Tales of the Walking Dead Season 2 May Include a Musical

Just just like the zombies of the venerable Walking Dead franchise have begun to evolve, so, it appears, has the franchise itself. Before the final eight episodes of the flagship TV present premiere in October, AMC will debut the six-episode anthology collection Tales of the Walking Dead this Sunday, which not solely seems at new characters, locations, and instances within the TWD universe but additionally explores completely different tones. The surprisingly star-studded present will even embody some zombie comedy, nevertheless it seems like Tales’ second season could possibly be even weirder.

Showrunner Channing Powell advised Entertainment Weekly {that a} musical episode of the present has been written, there simply wasn’t sufficient time to make it a part of season one: “We did come up with a musical episode, that just for production reasons was going to be a little bit too difficult to film. … Should we get a season two or three, I’m going to push for that one if I can. It lives in my heart and in my mind.”

Having watched over a decade of The Walking Dead Original Recipe, it’s extraordinarily laborious for me to think about a humorous—nicely, an deliberately humorous—episode of a TWD present, not to mention a musical. Would it’s an episode about folks producing a musical when the useless first begin shambling round? Would the zombies dance? Would they sing? The franchise has been hinting on the arrival of “variant” zombies, who’re sooner and smarter than the others. Will they’ve the facility to type a refrain line?

Of course, there’s no assure that this musical episode will make it into Tales season two, however I positively am appreciating the concept was on the desk at any level, frankly. Let’s ship Maggie and Negan to NYC, Daryl to France, and Rick and Michonne from theaters into their very own miniseries. And then let’s put faucet sneakers on all of the zombies. Why not?! And if you wish to get an concept of how wild Tales goes to permit itself to be, the present premieres on August 14.

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