Fear the Walking Dead Recap: There Goes the Neighborhood 

, the old saying “Good fences make good neighbors” took on a whole new meaning for Maddie. But it turned out there was something scarier than even the walker next door that could drop by. What was it? Read on and find out!

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A CLOSE SHAVE | As “The Dog” began, Travis was reassuring Ofelia that the looters wouldn’t bother breaking into her father’s barber shop. “What are they gonna steal?” he scoffed. “Combs?” Still, the group was forced to make a run for it when a fire next door began to spread. Once outside, Daniel intended for the families to run “in different directions.” (The dads’ hate/hate relationship is clearly a harbinger of a beautiful friendship down the line, right?) However, it was a good thing that Travis wasn’t too far away when a scaffolding fell on Griselda, crushing her ankle. He carried her to his truck, and the lot of them sped off (down a suddenly miraculously clear street) to the hospital. Unfortunately, the scene there made the riot look like a bachelorette party by comparison. So Daniel, assuming that every medical facility had also descended into bedlam, told Travis to take them to his house. “Then,” he said, “we will be even.”

DEADER HOMES AND GARDENS | Meanwhile, at Maddie’s, Nick was playing not only Monopoly with his mother but also mind games, suggesting that, since Travis had rushed off to be with his family, he wouldn’t be returning to theirs. So, in a twisted way, she had to be sorta relieved when distractions arrived, first in the form of a German shepherd that invited itself in, then in the form of pesky Mr. Dawson lurking outside. Sensing that the need for protection was now acute, Maddie, Nick and Alicia snuck into the home of their MIA neighbors, Patrick and Susan, to borrow a rifle that the junkie had once tried to steal. Their stealth mission was going swimmingly, too… until they were about to head home and saw that Mr. Dawson was now IN their house AND attacking the poor dog! No sooner had Maddie decided on a new course of action — stay put at Patrick and Susan’s — than, damn the timing, Travis pulled up. While Maddie and Nick raced through Susan’s garden maze to get to Travis before Mr. Dawson did, Alicia doubled back for rifle shells — and wound up being attacked by a zombified Susan!

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HEAD CASE | In the end, Daniel shot Mr. Dawson in the head — twice, rather spectacularly — thus saving Travis, and Alicia nearly broke Chris’ nose when he rode to her rescue. (Cue the “unlikely” romance in 3, 2… ) Alicia also got her first good look at one of the infected — Susan. Sorry, what was that, Nick? “She’s not sick,” he clarified, “she’s dead.” Okay, then. After Travis announced that his and Maddie’s blended family wouldn’t be hitting the highway until daybreak, Ofelia made a strong case to Daniel for going with them. Yet, in spite of his wife’s injury, he wouldn’t budge. “This is the wrong time to be in someone else’s debt,” he insisted. Nearby, Liza asked Maddie if, as mothers, they could support one another during this trying time. Rather than just reply, “Yup, you bet!” Maddie took it a step further by saying that, if she wound up like Susan, she wanted Travis’ ex to do away with her so that he wouldn’t have to.

BLOCK(ED) PARTY | The next morning, Travis inadvertently solidified Daniel’s impression of him as weak, first by getting angry that the barber had showed Chris how a rifle works, then by stopping Maddie from putting Susan out of her misery. So, of course, when Ofelia again pleaded with her father to leave with Travis and Co., he wasn’t the least bit interested. Sure, they’re good people. But, he noted, “good people are the first ones to die.” Travis and Maddie didn’t get far, anyway. They’d just pulled out of the driveway when she spotted Patrick returning home from a business trip. Since she couldn’t let him walk in and find his wife a dead-eyed flesh-eater, she turned right around to save him. By the time she got to him, though, it was too late — Susan was about to take a bite when… BAM! She was gunned down by soldiers! When the dust had cleared and a blood-spattered Patrick had been spirited away by the army, Maddie — worried that her family would be quarantined, too — fibbed to the authorities that none of them had been exposed. Travis assured her that she could exhale. “The cavalry’s arrived,” he said. “It’s gonna get better now.” Only it wasn’t gonna get better. As Daniel ominously — and correctly — deduced, “It’s already too late.”

What did you think of the episode? Do you have a favorite character yet? A least favorite? Hit the comments!

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Somebody tell me Why is the drug addict the smartest person on this show?

Sounds like the barber and his wife survived the Salvadoran Civil War… or something…

They need to pick up the pace…the characters are ALL boring and I feel no connection to any of them…Just the opposite of TWD.

It’s not a Walking Dead show unless someone complains about pacing of lack of zombies, etc… I’m really enjoying the slow burn on this group coming to terms with the existential crisis that is unfolding before them. Nick can see it, but he’s been dead emotionally for years. The others aren’t ready to grasp that humanity is falling before their eyes.. They have to grasp for hope ( Travis).. Though you can see Madison is starting to get that “ricktator vibe” (ie telling Liza to put her down, trying to put Susan out her misery). starting to really dig this show slowly unfurling what’s going on.. Taking its time almost hour by hour

Has no one on this show ever seen or heard of Night of the Living Dead? Also why is Travis in deep denial land?

Zombies have NEVER existed in this universe……

No- no one has. As has been repeated over and over and over, this is a world, like ours, with no zombie movies or references. No one has ever seen or heard of a zombie and they have no idea what is going on.

Are you sure about that? I don’t remember everything from the TWD but I’m sure someone’s mad a reference to zombies before. I might be wrong.

I just can’t seem to warm up to any of these characters….

Agreed…It’s like they chose the most boring characters and people…they took what was great about TWD, characters you cared if they lived or died, and gave us characters you bore you to death.

I didn’t like anyone in the first season of TWD. Sure, I wanted Rick to find his family, but I thought he was naive as hell. I thought Carol was weak and would die quickly… I thought Darryl would run off and leave the group… etc. Now Carol/Darryl of two of my favorites.

It wasn’t a rifle. It was a shotgun. That’s one strike against your survival prospects on the zombocalypse.

The radio was on in the car. It’s not saying that dead people are coming back to life and eating people… it just said that the military was called in… virus… etc.

I honestly think this is the stupidest show I’ve seen in a long long time

It got better, but the characters are still kind of bland. Kind of dumb too. For example I thought letting the dog in house only for it to get eaten later was stupid. They could of just left it outside and kept quiet. Then sent the son out to get the gun since the daughter had no problem going back alone. Even so the show is missing something that I can’t put my finger on that the original has.

These people are really stupid. I wouldn’t let a strange dog in my house on a Tuesday. They’re going to let a bloody dog in their house in the middle of an extremely deadly and contagious virus pandemic?

I don’t normally watch shows like this. Horror isn’t my thing. I HAVE enjoyed this series. Personally, I like the pace and I began watching because there are a lot of the actors I like.

I will continue watching until it becomes too gory and gross for me lol.

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