I was like, “Okay, I can’t watch people die for a while.” I really loved the first season of Fear the Walking Dead and it was interesting for me because I had actually fallen off of The Walking Dead. We talked about keeping the tension and anxiety high now that the apocalypse is fully underway, watching the characters discover and define their moral compases, how he plans to prevent Fear the Walking Dead from becoming The Walking Dead redux, fulfulling and subverting genre conventions, and a lot more. With Fear the Walking Dead returning tonight on AMC, I recently sat down with showrunner Dave Erickson to discuss what lies ahead in Season 2. Season 2 finds the survivors thrust into ever-escalating danger as they take to the high seas in search of a safe haven - one we know they'e all to unlikely to find. The first season of Fear the Walking Dead explored followed the the core cast of characters as they formed a new post-apocalyptic family unit, loved ones and strangers forced into an uneasy alliance by circumstance. A unique, slow-burn spin on the zombie genre that's not afraid to take its time with the requisite undead action and dive in to intimate character drama and the ramifications of societal collapse in its stead. Fortunately, we got Fear the Walking Dead instead.
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Will you be watching season two of this series? Tell us what you think.AMC's The Walking Dead is such a mammoth success that the spin-off series could have easily been a cash-grabbing paint-by-numbers replica. I think we’ve moved away from that.”Ī premiere date for Fear The Walking Dead season two has not yet been set, but the series is coming back. We won’t really see the military as a force, we won’t see a commanding officer trying to marshal troops or trying to secure neighborhoods. By the time we get to Week 4 or Week 5, that’s when things have completely collapsed, but from a story perspective, if we were to encounter any military figures, it would be like someone trying to get home to his own family. So there’s still hold-outs, there are still cities that haven’t fallen yet. This is only two weeks into this, we’re not quite at where Rick Grimes was when he woke up in Georgia. “Well, the retreat to the desert is real. Fans of the show saw the military abandon Los Angeles in the season one finale.Įrickson told The Wrap what is next on this series as far as the military and government are concerned. If there is a jump forward in time, it would be a small jump forward.Īs for the military involvement on this series, that will lessen as the series progresses. They know the city has fallen and know things are incredibly bad and they know that this is happening in other states and potentially other countries but they haven’t had anybody say to them, ‘The world is over this is our extinction event.’ That’s something they’ll have to process as they move through season two as well.”Īs for where the action will pick up at the start of season two, Erickson revealed that there would not be a major time jump. They haven’t had the benefit of the CDC download. There are still things for them to discover. We’ll have more of a shorthand going in to season two. Even Travis has had to shed some of his humanity for the first time, which was his great struggle. We’ve learned a lot: our characters in their apocalyptic education have learned what walkers are. “We’ll pick up in a more accelerated pace when we go in to the season. That series will return to AMC with season six on Sunday night.ĭave Erickson tackled the criticism and teased season two of the series in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter. This is a departure from The Walking Dead, which is fast paced each and every week.
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Fans were not loving the slow pace of the series. Season one of Fear The Walking Dead did receive a lot of criticism.
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Fans will see more of Travis, played by Cliff Curtis, and his family on AMC.
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AMC locked up a second season for the series before it even premiered. Fans of this series do not need to worry about the series being cancelled. Fear The Walking Dead wrapped up season one on Sunday night.