10 TV Shows That Wasted Brilliant Concepts
4. Fear The Walking Dead - A Drama Set During The Opening Of An Apocalypse
Has there ever been a TV show that's changed as dramatically as Fear the Walking Dead? If there is, I don't want to know about it.
A spin-off of The Walking Dead, Fear spends its first three seasons doing something very special with the franchise's story, by taking audiences back to the beginning of the apocalypse and setting the action in the beautiful hills of Mexico.
This setting change, mixed with the introduction of a whole host of new characters, made Fear genuinely great during its first three years, justifying its existence at every turn. But then season four arrived, most of the original cast were killed off, and the drama moved to run with the mainline series.
Since then, the show has struggled to find its identity, and watches like just another season of its inspiration. The characters have become inconsistent, the drama repetitive and slow, and though it's not all irredeemably awful, it's frustrating to see it lose sight of what it was so horribly.