I don't get Fear The Walking Dead

I'd hoped FTWD would be a nice restart that could right some wrongs with TWD, since TWD has been gradually circling the drain...but I guess it's just time to put this franchise to rest.

I think this second half of season 2 is good.

Watch first 3 episodes of the series and then skip to episode 9 of season 2.

They started the show too fast. The outbreak was what everyone wanted but the producers zoomed by. Plus too many characters and stuff going on. Now they've got it back on track and focusing on the main three characters (nick, his mom, and sister).

What exactly is the premise of it? I haven't watched "The Walking Dead" in years now, so I'm a bit unclear on some things. (Not sure how many years, but I imagine someone could answer given the information that the last thing I recall is them in a prison and it was finally being overrun. I remember the old guy -- Herschel? -- dying and that extraordinarily annoying swinger wife woman dying in childbirth the previous season. Or maybe the last thing I recollect was them beating the Governor. It's hard to remember exactly in which order things occurred. I think they were on their 6th or 7th dead black guy.) The commercials and blurbs I saw seemed to imply that "Fear the Walking Dead" was all about the time of the outbreak, which made little sense to me given that it would only take a month for them to reach the point where "The Walking Dead" started, which would make it basically a new TWD, just with different primary characters.

A couple of the commercials were interesting and surreal, though. I considered checking the show out but felt like not watching the original series in so long probably meant I just didn't have the drive to stick with it.

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That's exactly where it ended up. I got enough zombies in my life to make this show completely superfluous.

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Part of me hopes you're not speaking metaphorically and you're just a world-weary cynic who has gotten bored with the fact that your entire family has been zombified and you don't need to watch even more zombies after a long day of keeping your cannibal wife from overstepping her boundaries.

A mass of people will look back in 10 years at the golden age of tv we live in now and say "TWD and FTWD were not good shows".

I will never understand how crap like this gets a second season, but Firefly/Grinder/Finder only get one.

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I will never understand how crap like this gets a second season, but Firefly/Grinder/Finder only get one.

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Firefly, for one, was cheesy as frick with a stumbling plot. Most overrated show in the history of television.

I don't get people saying TWD is garbage. Do any of you remember what zombie shows and movies were even like before it? 28 days/weeks later not included (and technically not zombies), and Zombieland aside even though it's a comedy, they are all fricking horrible. It raised the standards for production quality of the genre, and now all those people have forgotten what things were like before.

I watched all of season one reluctantly. I disliked each episode but thought at some point it'd turn around. After the Season 2 premiere I was like 'Nope!' and haven't watched since.