The Fourth Season Trailer For The Rebooted ‘Fear The Walking Dead’ Is Absolutely Terrific

The trailer for the fourth season of Fear the Walking Dead debuted during The Talking Dead this week, and here is something we haven’t said about either Fear or The Walking Dead in several years: It looks fun.

I don’t want to completely oversell it, but the trailer is better than anything we’ve seen from The Walking Dead universe in quite some time. There are jokes; there’s a sense of playfulness; there are huge weapons; there is camaraderie between the characters, and there is Garret Dillahunt in full-blown Deadwood mode.

There’s none of the bleakness we’ve come to expect from the universe in recent years. It looks like a brand new series, one that even those who have bailed on Fear or The Walking Dead in recent years might want to check back in on. Robert Kirkman suggested that the new season will be a “much different different show.” Based on the trailer, I believe it.

The series has brought in new showrunners, Ian Goldberg and Andrew Chambliss, as well as new cast members played by Jenna Elfman, the aforementioned Dillahunt, and Maggie Grace, plus Lennie James comes over from The Walking Dead. The series appears to have a new tone, a new look and feel, and best of all, a real sense of fun. If that’s not enough, it looks like the Fear characters are making their new home inside a baseball stadium, and the show is bringing back what drew us to the series in the first place: Zombie killing.

Here is the season four synopsis:

In Season 4, we will see the world of Madison Clark (Kim Dickens) and her family through new eyes — the eyes of Morgan Jones (Lennie James), who is joining the story from the world of The Walking Dead. The characters’ immediate pasts mix with an uncertain present of struggle and discovery as they meet new friends, foes and threats. They fight for each other, against each other and against a legion of the dead to somehow build an existence against the crushing pressure of lives coming apart. There will be darkness and light; terror and grace; and the heroic, mercenary and craven, all crashing together toward a new reality for Fear the Walking Dead.

The fourth season of Fear the Walking Dead kicks off after The Walking Dead season finale on April 15th.