Fear the Walking Dead: Season 1 [Blu-ray]
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I’d heard mixed reviews about the show. It’s a spin off from one of my favorites, TWD, so while I was laid up I thought I’d give it a chance. From almost the first episode, I just kept shaking my head that these people were what survived the end of the world. I know…it’s TV. But I still want some reality in my escape from reality. Every character is TSTL (too stupid to live). If there’s a bad decision to be made, they make it. I’m re minded of the commercial that’s a spoof on horror films where the kids run up to a deserted house in the middle of the night and choose to run into the shed full of farm implements, or the basement or the cemetery rather than take the running car. That’s these people. TSTL. No wonder society collapsed. Plus, to really irk a viewer, it has different rules for the world than the originating series. For instance, in TWD you can’t eat something after its been partially eaten by a walker. Here, they do that. Nick is probably the dumbest of the characters, but in truth, he has plenty of company. I finished the first season and got about half way through the second before the stupidity just got to me. If they are what’s going to lead us to a new world, we’re doomed.- Bree Zee
While I enjoyed this first season enough, I was left wanting more–mostly more time. I felt they rushed it. It’s as if they were afraid they’d lose their core audience (Walking Dead Fans) if they didn’t race to the “good stuff.” But that’s where I feel it failed. The good stuff to me would have been to see how the disintegration of society happens, bit by bit. That slow, thudding fear that comes with realizing, perhaps a bit too late, that things are changing around you, growing worse. So you start to think: Should I own a gun? I’ve never had one, but there’s some really weird things going on. Maybe mom should come stay with us for a while; I don’t like her over there all on her own. What’s going on with all these methed up crazies biting people? It’s a fear that should shuffle along slowly, listlessly like a zombie itself. Instead, in just a handful of episodes, it wanted us to arrive to where the Walking Dead already lived and I have a hard time believing it would happen in such a quick and tidy fashion.-Cullan
Although I imagine a lot of the people in Los Angeles would act as irrational as the people in FTWD, I’m having major difficulty feeling empathy for ANY of these characters (other than the Ruben Blades character).
What I HAVE realized is, when I had watched the first three episodes of ‘The Walking Dead’, I knew the names every one of the characters and wanted them ALL to survive. Having seen three episodes of ‘Fear The Walking Dead’, I can’t tell you the names of ANY of those characters, and can’t wait until they get bit.
In fairness to FTWD, I think having Frank Darabont at the helm of ‘The Walking Dead’, gave them a tremendous advantage.-RL2
DVD Wholesale Main Features:
Actors: Kim Dickens, Cliff Curtis, Frank Dillane, Alycia Debnam Carey
Directors: Not Available
Format: Blu-ray, NTSC, Widescreen
Language: English
Subtitles: English, Spanish
Region: Region A/1 (Read more about DVD/Blu-ray formats.)
Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Number of discs: 2
Rated: NR Not Rated
Studio: ANCHOR BAY
DVD Release Date: December 1, 2015
Run Time: 291 minutes
ASIN: B0148ZDKP4
