Here to Help

I was almost bored from start to finish. first few minutes i was confused about wtf is happening? and no, it wasn't even exciting. but at this point i don't really care anymore ... last 5 seconds had a traditional cliffhanger, to get you into watching the next boring episode. no, i will not waste my time any further.

Fear the Walking Dead

5.01 (4 out of 5 stars).

The season premiere starts off with a bang. Alycia and her people getting involved in a plane. With a little known about what caused the crash. Besides they were travelling to help and find a mysterious guy named Logan. Which his people need help. Then, there is new characters like a group of teens who aid to help. But are wondering why they are so eager to help strangers.

There is still a lot of bashing and escaping from the undead. Characters come across a new territory. Were there are many warning signs with the undead tied together to form a barricade. Or the decapitated heads hanging from the trees. Could there be a new threat to the remaining survivors?

I watched the first episode with AMC Premiere and it is a good episode! Alicia is a badass and I love John so much.

Also, the end of the episode has to do with the Rick Grimes movies! I can't wait to continue watching this season.

The episode introduces four new characters, three of them being good guys and the villain, Logan who we knew of from season 4 but never got to see. He's played brilliantly by Matt Frewer, an fine actor and he plays the character with such perfection leaving me wanting more. My opinion is that it was a great season premiere, setting the atmosphere and immersion with also bringing new storylines and old ones back with the crew back together, it was nicely directed with great action.

The ensemble cast did great in this episode from acting to stunts; but Lennie James, Alycia and Matt Frewer were the ones that shined throughout the episode, delivering great performances.

After an alright season we get an episode filled with what made that season good and focusing on that, following up with the trucker story and the group's goal to save people makes for some unique opportunities if done right and from the look of the trailer it seems promising to be as great as the third season.

I didn't watch Season 4 and I "think" that I watched season 3, but it was so blase' that I honestly don't remember if I finished Season 3. Right when they started exterminating my favourite characters is when I decided to hit the eject button. In fact I didn't even make it to the episode where they killed off the protagonist Nick. I remember seeing the preview for the next episode where Nick was to die and I said "Ok, they just wrote my favourite character off the show! I'm out". I did just that, and that's where I left off, having never seen the episode where he was killed off. After that I read online or in the news that they were to kill his mother off too! She was the second best actress on the show!

So here I am deciding to return at the start of Season 5, having missed all of 4. I heard 4 was a total mess so maybe I made the right decision? Things seem to have changed. There are new characters and others are gone. I recognize our Kung-Fu peaceful crossover character from TWD. I recognize the journalist and of course our leading lady who is actually a good actress that brings a good performance to the show for her part. The gunslinger cowboy I recognize also. I have no idea about any of the others that seem to have joined the group. With Kung-fu leading the group it appears he has them out doing good deeds to help people? I think that is really dumb and it's lucky his altruism hasn't got the entire group killed yet.

Episode 1 seems to be taking place in some kind of nuclear zone? Perhaps it is a biological danger zone? It's one of those 2, but nuclear makes sense to me because the entire planet is already a no-go unsafe biological hazard. The nuclear aspect is a good direction for the show to take! Perhaps we will have to deal with some mutated zombies with special abilities! Wouldn't that be a refreshing change to hav3 something new and clever written into the story along those lines? We can only hope the answer is yes, and that they fired the S4 writers!

The premier episode ended with a mystery which did a good job of being interesting, mysterious and hooking the viewers interest for episode 2! Well I have to give this episode a solid 7.5/10. It was interesting, action packed and full of tense zombie sequences that we all love! I highly suggest watching this episode, especially if you skipped last season such as I did! Off to watch #2 so I will review that episode next!