After the stable premiere of the second season of The Walking Dead: Dead City, this week’s episode blasts out of the cannon (actually) and will get the story transferring in an intense means. There are some quiet and considerate character moments, a devastating loss for Negan (Jeffrey Dean Morgan), and probably the most summary and unusual sequences in The Walking Dead universe. And with an episode title like “One other Shitty Lesson,” this may be among the best episodes of the sequence.

We meet up with Maggie (Lauren Cohan) and Ginny (Mahina Napoleon) in The Walking Dead: Dead City Season 2 Episode 2, who’re within the convoy with the remainder of the New Babylon group on their solution to Manhattan. Maggie is butting heads with the New Babylon leaders whereas unable to get Ginny to take heed to her. And if it couldn’t get any worse, Hershel exhibits up and divulges that he tracked them down and has no plans of going house. Maggie decides sufficient is sufficient and will get her and Hershel locked up under deck within the boat that New Babylon is utilizing to get to Manhattan.

Negan sits alone and and offers with the problem of reverting to his previous methods. He has a smooth second with Victor, the one particular person Negan may speak to whereas in captivity. Victor informed him the story of his childhood and the way he discovered to play the violin. However the second is brief-lived because the Croat comes for Negan, getting him prepared for the upcoming arrival of the New Babylon crew. After extra threats by the Dama, Negan and the Croats arrange a hilariously intricate protection system atop a constructing that overlooks the harbor. This technique contains each methane-stuffed bombs floating within the harbor that the boat hits and a cannon that fires methane-stuffed walkers by way of the air on the boat.

As Negan instructions the assault on the boat, he’s conflicted when he notices Hershel among the many passengers and delays the subsequent assault. The Croat notices this transfer, which ends up in a brutal scene. The Dama calls the Croat and Negan to the church; to Negan’s shock, Victor can also be there. The Dama asks him to play his violin. Negan quickly realizes what’s taking place, and by the point he tries to cease it, the Dama slits Victor’s throat in entrance of him. The New Babylon group, who survived the boat assault and made it to shore, regrouped and commenced their trek into Central Park.

Negan suffers a major blow in The Walking Dead: Dead City Season 2 Episode 2.

Two really good components of this episode made it really feel significantly better than something earlier than it. The first is the character moments, primarily those involving Victor. Victor was the one gentle left for Negan to cling to in captivity. He performs his violin and tells Negan tales to maintain him sane throughout this darkish time.

Negan feels clear battle and remorse as he succumbs to his previous methods. The Croat sees this relationship and instantly sees how you can harm Negan probably the most by taking away his hope. No matter your emotions for Negan, Victor allowed Negan to develop.

The different notable side of this episode was the inventive alternative of a protection system that the Croat and Negan concocted. Final season,  the Croats had been disgusting through the use of useless our bodies to harness the methane of their our bodies as each a drug and an influence supply. This season, the walkers are might be explosives and missiles. I do know to some, this appears foolish and doesn’t match the general tone of the sequence. Nonetheless, I believe it completely matches the course these spinoff exhibits have taken, and I like them embracing their creativeness on this submit-apocalyptic wasteland.

With some nice Negan moments, an unlucky loss of life, and a wild sport of battleship with walker missiles, The Walking Dead: Dead City Season 2 Episode 2 ups the joy whereas leaving us longing for the place the season is headed. Maggie is on a mission to maintain her son and Ginny protected. Negan is regretfully changing into the model he thought was useless. And most significantly, the 2 are on a collision course but once more. However this time, they’ve all the opposite enemies within the metropolis to take care of.

The Walking Dead: Dead City Season 2 Episode 2 is now on AMC.

Photos courtesy of AMC. 

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REVIEW RATING

• The Walking Dead: Dead City Season 2 Episode 2 – 9/10