
I watched The Walking Dead: Dead City season 2 and as a longtime fan of The Walking Dead franchise, I have to say that it’s much closer to the original series than any of the other spinoffs thus far. The Walking Dead: Dead City season 2 is everything I love about The Walking Dead, and then some.
Trust me, I know that’s a bold statement, but hear me out. I’ve been covering TWD regularly since 2015 and I’ve been a fan since the beginning. The things I love about the show are how it reveals the way normal people react to impossibly challenging situations in order to survive, and how people always end up being the most dangerous threat even in a world where the undead are everywhere. Dead City takes those two concepts and puts them at the forefront, with beloved TWD hero Maggie Rhee (Lauren Cohan) and reformed-but-not-really-ish former Savior leader Negan (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) battling forces beyond their control in order to keep living in this post-apocalyptic nightmare.