Timing and brand equity play a big role in the success or failure of any spinoff. If The Walking Dead: World Beyond had premiered maybe five years ago, my review probably would have been something along the lines of, "It's not very good, but I'm invested enough in the show's world that a glimpse of a different corner of that world inherently interests me." Heck, I made it through nearly two seasons of Fear the Walking Dead on residual curiosity, and even then I didn't make it to the point where people I trust allege that it got good, or at least better.
But Fear the Walking Dead numbed some of my engrossment and the wheel-spinning of theWalking Dead mothership blunted most of the rest.
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