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16-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
THE WALKING DEAD: DEAD CITY Scores Season 3 Renewal, Releases Synopsis and New Showrunner Info
The Walking Dead: Dead City ended its second season with a disheartening turn of events in more ways than one. The series killed off my homie Bruegel, Herschel betrayed his own mama to be with the Dama, and Maggie still couldn't bring herself to just go ahead and kill Negan. Like girl, either kill the man or be his friend, stop this back and forth! Maggie, Negan, and Armstrong decide to stay in NYC as New Babylon takes over and gains control. It felt inevitable, so it is not shocking that AMC is renewing The Walking Dead: Dead City for a third season. Maggie needs to somehow win her son back over, but that's going to be hard. He's deeply brainwashed by Dama and upset with his mom for not killing Negan. I assume the Bricks is just left to its own devices at this point. Meanwhile, Negan is back to having pretty much nothing and no one after losing all of his men and power in that final battle. RELATED ARTICLE What Happens to Maggie and Negan in THE WALKING DEAD: DEAD CITY Season 2 Finale? He's reeling over the death of Ginny and for some reason isn't wanting to be with his wife and son in another locale. I will never understand that man. And Armstrong is no longer fully on board with New Babylon's actions, which spells eventual trouble for him. There's a lot to wrap up in The Walking Dead: Dead City season three, whenever it arrives. For now, we already have a brief synopsis for season three: In season three, Maggie and Negan finally put aside their differences to build the first thriving community in Manhattan since the apocalypse, but when chaos in the city begins to arise, they are forced to question: have they learned from their old wounds or will their dark past spell doom for the entire city? Y'all. This synopsis is wild. I would have never thought these two would build a community as co-leaders, especially in a wild place like Manhattan. Who will the residents be? Will some of the Bricks people live there? How are they going to do this with New Babylon all over the place? Who knows. We do know that Seth Hoffman will be Dead City's new showrunner, replacing Eli Jorné. It's not totally clear why Jorné is leaving the series but Hoffman was responsible for some great episodes of the flagship series like 'Too Far Gone.' So I'm confident that he will take Maggie and Negan's story to a new level. 'We're thankful to Eli Jorné for two seasons of Dead City that took the story of these iconic characters in exciting new directions and broadened this thriving Universe by introducing a new corner of the walker apocalypse,' said Dan McDermott, president of entertainment and AMC Studios for AMC Networks. 'As we continue to create new stories for a passionate TWD fanbase, we're delighted to have a seasoned Walking Dead veteran like Seth Hoffman at the helm of a new season, alongside the remarkable Lauren Cohan and Jeffrey Dean Morgan, that will bring new adversaries and alliances and push the boundaries of Maggie and Negan's conflicted relationship.' And it seems we won't have to wait too long for another season. Production is set to begin in Boston this fall. Before we know it, we will be back in the New York groove. Solve the daily Crossword
The Review Geek
23-06-2025
- Entertainment
- The Review Geek
The Walking Dead: Dead City – Season 2 Episode 8 Recap, Review & Ending Explained
Episode 8 Episode 8 of The Walking Dead: Dead City Season 2 begins with the Dama holding Maggie captive. Cue the big evil monologue as Dama confesses that she is using them all to create a better world. But since Negan failed her, she wants Maggie to kill him and take his place as the leader. She points out that Maggie can get Hershel back and set herself free after killing Negan. Hershel too promises her that killing Negan will help them start over. Maggie finally agrees. Was Benjamin ever loyal to Negan? Negan sits by Ginny's side but she doesn't get better. Despite Bruegel's ambush, Benjamin refuses to leave as he doesn't have anywhere to go. He promises to be by Negan's side. But when Negan confronts Bruegel, Benjamin hangs out on the roof with a Burazi guard. The guard sees through his cowardice and how he only cares about staying alive. Suddenly, several boats pop up. A New Babylon sheriff arrives and kills the guard. To save himself, Benjamin states that he is with New Babylon. In the end, he even leads them all to the methane supply. How does Bruegel's ambush end? Perlie learns that Bruegel sent Ginny to kill Negan. He rants about putting her in danger and unknowingly reveals that Ginny and Negan care for each other. He is further upset on learning that Bruegel has no qualms in using her to control Negan. However, he still joins the ambush, but in disguise. Negan is one step ahead as he traps the Silk Stockings, sets the church on fire and sends walkers after them. He is furious when he spots Perlie helping Bruegel and his men get the upper hand. Bruegel gets a flamethrower and goes after Negan. He reaches the dungeons and finds Ginny's cell. Before he can kill her, Perlie stops him. The two men scuffle till Negan and some Burazis corner them. Maggie reaches the same time and hides as Bruegel once again tries to ally with Negan. He spins a story that Perlie is using them and Ginny. Negan has had enough. He makes the men kneel and plays his eeny, meeny, miney, mo game. While Perlie and Bruegel are confused, Maggie gets PTSD as Negan had killed Glenn the same way. Perlie loses but Negan kills Bruegel first. Perlie uses this chance to run. As Negan goes after him, Maggie kills the Burazi guards. Perlie tries to explain that he cares for Ginny but Negan doesn't buy it. He is about to kill Perlie when Maggie stabs him in the back. Negan crawls towards Ginny while Maggie goes after him with Lucille 2.0. Why doesn't Maggie kill Negan? The trio stops in shock on seeing that Ginny has died and turned into a walker. Maggie gives a knife to a crying Negan who kills Walker Ginny. Maggie and Perlie then take him to an abandoned apartment and fix his wound. Negan is upset that while trying to protect Ginny, he failed her. She died alone, just like Lucille. Having made up her mind, Maggie goes to Hershel who is upset that she didn't kill Negan. She insists that killing is not the way forward. But unlike before, she promises to be there for him but he doesn't trust her anymore. He decides to leave her and rebuild the island alone with Dama. She understands his anger and promises to wait for him regardless. In the end, Hershel is by Dama's side as she angrily watches the New Babylon invasion. How do Maggie, Negan and Perlie react to the invasion? At the end of The Walking Dead: Dead City Season 2 Episode 8, Maggie, Negan and Perlie wonder what to do next. From the windows, they see tons of New Babylon soldiers arriving. Perlie tells them about Roksana's road not taken story. Negan and Maggie realise that they need to resolve their past together to move on. Which is neither New Babylon's old world nor the Dama's new world, but a better world. The Episode Review We were so close, Maggie! But we do understand where she is coming from. She stabs Negan and finally has the chance to kill him. But she doesn't feel any different; she doesn't feel better about it. She only does it to save Perlie and get back Hershel. It isn't revenge anymore since she has seen Negan's humanity over the last 2 seasons. He has redeemed himself. But even though we are all fans of Negan now and don't want him dead, we do miss Glenn. And it was extremely satisfying watching Maggie go after him with Lucille 2.0. It also wraps up the will-they-won't-they revenge storyline between the duo since Maggie is finally free of her resentment towards Negan. Season 2 Episode 8 also does a brilliant job of wrapping up Hershel's storyline. After two seasons of being given false promises and being let down by his mother, it is only understandable that he cannot trust her to have moved on from her obsession with Negan. It also makes it clear that his problem is not with Negan, it never has been. It is his mother's absence because of it. And now that he has found a replacement in Dama, it is time for his villain era. All in all, the finale is crisp, tightly packed with action and emotional confrontations. However, the only letdown is Ginny's storyline which has been a disappointment this whole season. She had more depth in the previous season than in this one, where she could finally talk again. Instead of exploring her new complicated feelings for Negan, she is just a bystander with a few obligatory set-ups here and there. Doubt her death will move any viewers which is a shame, as she had a lot of potential. Previous Episode Expect A Full Season Write-Up When This Season Concludes!
The Review Geek
09-06-2025
- Entertainment
- The Review Geek
The Walking Dead: Dead City – Season 2 Episode 6 'Bridge Partners Are Hard to Come by These Days' Recap & Review
Episode 6 Episode 6 of The Walking Dead: Dead City Season 2 begins with Bruegel bringing Ginny, Hershel, Maggie and Perlie to his museum. After they head in, one of the guards is dragged away. Meanwhile, the Croat tries to defend himself as he explains the Dama's death to Negan. Negan is ready to kill him but thankfully, the Croat doesn't figure out his trap. In fact, Croat tells him that he is free to go with his family. Back at the museum, Maggie convinces Perlie to head home. Her progress is ruined when Bruegel offers to give Perlie the methane and destroy the Burazi. In exchange, Perlie is to end New Babylon's invasion. We also see Bruegel heartlessly killing the mauled guard. Maggie doesn't trust him and is shocked to see Perlie consider his offer. It cuts to Negan and the Croat discussing what to do next. The Croat regrets the Dama's death and the eventual departure of Negan. He is lonely and Negan claims it is a fresh start. They smoke together and the Croat tries to convince Negan to come to Croatia with him. The moment is broken when the Croat sees Negan's bloody boot and realises that he killed Dama's rat. The Croat grabs Lucille 2.0 and beats up Negan, upset by his betrayal and manipulation. Negan gets the upper hand and a cowering Croat declares that he is what Negan made him. Negan looks sad but kicks him out. Onto the methane drama, Perlie wants the dead soldiers' sacrifice to mean something. Maggie insists that they can get the methane alone and Perlie realises that she doesn't want Bruegel to kill Negan. Both Hershel and Ginny are upset by this revelation. Ginny storms off and Maggie goes after her. She sees herself in Ginny and explains that she is conflicted about killing Negan, as she is scared of the other side. Maggie adds that revenge has cost her everything and it won't get better with Negan's death. Back to Negan, he mourns Croat's exit and hides in the prison. He finds Benjamin and frees him. But the historian doesn't know what to do next as he has lost his purpose. Negan declares that history is just the winner's story. He believed that by killing rival surviving communities, his people were winning. But now, he realises that he has just broken his own people, like the Croat. That night, Hershel tries to infect the museum's water supply with walker blood. Maggie stops him and begs him to go home. She blames the Dama's influence and he lashes out at her. He brings up her obsession with Negan and because of it, he has no real home. He tries to leave, but a bear pops up. Maggie tries to distract it but she is cornered. Hershel weakens it with his knives and kills it before running off. Maggie goes after him and runs into Negan. He comforts her as he explains the Dama's almost-magical pull on lost minds. He deduces that Hershel has gone to the Dama's theatre, and in exchange, she tells him about Bruegel's ambush. He asks about Ginny and ends up trauma-dumping on how he may be a threat to his family. Maggie looks uncomfortable and leaves. The next morning, Annie and Joshua arrive but Negan tells the Burazi to take them back to Tennessee. He goes as far as to hide so his wife and son don't spot him. Elsewhere, Ginny and Perlie are upset as they think Maggie and Hershel have abandoned them. Bruegel invites Perlie to a game of bridge and mocks Maggie's thoughts on cheating. To him, all that matters is the actual game. There is a walker chained up and we see it is Lucia. Before she turned, she told Bruegel about Perlie's lies on killing Negan. Bruegel looks gleeful as he claims that whether Perlie likes it or not, he is stuck in the game. At the end of The Walking Dead: Dead City Season 2 Episode 6, Ginny points a gun at Negan. She hesitates to kill him and then passes out. He looks worried as her wound is infected. The Episode Review The Walking Dead: Dead City Season 2 Episode 6 is yet another highlight of the season with the ingenious bear action, the angsty bromance, bittersweet reunions and betrayals. The cherry on top is the fact that Lauren Cohan is the director while churning out some hard-hitting performances and action sequences in this episode. Viewers can see just how well she knows the characters as we get several emotional, unsaid moments from Negan's remorse at kicking out the Croat to Ginny hesitating to kill Negan. Bruegel finally fills in the space as a worthy antagonist now that the Dama and Lucia are gone. His final reveal of walker Lucia heightens the stakes for Perlie who knows he is a dead man if New Babylon finds out about Negan. And with Bruegel being a cheat, our heroes are in danger of being betrayed. Previous Episode Next Episode Expect A Full Season Write-Up When This Season Concludes!
The Review Geek
27-05-2025
- Entertainment
- The Review Geek
The Walking Dead: Dead City Season 2 Episode 5 Preview: Release Date, Time & Where To Watch
The Walking Dead: Dead City Season 2 Episode 5 The Walking Dead favourites, Maggie and Negan are finally back with a second season just revolving around them! Yep, years after their exit from the iconic zombie series, our complicated duo have returned with their hit spin-off show The Walking Dead: Dead City. Season 2 looks into what Negan and Maggie have been up to following their split in Season 1. New Babylon plans to invade Manhattan and make it its new base. This has poor Perlie drafting soldiers to join an exploratory mission. And as expected, once they reach the Bricks, they face their biggest opposition yet from Maggie. This puts her right in the warring path of the Burazis who are getting ready to take down New Babylon. Negan plays the twisted leader, promoting the ideals of the Dama and the Croat but it seems that not all is hunky dory. While he struggles to unite the different factions of Manhattan against New Babylon, it seems that the Dama has something on Negan. If you've been following this TV show, you may be curious to find out when the episodes of The Walking Dead: Dead City Season 2 are releasing. Well, wonder no more! Here is everything you need to know about The Walking Dead: Dead City Season 2 Episode 5, including its release date, time and where you can watch this. Where Can I Watch The Walking Dead: Dead City Season 2? The Walking Dead: Dead City Season 2 will be airing on AMC and AMC+ at the moment. It is available to stream on Hulu and Amazon Prime as well as they have a tie-up with AMC+. The other shows of the TWD universe are available on AMC, Disney+, Amazon Prime and Netflix in selected territories. The Walking Dead: Dead City Season 2 Episode 5 Release Date The Walking Dead: Dead City Season 2 Episode 5 will release on Sunday 1st June at approximately 9pm (ET) / 2am (GMT) the next day. AMC is known to release English subtitles immediately. Season 2 Episode 5 is titled 'The Bird Always Knows'. Expect each episode to be roughly 1 hour long, which is consistent with the time frame for the rest of TWD shows. How Many Episodes Will The Walking Dead: Dead City Season 2 Have? The Walking Dead: Dead City Season 2 is an 8-episode English-language show. It will release one episode every Sunday and run its course till 22nd June. Is There A Trailer For The Walking Dead: Dead City Season 2? There is indeed! You can find an exciting trailer for The Walking Dead: Dead City Season 2 below. What Happened in the Previous Episode? We've covered the entire episode with a lengthy recap that touched on all major plot points and discusses the chapter with an accompanying review. You can find that link below. Read More: The Walking Dead: Dead City Season 2 Episode 4 Recap & Review What Happens in the Next Episode? In next week's teaser, the Burazi get ready to recruit Christos. Someone cuts the power. Maggie doesn't think Lucia can take on the Burazis. The Croat puts on a gas mask. Lucia forces Maggie to bring Negan to her. Christos threatens Negan with Lucille 2.0. Negan tells Dama that he is her best shot but she doesn't think so. Bruegel's men grab Hershel while Ginny aims her gun at someone. What do you hope to see as the series progresses? What's been your favourite moment of The Walking Dead so far? Let us know in the comments below!
Forbes
11-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Forbes
‘Dead City' Season 2, Episode 2 Recap And Review — The Terrible Women Of ‘The Walking Dead'
The Walking Dead: Dead City The writers of The Walking Dead: Dead City seem determined to prove one thing: Women in this zombie-strewn universe are the worst. Just about every single one of the female characters in Dead City, barring Maggie, is awful. Maggie is annoying, sure, but she's not terrible, cruel, petty, vengeful, spiteful or a psychopath. The same cannot be said for the various female leaders of New Babylon and the Burazi, the two main factions vying for control of New York City and its burgeoning zombie-methane trade. We have the Dama, a woman so evil it's almost a shame she can't grow a mustache to twirl. It's like the writers researched every cliche villain characteristic and wrote it into one character. The leaders of New Babylon are hardly any better. Lucia Narvaez is a Major in the Federation army, but unless I'm terribly mistaken, seems to routinely outrank Perlie, ordering him around even though he's a Colonel. Lucia accuses Maggie of desertion at one point in this week's episode despite Maggie not actually trying to desert. She wants to execute her for her crimes along with 20 other people because she's taken the place of 20 conscripts. That seems a teensy, tiny bit excessive but she tells Perlie it's because 'the law' demands it, or something. She's very big on the law, which apparently has no due process in this society whatsoever. Just feelings. Lucia probably gets her penchant for stupid cruelty from Governor Charlie Byrd, the governor of New Babylon though, to be fair, the show has done almost nothing to give Byrd a personality. She's just responsible for the awful way New Babylon does things. This show has done a really top-notch job at getting me to pretty much despise everyone, though I have to admit a certain fondness for the Croat. At least his brand of evil maniac is kind of funny and endearing. Maggie I've talked before about how unrealistic it is to have just about every single faction in the zombie apocalypse run by women. The devolution of society into violent factions ruled over by violent warlords would mean a general rolling back of all the good, progressive change we've seen in modern times. In a country where electing a female president has proven all but impossible, how likely is it that the Commonwealth, the Whisperers, New Babylon, the Burazi, the Pioneers (in Fear The Walking Dead) Madame Genet (in Daryl Dixon) and so many other groups would be led by women? I'm not suggesting they shouldn't be, I'm simply pointing out that in this kind of full societal breakdown and collapse, it's highly unlikely that just about every single community and faction is led by a woman. The fact that all of these women are written incredibly poorly only makes matters worse. Negan was over-the-top and it took me a long time before I started liking his character, but at least he had personality. He was distinct. The Governor was charismatic and ruthless and hid his madness well. Pamela Milton of the Commonwealth was . . . so basic. The most basic middle-aged white lady ever written into a zombie apocalypse. Charlie Byrd of New Babylon is almost as forgettable and bland. The Dama is as evil as she is cliche. At least Alpha was a great character, even if the Whisperers are kind of goofy when you think about it. At least Alpha had layers. She was sadistic but there was some meat beneath her zombie mask. So many of these characters are just generic, flat and one-dimensional. The point is, this franchise keeps elevating women to positions of power without bothering to write compelling personalities and backstories and motivations for them. It feels lazy and tokenistic and unrealistic all at the same time. Rather than write great female characters, they just give them all power. Out of all the newer female characters in The Walking Dead, only a couple come to mind that are actually likable: Isabelle, Princess . . . and I'm drawing a blank beyond that. Neither were in charge of anything. Neither were written as a 'girlboss.' Basically a Fear The Walking Dead character But Lucia? It's like they got her off the boat from Fear The Walking Dead. I just hope they kill her off sooner rather than later. Then again, they usually keep the annoying ones alive. Like Sherry. Or Morgan. (Obviously, male characters aren't handled much better and I'm not sure any female TWD character can rival Morgan when it comes to the Worst Characters list, but they're also rarely leaders now, so a lot of the 'annoying leaders do stupid and/or evil things' stuff falls on the women these days). Speaking of killing off good characters, the Dama kills off the best new character the show has introduced this season just to . . . punish Negan? The best part of this episode outside of watching the New Babylonians get firebombed was Victor and his violin. Negan's former prison guard and one of the few new characters who is actually likeable and seems decent, played by an actor who is actually good at his job (and trust me, a lot of the acting this season is just bad) really stole the show for me. So of course they killed him off right away. For some cheap shock value. I'm very annoyed but not in the slightest bit surprised. Gee, I wonder if Negan will kill the Dama now? This is all so painfully predictable. There are rules! Also, why would you kill a guy who can play such beautiful music? He's a huge asset for morale and for the future of the arts in whatever society they're trying to build. The Dama saying Bach was trying to 'bring back the past' and that she doesn't want to do that is just silly nonsense. She's this big art lover. It makes no sense for her character to kill their one classically trained musician just to piss Negan off. But hey, this is from the same people that killed off Carl to boost ratings. What do you expect? Victor Other than that, we get the Battle of Blackwater Bay, basically. The stupid, incompetent morons running New Babylon decide it's a good idea to take a ferry across to Manhattan, er, the Dead City, despite Maggie warning them that it's a bad idea, that they're heading into a trap and so forth. The Croat has set up a bunch of buoys with methane bombs on them and the New Babylon ferry crashes right into them. At least Stannis had no idea what Tyrion had cooked up for him in Game Of Thrones. Here, it's just pure stupidity and arrogance that gets the New Babylon forces into hot water. If the Dama wasn't such an evil old hag, I'd be rooting for Negan and the Croat at this point. As it stands, I'm not rooting for anyone. I'm rooting for Negan and Maggie to get the hell out of dodge. Go somewhere else. Start a farm. Maggie's farm. Or Maggie could go find her friends at Alexandria or the Commonwealth. Negan is in a tighter spot given that the Dama (allegedly) has his family. But really, why are these characters here to begin with? What is the point of this goofy conflict? I don't want anyone to win. Thankfully, whenever the heroes of The Walking Dead show up somewhere, that community's days are numbered. My money is on mutually assured destruction. All these ridiculous, unlikable jerks are going down in the end, just like they did in France after Daryl Dixon was through with them, and in every other community Rick and Carol and the rest have visited. And good riddance. The Dama It seems as though Hershel Jr. is following the example set by his elders. He's clearly working with the Croat and the Dama to sabotage New Babylon. I suppose it will all blow up in his face when the truth comes out. Overall, this was a bit better than the first episode, but between the unlikable characters and the retread of the same faction-vs-faction plot that every TWD show uses over and over again, I'm just beyond caring what happens to any of these people. The heroes have plot armor galore, so we never really worry about their fates. And since I don't care what happens to any of the other characters, there's basically no tension at all. They'll kill off the ones we like (Isabelle from Daryl Dixon or Nat from The Ones Who Live or John Dorie from Fear) and make us trudge along with the worst of the litter. What fun. P.S. The Dama also captures historian Benjamin Pierce, who is played by Keir Gilchrist from Atypical and other shows where he's quite good. He's fine here, but I just find that even good actors end up at their worst on The Walking Dead. Lennie James just won a BAFTA Best Actor award for his new show after spending years annoying everyone as Morgan in Fear The Walking Dead. YOU KNOW WHAT IT IS. Colman Domingo has gone on to do some genuinely great work after finally getting free of FTWD. Same with Alycia Debnam-Carey and her new Netflix series. The list goes on and on. It's great to see these actors doing so well, but what a shame that their talents were wasted for so long. P.P.S. This show has the same problem modern Marvel movies have. All this is going down and the Commonwealth and CRM are just around the riverbend but apparently don't care and aren't getting involved. The more these franchises try to connect everything, the less sense it makes when you leave out major players and organizations for no good reason. Also, can't the French send some ships to help? I mean, we got a good look at Lady Liberty this episode. Send those French freighters over! Bring back Daryl! P.P.P.S Carol is another example of a once-great female character that the writers seem determined to undermine and destroy at every turn. There was a time when she was genuinely badass (just ask the Termites) but for so long now, and certainly in Daryl Dixon's second season, she is just impossible to like. She lies constantly. Makes terrible choices. Everyone treats her like she's this legendary hero but she's almost guaranteed to ruin your life. They try to make her a badass but it's always cringe. Just total character assassination at this point. Your thoughts on this episode and series so far? Let me know on Twitter, Instagram, Bluesky or Facebook. Also be sure to subscribe to my YouTube channel and follow me here on this blog. Sign up for my newsletter for more reviews and commentary on entertainment and culture.
