Fear the Walking Dead: The Complete First Season - DVD [2 Discs]

Robert Kirkman sure did shake the industry with his excellent graphic novels and executing it perfectly to a TV show, make that two TV shows! I love how there's nothing tacky or phony about it, it feels so dark and serious which i love! 2 guns up for Robert Kirkman and pulling off the "infected/dead/zombie" genre, i hope it lasts as long as it can! **Spoilers Ahead** There was a lot of buzz surrounding the companion series and prequel to AMC's wildly popular The Walking Dead. Was it worth the hype though? Absolutely! Fear the Walking Dead's premiere snagged an staggering 13.96 million viewers, the highest ranked debut of a cable series ever. By the show's 3rd episode, that number had dropped to 11.6. Still an impressive feat for a show's debut season. All the buzz hits a boiling point in the first season finale. People complained that the show's debut season, comprised of 6 episodes, moved at too slow of a pace, but people seem to be forgetting that Fear the Walking Dead is set during the early stages of Kirkman's zombie apocalypse. The Walking Dead didn't pick up the pace until the show's third season. Showrunners Robert Kirkman and Dave Erickson had to take a new approach to a storyline that we've all become accustomed to having seen 5 season's of The Walking Dead. We, as viewers, are witnessing the beginning of the apocalypse through the eyes of a dysfunctional blended family, even more dysfunctional than The Walking Dead's Grimes family. Keep it coming Robert Kirkman!

Is this The Walking Dead? No. The only similarity is it takes place in the same world and shares parts of its name. Other that that, Season One should not be compared to The Walking Dead. Travis is a dolt and my least favorite character, until the season finale that is when I believe the events that happened have woken him up. He will be a changed man in Season Two. The rest of the players have their ups and down and I can see potential parallels to The Walking Dead characters as they grow and are forced to change. We like our characters on The Walking Dead because we see how aware they are of the threat, how to survive, go on runs, take down walkers but would we have liked them if we met them during the "Fear" stage? Maybe some of them. Maybe none of them. In Fear, we see a modern day family just trying to get through the day when inexplicable things start happening around them. Like most people would be, they are in denial of what's happening, put blind faith and trust in the government and military and are more than happy to let other people control things while they sit behind a fenced in town under martial law. The focus is on this one family (and the people that have been sort of adopted by them as well) and how they come to terms with society breaking down and less on the walker effect. Could they show downtown L.A. being overrun by walkers gnawing on people for six hours? Sure. But that's not where the "fear" really lies. The "fear" is, how do I get food, water, am I safe at home, do we stay, go, wait for help, do it on our own, what's really happening, is anyone in charge, and so on. When society collapses, the fear is not the visible decomposing flesh-eating former humans walking the streets. It is the fear in what can't be seen, controlled or known. Going into this show, that is what I anticipated and that was what I received. With that said, I cannot wait for Season Two!

Anchor Bay Entertainment has detailed the Special Edition Blu-ray release of Fear the Walking Dead: The Complete First Season. The series premiered in August 2015, becoming the #1 show in cable history. The 2-disc Special Edition set features collectible lenticular packaging and hours of new bonus content, including deleted scenes, newly produced featurettes and audio commentaries for every episode. Street date is March 22nd. Living in the same universe as The Walking Dead, Fear the Walking Dead is a gritty drama that explores the onset of the undead apocalypse through the lens of a fractured family. Set in Los Angeles, a city where people come to escape, shield secrets, and bury their pasts, a mysterious outbreak threatens to disrupt what little stability high school guidance counselor Madison Clark (Kim Dickens, Gone Girl) and English teacher Travis Manawa (Cliff Curtis, Missing) have managed to assemble. The everyday pressure of blending two families while dealing with resentful, escapist, and strung out children takes a back seat when society begins to break down. A forced evolution, a necessary survival of the fittest takes hold, and the dysfunctional family must either reinvent themselves or embrace their darker histories.

As the walker apocalypse begins, this show provides another perspective of what it takes to survive.

This series gives you a buildup to what has happened and where it is going