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The Review Geek
27-05-2025
- Entertainment
- The Review Geek
The Walking Dead: Dead City Season 2 Episode 5 Preview: Release Date, Time & Where To Watch
The Walking Dead: Dead City Season 2 Episode 5 The Walking Dead favourites, Maggie and Negan are finally back with a second season just revolving around them! Yep, years after their exit from the iconic zombie series, our complicated duo have returned with their hit spin-off show The Walking Dead: Dead City. Season 2 looks into what Negan and Maggie have been up to following their split in Season 1. New Babylon plans to invade Manhattan and make it its new base. This has poor Perlie drafting soldiers to join an exploratory mission. And as expected, once they reach the Bricks, they face their biggest opposition yet from Maggie. This puts her right in the warring path of the Burazis who are getting ready to take down New Babylon. Negan plays the twisted leader, promoting the ideals of the Dama and the Croat but it seems that not all is hunky dory. While he struggles to unite the different factions of Manhattan against New Babylon, it seems that the Dama has something on Negan. If you've been following this TV show, you may be curious to find out when the episodes of The Walking Dead: Dead City Season 2 are releasing. Well, wonder no more! Here is everything you need to know about The Walking Dead: Dead City Season 2 Episode 5, including its release date, time and where you can watch this. Where Can I Watch The Walking Dead: Dead City Season 2? The Walking Dead: Dead City Season 2 will be airing on AMC and AMC+ at the moment. It is available to stream on Hulu and Amazon Prime as well as they have a tie-up with AMC+. The other shows of the TWD universe are available on AMC, Disney+, Amazon Prime and Netflix in selected territories. The Walking Dead: Dead City Season 2 Episode 5 Release Date The Walking Dead: Dead City Season 2 Episode 5 will release on Sunday 1st June at approximately 9pm (ET) / 2am (GMT) the next day. AMC is known to release English subtitles immediately. Season 2 Episode 5 is titled 'The Bird Always Knows'. Expect each episode to be roughly 1 hour long, which is consistent with the time frame for the rest of TWD shows. How Many Episodes Will The Walking Dead: Dead City Season 2 Have? The Walking Dead: Dead City Season 2 is an 8-episode English-language show. It will release one episode every Sunday and run its course till 22nd June. Is There A Trailer For The Walking Dead: Dead City Season 2? There is indeed! You can find an exciting trailer for The Walking Dead: Dead City Season 2 below. What Happened in the Previous Episode? We've covered the entire episode with a lengthy recap that touched on all major plot points and discusses the chapter with an accompanying review. You can find that link below. Read More: The Walking Dead: Dead City Season 2 Episode 4 Recap & Review What Happens in the Next Episode? In next week's teaser, the Burazi get ready to recruit Christos. Someone cuts the power. Maggie doesn't think Lucia can take on the Burazis. The Croat puts on a gas mask. Lucia forces Maggie to bring Negan to her. Christos threatens Negan with Lucille 2.0. Negan tells Dama that he is her best shot but she doesn't think so. Bruegel's men grab Hershel while Ginny aims her gun at someone. What do you hope to see as the series progresses? What's been your favourite moment of The Walking Dead so far? Let us know in the comments below!
Forbes
11-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Forbes
‘Dead City' Season 2, Episode 2 Recap And Review — The Terrible Women Of ‘The Walking Dead'
The Walking Dead: Dead City The writers of The Walking Dead: Dead City seem determined to prove one thing: Women in this zombie-strewn universe are the worst. Just about every single one of the female characters in Dead City, barring Maggie, is awful. Maggie is annoying, sure, but she's not terrible, cruel, petty, vengeful, spiteful or a psychopath. The same cannot be said for the various female leaders of New Babylon and the Burazi, the two main factions vying for control of New York City and its burgeoning zombie-methane trade. We have the Dama, a woman so evil it's almost a shame she can't grow a mustache to twirl. It's like the writers researched every cliche villain characteristic and wrote it into one character. The leaders of New Babylon are hardly any better. Lucia Narvaez is a Major in the Federation army, but unless I'm terribly mistaken, seems to routinely outrank Perlie, ordering him around even though he's a Colonel. Lucia accuses Maggie of desertion at one point in this week's episode despite Maggie not actually trying to desert. She wants to execute her for her crimes along with 20 other people because she's taken the place of 20 conscripts. That seems a teensy, tiny bit excessive but she tells Perlie it's because 'the law' demands it, or something. She's very big on the law, which apparently has no due process in this society whatsoever. Just feelings. Lucia probably gets her penchant for stupid cruelty from Governor Charlie Byrd, the governor of New Babylon though, to be fair, the show has done almost nothing to give Byrd a personality. She's just responsible for the awful way New Babylon does things. This show has done a really top-notch job at getting me to pretty much despise everyone, though I have to admit a certain fondness for the Croat. At least his brand of evil maniac is kind of funny and endearing. Maggie I've talked before about how unrealistic it is to have just about every single faction in the zombie apocalypse run by women. The devolution of society into violent factions ruled over by violent warlords would mean a general rolling back of all the good, progressive change we've seen in modern times. In a country where electing a female president has proven all but impossible, how likely is it that the Commonwealth, the Whisperers, New Babylon, the Burazi, the Pioneers (in Fear The Walking Dead) Madame Genet (in Daryl Dixon) and so many other groups would be led by women? I'm not suggesting they shouldn't be, I'm simply pointing out that in this kind of full societal breakdown and collapse, it's highly unlikely that just about every single community and faction is led by a woman. The fact that all of these women are written incredibly poorly only makes matters worse. Negan was over-the-top and it took me a long time before I started liking his character, but at least he had personality. He was distinct. The Governor was charismatic and ruthless and hid his madness well. Pamela Milton of the Commonwealth was . . . so basic. The most basic middle-aged white lady ever written into a zombie apocalypse. Charlie Byrd of New Babylon is almost as forgettable and bland. The Dama is as evil as she is cliche. At least Alpha was a great character, even if the Whisperers are kind of goofy when you think about it. At least Alpha had layers. She was sadistic but there was some meat beneath her zombie mask. So many of these characters are just generic, flat and one-dimensional. The point is, this franchise keeps elevating women to positions of power without bothering to write compelling personalities and backstories and motivations for them. It feels lazy and tokenistic and unrealistic all at the same time. Rather than write great female characters, they just give them all power. Out of all the newer female characters in The Walking Dead, only a couple come to mind that are actually likable: Isabelle, Princess . . . and I'm drawing a blank beyond that. Neither were in charge of anything. Neither were written as a 'girlboss.' Basically a Fear The Walking Dead character But Lucia? It's like they got her off the boat from Fear The Walking Dead. I just hope they kill her off sooner rather than later. Then again, they usually keep the annoying ones alive. Like Sherry. Or Morgan. (Obviously, male characters aren't handled much better and I'm not sure any female TWD character can rival Morgan when it comes to the Worst Characters list, but they're also rarely leaders now, so a lot of the 'annoying leaders do stupid and/or evil things' stuff falls on the women these days). Speaking of killing off good characters, the Dama kills off the best new character the show has introduced this season just to . . . punish Negan? The best part of this episode outside of watching the New Babylonians get firebombed was Victor and his violin. Negan's former prison guard and one of the few new characters who is actually likeable and seems decent, played by an actor who is actually good at his job (and trust me, a lot of the acting this season is just bad) really stole the show for me. So of course they killed him off right away. For some cheap shock value. I'm very annoyed but not in the slightest bit surprised. Gee, I wonder if Negan will kill the Dama now? This is all so painfully predictable. There are rules! Also, why would you kill a guy who can play such beautiful music? He's a huge asset for morale and for the future of the arts in whatever society they're trying to build. The Dama saying Bach was trying to 'bring back the past' and that she doesn't want to do that is just silly nonsense. She's this big art lover. It makes no sense for her character to kill their one classically trained musician just to piss Negan off. But hey, this is from the same people that killed off Carl to boost ratings. What do you expect? Victor Other than that, we get the Battle of Blackwater Bay, basically. The stupid, incompetent morons running New Babylon decide it's a good idea to take a ferry across to Manhattan, er, the Dead City, despite Maggie warning them that it's a bad idea, that they're heading into a trap and so forth. The Croat has set up a bunch of buoys with methane bombs on them and the New Babylon ferry crashes right into them. At least Stannis had no idea what Tyrion had cooked up for him in Game Of Thrones. Here, it's just pure stupidity and arrogance that gets the New Babylon forces into hot water. If the Dama wasn't such an evil old hag, I'd be rooting for Negan and the Croat at this point. As it stands, I'm not rooting for anyone. I'm rooting for Negan and Maggie to get the hell out of dodge. Go somewhere else. Start a farm. Maggie's farm. Or Maggie could go find her friends at Alexandria or the Commonwealth. Negan is in a tighter spot given that the Dama (allegedly) has his family. But really, why are these characters here to begin with? What is the point of this goofy conflict? I don't want anyone to win. Thankfully, whenever the heroes of The Walking Dead show up somewhere, that community's days are numbered. My money is on mutually assured destruction. All these ridiculous, unlikable jerks are going down in the end, just like they did in France after Daryl Dixon was through with them, and in every other community Rick and Carol and the rest have visited. And good riddance. The Dama It seems as though Hershel Jr. is following the example set by his elders. He's clearly working with the Croat and the Dama to sabotage New Babylon. I suppose it will all blow up in his face when the truth comes out. Overall, this was a bit better than the first episode, but between the unlikable characters and the retread of the same faction-vs-faction plot that every TWD show uses over and over again, I'm just beyond caring what happens to any of these people. The heroes have plot armor galore, so we never really worry about their fates. And since I don't care what happens to any of the other characters, there's basically no tension at all. They'll kill off the ones we like (Isabelle from Daryl Dixon or Nat from The Ones Who Live or John Dorie from Fear) and make us trudge along with the worst of the litter. What fun. P.S. The Dama also captures historian Benjamin Pierce, who is played by Keir Gilchrist from Atypical and other shows where he's quite good. He's fine here, but I just find that even good actors end up at their worst on The Walking Dead. Lennie James just won a BAFTA Best Actor award for his new show after spending years annoying everyone as Morgan in Fear The Walking Dead. YOU KNOW WHAT IT IS. Colman Domingo has gone on to do some genuinely great work after finally getting free of FTWD. Same with Alycia Debnam-Carey and her new Netflix series. The list goes on and on. It's great to see these actors doing so well, but what a shame that their talents were wasted for so long. P.P.S. This show has the same problem modern Marvel movies have. All this is going down and the Commonwealth and CRM are just around the riverbend but apparently don't care and aren't getting involved. The more these franchises try to connect everything, the less sense it makes when you leave out major players and organizations for no good reason. Also, can't the French send some ships to help? I mean, we got a good look at Lady Liberty this episode. Send those French freighters over! Bring back Daryl! P.P.P.S Carol is another example of a once-great female character that the writers seem determined to undermine and destroy at every turn. There was a time when she was genuinely badass (just ask the Termites) but for so long now, and certainly in Daryl Dixon's second season, she is just impossible to like. She lies constantly. Makes terrible choices. Everyone treats her like she's this legendary hero but she's almost guaranteed to ruin your life. They try to make her a badass but it's always cringe. Just total character assassination at this point. Your thoughts on this episode and series so far? Let me know on Twitter, Instagram, Bluesky or Facebook. Also be sure to subscribe to my YouTube channel and follow me here on this blog. Sign up for my newsletter for more reviews and commentary on entertainment and culture.
Forbes
05-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Forbes
‘The Walking Dead: Dead City' Season 2, Episode 1 Review — How Much Stupid Can You Fit In One Episode?
The Walking Dead Dead City It's become quite clear that the entire strategy and point of The Walking Dead: Dead City is just to capitalize on Negan nostalgia. Jeffrey Dean Morgan is, once again, the only reason to watch this show. There are far more reasons not to waste your time. Spoilers ahead. I think the best way to talk about this episode is to just go through the list of silly, stupid, annoying things that happen. This isn't the most ridiculous show in the Walking Dead universe, but it shares all the other spinoffs' habits of inserting all kinds of nonsensical crap into the plot. Let's list some of this episode's headscratcher moments: Early on, Maggie takes Hershel Jr. out hunting. With a throwing knife. Not a big dagger, but one of those little throwing knives you use for target practice. They're hunting deer, and he's frustrated when he misses. But what would have happened if he'd hit the deer with that tiny knife? Well, it might have cut the deer if he threw it with enough force to penetrate its hide, which I doubt. The fact is, you cannot hunt deer with tiny throwing knives. It's ludicrous. Maggie, standing next to him, has a bow. You can hunt deer with a bow. Hey, at least it wasn't a CGI deer. We all remember the CGI deer, right? At least it wasn't that. You could probably have killed that stupid CGI deer with a throwing knife. Later, Maggie agrees to go back to NYC with the New Babylon group if they agree not to conscript anyone for the mission. I guess New Babylon conscripts people, and then sends them on dangerous missions the very next day. If anyone tries to get out of conscription, they're hanged. But Maggie, being a good upstanding individual with morals, doesn't want any part in that, so she volunteers. One of the New Babylon leaders ask the marshal from last season if she's really 'worth twenty people' and he says he thinks so. In order to test this, they round up about twenty zombies in a little horse corral which Maggie has to fight to 'prove' herself. Ginny, the teenager who Negan was protecting last season, wants to volunteer, so the two of them fight the zombies together. Mind you, they don't try to kill any from across the fence, they just barrel into a corral filled with nearly two dozen zombies and fight them with knives. This is stupid on numerous levels. First off, why would you 'test' one of your most prized soldiers, who is volunteering for your mission and has valuable intel about the target and location, by putting them in a situation that (if it weren't for plot armor) almost certainly means death? That's not very smart! The plot armor really evaporates any possible tension in this scene, of course, so it all just feels like a waste of time and yet another moment to make New Babylon leadership look like mustache-twirling cartoon villains. Dead City Over in NYC, the mustache-twirling villains have locked Negan up in a cell for the past year. I guess he turned them down when the Dama gave him an opportunity within the organization at the end of Season 1. Well, they threaten his family this time around and so he's forced to help out. Their goal? To unite the clans, er, the vying factions of NYC thugs into one unified force to fight off the New Babylon army who wants their zombie fuel. Negan meets these two other factions at a zombie fight. Remember when the Governor would have people fight zombies for sport and have the whole town watch? Well, these guys skip the human component and have two zombies fight! Zombies decked out in armor, with spikes on their faces. How they get zombies to fight one another is, well, not at all explained. We've never seen zombies fight one another before now, but I guess when they're put in a little makeshift arena, they just ignore all the living flesh and brains around them and fight each other instead. It's . . . it's just so stupid. The two other factions, meanwhile, appear to be The Breastplate Gang and the Homeless People. Each faction has to have its own look, you see. The New Babylonians all dress like Civil War reenactment actors. They must have found a stash of uniforms somewhere. Negan's job is to give a speech and convince the other two factions to join the Dama's group. The Croat has made him a brand new Lucille bat (I guess Negan must have blabbed about it) but with a twist. He's included…some kind of button-activated zapper that knocks one of the faction leaders down. I guess a nonlethal upgrade to a bat covered in barbed wire and nails is . . . cool? Cool for a kinder, gentler Negan, though I'm not sure why the Croat would want that. Seems pretty goofy to me. Dead City Then there's Maggie. I just have a hard time with Maggie. Her scene with Hershel Jr. when he wanted to go and she wanted him to say was just such painful melodrama. Maggie looks cool and she's a tough fighter, but I still can't handle her accent and it gets much worse when she's in a Very Dramatic Scene. Ultimately, I'm left wondering: What's the point of this show? It's just another faction war between groups of people we care nothing about. This entire franchise is just the same thing over and over again, whether it's The Ones Who Live, Fear The Walking Dead, Daryl Dixon or this. Factions fighting other factions endlessly. Rinse, repeat, rinse, repeat. Pick any of these shows, and the plot is almost identical. Our heroes almost never die, but they also never really gain anything. No real arcs or tension because there are no real stakes. No real character development, but also not much world development. Everything is stagnant. There's never a victory condition. It just spins on endlessly, flailing from one humdrum conflict to another. It's like the writers only have one idea and they just recycle it over and over again with a new batch of characters in a new location that we could frankly care less about. It's all so dreadfully generic and boring at this point. Why are we still doing this? 'If you don't like it, don't watch it,' they tell me. Yes, but where's the fun in that?
