Strand’s mysterious past continues to intrigue: he promises to persons unknown (on a mobile phone – he’s apparently still getting signal in a post-apocalypse) that he’ll be somewhere at sundown while Daniel finds a secret compartment with a machine gun. Children in needĮlsewhere this episode, we don’t see much from Strand, Ofelia, or Daniel. It’s hard to muster up the sorrow we’re supposed to feel for a character who enjoyed maybe 10 minutes of screentime on occasions such as these, the show feels like a music video for a bland emo singer-songwriter. An entire scene is devoted to her strolling around the island mournfully, listening to Every Kiss Is a Goodbye on her iPod, and drawing a heart symbol on a noticeboard in tribute to her fallen boyfriend, who died back in Season 1, Episode 2. Meanwhile, Alicia (Alycia Debnam Carey) attempts to rival her half-brother in the moping stakes. Still reeling, presumably, from the death of his mother, he devotes most of his adolescent energy into rolling his eyes at his father, but at least finds something useful to do by pickaxing zombies on the beach with George’s eldest, Seth. Travis’ son, Chris (Lorenzo Henrie), remains at Kevin & Perry levels of petulance, moping and sulking his way around the island. Anything which expands this universe’s mythology is enough to keep our interests heightened. We’ve seen the city of Atlanta being bombed in the main Walking Dead show, but we don’t really hear much about the world beyond Georgia. It’s in this area that Fear has the opportunity to distinguish itself from its bigger brother. “A good goddamn half the country,” as George puts it. Much of the country further inland has been destroyed too. We also get some tantalising insights on the rest of the country: most of the major cities on the West Coast have been napalmed by the military, in an attempt to stop the infection (they’re yet to figure out that it’s not an infection). His shortwave radio confirms the logbook’s assertion that San Diego is now a smouldering ruin. George is an interesting one: part saw-it-all-coming survivalist, part mother-earth-will-provide hippie.īut he also offers glimpses into the state of the union. The Grearys feel a bit Survivor Of The Week, but they lead to some nice interactions – chief among them, the conversations between Travis (Cliff Curtis) and the ranger, George Geary (David Warshofsky). After a tentative meet-and-greet, we’re introduced to the Greary family, living on an isolated ranger station island off the Californian coast.
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