One of the most common comments that one hears when talking about The Walking Dead (Frank Darabont and Angela Kang, since 2010), available on Disney+the flagship of zombie apocalypse cinema in the style of The night of the Living Dead (George A. Romero, 1968) in recent years, is when the hell is this AMC TV series going to end. Many viewers’ perception of her seems similar to the state of her monsters, which continue to crawl after death and have rotted more and more over the years.
This is a huge exaggeration, anyway. Although the best times The Walking Dead we left them behind a few seasons ago, fiction about the group of survivors of the absent Rick Grimes (Andrew Lincoln) preserves the audiovisual and dramatic dignity. It is true that Fear the Walking Dead (Robert Kirkman and Dave Erickson, since 2015) is more interesting now as spinofffrom its fourth cycle and in the middle of the seventh, but this circumstance does not place it light years away from the mother series either.
Four minutes of episode 11×09 of ‘The Walking Dead’ in the Super Bowl
The other criticism that is usually added to The Walking Dead as a story that should have ended much earlier is another of the characteristics of the corpses that wander through its episodes; the fact that, in theory, it goes aimlessly. But, those of us who are up to date with the three series of the zombie franchiseincluding The Walking Dead: World Beyond (Scott M. Gimple and Matthew Negrete, 2020-2021), we know that there is a common link between them apart from the obvious, that is, in addition to the fact that they narrate the misadventures of those who still breathe in the zombie apocalypse.
On the one hand, crossovers with characters like Morgan Jones (Lennie James), Dwight (Austin Amelio) and Sherry (Christine Evangelista) in Fear the Walking Dead and Jadis regarding WorldBeyond, all four from the fiction created by Frank Darabont. On the other hand, the interventions of the Military Civic Republic from the chapter “The Big Scary U” (8×05) of The Walking Dead. And we intuit that it is the fight against this perfidious organization that will unite the triad of series completely and that the first in its season eleven.
From it, the final, one of the three batches of which it is composed has been released, with twenty-four episodes in total. And how during the broadcastthe super bowlthe last game of the American National Soccer League, is used to launch previews of long and television fictions, the AMC has decided to allow them to be seen the four initial minutes of the chapter “No Other Way” (11×09). Are here. The other forty, available to AMC + subscribers since yesterday, we will be able to gobble them up next February 20.