SummaryMaggie (Lauren Cohan) and Negan (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) continue their journey to a post-apocalyptic Manhattan in the latest Walking Dead spinoff.
SummaryMaggie (Lauren Cohan) and Negan (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) continue their journey to a post-apocalyptic Manhattan in the latest Walking Dead spinoff.
Surprisingly, there is enough great storytelling here not only to keep that door open, but actually to inspire a little hope that the next era of “The Walking Dead” might be its best since the flagship’s early days.
For an undead adventure to the isle of Manhattan, Dead City is a trip worth taking for The Walking Dead fans, and kicks off an exciting—if still a bit too familiar—new chapter for our favorite survivors.
Amazing so far, Negan and Maggie are both great three-dimensional and complex characters and acting from JDM and Lauren Cohan is superb and shows their full acting range,good action scenes, solid writing and character arcs. It's an enjoyable show if you liked the main show you will enjoy this it's fun entertaining post-apocalyptic zombie show with good acting and interesting character so far the best spinoff TWD ever did.
“Dead City” isn’t perfect, but after “The Walking Dead: World Beyond,” “Tales of the Walking Dead” and even the long-running “Fear the Walking Dead,” this first of several planned spinoffs following the series finale offers the best reason to reenter this post-apocalyptic world in years.
Too much of the healing and forgiveness achieved in their [Lauren Cohan and Jeffrey Dean Morgan's] relationship during The Walking Dead’s final season gets taken back and undone, which makes Dead City feel like an unsatisfying loophole was created around moving their story forward.
Transforming Madison Square Garden into a staging ground for postapocalyptic mayhem is inspired. But what Dead City lacks is a compelling human element. [3 - 23 Jul 2023, p.6]
Stream it, if you’re a Walking Dead completist. But, for everyone else, SKIP IT. The Walking Dead: Dead City feels like the same show whose storytelling ambles like a hungry walker at times, just in a new location.
If you happen to be really tired of the core Walking Dead formula, it’s a long time before you’ll get even a hint of creative rejuvenation — and it really is only a hint, so don’t get your hopes up. If, however, you’re perfectly content to have Jeffrey Dean Morgan and Lauren Cohan back on your TV making zombies go squish ... The Walking Dead: Dead City delivers a barely adulterated version of that formula.
As another person said, it isn't a fresh take, it's the same corny B-rate tripe we've had for years now. There's the odd good moment here and there, but they're so few and far between.
You'd have to be pretty deluded and or have rather poor standards to think this is actually anything better than OK.