Review – TWD: World Beyond divergent in episodes 109 and 110

The Walking Dead: World Beyond offered a complicated conclusion to season 1.

To finish the first season of AMC’s The Walking Dead: World Beyond, the final two episodes from the show’s first season were aired back-to-back in order to give fans a lot to think about heading into the break.

Of course, World Beyond is only set to run for two seasons as a limited run series, so there is a lot to dissect at the halfway point. There were new developments with characters and the plot will look much different moving forward.

Let’s take a look at some of the biggest things to take away from the episodes titled “The Deepest Cut” and “In This Life” starting with the biggest plot point.

What and who is The Asset?

Apparently, CRM thinks that Hope is some kind of kid genius. She is ‘The Asset” despite being the less academically proficient of the two sisters. What they do with Hope has yet to be seen, but it sounds like they want to pair her with her adoptive father in New York to do research on developing a better future for humans.

This is all a bit head-scratching since the CRM could have just offered to bring the girls to their dad without needing to risk their safety at all. Then, they could have Huck (or someone else) show them what life was like outside a walled community in a safer environment.

Instead, the show feeds a bit of a corny premise that the real asset in the bond between the two sisters and what they can accomplish together. Again, this is a bit off considering much of the first season focused on the sisters keeping secrets from each other and struggling to be able to communicate with each other, And now that Hope left with Huck, that relationship won’t be able to continue to heal.

You gotta keep ’em separated

Season 2 will need to find a way to tell this story while these characters are so divided. Now that Felix and Iris have met up with Felix’s former lover, they will learn what happened at the Campus Colony and that should light a fire under them. However, they are still stuck in the middle of nowhere but are now part of a larger group that may be able to do something against the CRM.

Meanwhile, Elton and Percy are also alone in the woods after escaping the CRM. Odds are that they will find some way to reunite with Felix and Iris but that has yet to be seen and Percy’s injury looks pretty bad.

One of the most interesting characters in the series was captured by the CRM. Silas could be taken to New York in order to interact with Hope and add a familiar face to that storyline, but he also could be a subplot focus with his rescue being the goal.

Other storylines

With the group so scattered, some answers were given, and others emerged in the final two episodes of the series. It’s a tough situation and that could mean some bottle episodes are on the horizon to start season 2. That might be a good thing, considering how Fear the Walking Dead has knocked their bottle episodes out of the park in season 6.

Plus, the CRM is not only lying to the group but to their own people. The girls’ dad was told a researcher went to be with his sick sister when viewers know the colony where he was working was destroyed. Why can’t they be honest about what they are doing and what their intentions are if they are so noble? That will probably be explored in season 2.

Final thoughts

It was tough to judge these two episodes because it tough to know what to make of them. The acting was decent enough and the resolution to some of these plot lines was satisfying enough, but there is still a lot that is confusing or unanswered heading into the second half of the series. Still, it was entertaining enough to keep viewers paying attention and even excited about season 2.