The Walking Dead: World Beyond is the second spin-off series to The Walking Dead.
The Walking Dead franchise is really limping to the finish line. With the parent show The Walking Dead ending next year (about time), Fear the Walking Dead is also on mid-season break.
The first season consisted of 10 episodes. The second and final season premiered on October 3, 2021, also consisting of 10 episodes.
I binged this season a little bit after the series finale aired on December 5, 2021.
Starring Alexa Mansour, Nicolas Cantu, Hal Cumpston, Aliyah Royale, Annet Mahendru, Younger's Nico Tortorella, Julia Ormond, Robert Palmer Watkins, Joe Holt, Jelani Alladin, Natalie Gold and Ted Sutherland.
The series, set in Nebraska ten years after the zombie apocalypse, features four teenage protagonists and focuses on "the first generation to come-of-age in the apocalypse as we know it. Some will become heroes. Some will become villains. In the end, all of them will be changed forever. Grown-up and cemented in their identities, both good and bad.
In the series finale, Frank Newton and a team of soldiers ambush Leo, Felix, Will and the scientists leading to a gunfight in which Leo and Will kill the CRM soldiers and Felix lures Frank away.
After a brutal fight, Felix disembowels Frank and leaves him to be devoured by walkers. At the same time, the Endlings fight their way through the herd back to Dennis' outpost where Silas decides to stay and help Huck and Dennis.
Iris, Hope and Elton manage to escape the area with the help of Indira and Asha, but Elton is bitten in the arm while protecting Hope, forcing him to undergo an amputation. After sending Silas and Dennis away, Huck fights Jadis who kills Huck, but learns too late that Huck has rigged up her father's watch as a makeshift timer on the C4.
Jadis escapes as the gas is destroyed and she arrests Kublek for treason, blaming her for the CRM's failure. With the CRM closing in on them, the mortally wounded Dennis has Silas kill him in order to convince the CRM that he was an unwilling participant.
Silas accepts an offer from Jadis to join the CRM while secretly plotting to infiltrate the organization and warn the right people about the CRM's actions. After Elton recovers, he, Iris, Asha and a number of Indira's people make their way to Portland while Leo, Hope, Indira, the scientists and a now married Felix and Will remain behind to continue their research.
In a post-credits scene, a French scientist is confronted by a man who accuses the woman and her colleagues of causing and worsening the outbreak. The man kills the scientist who becomes a faster, stronger and more aggressive kind of zombie while Dr. Edwin Jenner discusses the overseas variants in a video message in the background. This ending (well on Amazon Prime) features no subtitles, so I had no idea what was happening in the last five minutes.
Was this series at all worthwhile watching. Short answer no. It's a good in the background series with very little new ground covered following eleven seasons of the parent series, seven and a half of the second spin off.
The Walking Dead: World Beyond does however feature the first F bomb I have heard in a Walking Dead series.
Look if you are bored this summer with the cricket, COVID news and other streaming catch up, maybe you might want to look into some more zombies.
Until next time, happy holidays folks.
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