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- 1. Brave Oct 4, 2020
- On the eve of a celebration, an unexpected message upends Iris and Hope's world view.
- 2. The Blaze of Gory Oct 11, 2020
- Hope and Iris disagree on the mission; Felix and Huck pursue the group as Felix confronts his past.
- 3. The Tyger and the Lamb Oct 18, 2020
- In the face of a massive obstacle, the teens face pressure to return home.
Oct 4, 2020 · A clunky, exposition-filled premiere ends with an open road, and a lot of promise ahead. A recap of ‘Brave,’ the series premiere of the new Walking Dead spinoff World Beyond, episode 1 of ...
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"Brave" is the first episode of the first season of AMC's The Walking Dead: World Beyond. It is the first episode of the series overall. It was written by Scott Gimple & Matt Negrete and directed by Magnus Martens. Iris Bennett welcomes an enigmatic ally to their community while Hope Bennett questions the visitor's motives. A message upends the sisters' worldview, forcing them to decide ...
Oct 5, 2020 · Brooding Hope (Alexa Mansour) is more rebellious, at least at first; as the series gets going, she stows away on a bus sent to welcome the Civil Republic Military’s Lt. Col. Elizabeth Kublek ...
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By Matt Fowler
Updated: Oct 19, 2020 1:14 am
Posted: Oct 5, 2020 3:20 am
Warning: This review contains spoilers for The Walking Dead: World Beyond episode 1. For more Walking Dead, read our review of the Season 10 finale, "A Certain Doom" and our review of The Walking Dead: World Beyond episode 2. We won't be doing weekly reviews beyond episode 2, but we'll check back in with The Walking Dead: World Beyond at the end of the season for a full season review.
When Fear the Walking Dead first started, there were a few concerns about its story centering on a family since, well... TV teens can be the worst.
Whether it's the way they're (usually) written, or the fact that teens, in general, tend to not consider consequences or concerns outside of their own short-sighted needs, Walking Dead fans were worried about the show possibly falling into lazy pitfalls of teenage self-centeredness in the middle of a zompocalypse. Even mothership The Walking Dead, which has a majority adult cast, has frustrated viewers with its teens - from Carl to Henry to Lydia to the Hilltop bozos.
The rest of "Brave," sadly, is a bit of a trudge. It establishes the emotional stakes, for sure, but it's super dry. We're given a very drawn out lay of the land and a languid look at the lives these characters inhabit inside a "new normal" community that offers food, education, and a long list of creature comforts we've never seen on the other two shows.
Iris, Hope, orphaned Elton (Nicolas Cantu), and outcast Silas (Hal Cumpston) - the latter two tagging along with the sisters on their journey - never had to experience the day-to-day awfulness that exists beyond their walls and now they're abandoning it for... personal growth? Well, the sisters are on a mission. They get a pass. An alarming message from their dad leads them to believe he's in danger so they're going to walk over a thousand miles to find him. The other two? Well, they may have nothing to lose, and no family to care for them, but their motivations for venturing out are a bit under-addressed here.
A balance needs to be struck in "Brave," between establishing the colony and introducing us to the characters, and it doesn't quite land. We spend way too much time moping around a community that, by the end of the episode, no longer exists. While it can be fun to peek inside writers' ideas of what people would do a decade into a zombie takeover, we wind up ultimately too immersed in something that gets quickly obliterated. It's hopeful to think that now because Iris, Hope, and the others (including Nico Tortorella and Annet Mahendru's caring, persistent security officers) are outside the walls and trekking into the harsh walker-filled wilderness (they're called "Empties" on this show), things might get a bit more ferocious. Because there's a lot on the line here. There's a "cure" in the works.
Yup, that's right. World Beyond introduces something to the franchise that the comic series never dared concern itself with. A possible cure for the zombie plague. It's something that hasn't been part of the dialogue since The Walking Dead teased it during its Season 1 off-comics trip to the CDC. In World Beyond, Iris and Hope's dad is supposedly working on it. But something nefarious is afoot. What could it be? And what does it have to do with Rick Grimes? How does he fit into any of this? Will he even factor into this series during its two seasons? There are many intriguing possibilities to consider, though it's also likely none of them will come to pass.
The performers are all great and believable; Julia Ormond is fun as the primary antagonist (for now), and the premise holds both big ideas and exciting potential. Based on the flashbacks we've seen from both Iris and Hope's points of view during the day their world came crashing down and the zombie plague destroyed the world, there's a confrontation on the horizon based on Elton's mom killing Hope and Iris' mom and then young Hope killing Elton's mom. We don't know how it'll come up, but it will. Hopefully, it won't feel too forced and the characters won't react in unbelievable ways. It's an interesting layer, but the fact that it's being treated like a time bomb for the group feels a little tired.
Also, we certainly don't need to read anything into Ormond's character being English. It's easy enough to explain and, also, it doesn't have to be a big deal. But, if we're still theorizing about reasons why Rick Grimes never came home (because the movies are going to have to come up with really good reason), we can fall back on the idea that he got taken overseas to the U.K. and that the Civic Republic somehow spans across the pond.
World Beyond's premiere doesn't really flash its fangs until the closing beats, when it adds a huge extra layer of danger to the teens' trek. Until that point, it's a likable-enough exploration of a generation that grew up in an apocalypse. As an entry point episode for a decade-long franchise spinoff, though, it meanders too much and lacks energy.
The Walking Dead: World Beyond Episode 1. Growing up is never easy, but growing up in a world where safety is clustering behind walls with a few hundred other people and visiting the next town ...
October 17, 2020. 46min. TV-MA. Burdened by their pasts, members of the group adopt opposing strategies for dealing with a massive obstacle. Pressure is put on the group to return home. Store Filled. Subscribe to AMC+ or Shudder or purchase. Watch with AMC+. Buy HD $2.99.
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Oct 5, 2020 · Sisters Iris and Hope learn that the Civic Republic cannot be trusted and venture to find their father in The Walking Dead: World Beyond Episode 1. Episode 1 of The Walking Dead: World Beyond Episode 1 begins with Iris having a nightmare that she is a walker or as this show calls them “empties”.
