It’s Fear the Walking Dead. Somehow they have found a title that is simultaneously boring and easy to confuse with the original.
I thought this one was going to be located in LA. No one walks in LA.
I think I’ll pass.
That is literally the dumbest title they could’ve picked.
Fear the Driving Dead?
Fear the Acting Dead?
The Walking Lost: people stumbling around with no common sense and never talking about anything actually, you know, important.
Agree, but I’ll probably watch it.
I thought it was going to be set in L.A.
They could have at least followed zombie naming convention and had it be
Fear OF The Walking Dead.
Fear the “I’ve Written a Screenplay You Really Should Read” Dead
Whatever.
Yeah, it’s a regular Yawn of the Dead.
Because of the title?
Even worse, fans will abbreviate it FTWD and there’s no acronym that someone could pronounce out of that. Unless maybe they go with FeTWaD…
I’ve been thinking that they should base the title on a local group’s name for them. For example, in the original Walking Dead, there was a group that called them “rotters” instead of “walkers.” The Rotting Dead would be so much better as a title.
I will definitely check the new series out. Part of my burn-out on the current TWD is exhaustion with some of the characters. My worry, though, is that we’ll get another group of equally irrational and frustrating characters and that’s not going to keep my attention for more than a couple episodes.
The characters better draw me in, because I don’t tune in every week for the FX team’s ever new zombie splatter.
There were some good name suggestions in that article.
How about some more?
DEAD - The Walking Dead takes place in the midst of a mobile surgical hospital in a war zone.
Dead Agains Island - Obviously, they’re dead and on an island
Ugly Deadies - A fashion magazine that employs the dead.
It’s the second show in the series, so why not My Two Deads?
Good one.
Deadie Howser, M.D.
American Dead!
How I Et Your Mother
The Flesh Prince of Bel-Air.
and the obvious
Everybody Ate Chris
Or The Roaming Dead.
FWIW Rumors are that it is set earlier in the timeline when the Zombies were newly appearing. The brief glimpses we have seen of that time frame in TWD have been very interesting (for example it seems the US Military was as much a villain as the Zombies were) so I will definitely watch. But yeah, crap title. I wouldn’t be surprised if it changes.