Fear the Walking Dead is an American post-apocalyptic horror drama television series created by Robert Kirkman and Dave Erickson.[1] It is a companion series to The Walking Dead,[2] which is based on the comic book series of the same name by Robert Kirkman, Tony Moore, and Charlie Adlard. It premiered on the cable network AMC on August 23, 2015.[3]
During the course of the series, 113 episodes of Fear the Walking Dead aired over eight seasons, between August 23, 2015, and November 19, 2023.
Series overview
| Season | Episodes | Originally aired | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| First aired | Last aired | |||
| 1 | 6 | August 23, 2015 | October 4, 2015 | |
| 2 | 15 | April 10, 2016 | October 2, 2016 | |
| 3 | 16 | June 4, 2017 | October 15, 2017 | |
| 4 | 16 | April 15, 2018 | September 30, 2018 | |
| 5 | 16 | June 2, 2019 | September 29, 2019 | |
| 6 | 16 | October 11, 2020 | June 13, 2021 | |
| 7 | 16 | October 17, 2021 | June 5, 2022 | |
| 8 | 12 | May 14, 2023 | November 19, 2023 | |
Episodes
Season 1 (2015)
| No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date | U.S. viewers (millions) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | "Pilot" | Adam Davidson | Robert Kirkman & Dave Erickson | August 23, 2015 | 10.13[4] |
| 2 | 2 | "So Close, Yet So Far" | Adam Davidson | Marco Ramirez | August 30, 2015 | 8.18[5] |
| 3 | 3 | "The Dog" | Adam Davidson | Jack LoGiudice | September 13, 2015 | 7.19[6] |
| 4 | 4 | "Not Fade Away" | Kari Skogland | Meaghan Oppenheimer | September 20, 2015 | 6.62[7] |
| 5 | 5 | "Cobalt" | Kari Skogland | David Wiener | September 27, 2015 | 6.66[8] |
| 6 | 6 | "The Good Man" | Stefan Schwartz | Robert Kirkman & Dave Erickson | October 4, 2015 | 6.86[9] |
Season 2 (2016)
| No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date | U.S. viewers (millions) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 1 | "Monster" | Adam Davidson | Dave Erickson | April 10, 2016 | 6.67[10] |
| 8 | 2 | "We All Fall Down" | Adam Davidson | Story by : Brett C. Leonard & Kate Barnow Teleplay by : Kate Barnow | April 17, 2016 | 5.58[11] |
| 9 | 3 | "Ouroboros" | Stefan Schwartz | Alan Page | April 24, 2016 | 4.73[12] |
| 10 | 4 | "Blood in the Streets" | Michael Uppendahl | Kate Erickson | May 1, 2016 | 4.80[13] |
| 11 | 5 | "Captive" | Craig Zisk | Carla Ching | May 8, 2016 | 4.41[14] |
| 12 | 6 | "Sicut Cervus" | Kate Dennis | Brian Buckner | May 15, 2016 | 4.49[15] |
| 13 | 7 | "Shiva" | Andrew Bernstein | David Wiener | May 22, 2016 | 4.39[16] |
| 14 | 8 | "Grotesque" | Daniel Sackheim | Kate Barnow | August 21, 2016 | 3.86[17] |
| 15 | 9 | "Los Muertos" | Deborah Chow | Alan Page | August 28, 2016 | 3.66[18] |
| 16 | 10 | "Do Not Disturb" | Michael McDonough | Lauren Signorino | September 4, 2016 | 2.99[19] |
| 17 | 11 | "Pablo & Jessica" | Uta Briesewitz | Kate Erickson | September 11, 2016 | 3.40[20] |
| 18 | 12 | "Pillar of Salt" | Gerardo Naranjo | Carla Ching | September 18, 2016 | 3.62[21] |
| 19 | 13 | "Date of Death" | Christoph Schrewe | Brian Buckner | September 25, 2016 | 3.49[22] |
| 20 | 14 | "Wrath" | Stefan Schwartz | Kate Barnow | October 2, 2016 | 3.67[23] |
| 21 | 15 | "North" | Andrew Bernstein | Dave Erickson | October 2, 2016 | 3.05[23] |
Season 3 (2017)
| No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date | U.S. viewers (millions) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 22 | 1 | "Eye of the Beholder" | Andrew Bernstein | Dave Erickson | June 4, 2017 | 3.11[24] |
| 23 | 2 | "The New Frontier" | Stefan Schwartz | Mark Richard | June 4, 2017 | 2.70[24] |
| 24 | 3 | "TEOTWAWKI" | Deborah Chow | Ryan Scott | June 11, 2017 | 2.50[25] |
| 25 | 4 | "100" | Alex Garcia Lopez | Alan Page | June 18, 2017 | 2.40[26] |
| 26 | 5 | "Burning in Water, Drowning in Flame" | Daniel Stamm | Suzanne Heathcote | June 25, 2017 | 2.50[27] |
| 27 | 6 | "Red Dirt" | Courtney Hunt | Wes Brown | July 2, 2017 | 2.19[28] |
| 28 | 7 | "The Unveiling" | Jeremy Webb | Mark Richard | July 9, 2017 | 2.62[29] |
| 29 | 8 | "Children of Wrath" | Andrew Bernstein | Jami O'Brien | July 9, 2017 | 2.40[29] |
| 30 | 9 | "Minotaur" | Stefan Schwartz | Dave Erickson & Mike Zunic | September 10, 2017 | 2.14[30] |
| 31 | 10 | "The Diviner" | Paco Cabezas | Ryan Scott | September 10, 2017 | 2.14[30] |
| 32 | 11 | "La Serpiente" | Josef Wladyka | Mark Richard & Lauren Signorino | September 17, 2017 | 1.99[31] |
| 33 | 12 | "Brother's Keeper" | Alrick Riley | Wes Brown | September 24, 2017 | 2.08[32] |
| 34 | 13 | "This Land Is Your Land" | Meera Menon | Suzanne Heathcote | October 1, 2017 | 2.36[33] |
| 35 | 14 | "El Matadero" | Stefan Schwartz | Alan Page | October 8, 2017 | 2.23[34] |
| 36 | 15 | "Things Bad Begun" | Andrew Bernstein | Jami O'Brien | October 15, 2017 | 2.23[35] |
| 37 | 16 | "Sleigh Ride" | Andrew Bernstein | Dave Erickson & Mark Richard | October 15, 2017 | 2.23[35] |
Season 4 (2018)
| No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date | U.S. viewers (millions) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 38 | 1 | "What's Your Story?" | John Polson | Scott M. Gimple & Andrew Chambliss & Ian Goldberg | April 15, 2018 | 4.09[36] |
| 39 | 2 | "Another Day in the Diamond" | Michael E. Satrazemis | Andrew Chambliss & Ian Goldberg | April 22, 2018 | 3.07[37] |
| 40 | 3 | "Good Out Here" | Dan Liu | Shintaro Shimosawa | April 29, 2018 | 2.71[38] |
| 41 | 4 | "Buried" | Magnus Martens | Alex Delyle | May 6, 2018 | 2.49[39] |
| 42 | 5 | "Laura" | Michael E. Satrazemis | Anna Fishko | May 13, 2018 | 2.46[40] |
| 43 | 6 | "Just in Case" | Daisy von Scherler Mayer | Richard Naing | May 20, 2018 | 2.31[41] |
| 44 | 7 | "The Wrong Side of Where You Are Now" | Sarah Boyd | Melissa Scrivner Love | June 3, 2018 | 1.97[42] |
| 45 | 8 | "No One's Gone" | Michael E. Satrazemis | Ian Goldberg & Andrew Chambliss | June 10, 2018 | 2.32[43] |
| 46 | 9 | "People Like Us" | Magnus Martens | Anna Fishko | August 12, 2018 | 1.88[44] |
| 47 | 10 | "Close Your Eyes" | Michael E. Satrazemis | Shintaro Shimosawa | August 19, 2018 | 1.86[45] |
| 48 | 11 | "The Code" | Tara Nicole Weyr | Andrew Chambliss & Alex Delyle | August 26, 2018 | 1.83[46] |
| 49 | 12 | "Weak" | Colman Domingo | Kalinda Vazquez | September 2, 2018 | 1.52[47] |
| 50 | 13 | "Blackjack" | Sharat Raju | Ian Goldberg & Richard Naing | September 9, 2018 | 1.71[48] |
| 51 | 14 | "MM 54" | Lou Diamond Phillips | Anna Fishko & Shintaro Shimosawa | September 16, 2018 | 1.87[49] |
| 52 | 15 | "I Lose People..." | David Barrett | Kalinda Vazquez | September 23, 2018 | 2.03[50] |
| 53 | 16 | "... I Lose Myself" | Michael E. Satrazemis | Andrew Chambliss & Ian Goldberg | September 30, 2018 | 2.13[51] |
Season 5 (2019)
| No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date | U.S. viewers (millions) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 54 | 1 | "Here to Help" | Michael E. Satrazemis | Ian Goldberg & Andrew Chambliss | June 2, 2019 | 1.97[52] |
| 55 | 2 | "The Hurt That Will Happen" | Jessica Lowrey | Alex Delyle | June 9, 2019 | 1.69[53] |
| 56 | 3 | "Humbug's Gulch" | Colman Domingo | Ashley Cardiff | June 16, 2019 | 1.76[54] |
| 57 | 4 | "Skidmark" | Tara Nicole Weyr | Samir Mehta | June 23, 2019 | 1.66[55] |
| 58 | 5 | "The End of Everything" | Michael E. Satrazemis | Andrew Chambliss & Ian Goldberg | June 30, 2019 | 1.71[56] |
| 59 | 6 | "The Little Prince" | Sharat Raju | Mallory Westfall | July 7, 2019 | 1.49[57] |
| 60 | 7 | "Still Standing" | Marta Cunningham | Richard Naing | July 14, 2019 | 1.39[58] |
| 61 | 8 | "Is Anybody Out There?" | Michael E. Satrazemis | Michael Alaimo | July 21, 2019 | 1.60[59] |
| 62 | 9 | "Channel 4" | Dan Liu | David Johnson | August 11, 2019 | 1.40[60] |
| 63 | 10 | "210 Words Per Minute" | Ron Underwood | Ian Goldberg & Andrew Chambliss | August 18, 2019 | 1.37[61] |
| 64 | 11 | "You're Still Here" | K.C. Colwell | Mallory Westfall & Alex Delyle | August 25, 2019 | 1.44[62] |
| 65 | 12 | "Ner Tamid" | Michael E. Satrazemis | Andrew Chambliss & Ian Goldberg | September 1, 2019 | 1.14[63] |
| 66 | 13 | "Leave What You Don't" | Daisy von Scherler Mayer | Ashley Cardiff & Nick Bernardone | September 8, 2019 | 1.45[64] |
| 67 | 14 | "Today and Tomorrow" | Sydney Freeland | Richard Naing & David Johnson | September 15, 2019 | 1.31[65] |
| 68 | 15 | "Channel 5" | David Barrett | Michael Alaimo & Samir Mehta | September 22, 2019 | 1.34[66] |
| 69 | 16 | "End of the Line" | Michael E. Satrazemis | Ian Goldberg & Andrew Chambliss | September 29, 2019 | 1.51[67] |
Season 6 (2020–21)
| No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date | U.S. viewers (millions) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 70 | 1 | "The End Is the Beginning" | Michael E. Satrazemis | Andrew Chambliss & Ian Goldberg | October 11, 2020 | 1.59[68] |
| 71 | 2 | "Welcome to the Club" | Lennie James | Nazrin Choudhury | October 18, 2020 | 1.55[69] |
| 72 | 3 | "Alaska" | Colman Domingo | Mallory Westfall | October 25, 2020 | 1.50[70] |
| 73 | 4 | "The Key" | Ron Underwood | David Johnson | November 1, 2020 | 1.28[71] |
| 74 | 5 | "Honey" | Michael E. Satrazemis | Ashley Cardiff | November 8, 2020 | 1.24[72] |
| 75 | 6 | "Bury Her Next to Jasper's Leg" | Sharat Raju | Alex Delyle | November 15, 2020 | 1.27[73] |
| 76 | 7 | "Damage from the Inside" | Tawnia McKiernan | Jacob Pinion | November 22, 2020 | 1.09[74] |
| 77 | 8 | "The Door" | Michael E. Satrazemis | Ian Goldberg & Andrew Chambliss | April 11, 2021 | 1.17[75] |
| 78 | 9 | "Things Left to Do" | Michael E. Satrazemis | Nick Bernardone | April 18, 2021 | 1.12[76] |
| 79 | 10 | "Handle with Care" | Heather Cappiello | Ashley Cardiff & David Johnson | April 25, 2021 | 1.10[77] |
| 80 | 11 | "The Holding" | K.C. Colwell | Channing Powell | May 2, 2021 | 1.03[78] |
| 81 | 12 | "In Dreams" | Michael E. Satrazemis | Andrew Chambliss & Ian Goldberg & Nazrin Choudhury | May 9, 2021 | 0.99[79] |
| 82 | 13 | "J.D." | Aisha Tyler | Nick Bernardone & Jacob Pinion | May 16, 2021 | 1.09[80] |
| 83 | 14 | "Mother" | Janice Cooke | Channing Powell & Alex Delyle | May 23, 2021 | 0.94[81] |
| 84 | 15 | "USS Pennsylvania" | Heather Cappiello | Nazrin Choudhury & Nick Bernardone | June 6, 2021 | 0.87[82] |
| 85 | 16 | "The Beginning" | Michael E. Satrazemis | Ian Goldberg & Andrew Chambliss | June 13, 2021 | 1.05[83] |
Season 7 (2021–22)
| No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date | U.S. viewers (millions) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 86 | 1 | "The Beacon" | Michael E. Satrazemis | Ian Goldberg & Andrew Chambliss | October 17, 2021 | 1.09[84] |
| 87 | 2 | "Six Hours" | Michael E. Satrazemis | Andrew Chambliss & Ian Goldberg | October 24, 2021 | 0.96[85] |
| 88 | 3 | "Cindy Hawkins" | Ron Underwood | Nick Bernardone & Jacob Pinion | October 31, 2021 | 0.87[86] |
| 89 | 4 | "Breathe with Me" | Tara Nicole Weyr | Nazrin Choudhury & David Johnson | November 7, 2021 | 0.73[87] |
| 90 | 5 | "Till Death" | Lennie James | Justin Boyd & Ashley Cardiff | November 14, 2021 | 0.93[88] |
| 91 | 6 | "Reclamation" | Bille Woodruff | Alex Delyle & Calaya Michelle Stallworth | November 21, 2021 | 0.88[89] |
| 92 | 7 | "The Portrait" | Heather Cappiello | Nick Bernardone | November 28, 2021 | 0.94[90] |
| 93 | 8 | "PADRE" | Michael E. Satrazemis | Ian Goldberg & Andrew Chambliss | December 5, 2021 | 0.84[91] |
| 94 | 9 | "Follow Me" | Heather Cappiello | Andrew Chambliss & Ian Goldberg | April 17, 2022 | 0.84[92] |
| 95 | 10 | "Mourning Cloak" | Lennie James | Nazrin Choudhury & Calaya Michelle Stallworth | April 24, 2022 | 0.79[93] |
| 96 | 11 | "Ofelia" | Alycia Debnam-Carey | Alex Delyle & David Johnson | May 1, 2022 | 0.74[94] |
| 97 | 12 | "Sonny Boy" | Ron Underwood | Justin Boyd & Jacob Pinion | May 8, 2022 | 0.72[95] |
| 98 | 13 | "The Raft" | Gary Rake | Nazrin Choudhury & Nick Bernardone | May 15, 2022 | 0.74[96] |
| 99 | 14 | "Divine Providence" | Edward Ornelas | Alex Delyle & David Johnson | May 22, 2022 | 0.66[97] |
| 100 | 15 | "Amina" | Michael E. Satrazemis | Ian Goldberg & Andrew Chambliss | May 29, 2022 | 0.60[98] |
| 101 | 16 | "Gone" | Sharat Raju | Andrew Chambliss & Ian Goldberg | June 5, 2022 | 0.71[99] |
Season 8 (2023)
| No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date | U.S. viewers (millions) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 102 | 1 | "Remember What They Took from You" | Michael E. Satrazemis | Ian Goldberg & Andrew Chambliss | May 14, 2023 | 0.56[100] |
| 103 | 2 | "Blue Jay" | Heather Cappielo | Andrew Chambliss & Ian Goldberg | May 21, 2023 | 0.47[101] |
| 104 | 3 | "Odessa" | Ron Underwood | Andrew Chambliss & Ian Goldberg | May 28, 2023 | 0.47[102] |
| 105 | 4 | "King County" | Kenneth Requa | Ian Goldberg & Andrew Chambliss | June 4, 2023 | 0.46[103] |
| 106 | 5 | "More Time Than You Know" | Heather Cappielo | David Johnson & Calaya Michelle Stallworth | June 11, 2023 | 0.55[104] |
| 107 | 6 | "All I See Is Red" | Michael E. Satrazemis | Andrew Chambliss & Ian Goldberg | June 18, 2023 | 0.46[105] |
| 108 | 7 | "Anton" | Danay García | Nazrin Choudhury & Justin Boyd | October 22, 2023 | 0.54[106] |
| 109 | 8 | "Iron Tiger" | S.J. Main Muñoz | Nick Bernardone & Jacob Pinion | October 29, 2023 | 0.52[106] |
| 110 | 9 | "Sanctuary" | Phil McLaughlin | Justin Boyd & David Johnson | November 5, 2023 | 0.50[106] |
| 111 | 10 | "Keeping Her Alive" | James Armstrong | Nazrin Choudhury & Calaya Michelle Stallworth | November 12, 2023 | 0.47[106] |
| 112 | 11 | "Fighting Like You" | Haifaa al-Mansour | Nick Bernardone & Jacob Pinion & Kelly Jane Costello | November 19, 2023 | 0.44[106] |
| 113 | 12 | "The Road Ahead" | Michael E. Satrazemis | Ian Goldberg & Andrew Chambliss | November 19, 2023 | 0.44[106] |
Webisodes
Fear the Walking Dead: Flight 462
A 16-part web series, Fear the Walking Dead: Flight 462, was released from October 4, 2015, and March 26, 2016, on AMC.com; it also aired as promos during The Walking Dead season 6. The web series depicts the outbreak's effect on a commercial airplane flight. Two of its characters, Alex (originally called Charlie in the web series), and Jake are introduced in Fear the Walking Dead season 2, episode 3 "Ouroboros".[107]
Fear the Walking Dead: Passage
A second 16-part web series, was released from October 17, 2016, and March 27, 2017, and episodes were made available online weekly and aired as promos during the seventh season of The Walking Dead. The web series follows Sierra, a capable survivor, who helps an injured woman named Gabi, as they try to find sanctuary. The series was written by Lauren Signorino and Mike Zunic and directed by Andrew Bernstein.[108]
The Althea Tapes
A six-part web series was released from July 27 to August 8, 2019, on AMC.com and YouTube. The web series features Althea interviewing different survivors for their story.[109][110]
Dead in the Water
In March 2021, AMC announced the digital spin-off series Dead in the Water: A Fear the Walking Dead Story, which is set aboard USS Pennsylvania and "tells the story of a submarine crew fighting for survival, cut off from the surface world just as the apocalypse hits, becoming a nuclear-fueled walker-filled death trap with no way out."[111] The special stars Nick Stahl as Jason Riley and premiered on AMC+ on April 10, 2022.[112]
Ratings
Fear the Walking Dead : U.S. viewers per episode (millions)
Audience measurement performed by Nielsen Media Research[113]
| Season | Episode number | Average | ||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | |||
| 1 | 10.13 | 8.18 | 7.19 | 6.62 | 6.66 | 6.86 | – | 7.61 | ||||||||||
| 2 | 6.67 | 5.58 | 4.73 | 4.80 | 4.41 | 4.49 | 4.39 | 3.86 | 3.66 | 2.99 | 3.40 | 3.62 | 3.49 | 3.67 | 3.05 | – | 4.19 | |
| 3 | 3.11 | 2.70 | 2.50 | 2.40 | 2.50 | 2.19 | 2.62 | 2.40 | 2.14 | 2.14 | 1.99 | 2.08 | 2.36 | 2.23 | 2.23 | 2.23 | 2.36 | |
| 4 | 4.09 | 3.07 | 2.71 | 2.49 | 2.46 | 2.31 | 1.97 | 2.32 | 1.88 | 1.86 | 1.83 | 1.52 | 1.71 | 1.87 | 2.03 | 2.13 | 2.27 | |
| 5 | 1.97 | 1.69 | 1.76 | 1.66 | 1.71 | 1.49 | 1.39 | 1.60 | 1.40 | 1.37 | 1.44 | 1.14 | 1.45 | 1.31 | 1.34 | 1.51 | 1.51 | |
| 6 | 1.59 | 1.55 | 1.50 | 1.28 | 1.24 | 1.27 | 1.09 | 1.17 | 1.12 | 1.10 | 1.03 | 0.99 | 1.09 | 0.94 | 0.87 | 1.05 | 1.18 | |
| 7 | 1.09 | 0.96 | 0.87 | 0.73 | 0.93 | 0.88 | 0.94 | 0.84 | 0.84 | 0.79 | 0.74 | 0.72 | 0.74 | 0.66 | 0.60 | 0.71 | 0.82 | |
| 8 | 0.56 | 0.47 | 0.47 | 0.46 | 0.55 | 0.46 | 0.54 | 0.52 | 0.50 | 0.47 | 0.44 | 0.44 | – | 0.49 | ||||
Home media
| Season | Episodes | DVD/Blu-ray release dates | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Region 1/A | |||
| 1 | 6 | December 1, 2015[114] March 22, 2016 (special edition)[115] | |
| 2 | 15 | December 13, 2016[116] | |
| 3 | 16 | March 13, 2018[117] | |
| 4 | 16 | March 5, 2019[118] | |
| 5 | 16 | May 19, 2020[119] | |
| 6 | 16 | August 31, 2021[120] | |
| 7 | 16 | January 10, 2023[121] | |
| 8 | 12 | February 27, 2024[122] | |
References
External links
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