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Jun 16, 2023 · TV Reviews. ‘The Walking Dead: Dead City’ Review: AMC’s Spinoff Is Only for the True Undead Faithful. The show follows Lauren Cohan's Maggie and Jeffrey Dean Morgan's Negan as they...
80% Tomatometer 54 Reviews 76% Audience Score 250+ Ratings Maggie and Negan travel into a post-apocalyptic Manhattan long ago cut off from the mainland; the crumbling city is filled with the...
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By Matt Fowler
Updated: Jun 14, 2023 11:05 pm
Posted: Jun 14, 2023 11:02 pm
The Walking Dead: Dead City's first season premieres on AMC on June 18.
With The Walking Dead wrapped up and Fear the Walking Dead closing up shop, the franchise continues with Dead City, featuring strange bedfellows Maggie and Negan. They team up for a six-episode mission in Manhattan, which one can imagine, now 15(ish?) years into the saga’s zompocalypse, is in less-than-ideal shape. Dead City offers up better material than both previous shows have given us in a couple years, but it also stumbles off the blocks by undoing much of the key emotional work these two characters did over the course of Walking Dead's final season.
Dead City is a soft recommendation. Walking Dead superfans? All yours. Completionists? Have at it. Maggie and Negan fans, specifically? This was designed for you. More casual viewers? Maybe. Folks who feel the franchise’s best years are behind it, and that the latter half of The Walking Dead's tenure was a massive space-waster? Proceed with caution. Not much new ground is covered here; there are newer, better zombie shows on the block now, and they fill their episodes with denser, more effective material.
Also…Maggie and Negan got their own spinoff for a reason, right? The Walking Dead carried the burden, for years, of having a large and mostly underserved ensemble. An ensemble the show became way too precious with compared to how little they did with these folks. Maggie and Negan are top-tier, though. And Maggie learning to live with Negan – and not just let him live, which she already did back in Season 8 when she spared his life – was a huge arc on a show with very few emotional changes (the character journeys were usually innocent-to-dangerous or menacing-to-kind). Dead City indulging in a relapse, and bubbling up their previous hate vibes, also undoes Negan's Walking Dead endpoint as a budding family man. Again, reasons are provided but they don't make the torching of previous heavy lifting more palatable.
Dead City indulging in a relapse also undoes Negan's Walking Dead endpoint as a budding family man.
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Dead City draws upon Maggie's trauma and Negan's position as the founder/leader of the Saviors to explore a new, niche corner of ravaged America. Manhattan is now a truly cut-off island due to the military blowing up bridges and tunnels and as a crowded skyscraper graveyard it’s now ruled by someone from Negan's past. Someone whose methods echo the Saviors playbook – even going so far as to torment Maggie again by swiping her teenage son Hershel (now played by Logan Kim) and hiding him away in the concrete jungle. Thematically, this near-impossible rescue mission totally works to bring Maggie and Negan back into each other's orbit years after the events of The Walking Dead finale, but it misses the opportunity to build on what's already been created between these two beloved characters.
The Walking Dead: Dead City thins the herd, allowing for a tighter, more-focused story. Setting things in an obliterated city also nicely whisks the saga out of the stale farmlands and into dire, dystopian wreckage. Stars Lauren Cohan and Jeffrey Dean Morgan got here for a reason, and it's because they fully inhabit these characters and work amazin...
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The Walking Dead: Dead City offers new landscapes and dangers while rehashing old feuds.
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Jun 19, 2023 · The Walking Dead’s newest series is Dead City, where Maggie and Negan team up. It’s best when it forgets the original show — our review here.
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Jun 19, 2023 · Review by Brian Lowry, CNN. 3 minute read. Published 11:04 PM EDT, Sun June 18, 2023. Link Copied! Jeffrey Dean Morgan as Negan and Lauren Cohan as Maggie in "The Walking Dead: Dead...
Jun 14, 2023 · The Walking Dead: Dead City, starring Jeffrey Dean Morgan and Lauren Cohan, brings new life to this television franchise. Read on for our review. 'Dead City' proves there is still...
