(L-R) Actors Kim Dickens, Cliff Curtis, and Frank Dillane attend AMC's 'Fear The Walking Dead' Panel during Comic-Con International 2016 at San Diego Convention Center on July 22, 2016 in San Diego, California. (Photo : Getty Images / Kevin Winter )
After a three-month break, AMC's "Fear the Walking Dead" returned on Aug. 21, Sunday, with Season 2, episode 8 "Grotesque." The last episode left with tattered survivors and Daniel Salazar (Ruben Blades) burning the villa and heroes were scattered. The series returned following Nick Clark (Frank Dillane) who was alone in the Mexican desert, and had several encounters with danger.
The recent episode spent more time with the show's most interesting character so far. There were flashbacks that revealed Clark being in rehab with his girlfriend. It was during his rehab time that his father died in a vehicular accident and that he had issues with him that may have contributed to his drug addiction.
The plot of the mid-season premiere of AMC's "Fear the Walking Dead" is getting closer to its parent show "The Walking Dead," with Clark walking down a deserted highway to Tijuana. The scene was identical to Andre Lincoln's Rick Grimes in the original show who was horse-riding into Atlanta.
The spinoff's story initially tried to distinguish itself from where it came from. "Fear the Walking Dead" showed the signs of a problem that rocked the daily life in the city, portrayed the public reaction when the military tried to stop the panic and it has characters who do not believe in zombies. While the parent show has Grimes roaming a zombie-ravaged landscape, the spinoff explored the world that was about to fall apart due to the zombie outbreak.
Oftentimes, AMC's "The Walking Dead" spinoff has made intentional similar plots with its parent series but "Fear the Walking Dead" Season 2 episode 8 has plot points which are apparent copies scenes seen in the original series - Clark struggled with a zombie trapped in a car while searching for water, came across thugs and ended up in a walled-off enclave that he could be mistaken as Grimes with some flashback tweaks.
"The Walking Dead" was the highest-rated show on television, in the 18-49 age range. While its spinoff tried to establish distinct characters on its own, it has found few places to go, making it a complete subgenre with similar story beats, shots and interactions, according to The Verge.
Meanwhile, an ad of the zombie drama caused the Advertising Standards Authority to censure Channel 4. The latter showed the "distressing" ad twice during the April airing of "Rango," an animated children's film, BBC reported. The channel apologized and promised to improve its procedures.
See the trailer of the latest episode of AMC's series below.
Save
