In the series’ second outing, Fear the Walking Dead slipped to 8.2 million total viewers, and, although rating declines are never a good thing, it is normal for new series to see slight declines in their second week on air. We asked him all about if his role on the show has changed and what to expect in season 6.
How was your first appearance on a tonight show – Jimmy Kimmel, in late August? He added: “I will definitely do some theatre again”. That’s all the more impressive considering it didn’t have a parent series to piggyback. Rick and his crew are settled into Alexandria, but things are starting to fall apart at the seams due to mistrust inside the community and external forces such as the zombies and the Scavengers.
Well, Robert Kirkman is giving us even more reason to get excited for the sixth season. The yellow Los Angeles sun tints everything a very different hue from what we’ve seen and felt in The Walking Dead’s Georgia setting.
What fans of “The Walking Dead” know all too well is that a major metropolitan area is no place to be in a zombie apocalypse. While watching Travis, Chris, and the Salazars as they attempt to escape the downtown rioting, we come across scenes, including a policeman/walker overcoming another policeman, but at the same time much of the violence and aggression going on in the streets has to do simply with battles between citizens and the police.
Meanwhile, tension seems to be brewing between Rick and his old friend Morgan (Lennie James) when “The Walking Dead” returns for a new run in October.
While the pacing goes back and forth between the speeding collapse of culture and the slow build of a family trying to come to terms with the reality of the world around them, “Fear the Walking Dead” is proving to be a worthy successor to the original series: and at the halfway mark of the first season, there looks to be much more gore in the family’s future. Kirkman told Entertainment Weekly he’ll be taking advantage of his built-in catalysts, namely Daryl Dixon (who doesn’t exist in the comics) and Carol (who is bad and long-dead in the comics), to keep the story fresh as they weave in and out of comic arcs.
I’m in the enviable position of constantly seeing Scott and the rest of the writers dig up morsels from my work and doing things with them I never could have imagined.
There’s no doubt that “The Walking Dead” is one of the most popular TV shows today, if not of all time.