Exner’s question - what is family now? - we’ve seen our characters make choices that have impacted their neighborhood, other people that they’re connected to. There are a number of things I’d like to explore and we set them up, to a certain degree, in season one. Season one was about getting to know the family and seeing their evolution in the apocalypse. See more ‘Walking Dead’ Comes to Life: From Comics to the Small Screen Those are all interesting things to explore and too long of a time jump would make it difficult to explore those properly. They’re looking at each other differently as well. Ofelia has realized that her father was a monster and, in some respects, the loss of Griselda is almost the sins of her father. This tragedy, in some strange ways, has reaffirmed this connection between Madison ( Kim Dickens) and Travis and that will carry on as well. It’s going to be interesting to see how does Chris ( Lorenzo James Henrie) look at his father? How does Travis look at his son? How can they reconcile what happened and what Liza said had to happen and continue to love each other. We didn’t want to jump too far because there’s an obligation to see the aftermath of that and see how that impacts our characters as they try to wrestle with it. There’s too much emotional weight coming off of the finale and the loss of Liza and Griselda. There may be a time jump but it’s not going to be terribly dramatic. Where will season two pick up? Will there be a time jump? But we the audience know that’s not true and that will be the next blow that they suffer. But there’s got to be a place where this contagion hasn’t touched. If I were them, I’d be thinking that there has to be some place to go. They know the city has fallen and know things are incredibly bad and they know that this is happening in other states and potentially other countries but they haven’t had anybody say to them, “The world is over this is our extinction event.” That’s something they’ll have to process as they move through season two as well. They haven’t had the benefit of the CDC download. There are still things for them to discover. We’ll have more of a shorthand going in to season two. Even Travis has had to shed some of his humanity for the first time, which was his great struggle. We’ve learned a lot: our characters in their apocalyptic education have learned what walkers are. We’ll pick up in a more accelerated pace when we go in to the season. You also don’t want to ignore diehard fans of The Walking Dead and that’s important to think about moving forward. We always attempt to challenge those expectations and make the show as tonally specific and as different as it needs and wants to be. Once you do that, you have to be mindful of that moving into subsequent seasons. We ended the finale with our first horde and our largest action sequence of the season. We reached the point of critical mass by the end of the season, which was by design. We purposely developed the show in a slower fashion than people are accustomed to. What’s the biggest lesson you learned from season one and how it was received?īeing aware of pace. See more ‘The Walking Dead’ Audition Tales: 26 Stars Tell All Here, showrunner Dave Erickson talks with The Hollywood Reporter about what to expect from a second season potentially on the water and more. ( Click here for a full rundown of what happened in the finale.) The show already stands apart from The Walking Dead in that its second season is taking the action to the ocean, with production on Season 2 taking place in the Baja peninsula in Mexico.As for where season two goes, the finale indicated that Strand ( Colman Domingo) was planning to head out to his fancy yacht, which is positioned right off the coast. I’m curious to see how the series progresses with a longer season, and I hope there are more fascinating developments in store. Anchored by a swell performance from Kim Dickens, I appreciated the interesting character dynamics at play, and the show felt a lot less safe than The Walking Dead, which has fallen into a bit of a routine in terms of stakes. While reaction to Fear the Walking Dead was mixed, I was a big fan of showrunner Dave Erickson’s take on the early days of the zombie apocalypse. This is a way for the network-which has lost Mad Men and Breaking Bad with no wildly successful replacements to be found-to keep its biggest brand on the airwaves for a longer period of time. The first seven episodes will air consecutively, with a midseason break followed by the remaining eight episodes later in 2016 (maybe as a buildup to the next season of The Walking Dead?). As is AMC’s new tradition, the second season of Fear the Walking Dead will be split into two halves.
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