Kills off or ignores all interesting minority characters to focus on insufferable white people with their first world problems. Never focuses on the actual collapse of civilisation and all interesting potential for true existential horror just like the original show. Just immediately devolves to survival of annoying characters you'd have to be paid to ever care about, such a waste. Don't waste your precious time or money, watch the more diverse and better characters and stories of Z Nation instead.

In my personal opinion, I don't think this is as good as the original walking dead. However, it may grow on me. I like it as a show, but I'm not in any rush to watch the newest episode. It has great potential, the start is slow and the pacing just seems to bore me. I like the characters, and dialogue. There's barely any action scenes yet, but the acting just seems a bit mediocre. I hope the next season will be great.

Fear The Walking Dead started out incredible. Unfortunately it has become a show where all of the great actors often die meaningless deaths and the story becomes nothing more than war after war after war with very little reward or growth for the characters. Right when you start figuring out what characters you like, and you start hoping that they somehow succeed and get ahead in the post-apocalyptic world, they instead get killed off in a lame way. Unfortunately this also now applies to Fear The Walking Dead, which I was REALLY hoping it wouldnt get screwed up, because it too had an incredibly strong start (in my own opinion). The show could have been exciting watching the survivors succeed a little more often or make something "bigger" and better in the world, out of the bad situation; but instead positive progress always gets ironically stomped on and a skirmish or war breaks out before the story gets interesting. Yes, I cant believe Im saying this, but the fighting against the big bad guys is old at this point, and Id rather just watch walkers get killed and see some good survival techniques being applied to build a bigger and better life for the main actors...and THEN later we can come back to facing some unique bad guys down the road. At this point though, the story has become frustrating for me to watch after having watched some great character building get thrown out the window for nothing. The story has become less about interesting characters, but instead is now a story that keeps getting forcefully pushed up a hill that no one cares about. What good is a story without beloved characters? It's nothing in The Walking Dead. Maybe some shows could pull it off without consistent character development, but The Walking Dead is losing people's interest because the writers arent pulling it off. Meanwhile you have Mr.Kirkman stating that, "no one is safe" as a way of dismissing these allegations that the show is killing itself. Well if "no one is safe" then why are the most critical characters still making their way through life and growing/developing in the comics? The comics are GREAT. The show, however, has become redundant and painful to watch...and honestly Im sad that Im even saying that. I love The Walking Dead, and I forced myself for a long while to stick with it, despite my becoming more and more annoyed about watching the story derail in the worst of ways. The writers have ruined the TV story of The Walking Dead, along with Fear The Walking Dead, and I dont think either show can be turned around at this point. Some day when someone who hasn't ever seen The Walking Dead before, asks you what the show is all about, you can literally say, "it's a story where everyone dies, nothing truly good ever happens, and repeats itself over and over." Sure, Im dumbing it down...but after Season 6 of The Walking Dead or swason 4 of Fear The Walking Dead can you blame me? This is fundamentally where the show went wrong. The characters dont grow and learn and improve and become something to be feared or reckoned with...instead the characters JUST about get to that point of something great and then they die or leave the story. Its all disappointing considering just how incredible the show once was and how much potential it had. My original review as follows: Bravo to everyone who worked on this new spinoff series of The Walking Dead. I just finished watching the premier episode on TV and I have to say is that it's brilliant; so I purchased the entire season here on Google Play and cant wait to watch the next episode. This looks like an awesome new take on an already incredible Walking Dead universe. Shows the beginning of the end masterfully! I live near LA and will do everything I can to get on this show somehow, even if it's as an extra. New life goal haha.