We're in the tenth season of The Walking Dead. During the first five seasons, Rick and his ragtag band of acolytes kept stumbling across communities of zombie apocalypse survivors and destroying them. Then they jumped the shark...um, I mean moved to the gated community of Alexandria, which they have spent five seasons defending from people who want to destroy it.
We've finished with five seasons of Fear the Walking Dead, which started with the experiences of a family during the first days of the zombie Apocalyse, then killed off almost all of the original characters, jumped the shark...um, I mean jumped into the future, and turned into the Happy Friends Good Deed Club.
Are we about ready for the story to end?
That's the promise of The Walking Dead: The World Beyond, a two-year limited series which will premiere in April 2020, and usher the other series to their respective conclusions.
From a few articles, I gather that it is set ten years after the apocalypse (which is actually the same point in time as the other two series), and stars four teenagers who have lived in a safe community at Nebraska State University since the beginning. The trailer depicts it as well organized and probably totalitarian, with weird symbols, helicopters, karate classes, soccer games, and even school proms, run by a scary Ayn Rand sort. Sort of like the future dystopias of a lot of young adult novels.
These future dystopia kids have never known the deprivation of the apocalypse. They've never had to fight a zombie. They're fresh-scrubbed and well-dressed (one boy in a cute leisure suit), and smiling.
In the trailer, they set out on their own, into the wide world, to look for the new settlement that one of their fathers has started. They are attacked by zombies and humans, and are pursued by "people who want to help them and people who want to hurt them."
Is it worth watching?
1. Any Beefcake?
Not a lot of beefcake potential. Two of the kids are girls, and the other two are not quite teen idols yet. From left to right:
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1. Silas (Hal Cumpston)
2. Hope (Alexa Mansur)
2. Elton (Nicolas Cantu, age 16). I like his post-Apocalyptic leisure suit.
3. Silas (Hal Cumpston, age 21)
4. Iris (Aliyah Royale).
Well, maybe Hal, if he cuts his hair.
The two people tracking them are Elizabeth (Julia Ormond) and Felix (Nico Tortorella).
I see that there are still no last names, even in a well-organized community with hundreds, maybe thousands of residents. The writers must have a whole shelf-full of baby name books.
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2. Any Gay Potential?
The 1-minute long trailer contained two heteronormative scenes: Elton holds hands with one of the girls, and Silas dances with the other at a prom. I'm assuming that they are two hetero-romantic couples. Not a very promising start.
But Nico Tortella, who identifies as nonbinary in real life, just announced thathis character Felix is gay. And a good guy: “Felix is a great dude. No, Felix is smart, Felix is the most loyal. Felix is the protector of this crew.”
He's the adopted son of the head of Nebraska State University, who founded the safe community, and he ended up adopting the two girls as his "sisters."
I'm stoked. Hopefully he's not just "saying the word" gay, he'll actually date someone before the two years are up.
We've finished with five seasons of Fear the Walking Dead, which started with the experiences of a family during the first days of the zombie Apocalyse, then killed off almost all of the original characters, jumped the shark...um, I mean jumped into the future, and turned into the Happy Friends Good Deed Club.
Are we about ready for the story to end?
That's the promise of The Walking Dead: The World Beyond, a two-year limited series which will premiere in April 2020, and usher the other series to their respective conclusions.
From a few articles, I gather that it is set ten years after the apocalypse (which is actually the same point in time as the other two series), and stars four teenagers who have lived in a safe community at Nebraska State University since the beginning. The trailer depicts it as well organized and probably totalitarian, with weird symbols, helicopters, karate classes, soccer games, and even school proms, run by a scary Ayn Rand sort. Sort of like the future dystopias of a lot of young adult novels.
These future dystopia kids have never known the deprivation of the apocalypse. They've never had to fight a zombie. They're fresh-scrubbed and well-dressed (one boy in a cute leisure suit), and smiling.
In the trailer, they set out on their own, into the wide world, to look for the new settlement that one of their fathers has started. They are attacked by zombies and humans, and are pursued by "people who want to help them and people who want to hurt them."
Is it worth watching?
1. Any Beefcake?
Not a lot of beefcake potential. Two of the kids are girls, and the other two are not quite teen idols yet. From left to right:
.
1. Silas (Hal Cumpston)
2. Hope (Alexa Mansur)
2. Elton (Nicolas Cantu, age 16). I like his post-Apocalyptic leisure suit.
3. Silas (Hal Cumpston, age 21)
4. Iris (Aliyah Royale).
Well, maybe Hal, if he cuts his hair.
The two people tracking them are Elizabeth (Julia Ormond) and Felix (Nico Tortorella).
I see that there are still no last names, even in a well-organized community with hundreds, maybe thousands of residents. The writers must have a whole shelf-full of baby name books.
Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.
2. Any Gay Potential?The 1-minute long trailer contained two heteronormative scenes: Elton holds hands with one of the girls, and Silas dances with the other at a prom. I'm assuming that they are two hetero-romantic couples. Not a very promising start.
But Nico Tortella, who identifies as nonbinary in real life, just announced thathis character Felix is gay. And a good guy: “Felix is a great dude. No, Felix is smart, Felix is the most loyal. Felix is the protector of this crew.”
He's the adopted son of the head of Nebraska State University, who founded the safe community, and he ended up adopting the two girls as his "sisters."
I'm stoked. Hopefully he's not just "saying the word" gay, he'll actually date someone before the two years are up.