So how much of a redirect is that for you and how are you approaching that?ĮRICKSON: The good news – upside and downside. But now, not that you’re fully into the apocalypse, but you’re getting close. But what I – As a huge fan of the apocalypse genre, the first season was very much something I had always wanted to see, where the end of the world wasn't wrapped up in a two hour movie, but it was thoughtfully played out with a slower burn. I was like, “Okay, I can’t watch people die for a while.” I really loved the first season of Fear the Walking Dead and it was interesting for me because I had actually fallen off of The Walking Dead. We talked about keeping the tension and anxiety high now that the apocalypse is fully underway, watching the characters discover and define their moral compases, how he plans to prevent Fear the Walking Dead from becoming The Walking Dead redux, fulfulling and subverting genre conventions, and a lot more. With Fear the Walking Dead returning tonight on AMC, I recently sat down with showrunner Dave Erickson to discuss what lies ahead in Season 2. Season 2 finds the survivors thrust into ever-escalating danger as they take to the high seas in search of a safe haven - one we know they'e all to unlikely to find. The first season of Fear the Walking Dead explored followed the the core cast of characters as they formed a new post-apocalyptic family unit, loved ones and strangers forced into an uneasy alliance by circumstance. A unique, slow-burn spin on the zombie genre that's not afraid to take its time with the requisite undead action and dive in to intimate character drama and the ramifications of societal collapse in its stead. Fortunately, we got Fear the Walking Dead instead.
DAVE ERICKSON SHOWRUNNER SERIES
AMC's The Walking Dead is such a mammoth success that the spin-off series could have easily been a cash-grabbing paint-by-numbers replica.
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