The Walking Dead: Dead City

The Walking Dead: Dead City season 2 pushes itself in a slightly absurd direction, but that only helps to give it a firmer identity.

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.

“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.

Frenemy energy between the leads is what helps this series rattle along like a disreputable B-movie. If it cannot match John Carpenter’s blackly comic Manhattan suicide mission Escape from New York – an obvious influence – it at least has fun trying.

The Walking Dead: Dead City doesn't seem to have much story left to tell. Like the worst seasons of the original series, it's merely shuffling in place, desperately searching for something of bigger substance to chew on.

“The Walking Dead” shows prior were ensemble dramas that often weaved their narratives across dozens of central characters; the narrative of this six-episode season is more focused, and the better for it. That’s not to say it’s all rainbows, though; if you were tired of the “Walking Dead” formula, “Dead City”’s modest modifications aren’t quite enough to save you.

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.

Of the 3 spin off series since the main show ended, this is the one that feels most like a 6 part movie. It’s got a bigger budget and all the high octane set pieces that the main series had, just with a shorter run time and more grounded story. It’s surprisingly good and light on the plot filler that the main series got bogged down with. There’s little side characters or pointless waffling to fill the runtime. It’s worth a watch even if you haven’t watched the walking dead.

An ok spin off from the ever popular main series. Both are decent actors, but the script is lazy and doesn't do enough to warrant anything more than these 6 episodes.

Keeping it down to 6 episodes really helped and as someone who nearly didn't watch due to exhaustion of so many Walking Dead shows I was surprised how much I enjoyed this. Still, just an average TV show. Maggie's character over time just gets worse and more annoying. This would be way better with a story focused more on Negan and Maggie perhaps in just one episode or not in the show at all.

Truly awful. It's like a bingo full house of writing sins, every single episode. A meandering, nonsensical, pathetic waste of potential. These writers should never work in the industry ever again.

There's no reason for this series. The writers have been trying to make a reason for these two to be together. It doesn't make sense. The shows have been boring. The angst been unbelievable. They should have sent any actors to New York instead of these two.