The Walking Dead universe is about to get larger next month with the premiere of its third series, The Walking Dead: World Beyond and early reviews are in. The limited series will take viewers on a path through the zombie apocalypse using a different look in terms of both setting and characters. It will focus on coming of age teenage sisters, Hope (Alexa Mansour) and Iris (Aaliyah Royale) living through the apocalypse.
It’s been a decade since the world collapsed around the sisters. Now as teenagers, they’ll have to figure out how to navigate through their reality. For now they live in a community walled off from the walkers. Or as this show calls them – “empties”. But a message from their scientist father prompted the two sisters to venture out into the world beyond their walls.
Early reviews started coming in last week. Though not all agree that this show reaches the same high marks as its predecessors, all seem to agree on the new show’s ambitious approach on the zombie apocalypse.
Here’s a few reviews on The Walking Dead: World Beyond.
“The world-building throughout the Walking Dead franchise has always been impressive — down to the abandoned buses, tattered houses and tumbleweed grounds — and World Beyond is no exception. This latest installment impressively pulls back the layers to show how even if you build around it, the decayed world is still in plain view. Still, World Beyond doesn’t offer audiences fresh ideas or even fascinating characters for which to root.” – Candice Frederick, TV Guide
“This is not a perfect series: The shots of the undead often look cheap and the rules of how these monsters are evaded have never felt more loosely applied. And yet there’s a willingness to reinvent, to genuinely probe a corner of the universe previously untouched, that makes this series feel serious in its intent and, for fans of the forerunning series, well worth checking out. Its willingness to place two young women at its center, and to make their emotional response to family upheaval the story of the apocalypse, shows a curiosity worth crediting.” – Daniel D’Addario, Variety
“The settlement feels rather undramatic and the zombies barely treated as a threat, with little of the creeping suspense permeating the original show. There’s some tension from the arrival of the ambiguous black-clad Civic Republic Military, an organization familiar to longtime Deadheads. But it’s not exactly nail-biting stuff, even when Hope and Iris set out beyond the safety of the town walls into meandering set pieces.” – Richard Trenholm, CNET
“If nothing else, World Beyond offers something different from the original show, and that’s a welcome difference. It’s a different world, and a different experience, in a different part of the former United States after a significant leap forward in time. In that sense, the show’s title serves multiple purposes.” – Ron Hogan, Den of Geek
“World Beyond is unlike any Walking Dead show coming before it: at their core, all three shows are about survival, but the new series from co-creators Scott M. Gimple and showrunner Matt Negrete is considerably grander in scope, though deeply intimate in terms of character — including a dark backstory that intertwines two characters, so far unbeknownst to them.” – Cameron Bonomolo, ComicBook
Let’s see what fans and viewers think once they see the show. The Walking Dead: World Beyond premieres October 4th on AMC. The Walking Dead flagship show returns the same date!
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