It’s a week on from the Fear premiere, and there’s almost nothing. As a point of comparison, even those who don’t like The Walking Dead buzzed about its comparatively shocking choice to kill off the protagonist’s wife four episodes into its own third season.īut here we are. But even two years ago, a storytelling choice like this would have prompted hushed, surprised reactions and a string of think pieces that talked around the big death while still trying to touch on how it affected television (as I am doing in this intro). Oh, sure, the series’ showrunner, Dave Erickson, made the rounds to explain the call, and there were the usual shocked recaps and other reactions.
That’s a question I’ve been pondering all week in the wake of Fear the Walking Dead’s two-hour season premiere - technically the first two episodes of season three stitched together - which killed off one of the show’s main characters but seems to have barely caused a ripple in the places that drive so much of the chatter surrounding TV nowadays. If a major TV drama kills off one of its most important characters, and the online TV discussion sphere doesn’t seem to notice, does it make a sound? The episode of the week for June 4 through 10 is “The New Frontier,” the second episode of the third season of AMC’s Fear the Walking Dead.
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