Fear the Walking Dead had a dubious start to its second season, with ample Zombie Rights issues, as previously dissected on the ZRC blog here. But perhaps after the premiere things could improve for the Differently Animated?

…Probably not.

This week our intrepid gaggle of looters got diverted from their high seas pillaging by a light spotted on the shore, and the need to flee a more effective piracy operation that had tracked them down via Alicia’s chatty radio overuse.

Millenials and their social media. Apparently.

They find a family of erstwhile survivalist survivors on what was, until recently, a nature preserve or national park of some kind.

However even here, on publicly funded lands, discrimination abounds, with the Differently Animated cruelly excluded, despite being taxpayers. Well, at least as much as anyone else on this show, and probably quite a bit more than Strand.

Breaking slightly with Kirkman tradition, there is no overt conflict between the two groups of Living humans, and things seem to be going ok, up until an accident leads to a perfectly manageable Zombification which, of course, the Living people handle badly and with prejudice.

And that leads to a gun-toting standoff finale, replete with recriminations and hopelessness instead of tolerance and growth as a society, because, well, it’s Walking Dead.

Sigh. Maybe next week?

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