My First Impressions Of The Walking Dead: World Beyond

 

Fans of The Walking Dead TV series or comic book as you might recall a few days ago I took a look at the debut episodes to both Fear The Walking Dead and The Walking Dead TV series. Well what you might not have known is that I was doing it for a reason and that's because I was planning on covering the debut episode of the new walking dead spin off TV series The Walking Dead: World Beyond and while I was very much planning on covering this early Monday morning like the main show this episode has been released early and so here are my first impressions of The Walking Dead: World Beyond enjoy everyone.

The plot of this episode which for those that don't know is called brave is sisters Iris and Hope Bennett find there world turned upside down when they find out that there scientist father might be danger and so the sisters and some allies are forced to step foot into the zombie filled world for the first time in there lives. In my opinion the plot for the episode is it's weakest aspect just because not only does it take a while for it to really get going but when it does get going the plot is so thin that it might as well not even be there.

Starring in this episode and thus the rest of the series is Aliyah Royale as Iris Bennett and Alexa Mansour as Hope Bennett. Also starring in this episode and thus the rest of the series is Hal Cumpston as Silas Plaskett , Nicolas Cantu as Elton Ortiz , Nico Tortorella as Felix Carlucci , Annet Mahendru as Huck , Julia Ormond as Elizabeth Kublek , Joe Holt as Leopold Bennett , Beth Leavel as Dr. K and Christina Marie Karis as Kari Bennett.

The acting is one of the episodes strongest aspects in my opinion which really isn't saying that much since the acting seen in this episode is the kind of acting you'd expect to see in a teen drama airing on The CW. In that the acting is pretty over the top at times which really doesn't work with the world that this show and franchise is set in but I will give the actors this they are at least trying to make the script work it's just a shame they really can't make the script work.

Timeline wise i'd say that this show is set either ten years after The Walking Dead's final season or it's set either during or after season ten of The Walking Dead. Which means that this series is basically a sequel series since we now at least ten years into the zombie apocalypse and as such it really is hard to pin point exactly when this show takes place however I will say that producing a show that follows the first group of kids to have been fully raised in the zombie apocalypse is a solid idea.

What isn't a solid idea however is not only making the episode available just a few days before it's due to air on TV but also making a pretty dull first episode. Your debut episode is your first chance to really impress people and to get them hooked but you can't really do that if your episode is really dull to watch which is sadly the case here luckily this show is lasting two seasons otherwise I could've seen this show not even lasting one season.

This series was due to start airing on April 12th 2020 airing just after the season 10 finale of The Walking Dead. However for some reason the premier was delayed and I honestly have no idea why since all the episodes were finished and so all they had to do was air them and yet for some reason AMC who are airing the show decided to delay airing the series until October 4th 2020 which to me makes no sense since there were alot more people at home back in April and so the show could have drawn some really huge numbers since it's not only new content but it's also a spin off to a still pretty popular TV show and comic book franchise.

Even tho this show is still classed a horror show I personally think that this is more of a YA (young adult) type of show. Since it looks like alot of those really bad young adult movies from the mid to late 2000's which to me makes the show look cheap and hell there's even alot of teen drama in this episode which adds nothing to thew overall episode but is there for reasons and that's really it and that's not good enough since the drama doesn't effect the episode nor does it effect the characters in anyway shape or form it's just there as a vain attempt to attract a younger audience which really isn't a good enough reason to have this kind of drama in your show in my opinion.

Out of all three Walking Dead pilots (Fear The Walking and The Walking Dead are the other two incase you didn't know) that i've seen this one is the shortest clocking in at fifty three minuets long. Which while it does make it easier to sit through it also means that alot of the episode plot points feel rushed because there now rushing to get the characters to were they want them to go before the end of the episode instead of taking there time in getting them there at a more naturel pace but that's just what I think anyways.

It also means that we don't get to spend that much time with the characters before the events of this episode really start to take effect. Since when the episode starts one of the characters has already put plans in motion to leave and see the world as such we don't get to feel anything for our characters by the end of the episode and this is something that could have been fixed if the episode was a little bit longer since then we could get to know what the characters are like and hopefully start to care about them but we are not really given the chance to do so.

 I would very much like to talk about the scares in this episode however the episode chose to help me out and not include any. Which honestly i'm in two minds about since on the one hand it makes sense that the characters would be used to seeing zombies at this point and so they wouldn't be scared by them but on the other hand this is still a horror show and as such it is kind of expected that you at least try to scare people even if it's just a jump scare.

Overall I can't really say that this was a good first impression because it really wasn't but on the other hand i've seen worse debut episodes before. All of the problems that i've had with this episode i've talked about in this post and for a debut episode to get so many fundamental things wrong is not a good sign at all as such I cannot say if i'll be watching more of this series i'll most likely check out episode but from there who knows and i'm not giving this a rating since the show has only just premiered and I don't like to give ratings out for debut episodes and incase your wondering you can watch this episode right now on AMC+ which is AMC's premium on-demand service and all the episodes will be released on there three days before they air on MAC which if you ask me is a very bad move indeed but that's just what I think.

All of the images that I used in this review were gathered from either Google Images or the official The Walking Dead fandom wiki page. I actually cannot say which is the best website to use for images from either this show or this episode since there both pretty much the same when it comes to the quality of the image but if you want very high quality images from anything to do with The Walking Dead then I highly recommend that you use the official The Walking Dead fandom wiki page and as perusal horror fans we end this post as we always do with our true goddess Elvira wishing us all some very unpleasant dreams.