It’s as though Nick gets granted a vision of L.A.’s terrible future, before being wrenched back into our more mundane reality - the one where distracted Angelenos rush to work and wrestle with their personal problems, blissfully unaware of the carnage around the corner. But no one was sure how far back it was going to go, which is what makes that first scene such a kick in the gut. The show’s creators - Dave Erickson and Walking Dead godhead Robert Kirkman - assume that most folks already know that this is a “prequel” to its parent show, with an entirely new set of characters experiencing the beginning of the zombie plague, before it becomes a pandemic. Nick scrambles out of the sanctuary and into the streets of Los Angeles, where everything appears to be perfectly normal. At his favorite abandoned church/heroin den, he emerges from a smack-induced stupor to find most of his fellow junkies dead and partially consumed - with the exception of his girlfriend Gloria, who’s one of the eaters. Like Rick in the hospital bed, FTWD‘s Nick Clark (Frank Dillane) wakes up and stumbles into a nightmare. Its best sequences may be its opening, one of the few scenes that blatantly plays with the expectations of Walking Dead fans and feels like a callback to that first fever-dream moment. Any show about the slow death of humankind is bound to be a bit of a bummer. But it is strong enough to suggest a bright future for this spin-off. So, first things first: No, Fear the Walking Dead‘s premiere episode, simply titled “Pilot,” is nowhere near that good. It was an incredible TV-show debut: incredibly intense, undeniably strange, and daringly bleak. For the next hour, viewers watched the former sheriff wake up from a coma, navigate a world overrun by cannibal corpses and eventually hook up with a pocket of mistrustful human survivors. Nearly five years ago - Halloween night, 2010 - AMC aired the first episode of The Walking Dead, “Days Gone Bye,” and introduced the show’s hero Rick Grimes by dropping him into a zombie apocalypse.
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