The Walking Dead: Dead City has concluded its second season on AMC, and it was a wild ride full of betrayals, deaths, and Negan's emotional trauma and near-death experience. Although the network has yet to renew this The Walking Dead spinoff, we aren't worried one bit.
Dead City is the fourth spinoff of AMC's long-running apocalyptic series, The Walking Dead, which marks the first to feature stories focused on characters initially introduced in the main series. The series features Negan (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) years after he left the communities to make a new life with his wife, Annie (Medina Senghore), and son Joshua. The story catches up with Maggie (Lauren Cohan) after her son, Hershel (Logan Kim), had been abducted by a man known as the Croat (Željko Ivanek), a former member of Negan's Saviors.
The first season centered on a truce between the long-time enemies as they band together to rescue Hershel. Little did Negan know, Maggie struck a deal with the Croat: Exchange Negan for Hershel. Her plan was a success, but little did she know that her son would be brainwashed by a brutal and powerful woman known as the Dama (Lisa Emery).
In season 2, Maggie and Negan are trapped on opposite sides of the battle for Manhattan between the NYC gangs, with which Negan was forced to side, and New Babylon, a group that conscripted Maggie.
The second season ended with a monologue, spoken by Negan, Maggie, and Perlie Armstrong (Gaius Charles), that signaled a shift in the story's dynamics moving forward. TWD Chief Content Officer and Dead City executive producer confirmed, in an interview with Entertainment Weekly, that the monologue was intended to reflect a change in the relationship between Maggie and Negan.
Dead City showrunner Eli Jorne stated during the Episode Insider that recaps the episode, that the key players are ready to begin again, without the shackles of New Babylon or the NYC gangs. He continued, "I think that it means that the story is not over yet," which gives fans hope for the series' future. There have also been teases from both the cast and creative team about plans for a third season, hinting that the groundwork has been laid and a renewal might simply be a formality at this point.
Ratings and viewership for the series lead one to believe a renewal won't come. But The Walking Dead and its spinoffs tend to continue whether viewers think they are good or not. AMC has also typically given shows within the Walking Dead Universe a chance to come to a proper end, so when the network does choose to end Dead City we imagine it will at least get a final season.
Another reason we aren't concerned about a renewal is that The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon returns in September for its third season. In my opinion, this spinoff is the strongest of the three direct spinoffs, plus it features much more information about the status of other countries since the outbreak.
Daryl Dixon will premiere its third season on AMC and AMC+ beginning September 7, 2025.
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