As "Fear The Walking Dead" culminates its first season this Sunday, Oct. 4 on AMC, the network also released the show's very first companion web series, "Fear the Walking Dead: Flight 462."
The video clips include 16 short stories of about a minute long per episode. It centers on the characters on this one particular flight, according to Coming Soon. Specifically, "Fear the Walking Dead: Flight 462" is about the passengers of a commercial airplane that started its journey from Los Angeles right at a time when the outbreak was still in its earlies stages. The passengers don't realize that their health and safety is in jeopardy when one of them begins to manifest the infection. According to Variety, a character from "Flight 462" will be joining the cast of "Fear The Walking Dead" season two.
L. Signorino and Mike Zunic are the writers for the web series with Michael McDonough serving as the director. Succeeding webisodes will be released every week, in between the airing of "The Walking Dead," which returns for its sixth season on Oct. 11 and taking over "Fear The Walking Dead's" schedule.
"'Flight 462' is a great extension of the world of 'Fear' and will engage fans across multiple platforms with another riveting story set at the start of the fall of civilization," Joel Stillerman, the president of original programming for AMC, said in a press release. "We are thrilled to be collaborating with Dave Erickson and David Wiener on another piece of original content. Watching how they'll bring one of these new characters to the second season of 'Fear' will be really exciting for viewers to follow."
"Fear the Walking Dead: Flight 462" should help fans tide over as they wait for the second season return of the spinoff series, which won't be happening until 2016. You can watch the very first episode of "Flight 462" in the video below:
"Fear The Walking Dead" premiered on the AMC last August 2015 with over 10.1 million viewers. It broke the record of previous series debuts in the network and became the "most watched launch on cable," according to The Hollywood Reporter.
The show stars Kim Dickens, Cliff Curtis, Alycia Debnam Carey, Frank Dillane, Elizabeth Rodriguez and Lorenzo James Henrie. In the show's season finale Sunday, it was revealed that Travis had to euthanize his ex-wife Liza after becoming infected, while Nick and his mother and his sister survived along with Chris.
The first season only had short six episodes, but season two will be back with 15 episodes, as Variety reported.
