THEN they discover another rival gang, who call themselves the Saviors, and decide to kill them in their beds (after the year they've had, who can blame them?) starting a war with a rockabilly with a baseball bat called Negan. Then, they go to a supposedly safe community called Alexandria, where they're attacked by a gang of weirdos calling themselves Wolves, who use zombies to attack the town. Experience a deadly flu, watch Hershel get killed by the Governor before their prison home is destroyed, travel to Terminus, get captured by cannibals, and go to Grady (a hospital run by homicidal officials, where Beth is killed). It means that, over the course of Year Two, our heroes… *deep breath*. Season four starts at around day 500 of the outbreak. If you thought the first twelve months of The Walking Dead's timeline were action-packed, brace yourself.
Morgan, meanwhile, manages to keep things relatively chill, shifting from staying in one place surrounded by a bunch of traps (day 314), to accidentally burning down his apartment (day 321), to going on a kill spree (days 321-324), to getting locked up by a pacifist (days 324-330) and learning how to be Donatello (day 330), over the course of around two weeks towards the end of the first year. That's a lot of upheaval, dudes – we hope you never have to go through a lettings agency, they frown upon this much housemoving. It means that our heroes go from their first camp, to the CDC, to the farm, to the prison, to the Governor's town, then back to the prison over the space of a year in the timeline. Meanwhile, The Walking Dead team use their first few seasons to cover the first year of the outbreak, which is slightly more credible but still pretty astonishing. Which means that the Fear gang had basically the most insanely action-packed couple of months in the history of civilisation: escaping Los Angeles, becoming seafarers, heading to Mexico and setting up on the ranch. Remarkably, Fear takes until season three to catch up to this section of the timeline (they're on that weird survivalist ranch when Rick's waking up). The whole of Fear The Walking Dead's first two seasons take place in the early stages of Year One, when the Global Outbreak first hits and turns the world into Zack Snyder's Dawn of the Dead in slow-mo.Īlmost two months after the breakout, Rick Grimes wakes up from his coma.