It’s a formula “Fear the Walking Dead” has been stuck on for years, every season feeling like a recycling of previous story structures despite compelling performances by the central cast. Other elements feel so “Walking Dead” that AI might start to take over script writing duties: a cultish faction of violent kill-or-be-killed survivors with a peculiar aesthetic and strange customs, nameless grunts with guns who follow their leader without question, inconvenient zombie hordes, and a handful of new characters who are only given enough generic backstory for you to somewhat care when they inevitably get killed off. Jeffrey Dean Morgan as Negan in “The Walking Dead: Dead City.” (Peter Kramer/AMC) Lauren Cohan as Maggie Rhee and Charlie Solis as Bartender in “The Walking Dead: Dead City.” (Peter Kramer/AMC)īoth Dean Morgan and Cohan sell the hell out of this transactional relationship, and the show leans on their shared history to provide the bulk of the emotional depth throughout the season. Luckily, “Dead City” extracts the more memorable aspects of her “Walking Dead” arc - her unforgiving anger toward Negan. Negan is unafraid to tap into his more violent proclivities when under pressure of survival, and Dean Morgan still imbues the role with his trademark snarky one-liners and a flash of comedic relief as he and Maggie navigate Manhattan together.Ĭohan is also in top form as Maggie, a character hardened by years of loss and unfairly shafted in the last few seasons of “The Walking Dead.” After returning from a multi-season hiatus, Maggie got lost through the cracks of a large, relatively newer ensemble cast and some convoluted world-building.
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The series begins with Maggie recruiting Negan on the outskirts of New York after her son Hershell (Logan Kim) is taken hostage in Manhattan by a maniacal crony from Negan’s days as the leader of the Sanctuary’s Saviors from the original series.Īs we know from “The Walking Dead,” Negan is still haunted by his violent dictator-like past, and “Dead City” has adequate exposition to get you up to speed to his more reformed present. ‘The Walking Dead: Dead City’ to Capture the ‘Magic’ of Maggie and Negan’s First Visit to New York For viewers still slugging through the eighth season of “Fear the Walking Dead,” there are enough horror thrills in the six-episode season of “The Walking Dead: Dead City” to keep you watching and even raise an eyebrow, particularly if you’re already invested in the rich dynamic between Maggie (Lauren Cohan) and Negan (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) - a tense relationship that picks up where “The Walking Dead” left off.
The latest spin-off, created and written by “The Walking Dead” producing veteran Eli Jorné, is not likely to convert any new fans. After “The Last of Us” revived the prestige zombie genre with impressive quality and creativity earlier this year, AMC’s insistence on franchising continues to dilute the zombie drama du jour.
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It has been nearly 13 years since the original series first aired, and yet none of its three spin-offs - soon to be four, plus an additional two in the works - have recaptured the magic of those early Rick Grimes-led seasons. AMC continues to mine “The Walking Dead” to death.
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