1. Episode 1 x 01 Fear the Waking Dead (FTWD). Quinn, Stephen, and Bruce discuss the premier of Fear the Walking Dead. The episode focuses on the family dynamic of
Madison Clark and Travis Manawa, who are navigating the complicated
world of a blended family.
Quinn's favorite character in the episode is
Nick Clark, the drug addict who wakes up to find a zombie in the
abandoned church where he and his acquaintances get high. We discuss
the way that monsters serve as metaphors for problems we face. In this
episode, zombies are metaphors for illicit drug use. Of the three
zombies we see in the first episode, the first is the girl Nick has been
getting high with. When he finds her, she's eating somebody's face.
Nick believes she might have taken some bad drugs (like the bath salts
stories that have been in the news), and he eventually tracks down his
dealer, Calvin. The two fight over a gun, and Calvin dies from a gunshot wound then returns as a zombie. He tries to bite
Madison and Travis, but Nick runs over Calvin with a truck. Twice. We
discuss whether the authorities would try to cover up a zombie
outbreak. Who would be the first people to notice the zombie apocalypse? How would people start hearing about it?
We discuss the year when the zombie apocalypse happens. The world of
FTWD seems to be current--the smart phones everybody uses seem to be
latest generation.
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