All fans need to know as The Walking Dead's 'best spin-off' returns with new season

Daily Record

10-07-2025

All episodes are now streaming
The new season of what some enthusiasts deem the 'best Walking Dead spin-off' is now available for streaming.
From today (July 10), fans can indulge in a binge-watch session of all episodes from Dead City's second season. All that's required is access to Sky Max or an entertainment pass on the NOW streaming platform.
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UK fans have had to exercise patience, waiting significantly longer than their US counterparts for its release. However, the wait has been rewarded with the simultaneous release of all eight episodes.
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Here's everything you need to know about The Walking Dead: Dead City season two, including plot, cast and reviews thus far.
What is the second season of The Walking Dead: Dead City all about?
The series continues the narrative of two of the most beloved characters from the original Walking Dead series - Maggie and Negan. Audiences are accustomed to seeing them at odds, but the first season saw them journeying together into a post-apocalyptic Manhattan isolated from the mainland, reports the Mirror.
Their mission was to rescue Maggie's kidnapped son, Hershel. The decaying city is teeming with the dead and inhabitants who have transformed New York City into their own chaotic, dangerous, beautiful, and terrifying world.
Season two resumes a year after Maggie infiltrated New York to save her son. Her group, The Brocks, have been compelled to join the New Babylon Federation while Maggie has been attempting to move forward with her life alongside her teenage son Hershel and Ginny.
However, the new regime is keen to draft the locals for a daring operation to seize control of the metropolis. In the midst of this, Negan strives to unite the factions that reign over Manhattan, fully aware that an offensive on the city looms.
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Who is in the cast for The Walking Dead: Dead City's season two?
What do the reviews for Walking Dead Dead City season two say?
Following the finale of season two airing stateside, comprehensive reviews have started cropping up across the web. The inaugural season was met with quite the acclaim from viewers, with one enthusiast proclaiming: "It's definitely the best of the three spin off shows. I had low expectations going into this as the Daryl spin off was a big disappointment. But I was pleasantly surprised by how good this was and really enjoyed it."
Regrettably, the sophomore season hasn't enchanted critics to the same degree. Its Rotten Tomatoes score sits at a lukewarm 63%, a significant drop from the first season's robust 80%.
Nonetheless, a critic opined that the show's leads did enough to warrant viewing. Their words: "Jeffrey Dean Morgan and Lauren Cohen make the writer's job easy as they consistently deliver within Negan and Maggie, making Season 2 well worthy of a watch."
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Another noted: "The Walking Dead: Dead City goes weirder in season 2, with more eccentric groups, all the while continuing its introspective look at Maggie and Negan."
What have the star of Waling Dead Dead City said?
Lauren Cohan has not only returned to the role of Maggie, a part she's embodied since 2011, but in a thrilling turn of events for the show's second season, the star has also directed an episode of Dead City.
Discussing her new undertaking, Lauren expressed: "Being able to direct on a creative level is so satisfying because you collaborate with everyone and you get to you get to go into their world. You go into the production designers' world you go into the costume designers' world."
She went on to explain: "I felt like the responsibility to the fans is baked in because we know it, we love it. We just don't want to get in the way of the thing we love. And the responsibility to my co-stars, working with the actors is the best part of the whole thing because we speak the language."