WARNING: The following contains major spoilers for Season 2 of Black Summer, now streaming on Netflix.
In Netflix's Black Summer, the first season focused on Jaime King's Rose and a group of strangers trying to get to a stadium amidst a zombie apocalypse. She ended up finding her daughter, Anna, there. Unfortunately, however, the military was overrun by then, trapping everyone in the city. Season 2 focuses on Rose, Anna and their crew in a snowy landscape, evading zombies that turn within seconds and lethal human scavengers. The group gets split up for a bit but, as their paths converge once more, it leads to a twisted finale filled with guts and gore.
Rose, Anna and a newbie, Boone, find a lodge that has plenty of food. However, Anna wants to get to an airstrip where planes are landing, dropping off resources and taking survivors away. The colleague they abandoned, Spears, somehow finds them, but Anna puts a bullet in his head at dinner. It's all at his request because he was dying from a gunshot wound from the fracas that separated them all and didn't want to turn.
With the grief setting in, the team heads out, but Boone, their guide, flees as he can't trust the others anymore. Sadly, he gets to the airstrip, where a scavenger war breaks out. He's killed by some tyrants, turning into a zombie and attacking other humans who are arriving in the hopes of escaping. Rose and Anna are desperate to make their trip count after the lodge experience, but they end up being taken prisoner instead.
Ironically, Sun (their ally who got separated along with Spears) is a hostage too. She was kept as a slave by Nazeri's tribe as they wanted Sun to take them to get resources, but some of Nazeri's men turned on him to form this new crew. Sadly, one guy gets infected after trying to shoot the undead outside. He rushes back into the hangar and starts attacking everyone.
It leads to a bloodbath, with Rose, Sun and Anna escaping, locking everyone else in. Nazeri also escapes, but he trusts no one anymore after being beaten by his former thugs. He holds a gun up at the trio, hating them for ruining his raid. Rose shoots a nearby truck's gas tank, blowing it up. The explosion causes her to break her leg right when the plane arrives.
Rose holds a gun to her head, making it clear to Sun and Anna that she'll kill herself if they don't board. She'll only slow them down, and she prefers to die than turn. They leave her behind, and Sun slips aboard the plane as a horde chases them. Anna, though, can't leave her mom and heads back.
She finds Nazeri and Rose aiming guns at each other and pulls up in a truck next to them. They lower their weapons as they're both tired and badly injured. Anna looks on, contemplating if to take them with her, which fits the dark theme of the show. Rose taught her about abandoning people when times get tough, so Anna's figuring out her next move as the plane takes off.
On the other side of the airstrip is Mance, who led another group of scavengers. They also get ravaged by zombies, leading to him trying to evade them. As the sole survivor, he races to the plane but is too far behind. Still, he maintains his humanity and makes noise for some zombies to attack him, helping reduce the numbers pursuing Sun and Anna. He flees and fights off the undead in a series of hangars, killing nearly a dozen in a brutal one-shot scene.
While he kneels in the sun, mentally breaking, part of him is ready to survive. This sets him up to meet Anna's crew and unite. As for Sun, the pilot is Korean as well, giving her someone to talk to. She's ecstatic as she didn't have this for Black Summer's entire series. He doesn't tell her where he's taking her, though, adding an intriguing layer to the final shot.
Co-created by John Hyams and Karl Schaefer, Black Summer stars Jamie King, Justin Chu Cary, Kelsey Flower, Bobby Naderi and Christine Lee. Season 2 is now available on Netflix.
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