The Walking Dead World Beyond Season 1

The Walking Dead: World Beyond – Season 1

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🎞️ Let’s start by showing y’all the trailers, shall we?

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🧠 Now before we dive into anything… let’s talk about how dumb this show is.

This show feels like AMC said, “What if The Walking Dead, but everyone’s a teenager having an identity crisis?”

It’s like they threw The 100, Riverdale, and zombie leftovers into a blender and hit melodrama puree. You get endless whining, bad decisions, and deeply unearned speeches about trauma, science, and “hope”—because of course they named a character Hope and expected that to carry weight.

This isn’t a zombie survival show. It’s a road trip diary where no one knows how to shut up.

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📖 Plot Rundown (No Spoilers):

We’re 10 years into the apocalypse, and we meet four teens from the “Campus Colony” (part of the Alliance of the Three—more on that later). There’s Iris and Hope Bennett, siblings with Daddy issues. Their scientist father, Leo Bennett, is off working for the mysterious CRM. The CRM sends a message that he’s in danger, and instead of doing literally anything logical, these four teens sneak out and go on a cross-country journey to find him.

Along the way, they face walkers (barely), emotional baggage (constantly), and adults who are either shady, lying, or too dumb to stop them. One of their guardians, Huck, is secretly working for the CRM—and the show really thinks that twist lands.

All of this is supposed to build tension. Instead, it builds migraines.

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👥 Character Rundown:

Hope Bennett – Rebellious “edgy” sister. Talks back a lot. Supposed to be the smart one. Makes horrible decisions like it’s her life mission.

Iris Bennett – The “leader.” Cares too much. Overthinks everything. Gives speeches like she’s running for prom queen in the apocalypse.

Elton Ortiz – Wears a suit in the zombie wasteland. Obsessed with philosophy. Accidentally makes everything worse.

Silas Plaskett – Giant with a gentle soul and violent backstory. Easily the best one here but dragged down by the people around him.

Felix – Adult security officer who follows them. Deserves a raise for putting up with these clowns.

Huck (Jennifer Mallick) – Acts like the cool aunt, turns out to be CRM spy. Twist is predictable. Her scar backstory is supposed to be tragic. It’s… not.

CRM – Still shady. Still confusing. They want Hope for… reasons. Something about future leadership and science. Also they may or may not be conducting walker experiments.

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✅ Pros:

The CRM worldbuilding is kinda interesting

Felix is okay when he’s not being gaslit by teenagers

Some walker designs are solid (when they actually show up)

The soundtrack isn’t terrible?

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❌ Cons:

Whiny teen dialogue nonstop

Iris and Hope talk in riddles like they’re in a YA novel

Silas has a good backstory but it gets buried under drama

Walkers are barely a threat

Too much talking, not enough surviving

The twist with Huck is obvious from episode 2

Characters act dumb and still think they’re deep

This isn’t a show—it’s a CW therapy session with mild gore

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💭 Final Thoughts:

World Beyond tried to be the next generation of The Walking Dead… and failed spectacularly. It wanted to be poetic and philosophical, but ended up as an angsty teenage mess with no bite.

The CRM stuff could’ve been cool if they had focused more on the science, the military, or the moral gray areas. But instead, they gave us Hope crying in cornfields, Elton waxing poetic about meteors, and Iris trying to be Katniss with the personality of a potato.

Even the action scenes feel like afterthoughts—like, “Oh right, walkers still exist. Toss one in for the trailer.”

There is potential buried deep under all this sludge. But it’s trapped beneath five layers of melodrama, inconsistent pacing, and kids monologuing about trauma like they just took Psych 101.

Final Thoughts This show feels like a CW teen drama series, and that’s not a good.

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⭐ Rating: 3/10

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⚠️ Spoiler Warning – Everything below this point is full of spoilers:

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So Hope? Yeah, CRM wanted her the whole time. Not Iris. Not the group. Just Hope. Apparently she’s got the kind of brain that’ll help humanity survive long-term or crack the walker code or… I don’t know, it’s all very vague.

And Huck? Surprise! She’s a spy planted by the CRM to escort Hope back without letting her know. She betrays the group, but still claims to care. The whole thing is weirdly low-stakes for being a “major reveal.”

In the finale, Hope is taken to a CRM science facility. Iris, Elton, and Silas get separated. Felix learns the truth and tries to rally allies.

But here’s the big kicker: CRM straight-up wipes out the Campus Colony offscreen. That’s right—genocide via helicopters. We never see it. Just “oops, your home’s gone.” The tone is disturbingly casual for something so massive.

Also, Silas turns himself in to protect the others and ends up captured.
Hope finally arrives at the CRM’s lab and meets her dad again—but under very controlled circumstances. No real emotion, no answers, just cold bureaucracy.