Season Reviewed: The Walking Dead Season 2

If you ask me what my favorite show on right now is, my answer will be "probably either Sherlock or the Walking Dead." Why? Because the Walking Dead rules. TWD is AMC's hit serial drama, set in a zombie apocalypse. The show follows a group of survivors as they struggle to avoid death. At the same time, the show examines what it means to be human when human society has pretty much come to end. Let's break down season 2, shall we.

In A Nutshell: After the first season's finale, the surviving survivors flee from Atlanta and end up. They end up in a traffic jam of all things, and a herd of walkers pass by, forcing them to hide under cars. Sophia accidently ends up in the woods next to the highway, being chased by 2 walkers. Rick goes after her and tells her to hide while he takes out the walkers. When he gets back, Sophia's gone. On the quest to find her, Carl gets shot by a hunter, Otis. Otis leads them to a safe haven farm, run by Hershel. Hershel operates on Carl after Shane goes through hell to get supplies. The rest of the group stays there while they continue to look for Sophia. Secrets among everyone threaten to tear everything apart. The season focuses largely on character developement, and just about everyone changes somehow. Just about every episode ends with some sort of cliffhanger, and the storytelling is heavily serialized (yay.)

The Good: The show still gives us solid action scenes along with great character developement, which is emphasised more this season. The character developement  gives the show more dramatic depth and we get more attached to these people. We still get some good "Holy Crap" cliffhanger endings, too. Overall I was pleased with the storytelling and I think plenty of stuff goes down.

The Bad: Season 1 was six episodes and season 2 was 13. This leads to the pace being slowed a little bit. Is there less action? Sadly, yes. It didn't really feel stretched out, but more drama and less action can make the show feel a bit soap opera-y at times.

Noteworthy Episodes:

Now, this is usually where I give my favorite episodes of the season, but TWD is such a serialized show that individual episodes don't really stand out to me personally so much as they all just mesh together. I will say this though:
The season premier was awesome, and the season finale kicked all manners of ass, both being action-packed and intense.
There were also some episodes midseason that really did it for me, too, most notably ones early in the season and leading up to the finale.

So, once again, I thought overall it was a great season, not a step up from season 1, but not a step down either. If you're fine with the show being slower from time to time, then the season won't be lost on you.

Final Rating: 90%

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