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Short summary

Nick brings his family to Strand's yacht in an inflatable rescue boat. Chris grieves his mother and blames Travis for shooting her. Meanwhile Alicia uses the radio and makes contact with a stranger called Jack despite the warning of Strand. Out of the blue, Strand finds that a speed boat is coming in the direction of his boat. Who might be the crew?

It was rumored AMC would release a 30 min short online about a man who survives a plane crash during the season 1 time period, and that would lead up to the first episode of season 2, but this didn't eventuate.

This episode marks the culmination of operation "Cobalt". Adams admitted in the episode Fear the Walking Dead: Cobalt (2015) that the operation was to commence at 9:00 the following day. This implies that only a few hours had passed between the ending of Fear the Walking Dead: The Good Man (2015) and the beginning of this episode.

The song Alicia heard Jack playing on the radio is "Five Years" by David Bowie.

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  • comment
    • Author: Cesar
    Nick brings his family to Strand's yacht in an inflatable rescue boat. Chris grieves his mother and blames Travis for shooting her. Meanwhile Alicia uses the radio and makes contact with a stranger called Jack despite the warning of Strand. Out of the blue, Strand finds that a speed boat is coming in the direction of his boat. Who might be the crew?

    "Fear the Walking Dead – Monster" is one of the worst series of television. Most of zombies' fans probably watch this series but becomes disappointed. The main reason is the unlikable and unbearable characters. It is hard to point out who is the less charismatic. In this show, the addicted Nick surprisingly is not annoying among all of them. The stupidity of Alicia is impressive is a post-apocalypse era. My vote is four.

    Title (Brazil): "Monster"
  • comment
    • Author: Maveri
    This episode clearly showed that most of the characters are not fit for survival and therefore not very likable. If it wasn't for Daniel, Nick and Strand the show would have turned awful. It seems like the others don't have enough worries on their plate, they're constantly worried about strangers. There are similarities to the final episodes of "The walking dead" as in why they don't plan ahead and they're constantly wasting resources. For example the battery of the radio or going full throttle on one tank. Even after it becomes clear the girl was snitching on the radio they still don't take it from her. If you ask me all female characters and the suicidal wimp of a son should find a tragic end and be replaced by people with a bit more of a survival instinct. And since it is kind of a rip off from "Zombie Survival Guide" I expected cruise ships full of zombies and zombies trying to climb the anchor chain. The last 5 minutes were good.
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    • Author: GawelleN
    Season one was an unmitigated DISASTER. It failed on every level, casting, writing, story, characters, direction, pacing, all of it. TOTAL FAILURE. So why make season two? They obligated themselves before season one even aired. AMC royally screwed themselves by contractually obligating themselves to make two seasons of this horrendous drivel, but we made no agreement to watch it. Season two's premiere was every bit as bad as any episode in season one. They made no course corrections based on viewer feedback. It's full steam ahead for the FTWD crappy cruise liner. The Walking Dead franchise has jumped the shark. First with this spin-off series, and secondly with the universally hated Walking Dead season six finale. I'm out.
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    • Author: Peles
    Oh boy, where to begin? I understand that these are people who have had their entire worlds turned upside on them. I understand that they are going to be forced to make decisions they've never had to make before. I understand that it will take time to acclimate to a world gone to pot. But these people have been living with the slow collapse of society for quite a while now. At what point will they begin to understand they can make no mistakes - there are no second chances people! We have been treated to characters who:

    Insist on bringing a dead person with them as they run for safe haven. Pout when they can't pull the boat over to rescue thirty people afloat on a raft. Chat up a stranger on the radio - and by the way, tell the stranger who and where they are. Fail to take the radio away from said Chatty Cathy. Decide out of the blue to go for a swim in the ocean. Then decide to swim through flotsam and jetsam of zombies to a capsized boat.

    I'm sure I missed several extremely questionable decisions made by these imbeciles, but those are the ones that really burned me. I had really high hopes for this show, and I gave it the better part of the first season to get going, but these characters are just plain unlikeable. It's almost as if (with a couple exceptions) they simply refuse to accept the gravity of their situation. I truly hope the writers wake these people up in a hurry because I want the show to succeed.
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    • Author: Wrathmaster
    I believe this to be the best episode so far, but that being said I have rated this a 4 star so it doesn't hold much hope for the series in my eyes.

    The most irritating thing about this show are the 3 kids, the drug addict being the least annoying appears to be constantly trying to act cool for someone. Who? I do not know. The daughter seems to be more interested in getting another boyfriend by chatting up guys on the radio and being a child complaining about her bedtime then her survival. Last and definitely least is the other kid, I can understand he is going through some loss at the moment but this is the end of the world so maybe man up for gods sake and stop being a pain in the arse.

    The two parents were just about bearable in this episode as they didn't say much other than "they need our help" so I will complain about them when they have a few more lines.
  • comment
    • Author: WinDImmortaL
    I wasn't sure what to expect for this season of FTWD after the disappointing first season. But I do have to say, I'm feeling quite optimistic about season two. The idea of the character's traveling via sea is quite exciting.

    This episode generally is not an action packed episode but it's not a slow episode either. It didn't feel like a season premiere per se but I personally liked it as a season premiere. A few questions that I've been asking have been answered and new questions have emerged. Now we know walkers (or 'infected' as they are calling it in this show) can swim/float but does the water faze them? That seemed to be the case when a walker was trying to bite Nick. Can Strand be trusted? We've already seen the conflict between Strand and the other characters, with a few of them not trusting him. It's picking up the pace pretty quickly, much quicker than season one anyway.

    The problem I still have with this show that we saw in this episode is that the characters are still making stupid decisions. For example, Chris jumping in the water without telling anyone claiming he "just wanted a swim". Also, Nick swimming to the capsized boat after he just came face to face with a walker to me didn't make any sense. Surely he would have swam back to safety after realising that there were possibly more walkers around. Instead he risks his life for very little reason. Alicia offering to pick up Jack's crew was also very risky but understandable given the nature of her character.

    We have to remember that these characters are new to the apocalypse and may not know yet what the right decisions are. We've already seen them beginning to change their ways of thinking; particularly Travis who didn't want to help the refugees. However, some of the characters are taking longer to develop which may cause conflicts (i.e. Madison and Travis). It'll be interesting to see how this will affect their relationship.

    So overall, good start for season 2 and I'm excited about the rest of the season! I also can't wait to learn the fate of Flight 462.
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    • Author: Ffan
    I'm a die hard fan of the original Walking Dead TV show and comics and was really excited for Fear but season 1 was really big disappointment. I felt like the writing was poorly done and lacked character development. I decided to give Fear TWD a second try. In the season 2 premiere "Monster" I can definitely see an improvement in the writing. I also can say that this episode is the best episode of the series so far. It was still a bit slow but the plot was pretty interesting and it ended with a good cliffhanger. If they focus more on the action and improve on the writing and character development, I think Fear TWD can be a really good competitor to the original TWD. I'm giving this episode an 8/10
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    • Author: doesnt Do You
    Blah Blah Blah, Blah Blah. Useless talking 101 here. Not even a hint of any quality to redeem itself that at least The Walking Dead has (but isn't that great in itself) Here's why I'm giving this a 1/10.

    The show itself if a low quality The Walking Dead, so it already lost the potential of being better than the original series. There is no mistake, Fear the Walking Dead is far different that The Walking Dead. Different pace, different focus, different quality. The first 5 minutes of this episode was a lazy attempt to get the show rolling after a quite forgettable first season. A splash of character idiocy, a pinch of crapping looking zombie fighting with some "intense" background killed the episode before it could really start. With me (and probably many others) forgetting most of the first season, it had a true potential to chose any path, and it chose a bad one.

    After the startup, we enter a phase of just, as I said before, Blah Blah Blah, Blah Blah. Who cares. If this show isn't going to be a character driven story, unlike The Walking Dead was in its beginning, then just shut up and do something. And by something I mean something useful. The old dude was literally mopping the deck of a boat. The big discussion should have been "Where do we go", but that was instantly decided to be San Diego, after the captain said they should avoid people (news flash writers, San Diego is a city). The next big discussion was the boat of people that they should or shouldn't save. This discussion was used and thrown out the window in like 3 minutes. Its like these peoples humanity has disappeared almost completely. This is something that took 4 seasons to happen to the people in The Walking Dead, and now these people have thrown out the "humanity" discussion in a matter of 3 minutes. Talk about getting rid of useful dialogue.

    So with the absence of both useful dialogue and events, we came face to face with uselessness. People talking to themselves, people giving people advice on how to change their bandages. People mopping the floor. People apologizing cause they are "sorry" something bad happened. The extreme laziness of the character development is utterly pointless since we all know that the show will rely on random crazy action scenes to keep it afloat.

    Now with that said, the episode tried to redeem itself with its random action. So the random fog pulls in, and the whiny kid jumps into the water along with the junky, and just abunch of illogical stuff after that. The fog is clearly there to compliment the idiocy of these characters, and there ignorance when it comes to checking their surrounds. The Walking Dead is already bad enough for this, this show has just become worse. Then in conclusion to the events that unfold in the following 5 minutes, they believe there are already "pirates" going around hunting boats. Another mad rush to jump past any humanity that should be remaining in the world.

    A big point I want to raise is how this show had a lot of potential. The Walking Dead really began after all these events when Rick woke up. So this show has the originality to show what TWD couldn't, and that is how people initially react to the outbreak. But with the constant rush to get into killing people and not preserving humanities willingness to help those in need, it has wasted its only hope at living in the world of the walking dead. And that is quite why I fear the walking dead, because if this is the kind of material that the world of the walking dead creates, I fear for the brains of those who made this garbage.
  • comment
    • Author: great ant
    This Fear show is really pretty Lousy, none of the Characters or even the Plots are interesting. Walking Dead is a very good show with characters that you care about & plot lines. Both these shows are just that TV Shows. It is interesting in comments & discussions to hear what others would do if found in a situation like this. Just look at what happens in massive traffic tie-ups now, power outages, cable goes out, or even if water main breaks & water is shut off for awhile. Something like this ever happened, who is watching over the Nuclear Power Stations to prevent meltdowns, all the utilities that we take for granted & cannot be without. All the food after this long would be spoiled, fuel would have had to be hand pumped out of the tanks at gas stations & by now turned bad. Since everyone would have to live off the land, anyone that does not have the skills like Daryl has to trap & hunt would not even survive. Even today, lose our normal way of life, most no one would make it, just try to go a day with no electronic do-dad & communication & society would turn into a Twilight Zone when the Martians turned the power off on Elm Street. This Fear show is really not good at all, & pretty soon the Talking Show that follows will probably not even be on, unless they bring on the all people involved with Walking Dead for interviews.
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    • Author: Bremar
    In the premiere of Fear the Walking Dead's second season, the mysterious yacht owner Victor Strand (Colman Domingo) gives a succinct rundown of the new world order to his stowaways, whom he rescued from the zombie apocalypse. "Let me explain the rules of the boat," he says. "Rule number one, it's my boat. Rule number two, it is my boat. If there remains any confusion about rules one and two, I offer rule number three: It's my goddamn boat." And with that, Strand illustrates how simple and arbitrary "laws" can become at the end of the world— and how willing people are to abide by them if it means they'll be safe.

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    The Walking Dead, AMC's long-running hit and Fear's parent show, began with a world already overrun with zombies. Despite occupying quasi-prequel territory, Fear the Walking Dead is compelling for the way it actually portrays the slow, painful breakdown of society. In the first season, a Los Angeles family watched as zombies started to pop up in their city, normal life collapsed, and the military started to herd people into camps before being overrun. In the second season, the surviving characters have huddled onto Victor's yacht and set sail for open waters, where even more new, nebulous laws are taking hold.

    It's only been one season, but Fear the Walking Dead is already doing a better job than the original of examining how civilization— rather than a small band of survivors—reacts to and evolves during the crisis. The Walking Dead, directly based on an ongoing comic book by Robert Kirkman, is a simpler tale of survival that has turned into a grim (if wildly successful) slog. Around the corner is either another awful villain or a wall of flesh-eating zombies, and efforts to rebuild society in the show always revolve around protection, isolation, and bonds of deep trust forged by years of bloody battles. Anytime some semblance of community is built, the show simply tears it down again.

    Meanwhile, the heroes of Fear the Walking Dead aren't soldiers, and as they strike out into the ocean in the second season, they're still learning how to adapt to life without traditional systems of authority. The first season was a surprisingly hard-edged, political work that cast the U.S. military as the primary villains, ones who quickly turned against the people they were supposed to protect as the world around them fell apart. As the season ended, the blended family of Madison (Kim Dickens), Travis (Cliff Curtis), their children, and their neighbor Daniel (Ruben Blades) fled the military's quarantine camps for Strand's boat, a luxury yacht parked in the Pacific Ocean that he claimed to own.

    In the first season, Fear the Walking Dead's tension derived from the military's secrecy and soldiers' erratic behavior (eventually, it was revealed they planned to flee and wipe out everyone they left behind). In the second, the power is suddenly in the hands of the main cast, especially Victor, which proves an equally terrifying prospect. Victor is friendly enough, but he won't allow any other survivors onto his boat, which leads to many wrenching scenes of desperate dinghies petitioning for help and being ignored. Fear the Walking Dead could easily feel claustrophobic, but the show uses its setting to its advantage, ratcheting up the paranoia as the survivors begin to wonder about Victor's background and his plans for the future.

    The most recent season of The Walking Dead was riddled with pointless cliffhangers and featured a drawn-out plot involving a new supervillain too cartoonish to take seriously. Fortunately, Fear the Walking Dead's second season manages to maintain the great momentum of the first, even as it transitions to a new arc. It's also much more fun than it sounds (even though half of the cast is made up of angsty teenagers), as the show takes typical story tropes and manages to smoothly mix them with zombie-horror adventures. If the first season was a domestic drama, focusing on Madison and Travis's blended family as they tried to keep everyone together, this second season is a naval adventure, as the group bands with new, darker allies to fight off pirates and monsters on the high seas.

    In Sunday's episode, Daniel darkly refers to Victor as "Ahab," and indeed Victor's edicts do sometimes echo the dictatorial madness of Herman Melville's famous creation. Domingo, a Tony-nominated actor and playwright, is giving a command performance this year, a fascinating portrait of the kind of authoritarian whom society reforms around after being blown apart. It's heartening to see the show take the chance to build that kind of a character from the ground up and invest the audience in his decisions going forward. It might be a comic-book show spin off, but Fear the Walking Dead is proving that it won't settle for a story with easy heroes and villains.
  • comment
    • Author: Lucam
    An exciting and rather haunting start of the new season focusing on the twin horrors of the zombie apocalypse and the potential menace of other humans who have somehow managed to survive.

    With Alicia listening on the radio, the viewers get a chance to hear the desperate voices of the outside world as human civilization falls into chaos. And probably thanks to Alicia, it looks like her family is going to get their first encounter with piracy on the high seas.

    On board ship, we can already see the beginnings of a power struggle between Victor Strand and his passengers as they start to make the hard decisions necessary for their survival.

    I found the underwater scenes surreal and mesmerizing. I love how cinematically different this is from the Walking Dead! Its like a whole new universe.

    I'm now fully invested in the characters introduced to us in the previous season. Obviously, in the future, some of these characters will die while new characters will be introduced. But I can't wait to see what measures this group of survivors will take in order to make it in the New World.

    In my opinion, this was the best episode of the series so far. Congratulations Dave Erickson and Robert Kirkman on an excellent start to the 2016 season. Can't wait till next Sunday!
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    • Author: Kalrajas
    After last week's very much less than satisfying finale to Season 6 of THE WALKING DEAD, I was actually looking forward to this week's premiere of FEAR THE WALKING DEAD, if for no other reason than expectations were not that particularly high. Although I was a big fan of FEAR's first six episode season; the show was no TWD in that it was often a very slow burn. Now FEAR is back and what was good about that first season is still strong, but what was irksome about the show is still very much in evidence.

    If any DEAD fans tuned into the Season 2 premiere of FEAR expecting the pace of the show to pick up and that the gore and action content might have been upped, and then they were surely disappointed. The actual encounters with the Walkers came only in the opening scene and the last, where do learn that the Dead do float. There is neat shot of a Walker getting a propeller to the face in the opening and it would have been nice to have had a few more moments like that in this episode. There is lots of time given over to character development as sulky Chris deals with the fact that Travis put his infected mother down; Alicia finds a boyfriend on the CB; Daniel catches an eel (which some viewers might find scarier than the Walkers), and everyone sets down to dinner as if civilization hasn't just gone down the toilet. If these characters are not to your liking, then you might as well bail, because it looks like we're stuck with them.

    And I do question the choice to set a Zombie Apocalypse story on the open seas, where you can't exactly have a Walker herd attack.

    But if you like the show and the pace, this episode has a lot to like, starting off with the opening scene where Operation Cobalt lays waste to Los Angeles and the city goes up in flames as our group of survivors watch it burn as they head out to sea on Strand's yacht, the Abigail. It's like something out of APOCALYPSE NOW and it does kick the show off on a high note. The writers do believe in showing instead of telling, as when Travis agrees with Strand's decision not to stop and help an overloaded boat of fellow survivors, it's clear he is no longer the "Mayor," who was always ready to help a neighbor. It's obvious he is starting to wake up to the new realities of this new world. My favorite character, Nick, proves himself the be quite capable: managing a motor boat, diving in when he thinks Travis's son, Chris, has fallen overboard, and then swimming underneath the capsized wreck without a second thought. Carmen Domingo's Victor Strand remains mysterious and compelling, making it clear that the Abigail is "My Goddamn Boat."

    The episode left us with a couple of good plot threads: that capsized boat at the end was riddled with bullets, it appears as if the military is not letting any survivors escape from the Los Angeles basin and a fast boat is closing quickly on the Abigail. And is the boy Alicia's been talking to on the CB friend or foe? Get real; this is The Walking Dead universe.

    Oh, and that preview of PREACHER was awesome, and looks a hell of a lot better than INTO THE BADLANDS.
  • Episode complete credited cast:
    Kim Dickens Kim Dickens - Madison Clark
    Cliff Curtis Cliff Curtis - Travis Manawa
    Frank Dillane Frank Dillane - Nick Clark
    Alycia Debnam-Carey Alycia Debnam-Carey - Alicia Clark
    Colman Domingo Colman Domingo - Victor Strand
    Mercedes Mason Mercedes Mason - Ofelia Salazar
    Lorenzo James Henrie Lorenzo James Henrie - Chris Manawa
    Rubén Blades Rubén Blades - Daniel Salazar
    Elizabeth Rodriguez Elizabeth Rodriguez - Liza Ortiz
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