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Jeffrey Dean Morgan and Lauren Cohan return in Season 3 of “The Walking Dead: Dead City,” premiering Sunday, July 26, on AMC and AMC+. Jeffrey Dean Morgan and Lauren Cohan in “The Walking Dead: Dead City”
Cover Story ‘Dead City’ finds new life: ‘TWD’ spinoff welcomes new showrunner for Season 3 By Dana Simpson From the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s roughly 37 completed films and 17 television series (as of writing) to popular crime drama procedurals belonging to the Law & Order, CSI and One Chicago worlds, on-screen franchises are getting difficult to stay on top of. Although each series typically averages one or fewer seasons each year, sequels, prequels and spinoffs make for lots of content to keep viewers not just interested, but immersed. Amid all the available options across cable and streaming, AMC is home to a franchise that has been particularly hard to keep up with — which is especially surprising given that it is walking. “The Walking Dead: Dead City,” the fifth series in the Walking Dead franchise created by Frank Darabont (“The Mist,” 2007) from source material by graphic novelist Robert Kirkman (“Invincible”) and artists Tony Moore and Charlie Ad-
lard, premieres its third season Sunday, July 26, on AMC and AMC+. “The Walking Dead: Dead City” follows other spinoff series “Fear the Walking Dead” (2015-23), “The Walking Dead: World Beyond” (2020-21) and the 2022 anthology series “Tales of the Walking Dead.” Launched by series creator Eli Jorne (“Wilfred”) mid-June 2023, “Dead City” is the first sequel, chronologically, to the original AMC “Walking Dead” series. Beginning five or six years after the events of “The Walking Dead,” “Dead City” follows Maggie (Lauren Cohan, “The Boy,” 2016) and Negan (Jeffrey Dean Morgan, “Supernatural”) as they venture onto New York’s Manhattan island to rescue Maggie’s son (Logan Kim, “Ghostbusters: Afterlife,” 2021), who was kidnapped and presumed taken into the heart of the once-thriving city. Still surrounded by the undead, however, the pair must repeat-
edly put aside their differences to conquer the Walkers and survive in a dangerous changing world. In Season 3, AMC reports that Maggie and Negan “finally put aside their differences to build the first thriving community in Manhattan since the apocalypse, but when chaos in the city begins to arise, they are forced to question: have they learned from their old wounds or will their dark past spell doom for the entire city?” “I think we played as much hate as we could over the last 10 years,” Morgan told Deadline following “Dead City” Season 3’s Monte Carlo premiere. “[W]e’ve now known each other longer than probably anyone else alive in this world, and for these characters to realize to survive that they need each other was a big revelation, and then [we get] to do that with a bit of a sense of humor at times as well.” It is possible that the moderate tonal shift is due to Seth
Hoffman (“Prison Break”) taking on the showrunner duties previously ascribed to series’ creator Jorne, but Hoffman is the first to recognize that the show — and Season 3, in particular — is bigger than any one person or single idea. “This is a season that is about immigration,” Hoffman told Deadline when questioned about the series’ relevance to the world as we know it today. “This is a world where people are afraid of other people, and in this season, we absolutely are asking the question: ‘Do you need to be afraid of other people?’ As the season progresses, people will have different opinions on that, as people in the world have different opinions. I think it’s important to give voice to different people feeling different things.” He continued: “[T]his is a show that, even though it’s not set in present day, wants you after watching it, to consider the present day world.”
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In Focus “Lioness” - Season 3 (Paramount+ — Aug. 2, Season Premiere) Zoe Saldana, Nicole Kidman and Morgan Freeman return for the third season of this espionage-loving thriller, which sees the Lioness team deployed on a mission that hits close to home as Joe (Saldana) walks the line between her duty and her home life. With Kaitlyn (Kidman) at her side, she confronts enemies hiding in the shadows.
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“The Shards” - Season 1 (Hulu — Aug. 5, Series Premiere) In 1980s Los Angeles, teenager Bret (Igby Rigney) finds his sense of reality starting to waver when a mysterious new student, Robert (Homer Gere), shows up at school. With a dangerous serial killer prowling through town, Bret and his friends (Kaia Gerber, Hayes Warner, Graham Campbell) are hesitant to let him into their elite circle. But as the old saying goes: keep your friends close and your enemies closer.