The Walking Dead: World Beyond

Agent Coulson

Episode 1 is out on Amazon now.

fritzelly

First episode bored me to death - trying to appeal to teenagers
Less about zombies and more about relationships

Only hope is the Republic aspect of it.

terryduff12

It wasn't great bit of the cool smoking a spliff at the start. Was it rushed i wonder did they get it fully finished before the covid hit.

fritzelly

terryduff12 wrote: »

It wasn't great bit of the cool smoking a spliff at the start. Was it rushed i wonder did they get it fully finished before the covid hit.

Maybe but it was always put forward as youngsters being the stars of the show - but none of the actors have any star attraction (quite the opposite) to make me want to give it more than a few episodes

One thing that seems open ended is did the

Republic kill everyone in the camp?

terryduff12

yup, guess they didn't have enough money in the budget to show it.

stronglikebull

Just watching this now. I gave up on TWD and FTWD, so not too hopeful of this one. Five minutes in, and the utter stupidity of the characters is already annoying me. The teen angst story lines really ruined the first season of Fear, so I have no idea why they've now made an entire show with that as a major plot.

Unearthly

Written by Scott Gimple.

RUN AWAY

titan18

Watched the first episode. Basically just like the other 2 Walking Dead shows where the characters are so crap you hope the zombies win

DoozerT6

where is it being shown, or.....

bazz26

Legally - Amazon Prime this side of the world.

gmisk

First episode wasn't great....the acting is...uneven as well.
It's an interesting premise but seems wasted so far.
I bailed on the main show a while back and fear the walking dead at the ranch

Daxve

Yep very meh first episode, but it won't be over staying it's welcome it's a limit series only 2 seasons planned.

https://www.gamesradar.com/uk/the-walking-dead-world-beyond-showrunner-explains-why-they-only-want-to-do-two-seasons/

fritzelly

Daxve wrote: »

Yep very meh first episode, but it won't be over staying it's welcome it's a limit series only 2 seasons planned.

https://www.gamesradar.com/uk/the-walking-dead-world-beyond-showrunner-explains-why-they-only-want-to-do-two-seasons/

Of course unless...

Hande hoche!

Daxve wrote: »

Yep very meh first episode, but it won't be over staying it's welcome it's a limit series only 2 seasons planned.

https://www.gamesradar.com/uk/the-walking-dead-world-beyond-showrunner-explains-why-they-only-want-to-do-two-seasons/

There is a lot to be said for a one and done approach.

1o059k7ewrqj3n

This was awful to watch. Like Gilmore Girls with a dash of zombies. I think they were hoping it might bring something of the Buffy appeal to younger viewers but the characters are awful and the dialogue is woeful. There isn't one character you don't want to punch and nobody to root for.

gmisk

Episode 2 even worse.
How could they get this show so wrong?
The dialogue, the acting, everything is just so poor.
I think I am done.

fritzelly

Yeah, will give it one more episode but not looking great

bazz26

Two episodes in and it's dire stuff.

terryduff12

Chocolate for breakfast stable diet in the apocalypse, there probably was a McDonald's on campus too.

ejmaztec

I like watching this, just to see how much worse it can get, and how much weight gets lost after their traipsing across the US on the way to their destination.

bazz26

You haven't seen Fear S6E1 yet then? Another episode centered around Morgan. Lennie James must have some amount of dirt on the producers to keep getting these centre stories.

titan18

This is so bad. All the actors are awful. The white girl isn't half bad, but that might be cos black girl and the two males are so bad she stands out for being not awful.

All 4 of them though don't convince me they could last 2 hours in a zombie apocalypse

Sudden Valley

bazz26 wrote: »

You haven't seen Fear S6E1 yet then? Another episode centered around Morgan. Lennie James must have some amount of dirt on the producers to keep getting these centre stories.

Its sad how all the original actors have been side-lined at the feet of Morgan. What do they think he is a new Darryl?

fritzelly

Was really hoping they would kill off Morgan last season but nope he's front and center again - cannot stand the character

fritzelly

Good bit more zombie action (not saying much considering the whole 5 mins that there are zombies on screen) but sorry the trials and tribulations of teenagers is not doing it for me (even the zombie kills were all a bit meh)

Forget the kids and just focus on the Republic - that's the story we need

edit to say - just checking the reviews and they are terrible

NUTZZ

It'a truly an awful show. The cast are so poor, really poor actors and very unlikeable. And I don't know why but it's really grinding on me that they're using the term 'empties', I feel like we didn't need another name.

The fact that this is 10 years after the outbreak, and they're only learning how to kill walkers now, and seem so shocked to see one up close, just feels so repetitive and unnatural. I get they're supposed to have lived this 'sheltered' life in this new world but it still seems a tad unrealistic how they're viewing them now, all this time later.

bazz26

I'm surprised these snowflake characters could survive 10 years after the fall of TikTok and Snapchat, not to mind the zombie apocalypse.

titan18

Your one reading the poem out in the middle of that episode nearly broke me. God, I hope she dies

Washout

this is so so bad i cant stop watching it to see how they die.
There isnt a single character that I am rooting for

ejmaztec

They should have recruited the kids in Stranger Things, a better job would have been made of it, and at least none of them needed to lose a couple of stone.

I'm still looking forward to the next episode though, you can never have too much teenage angst.

I'm also intrigued by the "Butcher's Apron" hanging on the wall of the psycho woman's office, and wonder if the Brits are reclaiming the Empire after the Zombies took out the competition

mooreman09

Possibly the worst tv ever made. I'm literally watching because I want them all to die.

Truly awful characters.

Genuinely, hilariously bad TV.

Agent Coulson

The series really should have been build around Julia Ormond and the CRM.

gmisk

Agent Coulson wrote: »

The series really should have been build around Julia Ormond and the CRM.

Building a show around the one person in the entire show who can act might have helped alright...

bazz26

Another drawn out and pointless back story this week. I'd stop watching this only for the lock down.

ejmaztec

All the visits to the pie shops on their trek must have been cut out of each episode, or one of them's got a secret stash of pies and is keeping it from the others.

The secret pie eater will be the only one arriving at the destination, as the rest of them will all have died from malnutrition and exhaustion.

All the episodes seem to be 99.99% resting, waffle and walking, with the only interesting bit being the 15 seconds at the end.

bazz26

Agreed, you can just fast forward to the post credits scene at the end of each episode and you would be better off.

The Continental Op

Good, I glad to see I'm not the only one not taking this series seriously. After each episode I think "so what" really don't see where its going and there is no real story in the trip. The episode where they made the boat motor was just absurd.

pjohnson

The best part is this is set at the same time as the main show. The main show has/had teens/pre-teens like Judith, Henry, Enid and Lydia whereas THIS is the teens this show has to offer :pac:

khaldrogo

The acting from that Iris girl is so bad it's actually jarring. The rest aren't too bad.

The entire groups aversion to killed the walkers is a bit silly too. OK, they have been safe inside the college for years but surely they understand the danger and the need to kill the danger?

What's with Hopes wig??

ejmaztec

7 and 8, two more episodes that haven't advanced anything during this long stroll. The zombies never seem to be much of a threat, and this is probably down to the them not sensing much of a meal out of the dozen or so brain cells the group have between them.

I'm now wondering if any progress will be made at all before the credits roll on the final episode of the series, or whether or not the writers have actually decided where it's going.

It might get nowhere, and then get cancelled thanks to the abuse on IMDB, and disappear into oblivion.

fritzelly

Can't see the second season happening but it is AMC...

bazz26

It really is pointless stuff. More dire flashback stories to dire characters.

Washout

OMG can this show get any worse

it is making zero sense to me.

Nigel Fairservice

How are they still even alive? They have spear like weapons to strike the head from a relatively safe distance yet they insist on simply pushing back the zombies if they ever engage with them.

And whats with the young fella in the corduroy suit carting around every bag he can lay his hands on? Surely mobility is key!

fritzelly

The only interesting bits of the series have been the Republic - a series on them and even less zombies would have been far better than this pile of crap could ever aspire to

mooreman09

I watched the last two episodes today. They were ok, at least kind of interesting. Lord ****ing God though, is it a woeful series. It has no idea what its doing. Complete mess. The characters are hopeless and annoying.

Iris is terrible, Buck is OK, Elton is terrible, Silus is horrendous, Hope is at least good looking, Felix is weak and all the secondary characters are embarrassing.

Still, I watched it all.

Christ, I'm an eejit...

bazz26

That guy Elton I think, who looks like Frodo from LOTR really annoys me.

expectationlost

this is back

bazz26

S2 is 3 episodes in and it's still dire and pointless stuff.

bazz26

So Jadis finally turns up in Ep6. Unsurprisingly she gives away very little about the last 6 years other than she has rose up through the ranks of the CRM as a reward for giving them something valuable, i.e. presuming that's a reference to Rick.

pjohnson

Well since Jadis has arrived the show finally seems to have a decent direction.

The first 3/4 of the series was gack.