HereвЂ™s what itвЂ™s not going to be: WeвЂ™re not doing The Love Boat with zombies. Zombies can wade and thatвЂ™s something we experimented with in the first couple episodes it has a lot to do with decomposition and gas buildup in the body. How much of season two will be spent on the water? I wanted the audience to have an introduction to the boat. In the wake of whatвЂ™s going on in Los Angeles, I didnвЂ™t want to abandon the city without some residue about what it was like to lose the city. ItвЂ™s going to be interesting to watch the pressure put on this family - never mind the apocalypse, but youвЂ™ve got a bunch of people stuck on a boat in the middle of the sea, and thereвЂ™s going to be a little bit of cabin fever among them. One of the big questions for me this season is: Can we do what we tried to do last season - hold this family together? WeвЂ™re going to see the slow fracturing of our family, and it will start as a hairline fracture and over course of the season as a whole and beyond, it will become more pronounced and traumatic. WeвЂ™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 theyвЂ™re doing is trying to find what safe harbor might be out there. But they donвЂ™t know how bad it is elsewhere theyвЂ™ve heard snippets. Even Travis has to come to terms with that. WeвЂ™ve completed part of our apocalyptic education and we now know the dead are dead. If you count the days in season one, Rick hasnвЂ™t woken up yet going into season two. ItвЂ™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 RickвЂ™s coma. It will drive a lot of the tension for the first half of the season.ДЇinally, 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 theyвЂ™re keeping to themselves. The other big question for the first half of the season is: Where do we go? ThereвЂ™s a difference between being land-bound and going from town to town and being stuck. вЂ¦ It provides for this interesting balance of paranoia and anxiety - which is not dissimilar from last season, but weвЂ™re now on a boat in the middle of the ocean, and thatвЂ™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? WeвЂ™re going to have a group of people, some of whom donвЂ™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 itвЂ™s been destroyed at the end of season one. On top of that, they had to abandon Los Angeles. TheyвЂ™ve all lost loved ones over the course of season one and are in a fragile place.

WeвЂ™ve got a group of people who have been removed from their homes and thereвЂ™s a great sense of mourning and grieving.

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