The Walking Deadis a grim TV show.
Typical episode summary: Beloved Character Loses Beloved Organs.
(Better title:Airline Food is People.)
Credit: Richard Foreman, Jr/AMC
Flight 462was an offshoot of an offshoot.
The companion dramaFear the Walking Deadlaunched in 2015.
It began with the very beginning of the apocalypse, and shifted the action to the West Coast.
The fourth season features a new setting, new showrunners, new characters.
Its a near-reboot thats fun and deflating: Inevitably,Fear the Walking Deadhas just becomeThe Walking Dead.
ET on AMC) focuses onMorgan (Lennie James), an OGDead-ite joining theFearcast.
Hes so completely the Platonic Ideal of a gunslinger that someone actually calls him a gunslinger.
But wait, you ask, What about characters who have actually appeared onFear the Walking Deadbefore?
The survivors of last seasons dam explosion have reconstituted themselves behind a wall in a new community in Texas.
Remember when she was a guidance counselor?
One bigWalking Deadidea is that the apocalypse turnseveryoneinto a gunslinger.
The problem is that everything about this reset winds up blunting theFearensembles individual character growth.
Colman Domingos morally wayward Strand is now a ride-or-die Madison acolyte.
