Fear the Walking Dead: Season 1 [Blu-ray]

I watched all 7 seasons and I am watching season 8 AMC NOW.I had watched all 11 season of the walking dead as well. There are higher and lower points for Fear (vs. the walking dead).If you like the walking dead, you will watch and like these shows.

There was a lot of buzz surrounding the companion series and prequel to AMC’s wildly popular The Walking Dead. Was it worth the hype though? Absolutely! Fear the Walking Dead’s premiere snagged an staggering 13.96 million viewers, the highest ranked debut of a cable series ever. By the show’s 3rd episode, that number had dropped to 11.6. Still an impressive feat for a show’s debut season. All the buzz hits a boiling point in the first season finale.People complained that the show’s debut season, comprised of 6 episodes, moved at too slow of a pace, but people seem to be forgetting that Fear the Walking Dead is set during the early stages of Kirkman’s zombie apocalypse. The Walking Dead didn’t pick up the pace until the show’s third season. Showrunners Robert Kirkman and Dave Erickson had to take a new approach to a storyline that we’ve all become accustomed to having seen 5 season’s of The Walking Dead. We, as viewers, are witnessing the beginning of the apocalypse through the eyes of a dysfunctional blended family, even more dysfunctional than The Walking Dead’s Grimes family.For viewers of the show that haven’t read Kirkman’s comic books on which the show is based on, it wasn’t until the end of the series’ second season that we found out anyone who dies comes back as a mindless, flesh eating cannibal. This revelation was brought to light during Fear the Walking Dead’s pilot episode. This is a focal plot point of the series. Our cast of survivors on Fear are still learning the ropes, and, on more every occasion, try to reason with their friends who’ve died and came back as walkers. While Travis Manawa is trying to protect his biological family, he unintentionally puts his new family, Madison Clark and her children Nick and Alicia, in danger more than once. Add the Salazar family, Daniel, his wife Griselda and their adult daughter Ophelia, to the mix and things only get more complicated. Add Nick’s heroine addiction to the mix and things get shaken up to a boiling point early on.While The Walking Dead focuses on what Rick Grimes would do to protect his family, Fear the Walking Dead shares a similar focal point but shifts the focus to a point in time where society is beginning its downward spiral. By the time Grimes’ finds his family in The Walking Dead’s 3rd episode, the apocalypse has been going on for a few months. Fear the Walking Dead, being set during the initial outbreak, gives us a chance to witness these characters come to terms with life as the lights are going out. One of the most harrowing scenes was in Fear’s 3rd episode as the Manawa family are finally reunited and driving back to the Clark home. Chris looks out over the Los Angeles valley and we see huge sections of the cities’ electrical grid shutting off. We saw similar situations in flashbacks’ on The Walking Dead, but no on Fear’s scope.Even though the Army puts up fences to protect the civilians, the soldiers have ulterior motives. We’re given hints and glimpses during the series’ fourth and fifth episodes. “I can do whatever I want. I have guns,” one guardsman tell Travis. The big reveal of the series comes in the fifth episode when we find out what Operation Cobalt is. Cobalt was the original working title of the series, and serves as the WTF revelation in episode 5.By Fear’s third episode, the series’ cast tops out at 9 members. When the first season wraps, we’ve lost 2 of the main cast, but gained one more. Our survivors numbers could have grown, but the Clark/Manawa/Salazar family hope to flee the armies’ Decontaminated Zone for the supposed safety of the desert east of Los Angeles.“You can’t save everyone,” Alicia tells Chris at one point during the finale. A more important questions remains; What defines greed when you’re trying to keep your family safe? Over and over again in both Fear the Walking Dead, and The Walking Dead, this question is posed. By turning Daniel’s prisoner loose, Travis thinks he’s being the good man. This act of kindness comes back to bite Travis in the ass, figuratively. Army doctor Bethany Exner also brings up a few excellent points. As she and Liza Ortiz, Chris’ mother and Travis’ ex-wife, are tending the to the wounded, she tells Liza that she’s trying to save six thousand while Liza is trying to save six. Exner also questions Liza, asking her “What’s family? Blood or bond?” Exner brings up an excellent point.The acting continues to be spot on. Each of these actors brings to life on screen a character that we can relate to in some way. Whether it’s Nick’s addiction, Alicia and Chris’ resentment towards their family, or Liza and Madison’s love for their children. Through the course of the season, we are drawn to these survivors and their struggles to maintain their relationships and their safety in a world that has literally gone to s***.As the season ends with uncertainly, it opens the doors for where season two will take us. Season 2 is going to be one helluva ride.

I really wanted to give this five stars, but something deep inside made me click on the fourth star. I guess I'm comparing this start to the initial episode of the Walking Dead when Rick wakes up in the hospital to find the world has collapsed into chaos. The beginning of this version of the Walking Dead started out like the frog in the cold water that gets heated slowly until fully cooked. So we are left with the thoughts of wondering how it would be at the beginning of an apocalypse. Is this how it would really be? Los Angeles, to me, would seem to be a very dangerous city when all civilization founders. Civilians, police, military, and zombies would be going toe-to-toe at a more furious pace than what is presented here. I'm getting picky here for sure.How hard is it coming up with a sequel to even be modestly as good as the original? Many of the fans of the original complained quite often that the Walkers were too few and far between. The detractors that yelled that were soon placated with more Walkers AND more evil bad humans. I just never felt I was watching something earth shattering during the initial episodes of the LA version. I just had a thought, it does happen you know. I have played the classic game, The Last of US on PS3, and that plot starts off with a short bit of quiet at home closely followed shear chaos and mayhem. I know they wanted to do character development and nurture the script points, but I really believe a bit more frantic initially would grow characters quickly. Ratchet the action, see what the people can do, and then let the boiling rise and fall. Characters would need to develop on the run. OK, there was some running and hiding.Again, I might be too critical here of a potential classic following on the heels of genius, but maybe the next episodes will prove to be creative. This is what I wanted to see from them, creativity, but got a standard retelling of what we all might have imagined it might be after seeing the original show. Maybe they could take a few lessons from the current champions of tension, Fargo. I never had an OMG moment in Fear TWD. I want OMG, and this telling of the initial stages of Walkingness did not give me OMGness. Any fan of the original may have taken a nap during some of this FTWD. I know they will get better as time goes on, but fans of the TWD know one thing, characters will develop through strife, chaos, and OMG moments.I probably could have gone to three stars, but I really gave them the benefit of the doubt, for character building sessions. Something I liked about the original, the stars were relative unknowns or subliminal stars. Kim Dickens, I always like her, but wasn't sure I bought her in an apocalypse. Some of the others seemed oddly cast to me. Again, I'm comparing this to the original classic and that is maybe just wrong, but it is impossible to stop that thought process.The bottom line on FTWD, wait until next season when it appears that they have 15 episodes to blow our minds with some real OMG moments of apocalypse survival dialogue and sprinting. So give this FTWD a thorough viewing and clear your mind of the original for better binge watching. I'm going to watch it again and see if I'm off base.

We love the walking dead seaons, well worth the money.

Fear the Walking Dead - Die komplette erste Staffel STEELBOOK La storia è così così, dai primi episodi non sembra tanto coinvolgente. Infatti anche avendola vista tutta posso dire che non è alla pari di The Walking Dead, ne come storia, personaggi e lo stile che ha.Però se vi piacciono le serie con zombie e splatter o così ve la consiglio di vedere.La Steelbook fuori proprio bella con dei bei paesaggi raffigurati sopra, anche l’interno è fatto molto bene con una magnifica immagine per estesa di tutti i personaggi principali di questa serie.Anche la qualità si vede si sente al tatto che è proprio di ottima fattura, non come alcune edizioni che a volte la parte in ferro si staccano dalla custodia.Anche se questa è la versione Tedesca bisogna averla assolutamente, perché se uno le colleziona non si deve mai fermare alle sole versioni del proprio paese, ma a tutte quelle del mondo.Ecco alcune foto di questa Metalbox. Fear the Walking Dead - Die komplette erste Staffel STEELBOOK

The characters not as engaging as the walking dead, but by the end was much better so looking forward to series two. This DVD however was very expensive for the content!

Scary pop-corn end of the world stuff….a bit like watching Tottenham Hotspur play

Fear the Walking Dead est une série d'une exceptionnelle qualité par ses acteurs et son écriture. C'est bien plus qu'un simple "prequel" de TWD même si elle y apporte un éclairage spécifique. Elle est très originale dans son projet de présentation de la révélation progressive de la catastrophe et du passage du normal à l'anormal et des changements moraux dans la société et chez les individus. On s'attache particulièrement aux personnages et on attend la suite.