The first season of The Walking Dead: Dead City is lumbering towards its finale this Sunday, but fans don’t have to worry about the story ending there. Today it was announced that both Dead City and the upcoming Daryl Dixon Walking Dead shows have been renewed for second seasons. The funny thing is that Norman Reedus’s Dixon show isn’t even set to premiere until the second week of September.
Dead City has been an interesting attempt to continue the stories of Maggie and Negan, but I’m not sure that they intended to make Negan (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) the more sympathetic character of the two. There’s no denying that Maggie (Lauren Cohan) has every right to hate the man who killer her husband, it just feels like hatred is preventing her character from seeing any growth, while Negan has evolved into a very interesting and different man than the one we first met in the woods many years ago.
The Daryl Dixon series is still a little confusing to us so we’re hoping for a decent Comic-Con trailer to help flesh out the story. Daryl is on the hunt for Rick and Michonne when he runs afoul of some people and then he wakes up drifting on an overturned dinghy off the coast of France. It’s a weird enough premise that we’re interested to see what they do with it, we just hope it isn’t as visually dark and monotonous as Dead City.
Meanwhile, Fear the Walking Dead will be back to wrap up their final season later this fall and Rick and Michonne will return with their own mini-series some time next year.