Man, this show has gone COMPLETELY under my radar.
I like to pride myself on knowing what’s going on with new TV shows, especially if they’re in the horror genre (which is easy, since there are so few) but “Fear Itself” has gone totally unnoticed by me. Has this show even been promoted? Maybe it’s just me being uninformed. As usual.
Anyway, I caught an episode of “Fear Itself” on Hulu.com the other day (by the way…I HIGHLY recommend this site for old episodes of TV shows). It was a zombie episode, “New Year’s Day,” written by Steve Niles, and I was shocked by how much I liked it.
The plot itself was simple: a party girl wakes up at 4am after a less than pleasant New Year’s Eve party and discovers that while she was out of it, the world has gone to hell. An explosion at a chemical plant has set free a chemical that changes peoples’ DNA (turning them into my much beloved zombies) and everybody’s out to take a bite out of life. She just wants to get to her boyfriend’s apartment, and along the way she gets to have all manner of undead fun. And there’s a twist ending, to boot!
I’ll probably go back and catch up on “Fear Itself” pretty soon, given the strength of that one episode. I usually don’t have high hopes for TV horror because it’s so anemic and defanged (especially when it’s on network TV), but maybe, just maybe, this series will be fairly good.
Maybe.
