If you’ve been following The Walking Dead spinoffs, you’ve been keeping an eye on Dead City. While the season 3 finale aired recently, we still haven't heard whether season 4 is even happening.
We do know that in 2027, The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon will come back for a fourth and final season, but what does that mean for Dead City? We’re not entirely sure yet, but AMC will likely be announcing a decision on the show's future soon.
If it does come back for a fourth season, there are a few things we’d really like to see improved in Dead City. I shared a list of five things that could make a potential next season even better.
Hershel’s role
Dead City season 3 really starts to hit its stride with Hershel (Logan Kim), Maggie and Glenn’s teenage son. For the first two seasons, it really felt like Hershel was just kind of there to drive the plot forward for Maggie (Lauren Cohan) and Negan (Jeffrey Dean Morgan). Either he was floating around to get captured and somehow saved by Negan, or he was there to force Maggie to make hard choices and grow her character.
Look, one season playing that role is fine, but two is too much.
However, season 3 really gave Hershel something to do. Since Maggie and Hershel have basically decided to stay in the city full-time now and try to retake it with some fellow survivors, he became interested in the medical world after watching a survivor give birth. For most of the season, he trained under Luis (Raul Castillo) and learned essential skills in surgery, medicine, and more. He was really channeling his grandfather there.
But I want to see even more from him if season 4 happens. I compare him to Carl (Chandler Riggs) because, by that age, he felt like he was doing so much for his community and his family. I think Hershel could do a lot more, especially being born into this world. In the last few minutes, we see him learning to tattoo too, which is cool, so maybe that could play into the next season.
Better Dead City villains
I really don’t like the villains of Dead City. I think it’s hard, considering this series features one of the best The Walking Dead villains of all time: Negan. But really, none of these villains have been super memorable. The Croat (Željko Ivanek) was at least interesting enough, but he died early on. Same goes for The Dama (Lisa Emery). And Dillard (Jimmi Simpson) was just, I don’t know.
He was at least interesting, and you almost felt bad for him toward the end because he really went on a downward spiral. Dillard’s death was honestly kind of sad because at least he was reunited with his walker brethren, but he still wasn’t a great villain. I want one on this show that will shake me to my core and make me fear for the lives of its main characters. That’s the kind of villain I want.
Maggie finding love (again)
There was a slight tease in season 3 that Maggie might be feeling something for Luis. If they expanded on that in a possible next season or introduced someone completely different, I’d be happy.
I know that not everyone has to find love after a significant other passes away. Sometimes it’s not meant for them. But Maggie was so young when Glenn was killed, and I seriously do believe that her finding someone new is another step in the healing process. I think she can be truly happy if she allows herself to be, and who knows? That might be Luis.
But at the same time, for the love of God, never let her end up with Negan because I’ll stop watching the show. I can’t handle that.
An expansion of the world
Yes, we are in New York for most of Dead City, and we know that there were some survivors in New Jersey in this show as well. But if we’re trying to take back the whole city by the end of season 3, I'd better see this area expand in season 4.
I want to see more survivors come in from different parts of the country, maybe some from upstate New York, maybe some from Long Island, maybe some that came all the way across the country. I want to see other factions and communities fight for the right to take back New York. There has to be some group of people in this big city that haven’t run into Maggie and her crew.
Some connection to back home
I think one of my biggest critiques — and confusions — of season 3 is Maggie telling Negan that, besides her son, he’s the closest thing she has to family. And that’s just not true?
I know that Dead City takes place some time in the future in the world of The Walking Dead, but how far in the future is it that she says she has no other family? What about everyone in Alexandria? What about the survivors she literally stayed with on the road and built a home with? I can’t get behind that comment.
There has to be some connection between that story and this one in season 4 for that line to really make sense. There’s got to be a reunion or something. I need an explanation because I’m concerned everyone is dead by now. Please make it make sense.
You can check out all three seasons of The Walking Dead: Dead City on AMC+. You can watch the first two on Netflix.
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