Ratings excellent!

I am still on the fence about this show. It certainly isn't TWD but it's holding my attention so far. "Daniel" is a great actor.

I finally just stopped with the show about halfway through season 2--both it and the parent combined were just proving to be too much TWD. Unless something has changed between now and then, the budget is so nearly non-existent I don't see how it would be possible to cut it much more (within, at least, the confines of a wasteful Hollywood production). An audience of 2.5 million is still great for a cable series; it has been very depressing to see this one draw such solid numbers, given how awful it is. Everyone has always known TWD's premise--zombie apocalypse played straight--sells itself. That's a big part of how these shows have been able to be so successful, no matter how bad the writing gets. There's long been a discussion among both fans and critics about how much of TWD's appeal is just that premise. FTWD offers another angle on the question. There's nothing innovative about it; writing-wise, it's just a clone of the parent series. Its major difference is that it's just done on a notably smaller budget, which removes some of the things TWD had in its favor.

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