Konsekans

No, I think you'll find last season was your final season. No one's going to be watching this after suffering through that ambling cold mess.

So more convoluted illogical, plot armor 'action' (using the word action here to mean 'things that happened', rather than something interesting and exciting), more terrible script, acting, setups, characters, no one likeable, no one watchable, nothing of interest to keep us engaged.

Pluses - The hair and makeup budget got increased.

Minuses - Hair and makeup budget got increased, so they have beautiful luxuriant hair, while traveling, in a zombie universe. Convincing.

Six weeks ago, the CRM leads an unimaginably large herd to Omaha and destroys the walls, letting the herd overrun the city and then doing the same thing to the Campus Colony a few days later; Kublek tells Frank Newton that this is only just the beginning of their plans. In the present, Kublek takes Hope to the ruins of Albany where she reveals the destruction of Omaha and the Campus Colony. Unwilling to risk bringing Hope to the research facility, Kublek releases Hope into the city to make a choice between trying to survive on her own and working with the CRM towards a future.

After being cornered by a herd, suffering a concussion and hallucinations, Hope agrees to work with the CRM, but privately admits to Huck that while she now believes in working towards a future, she will not help the CRM create one; Hope is reunited with her father at long last. Huck lies to her mother about the Endlings' degree of knowledge to protect them and offers a solution for dealing with the imprisoned Silas. Will reveals to Felix and Iris the destruction of their home and how he was targeted for execution for asking too many questions. Will leads them to the Perimeter, an artist's colony with a neutrality agreement with the CRM and warns that they must prepare for the long game against them. Haunted by nightmares of a walker with a CRM helmet under its face, Iris realizes that the CRM destroyed her home and ambushes and kills a patrolling soldier in revenge.

The first episode of the second - and final - season of TWD: World Beyond, titled "Konsekans" showed the "consequences" of what happened in the previous episode, where the characters are, and presents a medi*cre episode, with several positive points but also showing the fragility of the plot development in certain points.

It all begins with a flashback from six weeks ago, showing what Elizabeth (Julia Ormond) and the CRM actually caused in the Campus Colony. Perhaps the biggest surprise here was that they destroyed not only the Campus but also the entire city of Omaha and its 100,000 inhabitants. This significantly raises the threat level of this organization that ironically preaches a bright future for all humanity.

Still on Elizabeth, she creates a whole new trap to confirm Hope's (Alexa Mansour) intentions towards the CRM and throws her into one of the episode's negatives. This plot of betraying and deceiving someone in search of loyalty is very hard to swallow and is almost an attempt by the series to bring more action and conflict - but in a very clumsy way.

Her entire sequence in "Konsekans" has an interesting purpose, but is carried out in an almost monotonous way, ignoring the continuity error in the scene where she hits her head, which would be impossible the way it was done. Her hallucinations represent the fierce side that can develop when one is alone in the world, which makes her turn to Elizabeth and Huck (Annet Mahendru) since they are her best chance of survival.

Elizabeth and Huck are another strong point of the plot, which, according to the showrunner and writer of this episode, Matt Negrete, will be one of the driving forces of the season: the mother-daughter relationship of both. The lieutenant's entire plan in this episode was not only focused on Hope, but also on confirming which side her daughter's loyalty was on. But as shown in the end, Huck cannot be categorized as a villain or a hero, she is in a pleasing shade of gray that categorizes the spirit of The Walking Dead very well.

Speaking of Iris (Aliyah Royale) and Felix (Nico Tortorella), they are finally informed by Will (Jelani Alladin) about what happened in their homes and we are all introduced to a new community: The Perimeter, led by the still little-known Indira (Anna Khaja). The Perimeter is a rural community that maintains a deal with the CRM, a deal that keeps them off the radar while promising to "not bother" the military. This smells like a possible future betrayal, doesn't it?

Iris here has an interesting evolution. Once again, like in the first season, she is haunted by a nightmare. Here she sees herself ripping the face off one of the empties, which turns out, at the end of the episode, to be an intuition - which is almost turning into a special ability. Upon realizing that the CRM is behind the destruction of Omaha, Iris seeks revenge and ends up killing her first human: a CRM officer.

In the end, Hope finally reunites with her father. Apparently, Leo (Joe Holt) is alive and well, which makes Dr. Lyla's (Natalie Gold) monologue at the end of last season's finale even stranger, as she was talking to Leo, who was apparently imprisoned. But now we have to wait for something to happen to explain what that was all about. A scene from the future? This episode played around with timelines a bit, with scenes intercutting and starting in the "future" and then going back to the current point.

Silas (Hal Cumpston), Elton (Nicolas Cantu), and Percy (Ted Sutherland) do not appear in "Konsekans," but in the season teaser, they are shown in action-packed scenes. Just like Jadis (Pollyanna McIntosh), whom we are already eager to know what her role will be in all of this.

With a very interesting season start, TWD: World Beyond sets off on its path towards its grand finale, putting its characters on increasingly dense and irreversible paths.

The only thing holding back this episode is the slow pace really. A season premiere is supposed to include all main characters and also introduce/progress the storylines of the season. This did nothing Of that sort. It's just pure filler.

Maybe if season 1 started at this level and maintained it, you could chalk it up to a warm up season

But after so much online critiques, it looks like the writers are deaf. Because this is barely passable.

More nonsense about characters you don't care about. So much bad kid acting. Even actors that shined in other movies and tv shows are bleak in this show. Cut and dream sequences are pure nonsense garbage that don't propel the show or the character.

I guess Fear the walking dead is the only zombie show worth watching now as the original show is coming to a close.

Season 2 already seems to be darker, and a major improvement over the first season. Both Hope and Iris are starting to become a lot more interesting as Elizabeth and the CRM get more focus in the final season.