If you smashed through the second series
of zombie nightmare Black Summer,
and there are things you'd like to ask,
you're in the right place.
Spoilers ahead
as we dig into the web's most-searched questions
about Black Summer series two.
Is Black Summer a prequel to Z Nation?
Yes and no.
Black Summer is officially based on Z Nation
by Karl Schaeffer and Craig Engler.
Z Nation is set three years into a zombie apocalypse,
while Black Summer
focuses on the frantic initial outbreak.
So you could consider it a prequel.
Black Summer is even a thing in Z Nation,
the term characters use to refer to
one of the darkest periods of the outbreak,
when the drought made survival even harder.
Where did everybody go?
I haven't seen a survivor except for those two bikers.
Black Summer.
Everybody starved to death.
I was in Philly for Black Summer.
It was bad.
I lost 30 pounds.
What happened to Lance from series one?
The fate of Lance was one of the lingering questions
at the end of the first series.
And it didn't look good.
But he apparently survived,
because series two starts with him
syphoning fuel from a car and being alive,
for a few moments anyway.
Thank you so much.
Lance is tricked into opening his car by Sophie
and swiftly killed by Luke.
No, fuck, no!
Handily, re-emphasizing at the start of the new series
that nobody is safe in Black Summer.
Why did Rose leave Spears behind?
The rest of the original group
is separated early on
during their escape from Ray.
Spears is shot and Rose makes the snap decision
to leave him behind.
He's gonna slow us down.
Four months have passed
since the events of the first series,
and, clearly, everyone has been through a lot.
Although it's worth remembering
that we saw glimpses of Rose's ruthlessness
at the end of series one
when she killed the injured Velez,
who was also slowing the group down.
Even so, Rose is clearly a very different person
to the one we initially met.
I'm somebody else now.
It doesn't matter if I like who that person is or not.
What happened to Ray's family?
Ray Nazeri is the closest thing
Black Summer series two has to a villain.
And it looks like what drove him
to become that way
was the loss of his family.
It's easy to miss, but when we meet Ray,
he's prepping a bag and talking soothingly,
as if to children that we can't see.
It's OK, babies.
Don't be afraid.
Just a few more minutes.
He then leaves the room
and encounters a group of child-sized zombies.
They follow him upstairs
where he finds his stash of weapons.
The clincher here is that
he repeats his soothing talk through the door...
It's OK, babies.
Just a few more minutes.
...before loading his weapons,
and heading downstairs,
perhaps for a final family reunion.
Why does Sophie switch sides?
Sophie joins up with Mance's group
while they're ransacking a delivery truck.
Can I get in on that?
Yeah.
Later, after the deadly carnage that takes place
when Mance's group fights with Ray's at the house,
Sophie seems to switch sides.
Given the overriding
"survival at all costs" message of the show,
it's likely that this is a split-second reaction
to the situation.
This would be consistent
with earlier glimpses of Sophie too.
Rude.
What happened to Braithwaite?
One of the stand out episodes from series two
features Braithwaite -
a mysterious loner
with a connection to Spears' past.
Brother, I know you.
It's gradually revealed
that in Spears' pre apocalypse life of crime...
I don't think so.
...he attempted to murder Braithwaite.
Though he decides not to here.
We don't see where Braithwaite ends up.
But he's survived well so far
and his newly acquired horse will only improve his odds.
Basically, he's got as good a chance as anyone.
Although, alternatively,
because of the philosophical nature of the episode
and the fact that nobody else meets Braithwaite,
some viewers have speculated
he's a hallucination,
or a way for the injured and ultimately dying Spears
to figure out some things
that are weighing on his conscience.
That's all behind us now, right?
It's all different now.
Why is Sun given subtitles on the plane?
The only character who makes it to the plane
is Sun.
Across the two series of Black Summer,
her limited English has given an extra edge
to her struggle to survive
and win the trust of others,
something emphasized by the fact
her speech is never subtitled.
Unless viewers speak Korean,
they can't understand her either.
But that changes on the plane
when she says something in Korean
and the pilot replies.
I speak a little Korean.
Sun is overcome with relief.
And for the first time,
her words are translated
so that we can understand them too,
the show's way of helping the audience to understand
the joy and relief she feels at this moment.
Where is the plane going?
When Sun asks the pilot where the plane is going,
all he says is...
It's far.
And given that we don't know why he was dropping supplies
or why he was happy
to take on survivors in the first place,
it's impossible to guess.
And maybe that's the point.
When Sun asks about the others,
the pilot replies enigmatically...
We can't tell what's ahead.
We're in the clouds now.
That's all that matters now... right?
Which is a much friendlier version
of what Black Summer has been telling us all along,
that in the middle of a zombie apocalypse,
the future is unknowable,
and all we have is the present.
...you just...
On that note,
are there any questions you'd like to ask
about Black Summer?
What do you think happens to Rose, Anna and Ray
at the air strip?
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