The Walking Dead Season 2
2011
Anchor Bay Blu Ray
I watched Walking Dead season 2 last year as it was airing and found the pacing to be really bad. Too much time was spent on the farm and the couple of months break after the first 6 episodes didn't help. But the final 2 episodes of the season were really good. So I knew I would be buying the season set when it came out.
We start off not too long after the end of season 1. The group runs into a major traffic jam on a highway. And before they can figure out what to do a herd of zombies attacks. Everyone manages to stay safe. But Sophia and Rick end up in the woods. They get separated. So the group starts looking for her. While out looking for her Carl is accidentally shot and this leads our group to a farm owned by Hershall.
Now I have read up to around issue 74 in the comic,so I thought I knew what was gonna happen this season. But so much was changed from the comic. In the comic the "Farm" storyline doesn't last very long. Which is good cause so far it is the weakest storyline in the comic.
Well the first half of the season is mainly the group on the farm. Trying to find Sophia and dealing with Carl getting shot. Shane and the guy who accidentally shot Carl head off to a FEMA station to get the needed medical gear and supplies. And they get ambushed by zombies. They are on their way out of the station and Shane has hurt his leg. And between the two of them they have maybe 10 bullets left. So Shane ends up shooting the other guy in the leg. So that the zombies will be busy eating him while Shane gets away. I can totally understand Shane's logic in this situation. He understands the world has changed. If he hadn't shot the guy in the left,him the guy and Carl would have all died. But by basically killing the guy,Shane and Carl will live. But this causes a noticeable change in Shane.
Back at the farm Glenn ends up hooking up with Hershall's daughter and through this learns that instead of killing the "walkers" Hershall and his group round them up and are keeping them in his barn. Once this knowledge gets out it causes all kinds of problems. Finally Shane goes to the barn and opens up the door. And the first "walker" to come out is Sophia. Rick shots and kills her and that is how the first half of the season ends.
The second half picks up the pace and we get a nice tense scene set in a bar in the nearby town. The tension between Rick and Shane keeps getting stronger and stronger. And finally in the next to last episode Shane tries to kill Rick. But Rick gets the jump on him. In the final episode the herd from the highway makes it's way to the farm and the group manages to escape. Later that night Rick reveals that the scientist at the CDC told him that everyone is already infected with the virus. So no matter how you die you will come back as a "walker". And the episode ends with the camera pulling back from the group huddled around a campfire and off in the distance we see a high security prison.
Watching this for a second time,and watching all the episodes in 2 days really helps the pace of the show. I still say they didn't need to spend so much time on the farm. But at least we got two great episodes at the end of the season.
The discs all look and sound great. Plus the final disc is loaded down with all kinds of extras. There is a few commentaries and all of them are worth a listen. There is also all the webisodes. Sadly the webisodes aren't worth a shit. The Walking Dead Season 2 set gets a C+.
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