Is Fear the Walking Dead Finally Getting Somewhere?

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Since the audience already knows a lot about the "infection" that is overtaking Los Angeles, it makes watching the characters' unwittingly stupid decisions frustrating at best and an outright slog at worst.

There was a kinetic energy as Travis (Cliff Curtis) led his ex-wife Liza (Elizabeth Rodriguez), son Christopher (Lorenzo James Henrie) and Salazar family members Daniel (Ruben Blades), Griselda (Patricia Reyes Spindola) and Ophelia (Mercedes Mason) through a riot of looters and walkers to the safety of Travis' pickup truck.

Fortunately, Daniel was there to splatter Peter's undead brains all over the camera lens, which while fulfilling the hour's need for gory delight, only served to underline the theme of this episode and perhaps the M.O. of both series: "Good people are the first ones to die."

Daniel says those words to his daughter Ophelia, who begs her stubborn father and injured mother to ask Travis to take them along when they abandon Madison's home to head for safer ground.

[...] while I respect the decision not to just ape the original show and have survivors roaming the countryside looking for safety, nothing about the show's first three episodes give me any desire to watch these families exist in close quarters for a few more episodes.

Instead of putting them in action, I expect more "What's going on!?" and "How can you possibly think it's OK to teach my teenage son how to fire a weapon!?" conversations to fill the upcoming episodes.