Fear the Walking Dead is an apocalyptic drama and Spinoff of parent show The Walking Dead (2010), revolving around a family as they attempt to survive the onset of the Zombie Apocalypse in Los Angeles and form a group of survivors as they travel through the American South. The show is the second installment in The Walking Dead Television Universe, and ran on AMC from 2015 to 2023.
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Everything used to be normal for Travis Manawa and Madison Clark. That is, until an unknown illness starts affecting the citizens of Los Angeles, turning them into undead beings relentlessly seeking human flesh. This incites a catastrophic chain reaction that will bring down civilization as they know it. And despite the military's swift intervention in their neighborhood, suspicions arise about this blessing potentially being a curse. Nonetheless, Travis and Madison must do everything they can to keep their children safe in this new, uncertain world, even if it means working with people who oppose their ideals.
The newly formed group decide to leave Los Angeles with the help of a conman and his boat, after the military decides to firebomb the area. All they can do now is journey further into the sea, where the dead and the worst of humanity waits to strike at the perfect opportunity. Even when land and the prospect of finding a safe haven awaits the group, each member will eventually come to a terrible realization. To stay alive in this new world, they must abandon who they once were, for better or worse.
The group is forever changed as they find their way to the Brokejaw ranch, a community that is at the center of an ages old feud for supremacy. Madison finds herself pushed to the limit as she tries to provide for her family and keep them and their friends safe as the conflict escalates into war.
Madison’s group has resettled in Texas, where they cross paths with a new survivor - Morgan Jones, a man on the run from his past and who is trying to spend the rest of his life alone. However, Morgan finds that his old friends’s last advice to him may be correct - he may need people to survive given what he and Madison’s group will soon face in the classic frontier of the Lone Star state.
Morgan has reformed the group into a team of do-gooders, scouring Texas for any survivors in need of aid in an effort to make themselves feel human again. The group encounters allies old and new, but soon are confronted with a new threat that is disgusted by Morgan’s way of life and seek to punish him for it.
Morgan’s group is now scattered among the Pioneers’ territories, forced to live under the tyrannical rule of Virginia. As Morgan gathers his separated friends, some seek immediate action, while others want to wait until they deem the time right. Whatever they decide, however, ultimately pales in comparison to the scheme that is about to come to fruition at the hands of a monster who is about to make good on the promise he made decades ago.
Texas has been forever changed by the fallout of Teddy’s successful nuclear bombardment. But even though the apocalypse just got inconceivably harder to survive in, Strand has found himself a new opportunity to build a world with himself on top, and he wants Morgan to know it. The two men’s clash may just turn out to be deadlier than the nuclear devastation that threatens the survivors with every breath they take.
PADRE has Morgan and Grace firmly in their clutches as they advance their mysterious agenda. A chance encounter between the imprisoned Madison and the young girl Wren leads to a series of revelations that may jeopardize PADRE’s future, and bring the threat of an old enemy upon them. It’s up to the heroes to make a stand for their future and see if in the end they can prove whether hope is stronger than fear.
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- "Dead in the Water"note
