Strolling Lifeless: World Past Overview: Second Spinoff Is Undead on Arrival

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Once I talked about to a colleague that I’d simply watched the premiere of AMC’s second spinoff of The Walking Dead, World Beyond, he requested only one query: “Do you assume there’s an viewers for it?” And I needed to admit, I do.

The collection, which follows teenage sisters Iris (Aliyah Royale) and Hope (Alexa Mansour) as they trek from Nebraska to New York in quest of their scientist father, might be excellent for youthful viewers who’re extra considering rising pains than zombie bites. It even has in shady CRM chief Elizabeth (Julia Ormond) an ideal stand-in for the final word JV antagonist, The Starvation Video games’ President Snow.

the-walking-dead-world-beyond-review-amc spinoff crmHowever do I just like the present (which kicks off Sunday, Oct. 4, at 10/9c)? Primarily based on the primary episode, God, no. The siblings and their man friends are yin and yang stereotypes written in what the youngsters in The Breakfast Membership would’ve dimissed as “the only phrases.” Future conflicts and revelations are telegraphed with all of the subtlety of pianos being dropped on our heads. And on the finish of the hour, I simply didn’t care what occurred to any of the primary characters.

That mentioned, sure, I’ll nonetheless watch. Groaning like a walker that’s gone too lengthy between meals, however I’ll, as a result of creators Scott M. Gimple and Matthew Negrete have shrewdly constructed into the restricted collection the promise of tantalizing intel about CRM, the enigmatic group that has in its possession not solely Iris and Hope’s dad however The Strolling Lifeless’s Rick Grimes and Concern the Strolling Lifeless’s Isabelle.

Will I like it, although? I think not. These of us who tune in to the opposite two exhibits within the franchise have already been right here, seen this — and we’ve seen it carried out with larger artfulness, efficacy and urgency. Including this third collection to the rotation, even quickly, feels greater than slightly bit like beating an undead horse.

THE TVLINE BOTTOM LINE: Earnest and superficial, World Past is a bland reminder which you can’t spell zombie with out zzz’s.

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