Although there aren’t many details about the project so far, AMC did reveal that the spinoff will premiere in 2020 with a 10-episode run. Matt Negrete, longtime writer for the original, will serve as a showrunner on the series while Walking Dead boss Scott M. Gimple will co-create and produce.

“I’m beyond excited to be a part of this new show set in The Walking Dead universe,” said Negrete in a statement. “Writing and producing for the original series has been the job of a lifetime and I’m honored to be working with Scott and all the fine Dead folks at AMC in this new capacity. I can’t wait for the fans of the franchise to see what we’ve been cooking up!”

The Walking Dead was once one of the most popular programs on television, averaging 14.38 million viewers in season five. Since then, however, the series saw a big decline in numbers and managed to attract only five million during the last season.

Fear the Walking Dead, the first spinoff that premiered in 2015, is also doing quite poorly with the finale of season four being watched by only two million people. Still, it looks like AMC believes that the zombie-loving audience will appreciate another expansion of the Walking Dead world.

“Showing audiences an unseen pocket of The Walking Dead universe steeped in a new mythology is a very cool way to celebrate a Decade of the Dead on TV and over 15 years of [creator] Robert Kirkman’s brilliant comic.” – added Gimple. “Matt Negrete is one of the best writer-producers in TWD’s long history, I’m thrilled to be working beside him to tell stories unlike we’ve seen before, taking our first step into an even larger world.”

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The importance of bringing Jesus’s body back and the closure it allows Hilltop for the handing over of the reins officially to Tara is apparent and obvious.

The one person who is seriously lacking closure, however, is Michone, given that a burial was not something she was able to do with Rick. In spite of this, she thanks Darryl for searching for him in the past and ‘what he did after’ fueling more intrigue about what went on in the missing six years leading to the fallout between the groups and Maggie’s absence.

Further introduction to the Whisperers is drip fed to us by the capture, imprisonment, and interrogation of the mysterious new character Lydia. How much we have learnd is unsure as it is pretty clear that every other word from her lips is a lie.

Meanwhile, Negan has gone walkabout from his unlocked jail cell into the outside world. This is sandwiched in between a couple of well-directed bonding scenes between him and stony-faced young Judith. Jeffrey Dean Morgan is excellent as ever, managing to pull off every scene with his usual charisma, despite having no one to bounce off other than walkers and a pack of savage wild dogs.

The scenes where he revisits The Sanctuary are almost heart-warming to the point where you could easily forget that actually he was a sadistic psychopathic despot there only half a series ago. This is deliberate though as both he and the viewer do find closure of that storyline and accept that Judith was right and there is ‘nothing out there for him’ allowing us both to move on and look forward.

All this paves the way for further introduction to the new storyline with the Whisperers, this time as they catch the hapless search party for Alden and Luke. We will have to wait and see what happens to them but judging by the tone of new character Alpha’s voice, they won’t be going back for tea and crumpets.

Overall, the episode didn’t have the same explosive excitement as some previous midseason premiers. It still had its moments though and flowed well considering how much went on to set the scene for the rest of the series. It certainly leaves the viewer wanting to see more.

3.5/5

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Although there aren’t many details about the project so far, AMC did reveal that the spinoff will premiere in 2020 with a 10-episode run. Matt Negrete, longtime writer for the original, will serve as a showrunner on the series while Walking Dead boss Scott M. Gimple will co-create and produce.

“I’m beyond excited to be a part of this new show set in The Walking Dead universe,” said Negrete in a statement. “Writing and producing for the original series has been the job of a lifetime and I’m honored to be working with Scott and all the fine Dead folks at AMC in this new capacity. I can’t wait for the fans of the franchise to see what we’ve been cooking up!”

The Walking Dead was once one of the most popular programs on television, averaging 14.38 million viewers in season five. Since then, however, the series saw a big decline in numbers and managed to attract only five million during the last season.

Fear the Walking Dead, the first spinoff that premiered in 2015, is also doing quite poorly with the finale of season four being watched by only two million people. Still, it looks like AMC believes that the zombie-loving audience will appreciate another expansion of the Walking Dead world.

“Showing audiences an unseen pocket of The Walking Dead universe steeped in a new mythology is a very cool way to celebrate a Decade of the Dead on TV and over 15 years of [creator] Robert Kirkman’s brilliant comic.” – added Gimple. “Matt Negrete is one of the best writer-producers in TWD’s long history, I’m thrilled to be working beside him to tell stories unlike we’ve seen before, taking our first step into an even larger world.”

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The importance of bringing Jesus’s body back and the closure it allows Hilltop for the handing over of the reins officially to Tara is apparent and obvious.

The one person who is seriously lacking closure, however, is Michone, given that a burial was not something she was able to do with Rick. In spite of this, she thanks Darryl for searching for him in the past and ‘what he did after’ fueling more intrigue about what went on in the missing six years leading to the fallout between the groups and Maggie’s absence.

Further introduction to the Whisperers is drip fed to us by the capture, imprisonment, and interrogation of the mysterious new character Lydia. How much we have learnd is unsure as it is pretty clear that every other word from her lips is a lie.

Meanwhile, Negan has gone walkabout from his unlocked jail cell into the outside world. This is sandwiched in between a couple of well-directed bonding scenes between him and stony-faced young Judith. Jeffrey Dean Morgan is excellent as ever, managing to pull off every scene with his usual charisma, despite having no one to bounce off other than walkers and a pack of savage wild dogs.

The scenes where he revisits The Sanctuary are almost heart-warming to the point where you could easily forget that actually he was a sadistic psychopathic despot there only half a series ago. This is deliberate though as both he and the viewer do find closure of that storyline and accept that Judith was right and there is ‘nothing out there for him’ allowing us both to move on and look forward.

All this paves the way for further introduction to the new storyline with the Whisperers, this time as they catch the hapless search party for Alden and Luke. We will have to wait and see what happens to them but judging by the tone of new character Alpha’s voice, they won’t be going back for tea and crumpets.

Overall, the episode didn’t have the same explosive excitement as some previous midseason premiers. It still had its moments though and flowed well considering how much went on to set the scene for the rest of the series. It certainly leaves the viewer wanting to see more.

3.5/5

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