Fear The Walking Dead: Everything You Need To Know

5. What It's About

In the Walking Dead, Rick Grimes wakes up from a coma to find a world that has been destroyed by the outbreak; it's already very much an established event that has happened. Fear, then, is taking us back to the beginning, of what the world looked like just before it happened, and how society reacts as the world begins to end. It will start on just a normal LA day, and then slowly but surely start to depict the outbreak. Kirkman said: "If you think about the way a zombie outbreak would happen, it would...be happening for a while behind the scenes. In pockets of civilization there would be news stories that didn€™t really make sense and didn€™t seem connected. And that€™s kind of where we pick things up. There are a lot of things on the news, there€™s a lot of chatter and paranoia and concern. And yet the vast majority of the population is ignoring these things and talking about their daily lives.€ Of course the big question on everyone's lips, when it was announced that this would be taking place before The Walking Dead and actually showing the outbreak starting, is whether or not the series would answer the question of exactly what caused it to happen, something the main show hasn't addressed yet. Anyone wanting to know that particular piece of information will be disappointed, as the producers have stated that is not an aspect they're interested in delving into. The synopsis for the first episode - Pilot - reads: "A highly dysfunctional blended family is forced together when they realize a reported virus is actually the onset of the undead apocalypse." For the second episode, titled Close, Yet So Far, it is: "While Madison struggles to keep Nick from crippling withdrawal, Travis ventures out to find his son before the city of Los Angeles falls."