most weapons are automatically in charge but it's clear from the bodies piling up outside the gates that they have been abusing that power well before they arrived in this particular LA suburb. If I'm honest, there are a few clichés amongst the soldiers that we have seen before. The dumb grunt trading (at the moment the idea of) sex for medicine. The Lieutenant jokingly threatening to shoot the civilians under his control and practicing his golf swing outside of the fence.

The show's opening, showing Nick floating in the pool interjected with the strains of Lou Reed's Perfect Day is great. A he remains the show's most enigmatic character, turning down his mother's offer of codeine as he nips next door to mainline morphine from his dying neighbour. Trying to maintain his addiction in what's coming has the potential to be an interesting storyline.

The tension rises.

This weeks episode of Fear The Walking Dead showed us that even though the show may be taking a different path to The Walking Dead, it is good nonetheless. My main point would have to go to the shows realism. I have read a lot of reviews which seem to describe the characters as not being very relatable and their choices being stupid, but in reality it does make a lot of sense. The characters perfectly capture the essence of what we would be like, if we had no prior knowledge of what zombies/walkers were. A topic I love so far is the idea of just trusting the people in charge. We saw this as a recurring theme this episode, as characters at times decided to go with what the leaders were saying, even though there was doubt.

As for my favourite characters so far... The top spot would go to Madison. I know some people might disagree with this, and view Madison as a bad mother, but in reality she is the one doing the most work. She has been a strong figure and is trying to understand the world around her. I loved her reaction with Nick, as it showed just how devastated she was with him. My second spot would go to Daniel. He seems to be generally a lot smarter then a lot of the group, having experienced this before.

In conclusion, I feel as if this was a great episode of Fear The Walking Dead. I look forward to next weeks episode. I hope people start to realize that this is about the collapse of society, not just a world where it has already occurred and there are walkers everywhere.

So Its been 9 days and everything is gone and the only ones that are saved is our characters neighbourhood? Doesn't seem so believable. Also thinking that they are safe because the army put a fence around them? Yeah no... Ok the army dude said that there are around 12 safe zones nearby, that's more realistic. Im sure soon most of them will fall apart. Wow the swimming pool that Nick is in is filthy as hell. Madison cutting the fence? Not a smart move. Madison entering the unsafe zone was a dumb decision but also it was creepy as hell, dead bodies everywhere and the smell, pretty gruesome. Nick doesn't do much in this episode but still he is one of the most interesting characters so far. Madison giving Nick a beating? Damn didn't expect that. The behavior of the army soldiers is definitely suspicious. Now I wanna see what will happen to Nick. Very solid episode overall, interesting writing, good performances. My rating is 8/10.

This episode was without any form of fear, the most boring episode so far and i'm waiting for a lot of zombie action.

1x4 Rating: 6.9/10

Storyline: The National Guard has build a fence in the perimeter of Madison's house and the neighborhood has become one out of twelve infection-free safe zones in Los Angeles. They have strict rules and a curfew in effect to protect the dwellers. Chris sits on the roof of the house with a camera and is intrigued with a light blinking in a house outside the perimeter and he shows his footage to Travis first and to Madison later. Madison sneaks through the fence to see the other side and finds many infected and non-infected copses. Meanwhile Liza is assisting Dr. Bethany Exner that works with the National Guard and she transfers their neighbor to a hospital. Then she examines Griselda's leg and the addicted Nick and soon they are taken by soldiers to a hospital against Madison's will. Liza is invited to join Dr. Exner and she also goes to the medical facility. What will happen to Griselda and Nick?

Becoming unwatchable. I suppose a prequel is a challenge. Most of the audience already know the basic rules, but these clueless characters still know just about nothing after four episodes and so it's agonizing to watch them. Random precocious adolescents do not make up for it and is just a stupid joke without intending to be. Nobody should be certain of the future either; Uncertainty is more fearful. So we don't need the old barber acting like he has read the entire script of every season already and giving out spoilers to everyone. Try using symbolism instead!. Show instead of tell! But these showrunners completely forgot that "FEAR" is in the title of the show.

Maybe being attacked my multiple walkers by now would have spared us this unnecessary turtle's pace. This is not just because I need more action. Again, where is the fear! There was more palpable fear among many people during the first weeks of mere Covid compared to these lousy actors in a fracking zombie apocalypse. That is ridiculous. So more walkers eating people including loved ones might make sense in a show about a zombie apocalypse within at least the first 4 episodes. Duh!

More walker action would also make sense in Los Angeles with multi-million people, SMH. This was supposed to be an expansion of the TWD universe, but we are basically stuck in one or two boring homes, an utterly cheap production set so they can greedily grab more money from you. But maybe they learned from their stupidity; Rick and Michones is supposed to be set in a crazy NYC. But somehow L. A. is practically empty already? Wasn't tiny Atlanta (compared to L. A.) bombed because of being overrun by walkers early on? But many millions of L. A. folks have fled or are dead (but not walkers) already? This makes no sense until you see they are just being cheap again. Or maybe the show-runners saw how horribly cringy, stupid, and bad the extras were "acting" during the protests/riots in a previous episode and decided they couldn't use extras, so cancelled the zombies in a zombie series.

So what's the deal. The dysfunctional extended family will grow and eventually learn to be a strong fam. Aww!! But it's not really a dysfunctional family. It's a bunch of trope characters mostly with boring first world problems before the walkers came. No, I do not minimize the problem of drug addiction. I think much of that they do decent enough, but they are going to drag it on forever. For example, what could have been a teaching moment for everyone they idiotically pass over. They didn't care to hear their son's experience and really ended up looking like fools because of it. Not only do they not bother to apologize, even worse, the stepdad doubles downs on his criticism of Nick's "worldclass imagination" over a mere simple observation by Nick. First of all, anyone that criticizes the importance of imagination should NEVER be a teacher and NEVER be a writer so please take away the pen from whatever writer is responsible. Also, the mother's acting is horrendous sometimes. You can literally see her tying too hard to be a you-know-what, like in a previous episode, when she expressed relief at finding Nick and then interrogates him but before he can finish half a sentence she blurts out more questions, all in the span of about 15 seconds. The slight intensity of the scene and camera work presents it as like a dysfunctional moment, but the bad acting makes it feel like parody. So stepdad's supposed to be teacher and mom's supposed to be a high-school counselor. Is this a joke?

Edit: So I guess L. A. is not actually lifeless and without walkers as you will see soon. Go figure. My point was it was unbearable listening to any character mention with a straight face that the entire city except for a few enclaves is lifeless after only a couple days. It wasn't like a massive nuclear bomb. Maybe it was another way to show the military as incompetent. Whatever. That's another thing. This is practically an unintended parody of the military and national guard, with tiresome unoriginal tropes of grunt like soldiers. How does the military lose control over everything especially critical infrastructure so quickly? That is a complex question that these amateurs are better off not trying to answer and leaving it to our imagination because you definitely can't explain it with just a handful of scenes of a few cherry-picked fictional examples of incompetent corrupt solders. Why would anyone take anything from this trash they are giving us if they have the National Guard behaving exactly like authoritarian thugs and corrupt selfish fools taking bribes in plain sight within only a few days. That is beyond absurd. It is like they skipped to year two with the soldiers while everyone else is in week one. Even the way the soldiers act and patrol they appear more like a mercenaries from year two or something. Also, soldiers losing moral only after a couple days is even more absurd. Solders potentially going AWOL to be with their families could be a concern. They don't bother to show how it is resolved though. It is left to the imagination and with the way they are already acting like authoritarian thugs it is easy for the viewer to think they are already shooting deserters. Hmm...how about soldiers in charge do what they are trained and lead people. At least Mercer gets to be from West Point, but I guess all other soldiers are just a joke. It is borderline offensive. What would be more interesting, but impossible for these "writers" to pull of is showing the military ultimately fail despite their best and bravest efforts. What we go instead was just like one small joke of a platoon.

This episode was very boring, but it was my fault for having high hopes for this episode considering how bad this season has been so far. I didn't care about Nick or Chris's storyline in this episode, and I didn't care about the light that he saw in the camera, I also don't care about the unnecessary romance between Ofelia and the random military guy, which speaking about that, that scene is super creepy she's like way younger then him, like why would they write that? And there wasn't a single walker throughout the entire episode, at this point they shouldn't call it "Fear The Walking Dead" they should just call it fear, but at least the ending was somewhat good, thankfully it sets up the next episode in a way that there is potential but knowing the show so far they are gonna ruin that potential.