![]() Creator Eli Jorné is a veteran of the original series, and he knows the show’s rhythms. ![]() Those sarcastic gasps of surprise are in response to the only meaningful twists through maybe two-thirds of the season. New York City is swarming with zombies, but - and this is another huge spoiler - Maggie, Negan and Armstrong are about to learn that, however scary the zombies are, it’s man’s inhumanity to man that’s the real killer.Ĭue Walking Dead fans gasping in surprise. Soon, Maggie and Negan are making their way to New York City in search of The Croat and Armstrong is on his way to Manhattan in search of Negan. ![]() He’s actually wanted for a quintet of murders and pursued by Perlie Armstrong (Gaius Charles), a marshal from New Babylon, a more peaceful settlement with strict notions of law and order. Plus, Negan is now traveling with a silent teenage girl (Mahina Napoleon’s Ginny), so maybe he’s mellowed? Sure, Negan bludgeoned Maggie’s husband with a baseball bat in front of her eyes, but postapocalyptic times make for strange bedfellows. The only person capable of helping Maggie apparently is Negan (Morgan), formerly The Croat’s pal and mentor in psychopathy. Her son Hershel (Logan Kim) has been abducted by a terrifying settlement leader known as The Croat (Željko Ivanek) and taken to the isolated remains of New York City. Set in an irrelevant period of time after the end of the original series, Dead City begins with Maggie (Cohan) in a bad emotional place. If, however, you’re perfectly content to have Jeffrey Dean Morgan and Lauren Cohan back on your TV making zombies go squish … The Walking Dead: Dead City delivers a barely adulterated version of that formula. If you happen to be really tired of the core Walking Dead formula, it’s a long time before you’ll get even a hint of creative rejuvenation - and it really is only a hint, so don’t get your hopes up. Without the semi-redundant subtitle, Dead City could basically be the start of season 12 of The Walking Dead, and it takes until the fifth and sixth episodes for anything even slightly distinctive to emerge. The first of the spinoffs from the Walking Dead mothership, not to be confused with Fear the Walking Dead or several unrelated spinoffs remembered only by TV critics and franchise obsessives, is The Walking Dead: Dead City. Cast: Lauren Cohan, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Gaius Charles, Željko Ivanek
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