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Cool. I thought the first episode of fear was really strong. Acting, characters and pacing worked well. I roll my eyes at people who complained about slow zombie introduction. I thought it was just perfect timing. Hope the quality holds up, or even grows.

I thought the first episode of fear was really strong.

I feel just the opposite.

After watching every episode of TWD, I thought the 1st episode of FTWD was very poorly acted and quite boring.

Different strokes for different folks :-)

Well, keep rolling your eyes. The ratings of future episodes will tell the tale, but I, and others thought the first episode was pretty bad. The last half hour improved somewhat, but I was thinking that the teenage son could be like the old Star Trek campaign about Wesley Crusher - space the kid.

I thought it was strong too.

Some here will be disappointed. There are no Darryls in Los Angeles. Georgia has people that are survivalists, to one degree or another. Los Angeles is entirely full of people who are completely dependent on “the authorities”.

The one guy (Travis) was able to fix the sink by himself. As silly as that sounds, he probably has the greatest degree of independence in LA - and thus has the greatest survivalist instincts.

I thought the first episode of Fear was very boring, but even worse, showed the same sort of sloppiness that has made Walking Dead hard to enjoy. I'll give you an example:

The son fights with the drug dealer for the gun and kills him. Then he runs up the tunnel to call his stepdad. The parents drive over, pick him up, drive back through the tunnel, park the truck in the tunnel mouth, and go look for the drug dealer. They don't find him, but as they go to get back in the truck, they see zombie drug dealer shuffling toward them from WITHIN the tunnel.

How did the zombie get through the tunnel without the son, or the parents ever seeing him? The zombie drug dealer would have walked to the same location as the son as he made the phone call, and to the same location that the parents picked him up. Somehow, either zombie drug dealer was invisible, or he was hiding. I suspect the guys making the show just thought that a scene with the zombie coming down the tunnel would be so cool, man, they never gave a thought to how impossible it was.