Being surrounded by a zombie horde banging at your windows feels like an apt metaphor for the recent overwhelming surge in spin-offs from The Walking Dead. The original series ended in 2022 after 11 seasons but soon returned from the grave with an expansion strategy to keep the undead apocalypse ticking over: various fan-favourite characters would headline their own six-part series.
The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live offered the catharsis of seeing long-estranged couple Michonne (Danai Gurira) and Rick (Andrew Lincoln) reunite. The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon took an even bigger swing, relocating Norman Reedus’s soulful redneck to rural France.
