The Walking Dead Reveals an Ominous Teaser and a Return Date

AMC’s The Walking Dead has revealed the beginning date for its midseason return. The zombie collection will start its finish (once more) with eight episodes on February 20, 2022—and a brand new teaser reveals it’ll be all in regards to the eventual warfare our heroes must face towards each the Reapers and the seemingly idyllic, however secretly tousled Commonwealth. It’s even received a moody cowl of Johnny Cash’s “God’s Gonna Cut You Down” to show it. Not that you simply didn’t suppose in any other case, however shit’s about to go down for certain.

If you’ve been maintaining with our recaps, you realize that it was solely lately that season 11 began getting its groove again. Nothing goes effectively for any of our heroes, and the midseason finale on October 10 will see issues come to a head within the ominously titled “For Blood.” If the Reapers persevering with to make hassle wasn’t unhealthy sufficient, there’s nonetheless the rising risk of the Commonwealth. Then once more, the Commonwealth could have some inside struggles of its personal within the close to future. If this present has taught us something, it’s that you may’t make a brand new society with out having tons of blood spilled alongside the way in which.

Once this subsequent eight-episode run ends, it’ll be a while earlier than the precise true ending arrives, with the ultimate episodes doubtless dropping within the fall of 2022. AMC’s treating this like the large deal it’s, and it actually desires you to really feel the finality coming. Probably doesn’t assist that the manufacturing was additionally delayed due to an actual life pandemic.

And a reminder that whereas the primary collection is ending, The Walking Dead has life left in it but: Andrew Lincoln’s Rick Grimes remains to be getting a film centered round his exploits after the character left the present in 2018. Plus, there’s the prequel collection Fear the Walking Dead, whose seventh season debuts on October 17; the teen-focused Walking Dead: World Beyond, which is at present airing its second season; that upcoming Daryl and Carol spin-off—and possibly extra within the works. There’s a lotta zombies in AMC’s future, not that there was ever any doubt.

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