In this town, power is everything. Maggie (Lauren Cohan) and Negan (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) each grapple with their own battle for survival in post-apocalyptic New York City. A gang war for the city threatens everyone’s existence, and the status quo will be completely destroyed. Maggie will do whatever it takes to keep her son safe, while Negan climbs the ranks in a brutal gang. Nobody is safe in this town, and Maggie and Negan must find a way forward. If you can survive here, you can survive anywhere.
What We Thought:
Like most fans I gave up on The Walking Dead before it ended. When I got The Walking Dead: Dead City – Season 1 to review, it helped me catch up on what I missed. Watching The Walking Dead: Dead City – Season 2 on Blu-ray was a lot easier to follow along because I was up to date. Overall the spinoff series feels like the original show and that’s both a good and bad thing.
Why it’s good is because it’s just interesting enough to hold your attention. Negan is still interesting enough to base major storylines around as is Maggie. Why it’s bad is because like The Walking Dead, the worst aspect of the series are the children characters. The Walking Dead: Dead City – Season 2 is royally bogged down by Herschel and Ginny. I understand Maggie is doing everything she does to keep Herschel alive, but man is that character just awful and causes everything bad to happen in Season 2.
If the show was just Maggie and Negan it would be so much better. Season 2 added the always awesome Kim Coates and gives more on The Croat and The Dama characters. It shows how they use the methane to power the city and to make bombs. That should be the story, but instead we get Hershel being a stupid kid, making stupid decisions and causing all the issues. Same with Ginny. I understand kids wouldn’t know much, but so much of the season is wasted on fixing their mistakes and the results of their actions.
There’s also a woman character that would not exist in the real world. If the apocalypse happened, a 110 pound woman with no fighting/war experience would not be giving orders. Maggie punches her in the face at one point and every other character should have done the same thing. No one, I mean no one, would take her seriously in the real world or listen to a word she says no matter her rank. She would be killed by others around her because that character is a joke and gets people killed.
The Walking Dead: Dead City – Season 2 is 8 episodes on 2 discs. I watched it over three nights. Lauran Cohan and Jeffery Dean Morgan keep their characters going strong, but so much other stuff should be scrapped so that Maggie and Negan are the focus. I hated Herschel in Season 1 and he might be worse here. There is some good action and the exploding walkers being shot at the boat was cool, but there needs to be a push away from kid characters.
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