We’re going to build through a rather explosive turn in the finale of the first half of the season. How are you approaching season two? Is there a larger story for all 15 and two smaller arcs for each half? 'Fear the Walking Dead' Boss Previews Faster Pace, Mix of Land and Sea in Season 2 Part of what they’re doing is trying to find what safe harbor might be out there. But they don’t know how bad it is elsewhere they’ve heard snippets. Even Travis has to come to terms with that. We’ve completed part of our apocalyptic education and we now know the dead are dead. If you count the days in season one, Rick hasn’t woken up yet going into season two. It’s about having gone through all these loses: Where do we go? Where can we start over? And can we start over? We talked a lot last season about the overlap between our story and Rick’s coma. It will drive a lot of the tension for the first half of the season.įinally, it is about finding hope. The great thing about this boat is we have a wide range of places we could go and a lot of this will feed into the agendas of our characters and the things they’re keeping to themselves. The other big question for the first half of the season is: Where do we go? There’s a difference between being land-bound and going from town to town and being stuck. … It provides for this interesting balance of paranoia and anxiety - which is not dissimilar from last season, but we’re now on a boat in the middle of the ocean, and that’s going to give us a lot of drama for the first few episodes. One of the big questions thematically is: What is family now? Is it blood or is it bond? We’re going to have a group of people, some of whom don’t know each other very well - Strand is still an enigma who may or may not have his own agenda and intentions when they get onto the boat. They drive through their city and it’s been destroyed at the end of season one. On top of that, they had to abandon Los Angeles. They’ve all lost loved ones over the course of season one and are in a fragile place. We’ve got a group of people who have been removed from their homes and there’s a great sense of mourning and grieving.

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