This Walking Dead Anthology Show Looks… Kind of Great?

With The Walking Dead coming to an finish within the subsequent few months, it’s pure to marvel if it could possibly maintain. We know concerning the spinoffs, the potential film, all that stuff, however will audiences nonetheless present up and get excited for the favored zombie franchise? The reply could possibly be sure, if half of it lives as much as the teaser under.

For months we’ve been listening to about Tales of the Walking Dead, the upcoming anthology present that provides the creators of the franchise probabilities to inform distinctive tales that aren’t beholden to the opposite narratives. It’s the same zombie-infested world, however separate tales and characters every week, performed by many huge stars. The under teaser offers you a style of it and, dare we are saying, it seems type of superior? Check it out.

Part of the joy needs to be from that solid. Even simply within the trailer you see Parker Posey, Jillian Bell, Anthony Edwards, Poppy Liu, Olivia Munn, Terry Crews, and sure, even Samantha Morton. That final one is vital as a result of Morton was Alpha on the principle Walking Dead and right here, we’ll get to see the place she got here from in additional element. But the opposite tales don’t appear to have any actual connection to that primary story. It’s all simply folks on this world.

For instance, the Posey/Bell episode is named “Blair / Gina” and it’s described as such: “It’s the onslaught of the apocalypse in Atlanta, Georgia, 2010. As everyday people try to understand the bizarre events unfolding around them, it’s anything but business as usual at the Circle of Trust Insurance Company. Blair (Posey) and Gina (Bell), two co-workers who despise each other, are relentlessly confronted with life-threatening choices that make them question whom they want to be at the end of the world.”

The Edwards/Liu episode is named “Amy/Dr. Everett” and is described by AMC like this: “Years into the apocalypse, nature has consumed much of the world as we once knew it, and yet, humans endeavor to survive. Naturalist Dr. Chauncey Everett (Edwards) has spent the last decade in voluntary isolation; however, when Amy (Liu), an extroverted survivor, knowingly crosses into no man’s land, Dr. Everett’s own humanity is put into question.”

And that’s simply two of the six deliberate episodes.

We’ll study extra about Tales when the present involves San Diego Comic-Con subsequent week but it surely debuts August 14 on AMC. The first two episodes will go on AMC+ that evening after which subsequent episodes will stream every week early, starting August 21.

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