It’s the worst kind of will-they-won’t-they: Will Rick (Andrew Lincoln) and Michonne (Danai Gurira) ever, ever get to just chill out and be happy together? Not if an entire world of zombies and military keeps getting in their way, as it seems to do in The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live, the latest spinoff in the sprawling, deathless Walking Dead universe.
The new series has a very dramatic description:
The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live presents an epic love story of two characters changed by a changed world. Kept apart by distance. By an unstoppable power. By the ghosts of who they were. Rick and Michonne are thrown into another world, built on a war against the dead… And ultimately, a war against the living. Can they find each other and who they were in a place and situation unlike any they’ve ever known before? Are they enemies? Lovers? Victims? Victors? Without each other, are they even alive — or will they find that they, too, are the Walking Dead?
Will they? It’s almost like the entire Walking Dead universe has been telling us for nigh on 14 years that humans can also be monsters!
The Ones Who Live adds to its cast the excellent Terry O’Quinn, who might be best known as Lost’s Locke. Here he is particularly enigmatic as Civic Republic Military leader Major Boyle. There is quite a lot of military action, as well as a lot of bloodier, grosser action in the form of Rick doing a lot of zombie killing.
The cast also includes Pollyanna McIntosh as Jadis (always a good sign when someone’s named after Narnia’s ice queen) and a mysterious helmeted figure on which the camera lingers at the end of the trailer. They are obviously important, and we are obviously supposed to wonder who they are.
Maybe you can find out when The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live premieres February 15th on AMC and AMC+
