World Beyond Season 2 Explained

"World Beyond" Season 2 ends on an incredibly hopeful note, one that makes it feel like a proper finale. That is, until the post-credits scene plays and reminds us all that the world of "The Walking Dead" is still very much a hostile one that's only getting worse as time goes on. We jump to France, where a scientist accesses an old computer system that plays a message from Dr. Edwin Jenner (Noah Emmerich). His message examines a medical phenomenon that hits a little too close to home in a world where we're still dealing with COVID-19. The message reveals there is a variant strain of the zombie virus.

According to Jenner, the virus has begun to mutate in areas like France, making the infected there infinitely more dangerous than their American counterparts. This is evidenced by the French scientist who gets killed and subsequently reanimates, but the variant strain makes him and other zombies more aggressive, fast, and strong, in addition to affording them some measure of memory retention. Think the zombies that inhabit the "Call of Duty Zombies" game mode, which spells bad news for the future of the "Walking Dead" universe.

"The Walking Dead: World Beyond" didn't exactly set the world on fire like its predecessors, but given how much it added to the overall franchise, it's a valuable piece of the "TWD" puzzle all the same.