User Reviews

It's almost not worth watching this series, it's very boring and the action is a bit forced to the point that it's stupid, one of the only reasons I see this series is because I hear that in the future Rick Grimes will likely appear or be related and already!! (if it's not your case don't waste your time, you'll thank me)

4 stars because I'm not as bad as I look and I'm hoping they'll fix this terrible horror. And this is not the horror of fear but of how terrible it is.

My main criticism of this spin off is the complete wasted opportunity.

The CRM have been a looming presence through both the main show but especially FTWD but always shrouded in somewhat mystery & ambiguity. A show exploring this group 10 years into the apocalypse could have been very interesting. Are they trying to make a cure? Are they a good and safe group? How does the society operate? But instead we are given tasters of that (mostly at the end of an episode or post credits) and then we focus on a rag tag bunch of teens just moving place to place just like the main series and FTWD focusing on each of its respected groups moving place to place.

The difference between this and the other shows however is that at least the characters in the other shows are likeable. Everybody here comes off fundamentally boring and contrived. Maybe later on in the season things will improve but at this review (7 episodes in) this is a big misfire.

I didn't watch this when it first came on, and I wasn't particularly interested in it as the main characters are a younger demographic and I'm not (okay, call me cranky old dude, I'll admit it). But the wife said that it delved in to the whole Walking Dead/Rick Grimes connection regarding the helicopters so we might want to give it a watch.

Perhaps it was that I was expecting a turd in a punch bowl, or that I had finally finished watching that absolutely horrible show known as "Fear the Walking Dead", but...it really was much better than I thought it would be.

The major weakness was the main character. Her acting was probably the worst of the bunch. She approached the whole "Hey guys, we're walking to New York" with such a casual attitude, that it was too much of a suspension of reality, even for the Walking Dead universe. Yes, her sister was also crying every other scene, etc. But on the whole, I'd say the plot developed in a somewhat suspenseful way, with a certain unpredictability.

Yes, all the usual telescoping of time and distance was present, the kind that's in literally EVERY Walking Dead franchise (someone care to explain how Morgan got to Georgia to find Duane in record time?)

But at least it provided us with some of the story of the helicopters and what that was all about. I'm curious how it will tie in with the new series and Rick being traded to them for Jadis' entry into the Civic Republic.

My advice? If you like the franchise and are willing to put up with some degree of annoying acting by the young un's, it does pay off in the end. At least it's a story that keeps you wondering a bit and doesn't flounder the way "Fear" did. Trying to offer some balance.

Aside from the uninteresting characters in this spin-off, coupled with the poor acting (compare this with the actors in Stranger Things), there is no compelling story line and no real danger. When the lead character is trying to kill the zombie her companions just stand back and watch her almost get killed. I had high hope for the two "grown-ups" who are following them, but so far their characters are just as uninteresting as the kids. Remember - these kids are on a quest to help the two teenage girls' father. Ludicrous! I hope there's no cross-overs with Fear or the original Walking Dead as it would be too embarrassing for the real actors. But to give the World actors their due - there is just so much you can do when you're in a show with bad writing and a bad concept. I'll try to watch one more episode to see if it gets better, but it may be best for the entire franchise to just cancel this embarrassment.