The Walking Dead

[Emiliano]

I was thinking the dealer was gay too, or just wishful thinking because I thought he was handsome. I was sad when he turned bad / got killed.

[East]

I was thinking the dealer was gay too, or just wishful thinking because I thought he was handsome. I was sad when he turned bad / got killed.

Yeah..I was thinking him and the drug addict guy were gonna kiss when they were hugging there for a minute....

I was hoping they would anyway....

...and I did think he was handsome too...but too young for me....I might like his Dad though...or maybe even his Grandpa LOL

[trywait]

I was just tripping out that tom riddle from harry potter was here! whoa...a brit guy playing American!

overall, it's definitely off to a good start. especially the last scene when they meet the zombie calvin. a definite wtf moment among the quasi-step dad, mother, and junkie son. now, all three gotta believe what they saw!

[East]

WOW!!!! I knew it would be big...but didn't suspect THIS big!

FYI...I am a ratings junkie from way back..kinda like how some people watch the Stock Market...I like analyzing a slew of different factors at once..for fun...

...and this is kinda unheard of.....

It is the "Key Demos" that set the rate for advertisers...so this is HUGE for AMC...like off the charts $$$$$$$$$

The good news for viewers...it will be years before we say goodbye to either TWD or it's spinoff...

http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2015/08...rs/452459/

“FEAR THE WALKING DEAD” BECOMES THE #1 SERIES PREMIERE IN CABLE HISTORY IN TOTAL VIEWERS AND ALL KEY DEMOS



90-MINUTE EPISODE DELIVERED 10.1 MILLION VIEWERS, INCLUDING 6.3 MILLION ADULTS 18-49



AMC IS NOW HOME TO THREE OF THE TOP FIVE PREMIERES IN CABLE HISTORY AMONG ADULTS 18-49, AND THE TOP TWO NEW SERIES PREMIERES IN 2015



“TALKING DEAD” SEASON 6 PREVIEW SPECIAL DELIVERED 4.2 MILLION VIEWERS



NEW YORK, NY – August 24, 2015 – Last night’s special 90-minute series premiere of “Fear the Walking Dead” made television history, delivering 10.1 million live/same day viewers and becoming the #1 series premiere in cable television history for total viewers and all key demos. The episode delivered 6.3 million adults 18-49. In that coveted demographic, AMC now is home to three of the top five cable series premieres of all time in live/same day viewing – “Fear the Walking Dead” at #1 (2015), “Better Call Saul” at #2 (2015) and “The Walking Dead” at #5 (2010) – a remarkable accomplishment so far into the post-DVR era. A “Talking Dead” Season 6 Preview Special that preceded the “Fear” premiere last night delivered 4.2 million viewers, and 2.5 million adults 18-49.



“Thank you and congratulations to Robert Kirkman, Dave Erickson, the brilliant executive producers and the entire cast and crew of ‘Fear the Walking Dead,’” said Charlie Collier, president of AMC and SundanceTV. “It is increasingly difficult to evaluate a show’s success on night one. However, we are releasing these live/same day ratings because ‘Fear the Walking Dead’ delivered record-breaking numbers that are all the more special in this era of time-shifted viewing and audience fragmentation. To have a companion series to the #1 show on television driving communal, urgent viewing, social activity and pop cultural relevance of this magnitude is truly differentiating. Of course none of it is possible without the fans, whose passion leads to these remarkable results.”



Key Nielsen Highlights for the Series Premiere of “Fear the Walking Dead”


•9:00 pm airing – 5.0 HH national rating with 10.1 million viewers
•9:00 pm airing – 4.9 national rating with 6.3 million Adults 18-49
•9:00 pm airing – 5.3 national rating with 6.3 million Adults 25-54



Key Nielsen Highlights for the Series Premiere of “Talking Dead” Season 6 Preview Special


•8:00 pm airing – 2.2 HH national rating with 4.2 million viewers
•8:00 pm airing – 1.9 national rating with 2.5 million Adults 18-49
•8:00 pm airing – 2.2 national rating with 2.6 million Adults 25-54



The first season of “Fear the Walking Dead” will run for six episodes this fall. The show will return for a second season of 15 episodes next year.

[Emiliano]

The son is looking good in this episode so far. But he needs a bath and a hair cut for real.

[CellarDweller]

The son is looking good in this episode so far. But he needs a bath and a hair cut for real.

I would suspect that's not gonna happen anytime soon.

The episode is getting really good.

[Emiliano]

I would suspect that's not gonna happen anytime soon.

The episode is getting really good.

Lol i like how I said that right before he starts vomiting and going into withdrawl.... nevermind on that.

But yeah, I like this episode better than the first for sure.

[Steve]

I liked tonight's episode. I didn't love it, but I liked it. Mostly I'm trying not to feel frustrated as I continue to watch.

I understand that the parents, Madison and Travis, are supposedly in denial and shock, and there are a couple of moments when that is apparent. Madison arriving home after killing her friend, the principal, and breaking down for five seconds while trying to get the blood out of her coat. Travis starts mumbling half replies and fragmented reasoning when his ex wife asks him to tell her what is happening, all the while while peering through the steel shutters in the barbershop.

Still, its hard to believe Travis is in denial when he was looking at what was happening through that steel shutter. Travis saw it when his girlfriend's son ran that drug dealer down in the car full on - twice - in the last episode, and the dude was all filmy eyed, hissing, and still lurching around.

They had no trouble leaving Alicia's boyfriend behind, half knowing what was going to happen. His parents are driving back. Yeah, that's a totally believable excuse for people who are parents, a teacher and a school counselor no less. Hard to still believe the characters could still be in denial. Shock I'll give him. Denial, no.

In the last episode Travis was a teacher schooling LA hardened kids about reading the subtext hidden beneath an author's words. Now the man can't muster enough basic cognitive reasoning to figure out that what's filmy, hissy, and lurchy all over isn't a many splendored thing. It drove me batty. Absolutely batty.

Madison isn't really any better. She's ready and willing to make the leap from "I can't get hold of the doctor" to stealing the confiscated drug stash from the school where she counsels kids to stay away from drugs. She's ready to give a knife back to a kid (and really? that's the only knife, hell the only weapon this kid has access to in LA? Really?!!) and help him steal food, but she's still going to walk up to the obviously monsterfied principal, calling his name over and over again as if its going to help. The poor kid has to come to her rescue. And then the bitch pushes zombie principal off onto the kid! After all that she has the cojones to invite the kid to stay with her? Yeah, Mrs. Wonderbrain will keep him safe.

The irony is funny, but it starts to wear thin quickly. It seems like a long way to go to make a point.

The phone call in the barbershop was the final tipping point for my sanity. Neither one of them really told the other exactly where they were. Neither one them made any attempt to come up with a meeting place other than "in the desert". The desert is a pretty damned big place. It was like they ignored all the chaos and thought that phone connection was going to last forever. Like calls never get dropped in LA even on bright sunny days when there isn't a freakin' zombie apocalypse going on. I wanted to smack them both. Really, really hard.

I really wanted to yell at the mother for not sitting the daughter down and telling her what she had witnessed. Alicia (the daughter) is asking her point blank, and damn if it was my kid I'd find a way to start talking. Yes, give her as much comfort as possible and reassure her safety as much as possible, but damn! at least give the poor child a clue!!

Aaaaagh!!!

I know, I know. I keep having to remind myself that the audience knows what's coming and the characters don't. But Damn! At what point do humans start to acknowledge common lore, even if the lore seems supernatural in nature? These "normal" people are ready to kill others to save themselves, but they can't start making smart decisions about what's likely to happen very soon and very quickly? Apparently only the marginally smart and incredibly lucky survive this future.

In spite of all my bitching I still liked watching it. The tension is mounting in the story. Events are starting progress at an increasingly rapid pace. It was fun to watch the first truck ride home, Nick furiously going through radio stations listening for news. I did laugh when one radio announcer started describing a complete apocalypse happening, Nick rabidly listening in, and then finishes the story with a sports player quitting a team, leaving a dissatisfied Nick with a red herring.

The teen angst of the daughter who "loves" her boyfriend and does want to leave him alone; Chris gets a phone call from his dad and promptly ignores it. They're fun to watch, even if you want to slap both of them senseless.

The birthday party setting up across the street and chatty neighbors, then cutting to the other neighbor who is obviously packing to leave but looks ill. It's a great set up for an all-a-zombie-can-eat, bouncy house party buffet.

Both Madison and Travis are holed up in different places that are so close. yet so far apart, and that we know that neither one of those places is going to be safe for very long. That was the device to really start building tension. I think that's where the episode title came from, but I'm not sure ("So Close, Yet So Far").

Yeah, the action is ramping up. I may bitch, but I'll watch. I'm a FTWD junkie dammit!

[trywait]

and now u gotta wait 2 weeks for it!

as tense as it can get, u wanna keep watching it. at least I know I will.

poor artie! and that kid tobias...and Travis's son, chris. like you wanna slap that kid's head and knock some sense into him!

[NativeSon]

I liked tonight's episode. I didn't love it, but I liked it. Mostly I'm trying not to feel frustrated as I continue to watch.

Yeah, odd narrative choices throughout. The writing for this franchise is never consistently top notch; character development seems a real struggle at times. But when it's good it's good--I mostly just watch for the zombies.

P.S. Kinda funny when Nick loses his 'Angeleno' accent.