Fear the Walking Dead Recap: Pilot

Season 1/ Episode 1/ AMC AMC’s Fear the Walking Dead aims to tell a completely different story than what we’ve seen on The Walking Dead. With the premiere of the prequel series, we’re taken into previously unseen parts of The Walking Dead’s universe as we’re shown the events that occur just prior to the zombie outbreak in a completely different part of the country. While everyone in the original series has been confined to the Southeastern region of the U.S. (Georgia and Virginia), Fear the Walking Dead takes place in Los Angeles, California.

The premiere episode of Fear the Walking Dead starts off by introducing us to Nick Clark, a young man that’s squatting in an abandoned church to support his heroin addiction. When he wakes up, he calls out for a woman named Gloria. After walking through the church barefoot and bare-chested, he stumbles across blood and a body with its neck ripped open. As he continues to investigate, he finds Gloria, who’s eating the face off of another dead body with a piece of debris – most likely used as a weapon – sticking out of her chest. As the zombified Gloria starts to walk in his direction, Nick runs out of the church and into the street where he’s then hit by a car. In other parts of the city, we meet Madison Clark, Alicia Clark and Travis Manawa. Madison is a high school counselor at the same school where Alicia is a senior, preparing to go to Berkeley in the coming fall. Travis, a teacher at the same school, is Madison’s husband.

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