When you create a spinoff of a show as earth-shatteringly successful as “The Walking Dead,” there’s no way around the sky-high expectations. “Fear the Walking Dead,” which premiered Sunday on AMC, promised viewers a look at how the worldwide zombie epidemic that plagues the characters on “The Walking Dead” got to be so widespread. So did the show deliver plenty thrills to devour, or is this spinoff dead on arrival?

In this week’s episode of HuffPost Live’s “Spoiler Alert,” a panel of TV obsessives break down the highlights and shortcomings of the 90-minute “Fear the Walking Dead” debut, plus the best and worst spinoffs in TV history.

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