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John Boy and Billy
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[1]:For other persons named Billy James, see Billy James (disambiguation).
For the character "John Boy", see The Waltons.
The John Boy & Billy Big Show
Genre
Talk, Comedy, Politics, Sports
Running time
4 hours per episode, Monday through Friday
Country of origin
United States
Language(s)
English
Home station
WRFX 99.7
Syndicates
Premiere Networks
Starring
John Isley,
Billy James,
Robert D. Raiford,
Terry Hanson,
Jeff Pillars
Created by
John Isley,
Billy James
Directed by
Jeff Kent
Produced by
Jackie Curry-Lynch
Recording studio
Charlotte, North Carolina
Original release
November 8, 1986 – present
Website
TheBigShow.com
John Isley (born August 15, 1956) and Billy James (born August 31, 1957), known as John Boy & Billy are American radio hosts based in Charlotte, North Carolina. Their comedic morning program The John Boy & Billy Big Show broadcasts from 6:00 a.m. to 10:00 a.m. Eastern Time in several Southern and Midwestern states via syndication through Premiere Networks, primarily airing on classic rock, active rock, and country stations.
The format consists of talk segments intermixed with music, contests, and skit-based humor. Current events, right-wing politics, sports (mainly NASCAR), and male-oriented problems are common topics of talk. Broadcast states include North Carolina, Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, New Jersey, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia.
The duo frequently interviews musicians, comedians, NASCAR drivers, professional wrestlers, and other public figures, such as Robert Earl Keen, Killer Beaz, Manny Pacquiao, Stephen Curry, Rodney Carrington, James Gregory, Pat McCrory and the late Tim Wilson. The show also markets a line of Bar-B-Que sauces (named John Boy & Billy Grillin' Sauce).
Contents
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1 History
2 Discography
2.1 Main albums
2.2 Compilations
2.3 Box sets
3 Other events
4 References
5 External links
History[edit]
For more than five years, John Boy and Billy hosted the morning show at Top 40 WBCY in Charlotte. Their comic talents made them number one with the station's 18 to 34 listeners. But John Boy quit in February 1986, while Billy stayed for a month and a half, partnering unsuccessfully with Bob Lacey and Jim "Catfish" Prewitt.[2][3]
WRFX, which changed to album rock that same year,[4] signed John Boy and Billy to do their morning show, but they could not start their new show until November due to a noncompete clause. A $250,000 billboard and television campaign,[2] in which the jocks had bags over their heads,[5] preceded their return. On November 8 at 9:00 a.m., they announced, "They're back!" and played "The Boys Are Back in Town" by Thin Lizzy. One difference on the new station, said John Boy, was "We'll actually listen to the music ... we're rock 'n' roll guys."[2]
John Boy was arrested at a night club October 21, 1990, and charged with felony possession of marijuana, but the charge was later reduced to a misdemeanor because the amount was small. As part of his plea agreement, John Boy agreed to broadcast anti-drug messages on WRFX.[6]
Early in 1993, news came out that John Boy and Billy were being asked by Mel Karmazin (boss to Howard Stern) to move to Atlanta, Georgia, and syndicate their show. At the time, WROQ in Greenville, South Carolina, was the only other station carrying the show. WRFX general manager Jack Daniel said the station made a six-year deal that would keep John Boy and Billy at WRFX but also allow the show to be heard in Atlanta, along with Raleigh and Columbia in the Carolinas as well as Texas, with the hosts getting a share of syndication income. One disadvantage: the show would include less locally oriented humor that people in other markets wouldn't understand.[7]
By August 1994, the show was heard on 14 radio stations, most playing rock. Two of the stations were sports talk--WRFX-AM (co-owned with flagship WRFX-FM) and WFNS in Tampa, Florida. The other stations were in WZZU in Raleigh; WROQ in Greenville; WSFL in New Bern, North Carolina; WXFX in Montgomery, Alabama; WYBB in Charleston, South Carolina; WMFX in Columbia; WKLC in Charleston, West Virginia; WDRK in Panama City Beach, Florida; WVRK in Columbus, Georgia; WJMX-FM in Florence, South Carolina; WIMZ in Knoxville, Tennessee; and WEKL in Augusta, Georgia.[8] WRFX-AM went back to sports talk in the morning early in 1995.[9]
On July 6, the show added KZPS in Dallas, Texas, which at number 7 in the nation was the largest market yet. Now on 19 stations, its largest markets had been Orlando, Florida, and Nashville, Tennessee, but now John Boy and Billy had the potential to be mentioned alongside Stern and Don Imus. John Boy hoped to be heard up north, too, though many doubted that would work.[10]
By 1996, the show was heard on 28 stations in 10 states.[11] In June of that year the first country station to air the show was WMTD-FM in Beckley, West Virginia.[12]
In 1999, John Boy and Billy were being heard on 65 rock stations in 18 states, but the show was expected to dramatically increase its potential audience when the producers added the option of country music. WHSL in Greensboro, North Carolina, which like the show and WRFX was owned by Capstar Broadcasting, was one of the first country stations in the network. Prophet Systems Innovations, also owned by Capstar, developed the technology to easily allow different musical programs between talk segments (about three rock songs were played per hour, though country songs tended to be shorter and there might be more of them). Macon Moye, vice president and general manager of the John Boy and Billy network, said the addition of country music would allow the show to be heard in northern states where the show would not fit a rock format. Sean Ross, editor of Airplay Monitor, cautioned that the show might be "too edgy and too male" for some country stations, but Tom Taylor, editor of the M Street Daily Fax of Nashville, Tennessee, believed the show had great potential to expand.[13]
By 2002, 110 stations carried the show. At this time, oldies stations could broadcast the show with songs specific to their format. This was true when classic rock stations inadvertently aired the Queen song "Another One Bites the Dust" immediately after the show reported about the Beltway sniper attacks in October 2002. Executive producer Randy Brazell said songs were selected in advance and stored using complicated computer software. After the hosts learned from an affiliate what had happened, they decided that to mention it on the air would give the incident more attention; perhaps people had not noticed.[14]
In 2008 the show gained its first New Jersey affiliate, country music station 106.7 WKOE in North Cape May. In April 2009, the show went north of the Mason–Dixon line and went on the air on 95.9 WZDB Sykesville, Pennsylvania "Rockin the Northern Alleghenies".
The show is broadcast with a time-delay.[15]
Discography[edit]
John Boy and Billy released a number of albums between the 1990s and the 2000s.
Main albums[edit]
Economically Priced First Album (1988)
Head Cleaner (1990)
Straight, White & Southern (1991)
Big Ol' Hairy Album (1992)
Two For the Show (1993)
Love Ya…Mean It (1994)
Southern Exposure (1995)
Dixie Diner (1996)
A Barrel of Laughs (1997)
Rocket Science (1998)
Radioland (1999)
Freakshow (2001)
Rough Cuts (2002)
Karl Childers: Potted Meat (2006)
American Goobers (2007)
Karl Childers: Potted Meat Rides Again (2007)
Ike at the Mike (2008)
Songs We Love To Sing (2008)
Compilations[edit]
Christmas Album (1996)
Nerve-Wrackin’ Christmas Part 2 (2001)
John Boy & Billy: Best of 20 (2001)
Big Ol' Hairy Christmas (2005)
Box sets[edit]
John Boy & Billy in a Box (unavailable; consists of the first four albums listed above)
Other events[edit]
John Boy and Billy have a "Comedy Classic Weekend" every year at the Grove Park Inn in Asheville, North Carolina where they make public appearances along with the crew and guest comedians.[16]
References[edit]
Jump up ^ James, Theoden (August 23, 2017). "How do John Boy & Billy do a morning show in the afternoon?". Charlotte Observer.
^ Jump up to: a b c Jeff Borden, "John-Boy, Billy Back to Tweak Charlotte's Airwaves", The Charlotte Observer, November 9, 1986.
Jump up ^ Tim Funk, "John Boy's Broadcast BlueBob Laceys: From Gumby to Jimmy Swaggert, Anything's Fair Game for WRFX Radio's Johnny Frank Isley, But Recent Events Have Taken a Bite Out of the Fun," The Charlotte Observer, November 1, 1990, p. 1B.
Jump up ^ Jeff Borden, "WJZR Trades Old Format for New Sound, Name", The Charlotte Observer, April 15, 1986.
Jump up ^ Jeff Borden, "WRFX Radio to Reunite John Boy and Billy Team", The Charlotte Observer, August 21, 1986.
Jump up ^ Foon Rhee, "John Boy Anti-Drug Spot Airs", The Charlotte Observer, November 23, 1990.
Jump up ^ Tim Funk, "Deal Keeps Duo on Air in Charlotte", The Charlotte Observer, February 25, 1993.
Jump up ^ Tim Funk, "14th Station Picks up John Boy and Billy", The Charlotte Observer, August 25, 1994.
Jump up ^ David Poole, "WRFX Cans Morning Show, but Retains Format", The Charlotte Observer, January 5, 1995.
Jump up ^ Tim Funk, "John Boy and Billy's 'Big Show' Hits the Big Time - Dallas", The Charlotte Observer June 28, 1995.
Jump up ^ Tim Funk, "More Stations Soon May Hear 'Bob, Sheri Show'", The Charlotte Observer, February 8, 1996.
Jump up ^ Jeri Rowe, "Mouths of the South", Greensboro News & Record, December 17, 1996.
Jump up ^ Bill Keveney, "'Big Show': Today Country Stations, Tomorrow the Whole Country?", The Charlotte Observer, April 7, 1999.
Jump up ^ Mark Washburn, "Song After Sniper News Offends Fans - 'Another One Bites the Dust' Was Already Scheduled, Producer Says", The Charlotte Observer, October 23, 2002.
Jump up ^ http://www.thebigshow.com/aa_links/miscellaneous.php
Jump up ^ On the Grove Park Inn Calendar of Events[permanent dead link]
External links[edit]
Official Website
Robert D. Raiford on IMDb
Jeff Pillars on IMDb
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Fear the Walking Dead (season 1)
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Fear the Walking Dead (season 1)
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Starring
Kim Dickens
Cliff Curtis
Frank Dillane
Alycia Debnam-Carey
Elizabeth Rodriguez
Mercedes Mason
Lorenzo James Henrie
Rubén Blades
Country of origin
United States
No. of episodes
6
Release
Original network
AMC
Original release
August 23 (2015-08-23) – October 4, 2015 (2015-10-04)
Season chronology
Next →
Season 2
List of Fear the Walking Dead episodes
The first season of Fear the Walking Dead, an American horror-drama television series on AMC, premiered on August 23, 2015, and concluded on October 4, 2015, consisting of six episodes. The series is a companion series and prequel to The Walking Dead,[1] which is based on the comic book series of the same name by Robert Kirkman, Tony Moore, and Charlie Adlard. On March 9, 2015, AMC announced it had ordered Fear the Walking Dead to series, with a two-season commitment. The second season, comprising 15 episodes, premiered on April 10, 2016.[2][3]
The season follows a dysfunctional, blended family composed of high school guidance counselor Madison Clark, her English teacher fiancé Travis Manawa, her daughter Alicia, her drug-addicted son Nick, Travis' son from a previous marriage, Chris, Chris' mother Liza Ortiz, and others who join their group at the onset of the zombie apocalypse.
Contents
[hide]
1 Cast
1.1 Main cast
1.2 Supporting cast
2 Episodes
3 Production
3.1 Development
3.2 Casting
3.3 Filming
4 Reception
4.1 Critical response
4.2 Ratings
5 Home media releases
6 References
7 External links
Cast[edit]
Main cast[edit]
Kim Dickens as Madison Clark: A high school guidance counselor, Travis' girlfriend, Alicia and Nick's mother, and Chris' stepmother.
Cliff Curtis as Travis Manawa: A high school English teacher and Madison's boyfriend, who shares custody of his son, Chris, with his ex-wife, Liza.
Frank Dillane as Nick Clark: Madison's 19-year-old son, a heroin addict who flunked out of community college.
Alycia Debnam-Carey as Alicia Clark: Madison's overachieving teenage daughter and a model student.
Elizabeth Rodriguez as Liza Ortiz: A no-nonsense nursing student, Travis' ex-wife, and Chris' mother.
Mercedes Mason as Ofelia Salazar: A hardworking professional with immigrant parents Daniel and Griselda.
Lorenzo James Henrie as Christopher Manawa: Travis and Liza's rebellious teenage son who resents his father for their divorce.
Rubén Blades as Daniel Salazar: A barber, Griselda's husband, Ofelia's father, and a Salvadoran refugee who protects his family at any cost.
Supporting cast[edit]
Patricia Reyes Spíndola as Griselda Salazar: Ofelia's mother, who emigrated from El Salvador with her husband Daniel to escape political unrest.
Scott Lawrence as Artie Costa, the principal at the high school where Madison and Travis work.
Lincoln A. Castellanos as Tobias: A wise-beyond-his-years high school senior.
Maestro Harrell as Matt: Alicia's boyfriend.
Shawn Hatosy as Cpl. Andrew Adams: A well-intentioned military man with a soulful disposition, who is out of his element.
Jamie McShane as Lt. Moyers: The leader of the National Guard contingent in charge of protecting Madison's neighborhood. He does not take the complaints of the citizens too seriously and is a loose cannon.
Sandrine Holt as Dr. Bethany Exner: A confident and skilled doctor.
Colman Domingo as Victor Strand: A smart and sophisticated businessman with a mysterious past.
Episodes[edit]
See also: List of Fear the Walking Dead episodes
No.
overall
No. in
season
Title
Directed by
Written by
Original air date
U.S. viewers
(millions)
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1 "Pilot" Adam Davidson Robert Kirkman & Dave Erickson August 23, 2015 (2015-08-23) 10.13[4]
Nick awakens in a heroin den in an abandoned church, to find his girlfriend Gloria eating a corpse. While fleeing, he is hit by a car and hospitalized. The doctor tells Madison and Travis that Nick's claims about the incident are heroin hallucinations, but Travis believes Nick after visiting the church himself. Alicia becomes more worried about Nick's chemical dependency. The next day, school closes early due to the high levels of absenteeism and rumors of an epidemic. Nick escapes from the hospital and meets with Calvin, hoping to learn if the drugs Calvin sold him caused him to hallucinate in the church. Calvin tries to kill Nick to prevent him from exposing Calvin as a drug dealer or impugning the quality of his drugs. In the ensuing struggle, Calvin is mortally shot. After Travis and Madison arrive, the zombified Calvin attacks them. Nick runs over Calvin repeatedly with Travis' truck, and the three watch in disbelief as the mutilated Calvin is still able to turn his head towards them.
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2 "So Close, Yet So Far" Adam Davidson Marco Ramirez August 30, 2015 (2015-08-30) 8.18[5]
After the run-in with zombified Calvin, Nick, Madison, and Travis choose to flee to the desert, and they want Alicia, Liza, and Chris to follow. Alicia finds Matt ill in his disheveled house. Travis arrives and sees a bite on Matt, who convinces Alicia to leave. The group returns to Madison's home to gather supplies. Nick suffers from heroin withdrawal, so Madison drives to her school to get him Oxycodone. There, she encounters Tobias scavenging food. A zombified Artie tries to bite Tobias, so Madison kills Artie and drives Tobias home. Chris’ bus is trapped in a traffic jam caused by a zombie shooting by the police. He films the event and joins in a protest against that and other recent fatal police shootings, when Travis and Liza meet up with him. A riot erupts after police shoot down another zombie, but the three Manawas find refuge with the Salazars in their gated barbershop-home. Travis tells Madison to take the kids to the desert without him; he will catch up. Alicia witnesses her zombified neighbor, Mr. Dawson, attacking Mrs. Cruz across the street, but Madison prevents her from intervening. The group inside the barbershop remains trapped, while the riot outside intensifies.
3
3 "The Dog" Adam Davidson Jack LoGiudice September 13, 2015 (2015-09-13) 7.19[6]
While a riot rages outside, a mob sets fire to the store adjoining the barbershop, forcing the Salazars and Manawas to flee. The group reaches Travis' truck and escapes, but not before Griselda is injured by a collapsing scaffold. Unable to reach a hospital, the group drives to Madison's house, where Nick, Madison, and Alicia temporarily flee when the zombified Mr. Dawson attempts to enter, attracted by the barking dog Nick had let in. Nick leads Madison and Alicia to the Trans' house next door, where they take a shotgun. Travis arrives and is attacked by Mr. Dawson, who is shot and killed by Daniel. All three families decide to stay the night and evacuate in the morning. Nurse Liza tends to Griselda's injured foot but notes that Griselda will die if not treated by a doctor. Ofelia tells Daniel they should flee with Travis, but Daniel insists his family can survive alone and will join his cousin later. The next morning, as the Clarks and Manawas start driving away, the National Guard arrives and quarantines the block. While Travis says, "It's going to get better," Daniel laments that it’s, "too late," as he watches a guardsman mark the neighboring house.
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4 "Not Fade Away" Kari Skogland Meaghan Oppenheimer September 20, 2015 (2015-09-20) 6.62[7]
Days after the National Guard quarantines the neighborhood into a Safe Zone, residents try to live normally. Tensions build under the military rule. Madison is stressed by extra work caused by her home's being overcrowded and Travis' new role as civilian liaison. Chris shows a video to Travis and Madison of a light signaling from the Dead Zone. Travis talks Doug into getting mental help. Liza medically helps neighbors. Nick steals morphine from Hector via IV drip. Ofelia kisses Adams, who was unable to get Griselda's medicine. Madison exchanges signals with the flashing light in the Dead Zone. She sneaks outside the fence to investigate and finds evidence that the guardsmen killed civilians, even the uninfected. Travis learns that Doug has been hospitalized for his mental issues. Dr. Exner determines that Liza is not technically a nurse. Daniel warns Madison of his El Salvador experience, when the sick were taken under the guise of receiving hospitalization but instead killed. Soldiers take Griselda and Nick to a hospital, but Nick's family protests his departure. Liza agrees to go to assist the medical team, despite not wanting to leave her son. Travis retreats to the roof and sees the signal from the Dead Zone. Seconds later, he sees and hears gunfire, followed by darkness.
5
5 "Cobalt" Kari Skogland David Wiener September 27, 2015 (2015-09-27) 6.66[8]
In a military cell, Strand bribes a guardsman to save feverish Nick from being moved. Liza helps Dr. Exner with patients at the hospital. Chris is devastated that Liza left voluntarily to help at the hospital, but Travis promises to bring her back. Madison discovers Daniel detaining Adams in the Trans' basement. Alicia and Chris get drunk in and vandalize the abandoned home of a wealthy family. Strand recruits Nick for an escape plot. Travis convinces Moyers' squad to take him to the hospital to check on his friends. While en route, Moyers encourages Travis to shoot a zombie, but Travis is emotionally unable to pull the trigger. The soldiers stop to assist another squad in a building infested by zombies, and most of those soldiers, including Moyers, are overcome. The few survivors flee and drop off Travis near the Safe Zone. Travis learns that Daniel tortured Adams into revealing what "Cobalt" means: in the morning, all civilians will be killed, and the guardsmen will evacuate the city. Griselda dies of septic shock at the hospital; Liza shoots her brain to prevent reanimation. Daniel visits a nearby sports arena to verify Adams' story that it was sealed with 2,000 now-zombified civilians inside.
6
6 "The Good Man" Stefan Schwartz Robert Kirkman & Dave Erickson October 4, 2015 (2015-10-04) 6.86[9]
The group drives to the National Guard's headquarters to rescue Liza, Griselda, and Nick. Adams agrees to be their guide when let go by Travis. The group infiltrates the base after Daniel distracts the guards by leading a horde of walkers from the arena. Travis, Madison, Daniel, and Ofelia go inside, while Alicia and Chris stay behind. Meanwhile, the walkers breach the perimeter defenses and swarm the base. Travis' group reach the holding cells and set the detainees free before reuniting with Nick, Liza, and Strand. They try to escape through the medical ward, where they discover Dr. Exner has euthanized all of the patients. Dr. Exner tells them of an escape route before presumably committing suicide. Before they can escape, the group encounters Adams, who shoots Ofelia in the arm. Enraged, Travis brutally beats Adams and leaves him for dead. Strand leads the group to his oceanside mansion, where he reveals to Nick that he owns a yacht which he plans to escape on, called the Abigail. On the beach, Liza reveals to Madison that she had been bitten during the escape. Liza pleads with Madison and Travis to euthanize her before she turns. Travis promises to protect Chris before shooting Liza.
Production[edit]
Development[edit]
In September 2013, AMC announced they were developing a companion series to The Walking Dead, which follows a different set of characters created by Robert Kirkman.[10] In September 2014, AMC ordered a pilot, which was written by Kirkman and Dave Erickson, and directed by Adam Davidson,[11] and is executive produced by Kirkman, Erickson, Gale Anne Hurd, and David Alpert, with Erickson serving as showrunner.[12] The project was originally known as Cobalt.[13]
Casting[edit]
In December 2014, the first four starring roles were cast: Kim Dickens as Madison, the female lead; Cliff Curtis as Travis Manawa, the male lead; Frank Dillane as Nick; and Alycia Debnam-Carey as Alicia.[14][15][16] In April and May, 2015, Elizabeth Rodriguez and Mercedes Mason were announced as series regulars, both in unknown roles.[17][18]
Filming[edit]
Production of the pilot episode began in early 2015 and ended on February 6, 2015.[19][20] The pilot episode was filmed in Los Angeles; the remaining first-season episodes were filmed in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.[21][22] Production on the remaining five first-season episodes began on May 11, 2015.[23] Adam Davidson, who directed the pilot, also directed the series' second and third episodes.[23]
Reception[edit]
Critical response[edit]
On Rotten Tomatoes, the season has a rating of 77%, based on 57 reviews, whose average rating is 6.7/10. The site's critical consensus reads, "Fear the Walking Dead recycles elements of its predecessor, but it's still moody and engrossing enough to compete with the original."[24] On Metacritic, the season has a score of 66 out of 100, based on 33 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".[25]
Elisabeth Vincentelli of the New York Post rated the first two episodes three out of four stars, stating that "[They] are creepily suspenseful–they're great examples of how effective a slow pace and a moody atmosphere can be."[26] Another positive review of the first episode came from Ken Tucker of Yahoo TV, who wrote, "Fear the Walking Dead is a mood piece, more artful than the original series" and that the cast is "terrific".[27] Tim Goodman of The Hollywood Reporter gave an average review, writing, "The 90-minute first episode and the hour-long second episode are, while not actually boring, certainly less magnetic than the original."[28]
One of the harshest negative reviews came from HitFix, on Daniel Fienberg and Alan Sepinwall's podcast, where Fienberg called the premiere episode "awful, just horrible ... as bad as The Walking Dead has ever gotten at its very worst. This is that bad. I've been kind of stunned to see people being generous to it. ... I thought this was almost unwatchably bad." Sepinwall called his B- review "slightly generous".[29][30]
Fear the Walking Dead (season 1): Critical reception by episode
Season 1 (2015): Percentage of positive reviews tracked by the website Rotten Tomatoes[24]
Ratings[edit]
The U.S. series premiere attracted 10.1 million total viewers, with 6.3 million in the advertiser-coveted 18-to-49-year-old demographic, both cable television records for a series premiere.[31][32] Numerous international debuts of the pilot also set ratings records.[33] The first season averaged 11.2 million viewers in "live plus-3" ratings (includes VOD and DVR viewing within three days after initial telecast) to become the highest-rated first season of any series in cable history.[34]
No.
Title
Air date
Rating/share
(18–49)
Viewers
(millions)
DVR
(18–49)
DVR viewers
(millions)
Total
(18–49)
Total viewers
(millions)
1 "Pilot" August 23, 2015 4.9 10.13[4] 2.1 3.83 7.0 13.96[35]
2 "So Close, Yet So Far" August 30, 2015 4.1 8.18[5] 2.2 4.06 6.3 12.24[36]
3 "The Dog" September 13, 2015 3.6 7.19[6] 2.4 3.40 6.0 10.59[37]
4 "Not Fade Away" September 20, 2015 3.3 6.62[7] 2.0 3.75 5.3 10.37[38]
5 "Cobalt" September 27, 2015 3.4 6.66[8] 1.8 3.37 5.3 10.03[39]
6 "The Good Man" October 4, 2015 3.4 6.86[9] N/A N/A N/A N/A
Home media releases[edit]
The first season was released on Blu-ray and DVD on December 1, 2015.[40] A special edition version of the first season was released on Blu-ray and DVD on March 22, 2016, with new bonus features, including deleted scenes, seven featurettes, and audio commentaries by cast and crew, on all six episodes.[41]
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