5 things Fear the Walking Dead is getting right

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Fear the Walking Dead isn’t afraid of completely changing locations during the season…multiple time.

This has been the narrative of FTWD since the finale of season 1. The Clark family (and friends) haven’t had long to sit in one place and call it home. Sure, in the second half of season 2, Nick found the community of survivors using a wall of walkers to protect itself, and in the process meeting Luciana, but that happened in episode 15 of a 21 episode season arc. And, even the hotel that Strand, Madison, and Alicia find, provided a temporary safe-harbor, at best.

One of the biggest problems fans have with TWD is the group tends to spend too long in one place. Dare we even mention that awful season 2 spent at Hershel’s farm? Now, compare that season 2 to FTWD’s second season:

The Clarks and friends make their way down the coast to Mexico, in a yacht. They meet interesting people and groups along the way, and the story was never narrowed to someone yelling about Carl staying in the house while the rest of the group blundered around a farm looking for a girl everyone knew was in the barn the whole time.

By the end of season 2, FTWD’s group was moving from Mexico to California, never having stayed in one location too long. Meanwhile, by the end of the second season of TWD, Rick’s group was just burning down the farm and slaughtering the family of a kindly farmer who took in the group and healed Carl…so he could run around pointing guns at walkers — leading them back to the farm — getting poor lovable Dale killed in the process.