TV report: Fear the Walking Dead (pilot episode)
::spoilers ahead:: Okay, so I finally got up the courage to watch "Fear the Walking Dead" last night. I really liked it. It's not The Walking Dead or 28 Days Later. It's like a meta of those. There's a suspense and a tension that I really liked. These people have no idea of the hell that their handbasket is headed for, but WE do, and everything that we see them do is seen with the knowledge that the shit is truly about to hit the fan. I think the show's creators/writers are actually really clever about how they're exploiting this situation, with us knowing what's coming the whole way. It reminds me of what Hitchcock said about the difference between thrills and suspense. Imagine a scene where 2 guys enter a room, talk about baseball for 5 minutes, and then boom! -- a bomb explodes, killing one or both of them. It's a shock. It's a surprise. It's a thrill. Now change that scene in one way: we see the bomber setting the bomb for 5 min