The Walking Dead: Dead City (Season 2) (Blu-ray Review)
Starring: Lauren Cohan, Jeffrey Dean Morgan
RATED: UR/REGION AB/1:78/1080p/NUMBER OF DISCS 2
AVAILABLE FROM Acorn Media
Because Apparently Manhattan Wasn’t Done Trying to Kill Them Yet
Season 2 of Walking Dead: Dead City proves that if there’s one thing more persistent than walkers, it’s this franchise’s ability to spin increasingly unhinged chaos into surprisingly engaging TV. Yes, we’re back in post-apocalyptic Manhattan: a place that was already stressful pre-zombies and now really feels like the city finally reached its true personality.
The season doubles down on the show’s best elements: Maggie’s simmering trauma, Negan’s smirking chaos energy, and the two of them working together like divorced parents forced to co-host the world’s most dysfunctional birthday party. Their dynamic remains the spicy glue holding the series together—half hostility, half cooperation, all “we should absolutely not be in the same room, yet here we are.”
Season 2 expands the world, adds new factions, and introduces threats that make you think, “Oh good, it’s not just the undead trying to chew everyone’s faces off—people are still terrible too.” Classic Walking Dead comfort food.
There’s more action, bigger set pieces, and at least one moment per episode where you’ll shout, “Okay who in the writers’ room hates New York this much?” The show gives us everything from crumbling skyscrapers to walker-infested tunnels to that one terrifying New Yorker who somehow survived everything. You know the one.
And while the story gets wild (and occasionally leaps off the logic cliff with no rope), the emotional beats still land. Maggie gets depth, Negan gets temptation, and the supporting cast gets… well, varying life expectancies.
Sure, the pacing sometimes sprints like it’s being chased and sometimes drags like a walker missing a leg, but that’s part of the charm. If the show ever became consistent, it wouldn’t be The Walking Dead anymore.
In short: Season 2 is messy, intense, darkly funny, and totally addictive—like the apocalypse, but with better lighting. It delivers exactly what fans want: character drama, creative carnage, and the eternal question of why Maggie still puts up with Negan instead of pushing him off a conveniently tall building.
Extras
- Episode Insiders
- Behind the Scenes “Show Me More” Episode
- Subtitles
