Dead City struggles with the same exact thing the later seasons of TWD did. The showrunners/writers simply cannot make up their minds on how they want to handle Maggie and Negan's storyline. And unfortunately, there are only so many times they can have Maggie forgive him and then try to kill him again. It's awfully dry, and the show suffers for it. And I know it's a pilot season, but they should have known with it being TWD that it would have at least done decently, so in my opinion, a cliffhanger ending was absolutely the wrong way to go. Similarly to the Dixon ending. Definitely my least favorite spin-off, at a 6/10.
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The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon
(2023– )
Fun but ultimately missing something
3 April 2024
I obviously knew the setting for this, having watched it after the entire thing aired, but this just seems like the kind of thing that only happened purely because Norman Reedus wanted the change of scenery. Now with that being said, after 11 seasons of mostly the same thing in the OG show (east coast with multiple seasons in the same areas), the change in setting was actually kind of a winning point for the series overall. However the show does suffer from the semi-flimsy reasoning behind how the hell this dude ended up in Paris (but there is a one off line in The Ones Who Live that kind of salvages this in terms of the wider universe). Just getting to see what's going on in the greater world is super cool.
The season suffers from being too short, in a way that makes you care less for the characters, and also the plot has some of its own issues. The fact that the entire season is about leaving, just for there to be a set up for another season, is kind of a huge let down too, and if season 2 somehow sees Carol also make her way to Paris, I will absolutely lose my mind.
But its furthering of the evolution of zombies (natural or otherwise), as well as some well done acting on Reedus' part, kept this as just another very watchable piece to the larger universe.
Is Laurent some kind of zombie-Jesus child hybrid?
The season suffers from being too short, in a way that makes you care less for the characters, and also the plot has some of its own issues. The fact that the entire season is about leaving, just for there to be a set up for another season, is kind of a huge let down too, and if season 2 somehow sees Carol also make her way to Paris, I will absolutely lose my mind.
But its furthering of the evolution of zombies (natural or otherwise), as well as some well done acting on Reedus' part, kept this as just another very watchable piece to the larger universe.
Is Laurent some kind of zombie-Jesus child hybrid?
More episodes and less rush were needed
3 April 2024
It is rather disappointing that this went from the announced trilogy of Rick Grimes theatrical release movies, then to a series, and then to a limited series with only 6 episodes. It's of course pretty obvious that they aren't done yet, and that the spin-off shows are building up to some kind of reunion (the show runners have even talked about it at length), but six episodes was heinously rushed in my opinion. The entire thing builds to the big reveal, and then we get the plan to stop it, the execution, the climax, and the resolution all in one episode. And it's not even a long running episode! We used to get an hour and a half for practically nothing and this one just got bunched together and it pays for it. I get that it doesn't need the 16 episodes of the OG show's season length, but it does feel like they rushed it just to have things tie back together.
Still a 7.5 honestly, seeing Rick go all out again is very worth it. And the episodes that hit, hit in a really big way. The budget was used well.
Still a 7.5 honestly, seeing Rick go all out again is very worth it. And the episodes that hit, hit in a really big way. The budget was used well.
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