Daryl Dixon hasn’t even gotten to France yet, and his show already has a season two. The Walking Dead spinoffs The Walking Dead: Dead City and The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon have both been renewed for second seasons. For Dead City, the news arrived just before last night’s first season finale. Daryl Dixon, on the other hand, doesn’t premiere until next month.
It is entirely too easy to make jokes about the undead-ness of The Walking Dead television universe, but also very difficult to resist doing show. The flagship series ran for eleven seasons, winding up its run last fall. A trio of related series (Fear the Walking Dead, The Walking Dead: World Beyond, and Tales of the Walking Dead) overlapped with the original, and now there are three spinoffs in the show’s wake.
Dead City follows the unlikely pair of Maggie (Lauren Cohan) and Negan (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) to zombie-riddled New York City after Maggie’s son is kidnapped. Daryl Dixon follows the title character (played by Norman Reedus) to France (this is very confusing as I don’t really see why the surviving humans don’t just hole up on a zombie-free island somewhere. But I digress). In France there are nuns, cabaret singers, and also a child who may or may not “lead the revival of humanity.”
The third series is about Rick (Andrew Lincoln) and Michonne (Danai Gurira), and has just been given a title: The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live. Could this title apply to literally any series in the Walking Dead universe? Sure seems that way. There’s also a very brief teaser for this show, which is expected to arrive next year:
The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon premieres September 10th on AMC.
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