The Walking Dead flagship show may have ended after 11 seasons, but the franchise continues to stay alive through several successful spinoffs. The three major spinoffs to continue the story following some of the bountiful main characters are The Walking Dead: Dead City, The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon, and The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live.
Of those three, only two have surpassed one season (to be clear, The Ones Who Live ended with a solid and emotional conclusion). Both Dead City and Daryl Dixon have been renewed for another season, with projected 2026 releases.
Let's discuss and catch up.
The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon season 4
Starting off is the fourth and final season of Daryl Dixon. Daryl's story continues from The Walking Dead series finale where he finds himself traveling alone and ending up in Maine.
He and others are essentially kidnapped to be used as lab rats for Genet, the leader of Pouvoir in France. Her objective is to weaponize walkers via injections.
Daryl manages to escape the boat only to find himself ashore in France. Desperate to return home, he gets mixed up with villains and finds himself tasked with transporting a young boy, Laurent, to safety.
Laurent is deemed a special child who will change the world. As hope often is, he becomes a threat to Genet and her military group.
Seasons 1 and 2 have Daryl befriending Laurent, finding his place in France (seemingly ok with not returning home), a budding romance with Laurent's aunt Isabelle, and reuniting with Carol. Upon Carol's arrival, they learn how unsafe the sanctuary is for Laurent, defeat Genet and successfully transport Laurent out of France via plane with the help of a man named Ash.
Coming into season 3, Daryl and Carol enter a seemingly desolate London, England, where they meet a man named Julian who happens to have a boat. Plans go awry again when the boat gets lost during a storm, crashing ashore in Spain.
With Julian dead, Carol wounded, and no direct way home, our duo finds themselves stuck once again in a foreign country. Their luck changes when they meet a couple with a forbidden romance, who take them to their village, a walled community under the protection of Spanish royalty.
It doesn't take long for the two to get involved in the politics and romance between Justina and Roberto, with Carol finding romance of her own with Roberto's father, Antonio. Their plan, like before, is to find, repair, and use a boat.
Only this time Justina, Roberto, and now Antonio will be going to America with them. However, the season 3 finale ends with a cliffhanger, involving Justina's uncle Fede's (the leader of their community) true intentions and a scrabble resulting in the boat catching fire, leaving our heroes stranded yet again.
The Walking Dead: Dead City season 3
Dead City, on the other hand, doesn't seem to be concluding anytime soon. Negan and Maggie reunite for the first time since The Walking Dead series finale.
And although their drama has been buried and forgotten, old habits have a funny way of coming back. This time around, Maggie needs Negan's help to rescue her son, Hershel Jr., who was kidnapped by a man named The Croat.
Negan had a brief history with the man, and never one to turn down saving a kid, he agrees to help. However, he's on the run from the New Babylon Federation for killing the men responsible for harming his wife, Annie.
And he has a young girl, Ginny, under his care. All the same, the two venture into Manhattan, which had been cut off from the rest of the country during the apocalypse.
Although they work well together, it becomes clear that Maggie's true intentions were to hand over Negan to The Croat in exchange for her son. By the end of season 1, Negan accepts his fate, Hershel is rescued, but the story doesn't end there.
Negan was needed by The Dama, one of several faction leaders in Manhattan who has access to methane. His mission is to become his old self again, to bring all the groups together under his thumb.
Negan agrees for the sake of keeping Hershel safe. The problem is, Hershel was manipulated by The Dama during his captivity.
And while Maggie grapples with how to save her son, she is forced back to New York by New Babylon to retrieve the methane. Season 2 becomes a war for the methane between New York and New Babylon, and the groups within New York itself.
By the season finale, Negan, Maggie, alongside Perlie, a once villain turned ally for Negan, survive, beaten and broken down as Hershel chooses to stay with The Dama, Ginny dies, and reinforcements from New Babylon take to the streets.
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