1. 1 x 01. Bath Salt Zombies

1.  Episode 1 x 01 Fear the Waking Dead (FTWD).  Quinn, Stephen, and Bruce discuss the premier of Fear the Walking Dead.  The episode focuses on the family dynamic of Madison Clark and Travis Manawa, who are navigating the complicated world of a blended family.

Quinn's favorite character in the episode is Nick Clark, the drug addict who wakes up to find a zombie in the abandoned church where he and his acquaintances get high.  We discuss the way that monsters serve as metaphors for problems we face. In this episode, zombies are metaphors for illicit drug use.  Of the three zombies we see in the first episode, the first is the girl Nick has been getting high with.  When he finds her, she's eating somebody's face. 

 Nick believes she might have taken some bad drugs (like the bath salts stories that have been in the news), and he eventually tracks down his dealer, Calvin.  The two fight over a gun, and Calvin dies from a gunshot wound then returns as a zombie.  He tries to bite Madison and Travis, but Nick runs over Calvin with a truck.  Twice.  We discuss whether the authorities would try to cover up a zombie outbreak.  Who would be the first people to notice the zombie apocalypse?  How would people start hearing about it?  We discuss the year when the zombie apocalypse happens.  The world of FTWD seems to be current--the smart phones everybody uses seem to be latest generation.

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