Originally written December 29, 2013
Season 2 of The Walking Dead picks up in an interesting place, because Season 1 was a very tight, fast-paced six episodes that took the show many different places in its short amount of time. Now, season 2 is more than double as long, coming in at 13 episodes. And while season 1 took the characters in quite a few different places, most of season 2 takes place in the same location.
Season 2 picks up with Rick and his crew having just gotten out of the CDC and are now looking for a new place to go. When one of the children goes missing in the first episode, the group winds up seeking refuge at a nearby farm owned by a man named Hershel and his family. While searching for the child, they try to convince Hershel to let them stay at their farm so they’ll have a safe location where they’re not constantly trying to escape the walkers (zombies). However, there’s obviously a ton of roadblocks that get in their way.
The main problem with it all is that it doesn’t move as fast as the show was going in its first season. By the end of the season I wanted something to happen to make them leave the farm. However, this season does get better as it goes on, with the second half easily being better than the first half, especially when it heavily explores the theme of the living sometimes being more dangerous than the dead in the form of both bad guys trying to take them by force, as well as some real tension within Rick’s group. There’s a lot of plot lines that come to a great head by the end of the season, and I absolutely loved the last few episodes of it.
The thing that makes this show great isn’t its zombies though, it’s the human drama. With the exception of one character named T-Dog who is highly uninteresting, everyone in the core cast really comes into their own personalities this season, and you either love them or hate them for many different reasons. The only new characters that really make a huge impact this season are Hershel and one of his daughters Maggie, but both of them are excellent additions. It’s great to see all of these characters interact with each other, and the drama that inevitably unfolds between them. Season 2 has a slow start and for the most part is just not quite as good as its first season, but it’s still a pretty fun ride.
3.5/5
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