Your Weekly Guide to TV Entertainment
September 10 - 16, 2023
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“The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon,” premieres Sunday, Sept. 10, on AMC and AMC+.
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Norman Reedus in “The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon”
Cover Story Dixon days: Daryl dominates new ‘Walking Dead’ series By Dana Simpson Premiering Sunday, Sept. 10, on AMC and AMC+, “The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon” sees the return of Norman Reedus (“The Boondock Saints,” 1999) as on-screen anti-hero Daryl Dixon. Created by David Zabel (“ER”), “The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon” is the fifth spinoff from the flagship series, hereafter referred to as TWD, and takes place after TWD’s 11 seasons of horror. And while viewers have already gathered their fair share of Daryl details since his first appearance in TWD’s Season 1 episode “Tell It to the Frogs,” audiences have never seen the troubled “walker”-fighting hero quite like this. “Daryl Dixon” follows the titular character as he “washes ashore in France and struggles to piece together how he got there and why” (per AMC). According to the official
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synopsis, “[T]he series tracks his journey across a broken but resilient France as he hopes to find a way back home,” noting that as “he makes the journey ... the connections he forms along the way complicate his ultimate plan.” The title of this latest TWD spinoff was announced in October 2022, which is also when filming began in Paris. Despite AMC’s initial desire to produce a series that followed another TWD character, Carol Peletier (Melissa McBride, “The Mist,” 2007), the network eventually landed on “Daryl Dixon” as a result of scheduling conflicts with McBride. That said, McBride is expected to reprise her role as Carol in at least one of the premiere season’s six episodes. In fact, as mentioned by Vanity Fair writer Derek Lawrence in his November 2022 article titled “Norman Reedus Unpacks the
Walking Dead Finale and His ‘F—ing Great’ Spin-Off,” Daryl himself made a nod toward his own future series in the final episodes of the flagship series’ finale. “It’s not like we’re never gonna see each other again,” Daryl tells Carol in an intimate scene toward the end of ‘Rest in Peace,’” Lawrence writes, noting Carol’s response: “I’m allowed to be a little sad. You’re my best friend.” And while we have no idea what may be in store for Carol, fans can certainly expect more “Daryl Dixon” beyond the first six episodes. Just last month, AMC announced that the series had already been renewed for a second season. Also joining the cast for Season 1 is French actress Clémence Poésy, known for her roles in films such as the Harry Potter franchise (beginning in 2005), “In Bruges”
(2008) and “Tenet” (2020), among others. Poésy plays Isabelle, a French woman with a dark Parisian past and a connection to a “progressive religious group.” She joins forces with Daryl on his journey. Scored by an ethereal rendition of Claude Debussy’s “Clair de Lune,” the trailer juxtaposes the violence TWD fans have come to expect with the peace and serenity that accompanies a French monastery garden. It just so happens that in this very monastery is where Daryl learns of his next adventure. And without giving anything away, suffice it to say that “The Last of Us” fans may wish to tune in. Despite the “epic” nature of the new series (and, of course, the Walkers), Reedus insists that the entire experience will feel very different from “The Walking Dead.”
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