The Walking Dead is about strangers whose lives are completely shattered or clinging onto broken fragments of them. The desperation of survival paints them into corners and extreme measures are needed to live. The cast and crew of Fear, insists this is a family drama first and to see whether a blue collar family and all of their relationships can withstand the outbreak. Everything eventually disintegrates in this world but we’re going to watch it devolve and see how this specific family copes with those problems.

“How would we behave if the world suddenly went to hell?” Blades asked. “Like what Columbus did with indigenous groups here. Would we question the existence of God? Morals are out, authorities out, everything is redefining like in war. It’s happening right now in Syria, where you wake up to a different life in front of their face (than what they had previously). What do we do? What happens?”

“Here, you have a Latino family that’s not just facing what’s going around, but someone who has already gone through this in their place of origin, are now subjected to it again. They’re forced into another segment of the population that they’re not familiar with because they don’t know how these people are, they don’t necessarily like each other, but they’re helping each other. The pace has to be established. It’s not about killing zombies. It’s about what happened, and what are we going to do? What is acceptable? All of these existential questions are being discussed on the show. It’s entertainment, yes, it’s also an interiority that I found interesting. Nobody’s perfect, we all hide things, and maybe those things become visible that were not justified before and now you have to (step up) and do this. But can you?”