Fear the Walking Dead (2015)
Fear the Walking Dead is a 2015 action & adventure series created by Robert Kirkman and Dave Erickson. It stars Colman Domingo, Alycia Debnam-Carey and Danay García.
Before the ruins and the roaming dead, there was an ordinary morning in Los Angeles. This companion to The Walking Dead follows a fractured blended family, teacher Madison, her partner Travis and their kids, as strange news reports and a spreading sickness curdle into full collapse. The early seasons watch civilization come apart in real time, hospitals and highways failing while people still believe the authorities have it handled. Later chapters widen into the harsher survival grind fans know. Created by Robert Kirkman, it trades slow-burn dread for the moment the lights go out for good.
Quick answers
What is Fear the Walking Dead about?
Before the ruins and the roaming dead, there was an ordinary morning in Los Angeles. This companion to The Walking Dead follows a fractured blended family, teacher Madison, her partner Travis and their kids, as strange news reports and a spreading sickness curdle into full collapse. The early seasons watch civilization come apart in real time, hospitals and highways failing while people still believe the authorities have it handled. Later chapters widen into the harsher survival grind fans know. Created by Robert Kirkman, it trades slow-burn dread for the moment the lights go out for good.
When was Fear the Walking Dead released?
Fear the Walking Dead was released on 23 August 2015.
How many episodes does Fear the Walking Dead have?
Fear the Walking Dead has 113 episodes across 8 seasons.
Who made Fear the Walking Dead?
Fear the Walking Dead was created by Robert Kirkman and Dave Erickson.
Where can I watch Fear the Walking Dead?
Fear the Walking Dead is available on AMC+, DirecTV On Demand, Netflix, Philo, Spectrum On Demand and YouTube TV.
Where to watch Fear the Walking Dead
Stream: AMC+, DirecTV On Demand, Netflix, Philo, Spectrum On Demand, YouTube TV
Watch free: Plex, Pluto TV, Prime Video, The Roku Channel, Xumo Play
Buy: Amazon, AppleTV, Fandango at Home
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Cast
- Colman Domingo as Victor Strand
- Alycia Debnam-Carey as Alicia Clark
- Danay García as Luciana Galvez
- Rubén Blades as Daniel Salazar
- Lennie James as Morgan Jones
- Jenna Elfman as June
- Kim Dickens as Madison Clark
- Alexa Nisenson as Charlie
- Austin Amelio as Dwight
- Karen David as Grace Mukherjee
- Frank Dillane as Nick Clark
- Maggie Grace as Althea Szewczyk-Przygocki
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A few thoughts on Fear the Walking Dead
The Last of Us turns the same infected-world despair into a wrenching survival journey. Telltale's The Walking Dead game puts family-under-pressure choices in your hands, in the very same universe. For creeping body-horror dread from a different angle, the manga Tomie gets under your skin.
More stories from the Walking Dead universe
Fear the Walking Dead began as a companion to Robert Kirkman's flagship show, watching the same outbreak swallow a different city. These are the rest of that sprawling universe, the spin-offs, games and origin chapters that map every corner of the walker apocalypse.
Watching society collapse in real time
The early seasons of Fear the Walking Dead are about the lights going out on a normal world, institutions failing while people still trust them. These watch civilization come apart too, through frozen trains, failed quarantines and slow, creeping catastrophe.
Outbreak horror across games and screens
Fear the Walking Dead lives on the dread of a sickness that turns people monstrous. These carry that outbreak fear across games and series, from a fungal pandemic to plagues that hollow out the whole world one survivor at a time.
Horror novels for the long dark nights
Between the walkers, Fear the Walking Dead runs on human fear and long dark nights. These novels supply the same chill in print, stacking dread, cults and small-town nightmares for readers who want the collapse on the page.