The Walking Dead: World Beyond – Season 2


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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.

You know what’s wild? They had a whole extra season to fix things—and somehow made it worse.

Season 1 was boring. Season 2 is pointless. Every storyline is stretched thin. Every emotional beat is milked dry. And the biggest sin? They fumbled the entire CRM plotline. Again.

Jadis is back, but now she’s “officially scary” because she talks slower and wears a uniform. The CRM is still evil, still vague, and still operating on what I call “comic book villain logic.” And the teenage protagonists? Still monologuing like they’re auditioning for a school play called The End of the World (but Make It Whiny).


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📖 Plot Rundown (No Spoilers):

The season kicks off with the group separated: Hope is at the CRM science facility, Iris is out in the wild trying to start a rebellion, and Silas is stuck being “recruited” into the CRM military machine.

Hope is supposed to work with her dad on science stuff (don’t worry, they never explain what exactly), but she spends most of her time arguing with people, doubting herself, and walking through sterile hallways dramatically.

Meanwhile, Iris is trying to take down the CRM from the outside. She has no plan. Just vibes and speeches. The CRM is doing secret experiments on people and trying to perfect walker weaponization. Leo (the dad) realizes this late and is like, “Wait a minute… these people seem evil.” Oh, now you get it?

Eventually, everything leads to a big uprising, some betrayals, a couple of deaths, and the CRM getting punched in the face by a C-plot resistance group.


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👥 Character Rundown:

Hope Bennett – Now inside the CRM but still has no idea what she’s doing. Every episode is her staring at things like she’s deep in thought. Girl, do something.

Iris Bennett – Self-appointed leader of the resistance. Has no experience, no plan, and keeps giving motivational speeches like she’s hosting Apocalypse TEDx.

Elton Ortiz – Wanders around wearing a suit again. Still talks in philosophy quotes. Ends up wounded and mostly irrelevant.

Silas Plaskett – Best character, still dragged through hell. Gets recruited into CRM ranks and ends up being used like a pawn. Somehow still has more dignity than anyone else.

Dr. Leo Bennett – The dad. Big brain. No spine. Finally realizes the CRM is evil about 10 episodes too late.

Jadis (Pollyanna McIntosh) – Upgraded to main villain. Same weird cadence. Same bowl cut. Now with a CRM badge and the power to kill people with paperwork. Still boring.

Huck (Jennifer Mallick) – Turns on CRM, helps the kids, dies for it. Her redemption arc is rushed and unearned.

CRM – A military dictatorship that’s somehow both all-powerful and extremely easy to sabotage by four teenagers and a few bombs.



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✅ Pros:

It ends

Silas still deserves better

The CRM stuff could’ve been cool if explained properly

Jadis finally gets clocked in the face (emotionally and literally)



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❌ Cons:

Still too much talking, not enough action

Hope and Iris remain aggressively unlikable

The CRM is still written like a discount S.H.I.E.L.D. villain agency

The science plot goes absolutely nowhere

Huck’s death is rushed

The resistance plot is barely a plot

Jadis as the villain is somehow both over-the-top and forgettable

Zero tension, zero stakes, zero payoff



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💭 Final Thoughts:

Season 2 had one job: make Season 1 worth it. Instead, it just confirmed that this whole show was filler.

The CRM remains the worst-developed faction in the franchise. Their whole philosophy is “kill civilians now so they don’t become a problem later,” which sounds edgy until you realize it’s just lazy writing with no nuance.

Hope and Iris are supposed to be this generation’s Rick and Michonne—but they’re more like fanfic versions written by someone who never watched the original show.

And even though Jadis is technically important to the future of the franchise, her arc here is so half-baked it’s like the writers themselves didn’t know what to do with her beyond “just be evil and weird.”

By the time it ends, nothing really matters. The CRM facility is destroyed. The resistance wins. Everyone goes their separate ways. The few decent ideas are buried under 10 hours of pointless teen drama and monologues about morality.


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⭐ Rating: 2.5/10


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


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Jadis turns full villain, enforcing CRM policies and killing anyone who questions the system. She clashes with Huck, who has turned on the CRM.

Huck dies trying to stop a walker experiment and buy the group time. The show acts like it’s tragic, but the writing doesn’t earn it.

Leo and Hope eventually sabotage CRM science labs.

Iris helps launch an attack from the outside, linking up with a small rebel force to bomb the facility. Of course it works—CRM soldiers are apparently allergic to plot armor.

The CRM facility is destroyed. They try to act like this is a major blow to the organization, but let’s be real—they’ve got bases everywhere. This was like knocking over one evil Starbucks.

Jadis escapes, because of course she does. She vanishes offscreen, which sets her up to reappear later in The Ones Who Live.

Silas gets caught but instead of being executed, he’s weirdly promoted. He’s now part of the CRM’s soldier program and could be used again in future spinoffs. Yay, I guess?

And that mysterious post-credit scene in France? Yeah, that’s the “fast zombies” tease. New variant. New direction. It’s supposed to be groundbreaking. It’s just a cheap attempt to stay relevant.