It’s been one step forward, one step back for Fear the Walking Dead in Season 2. The second outing for the ‘companion show’ has been sporadically compelling, coming up with some fascinating ideas every now and then, but capitulating all too often to its tendency to opt for tired tropes, delivered at a sluggish pace. … >

Everybody hates Chris. Even in a cast where only half of the characters are truly interesting, Chris is Fear the Walking Dead’s problem character. He was a boring non-entity who faded into the background of Season 1, and the show’s solution to that has been to introduce a psychological breakdown arc that made Chris into … >

With just a couple of weeks left before Fear wraps up this season, the series stalls with a slow-going episode that clumsily brought the separated characters into each other’s orbit once more. Last week’s episode felt like one story, despite the total narrative separation of the stories at the colonia and the hotel, so it’s disappointing … >

Fear the Walking Dead has been telling its story in a very different way in this run of episodes, as it’s continuously split itself between two completely disparate stories. That’s led to the recent episodes feeling imbalanced – partially due to a wide quality difference between the two stories, but also because the show has … >

If there’s one good aspect to Fear the Walking Dead’s perennial inconsistency, it’s that a particular low-point is usually followed up by a rebound of some kind. ‘Do Not Disturb’ isn’t a significant uptick in quality from the disappointing blandness of the risk-free storytelling of ‘Los Muertos’, but it’s packed with enough tangible promise and … >

Fear the Walking Dead is a show capable of great things. The potential is there for a compelling drama that mixes thoughtful character work with potent horror and social commentary. So why does it keep delivering mediocre results? That’s a question that feels especially relevant after Fear’s latest episode, ‘Los Muertos’, which plays with some … >

Across its first 13 episodes, Fear the Walking Dead has continuously struggled to figure out just what kind of show it wants to be, and what aspects of the vast Walking Dead universe it wishes to explore in greater depth. The conclusion to Season 2A saw the show settle on something of an answer by … >

After a relatively pedestrian set-up episode, Fear the Walking Dead went a little bit crazy for its mid-season finale, and not entirely in a good way. Fear the Walking Dead is a show that can afford to be cautious and risk-free in its storytelling – due to the in-built brand recognition that gives it stronger … >

With the mid-season finale coming up, this week’s Fear the Walking Dead focused on setting up all the cards that’ll presumably be knocked over in next week’s big instalment. ‘Sicut Cervus’ is a fairly workmanlike episode of Fear, containing the same mix of assiduously executed, mildly intriguing drama that fails to truly spark and a … >