The Walking Dead: World Beyond

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.

A focus on younger, female characters buys “World Beyond” a somewhat fresh take initially but by the end of the first hour sisters Iris (Aliyah Royale) and Hope (Alexa Mansour) take off on a distaff “Stand by Me”-style quest to rescue their scientist father with two nerdy boys in tow.

There are so many obvious things wrong with World Beyond, AMC's bland Walking Dead spin-off for the youth. The main characters are nice, brilliant, and boring.

Nothing about it is essential, or even that interesting. Diehards might enjoy it, simply because it promises to deliver exactly the same stuff they’ve been watching for the last 10 years. Everyone else can safely give it a pass.

Those of us who tune in to the other two shows in the franchise have already been here, seen this — and we’ve seen it done with greater artfulness, efficacy and urgency. Adding this third series to the rotation, even temporarily, feels more than a little bit like beating an undead horse.

Spinoffs require runway and World Beyond, which has no direct narrative or character connections to The Walking Dead, has basically none. It just isn't very good.

It should come as no surprise that after 10 seasons of zombie apocalypse drama on The Walking Dead and five seasons following the same madness in a different location on its spinoff, Fear the Walking Dead, AMC further extended its doomed landscape into another era with The Walking Dead: World Beyond. Is it necessary? Absolutely not. Does it work? Meh, sometimes.

It takes itself far less seriously than the main series which is a nice change of pace. Despite this, it doesn’t skimp on emotional weight. It’s quite well balanced honestly.

[SPOILER ALERT: This review contains spoilers.]

After only one episode, I can't say for sure if this series will be good or if it'll flop. I'm cautiously optimistic. I don't totally disagree that aspects of this story (so far) have been told before in TWD/ Fear the Walking Dead, but it also seems like this show may provide some answers about the mysterious other people that have been briefly shown in the other two shows—which is very exciting. It also seems likely that this show will intersect with the others at some point as well. Looking forward to more!

This series was an attempt to combine a teen drama with zombies, but it failed in both respects. They should never have set it in the Walking Dead universe because that license is a well-established examination of the horrors that people render unto each other in times of crisis. They should never have chosen a family friendly, teen perspective for this world. The creators should have made an outright comedy-drama franchise in an unrelated zombie-infested world to check off their corporate product vision.

I'm just going to say it straight up this series is seriously bad! If you watched the original twd then this is nothing compared to this! It's a stupid show about stupid teenage kids that grew up in safety and then go out in the world. Judged by the world established in the original twd they would last 2 days. But they somehow have made it across several states without seeing any hords or seriously bad People like in the original twd! Their stupid plot armour keeps them out of trouble. AND 6 episodes in non can actually kill walkers. Even though there are now 2 adults with them they both don't seem taugh at all they can kill walkers but that's about it.