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The Walking Dead: World Beyond Season Two Review

The Walking Dead: World Beyond Season 2

World Beyond

This season starts with the proof Elizabeth Kublek (Julia Ormond) destroyed the Campus Colony in a ruthless manner. Elizabeth shows the traitorous Huck (Annet Mahendru) and Hope Bennett (Alexa Mansour) what has happened. Claiming it was just massive columns of the undead, letting Hope decide if she wants to join them.

Elsewhere, Iris (Aliyah Royale), Felix (Nico Tortorella) and Will (Jelani Alladin) join forces as Iris and Felix learn what happened. They find a new shelter with Indira (Anna Khaja) a place that Will has found shelter in before, one outside the community’s control.

The series roles on seeing both Hope and Iris in their own stories, investigating the truth. They find themselves dealing with the changes in their environments. It is strange seeing the sisters so far apart, with their own stories. The partnership in the first series is what drove the journey forward, this season tends to spend time leading up to a bigger event. We get the typical reunions with Elton, Percy and Silas out on their own journey too. They learn their own life lesson while in the open world looking to survive.

Thoughts on The Walking Dead World Beyond Season 2

This season does play a lot into not being sure whom to trust, with nearly every character being designed to play both sides of the moral side of things. We get a return of a character we met in the parent series of The Walking Dead, one we wanted to see more from.

There is so much time spent on building the sides in the battle, always showing the different sides and what they want. It doesn’t seem to have any level-headed characters, focusing more on greed, as we had previously seen in the previous shows. In a world set further in the future, it would have been nice to see a different battle going on. Seeing a more stable society in this world would be important. There tends to be a repetitive concept in each story of going for a shocking kill, one that never seems to do enough to feel warranted. Add in the fact the show seems to forget Elizabeth Kublek is around, just replacing her with a character from the original series to do most of the lifting.

There is a very random end credits sequences that included footage from the original Walking Dead Season One. I am not sure why this is placed in the show unless it is looking to create yet another spin-off. The question about this being included is right up, as they know the show wasn’t going to be returning.

The Extras

When it comes to the Blu-Ray Release you will receive the following extras.

  • The Walking Dead World Beyond Comic-Con@Home 2021 Panel
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The Walking Dead: World Beyond Season 1 Review

The Walking Dead: World Beyond Season 1

World Beyond

In 2020 the third spin-off for The Walking Dead follows on from Fear the Walking Dead that followed the first days of the outbreak. World Beyond took us to a place where the world has adapted, and society has moved on behind walls.

Series 1 Introduction

World Beyond follows two teenage sisters Iris (Aliyah Royale) and Hope (Alexa Mansour) who want to travel to another community where their father is. They believe the person running it Elizabeth Kublek (Julia Ormond) has her own motives for taking their father. The sisters make a plan to travel across America to their father, joined by Silas (Hal Cumpston) and Elton (Nicolas Cantu).

Iris and Hope’s guardian angels Felix (Nico Tortorella) and Huck (Annet Mahendru) go in search of them outside the walls. It isn’t long before they all meet up and continue on the journey. As the journey unfolds, we get to learn more about what happened to the characters before the community.

Iris and Hope saw their mother killed in the panic, where Hope killed the pregnant woman who killed their mother. Elton was protected by his parents, he still has hopes his mother and unborn baby sister are alive, not knowing what happened with the sisters. Silas killed his father before the outbreak and has been taken in to help society as he learns about his rage problems. Felix on the other hand got kicked out by his family before the outbreak and his boyfriend joined the sister’s father on the journey.

Verdict on The Walking Dead: World Beyond Series 1

The series follows the six on their journey, as they look to face human problems that they have faced. Each episode uses the current events in the episode to help unfold something from the past of different characters. Most episodes follow a typical trend of seeing the group need to locate something and face a new risk. Usually involved a bigger contained environment that offers more risks for a bigger reward. The use of the term ‘Empties’ to describe the undead is a nice touch.

Where this series does feel flatter than the original is by having the same reckless mistakes. There seems to be no training involved in preparing anyone to fight back against the undead. The decision-making process learns more heavily in splitting up for no reason, instead of working in teams.

This series never makes us feel like we are in an experienced world that has been dealing with the undead. Nobody is making rational decisions and we don’t learn enough about Elizabeth Kublek’s plans. We get minor glimpses throughout the series but no focus on her, despite it being clear she has her own motives.

My rating 3/5