Nobody scared! There are statements that may seem too risky as The Walking Dead It can last forever … but the truth is that the second season of The Walking Dead: Dead City It is quite well justified and honors its purpose: it entertains and gives us great moments between the two protagonists, which are the main attraction of spin-off.
Additionally we have a new gallery of characters deployed around Lauren Cohan and Jeffrey Dean Morgan They have real points in the plot. So The series enjoys a script that risks, good interpretations and unexpected twists that make interest be maintained.
The big question: is it only for your most faithful audience? Yes, that the middle viewer considers that it enters the field of “Too Much p’a my body”, even though it awakens a huge curiosity to see how conflicts exposed here are resolved.
Since the mother series threw the curtain … in fact, from before, from the seventh season, when it was already as coral as it was unraveled by handling a three -track circus and it was impossible to develop all the plots of the characters in a single episode, it was clear that The spin-off formula could solve the problem and multiply the approaches giving more weight to the audience’s favorites.
With his pros and cons Dead City He introduced new walkers and a villain capable of generating energy from the corpses, which made Manhatan an electrical scenario, very attractive at the plastic level to compose schemes never seen before seen in this particular post -epocalyptic universe.
How to innovate in this new batch of episodes? There are very notable efforts to establish an interesting narrative and continue offering a show that differs from the rest with its own entity.
We temporarily moved in time six months after the outcome of the first season. Now, the heart of the argument is how to put the characters again in the mousetrap. For this it is essential to give them powerful personal motivations as well as seek a “dump of personalities.”
It is not just empathizing with his adversary/buying in an impossible and magnetic oxymoron but literally transmuting his roles into a game as we said risky and fascinating. And there goes a new more contrast of the series in this second batch of episodes: There is a lot of denyed fun in the drama. And the plot advances at a good pace!
Find the necessary tone to have villains “Larger Than Life” with plans with long -term primor and to get a constant feeling that the protagonists are at real risk, betting their lives but also their humanity in a pulse that tests their sanityIt is a show worth enjoying.
Because the series does duties in characters construction. There are no butchers without justifications, although they enter the field of fantasy on many occasions and do not stop having a special predisposition to kill, despite their sibarite artistic taste (eye to allusions to geniuses like Goya, which have their grace).
The argument that Dead City 2 He somehow needs his eyes to the inflection point of the mother series, which was Glenn’s brutal death on which he has pivated the relationship of resentment/redemption between Maggie and Negan. But everything takes further in this second season, as Lauren Cohan advanced: “It is a turning point.”
We return to the beginning: say that The Walking Dead It will last forever is crazy, because nothing is forever, as the song says, but it is clear that He still has a maneuver margin to reconnect in front of the television to his most faithful audience to the extent that the characters give a lot of themselves and there is imagination to develop them in a story full of recesses.
And that Lauren Cohan jumps to the direction of the direction in one of the most significant episodes, is also worthy of applause. It is following in the footsteps of other interpreters/producers/directors such as Elisabeth Moss who manage to step forward without losing creative control and expanding their professional experience. Well played.
