The Walking Dead Returns With 3 Shows This October Heres What To Expect – Forbes

The Walking Dead, Fear The Walking Dead and The Walking Dead: World Beyond all air this October.

The Walking Dead has been on something of a hiatus in 2020, ever since the COVID-19 pandemic pretty much shut down TV and film production.

The Season 10 finale of The Walking Dead was mostly finished when the shutdown struck, but there was still enough post-production work to delay it for half a year.

The new Walking Dead spinoff, World Beyond, was also delayed from its initial March release.

Now, both The Walking Dead Season 10 finale and World Beyond are set to return alongside Fear The Walking Deads sixth season. Heres when each show returns and what to expect.

The Walking Deads Season 10 finale is titled A Certain Doom and will wrap up the Whisperer story arc and introduce us to whatever new threat our heroes will face heading into the final 30 episodes of the show.

You can read my spoiler-free review of the Season 10 finale here. Ill have a recap/review up after the finale airs as well.

A Certain Doom will air on AMC on Sunday, October 4th at 9pm local time. Its only an hour long (including commercials) which is somewhat unfortunate given theres quite a lot of story to pack into 42 or so minutes of TV.

The episode sees the return of Maggie who left The Walking Dead with literally zero fanfare after Lauren Cohan decided to leave for a new show, Whiskey Cavalier, which has since been cancelled.

After A Certain Doom well have to wait until 2021 for the next six-episode stop-gap between Season 10 and Season 11. This is a weird one, as Im not sure which season it actually belongs to. On the one hand, its been described as six extra episodes for Season 10, but how thats possible after the Season 10 finale is beyond me.

These six episodes are being filmed with the pandemic and its restrictions in mind, and AMC says they will be somewhat anthological in nature. I imagine we get smaller stories with just a handful of cast members in each one.

Then theres a nother wait before the 24-episode 11thand finalseason, which will be separated into two 12-episode long half seasons across two years. The Walking Dead should have always been 10 or 12 episodes per season instead of 16, as this would have greatly cut down on filler episodes, so Im excited to see how this works. Realistically were getting a Season 11 and 12 and just calling it 11.

The Walking Dead: World Beyond

Next up, we have The Walking Dead: World Beyond a new two-season-long limited series that takes place ten years into the zombie apocalypse, which actually lines it up pretty closely with where our heroes are at timeline-wise in The Walking Deads tenth season. Im not sure if we have an official timeline somewhere but we can pretty much break it down like this:

So ten years pass by the end of Season 10 and thats where World Beyond picks up, though this show takes place in Nebraska, at least initially.

The Walking Dead: World Beyond series premiere, Brave will air directly after the Season 10 finale of The Walking Dead at 10pm local time on AMC. Ill have a recap/review up after the premiere and Im working on a spoiler-free review/preview that Ill have up before then.

The story focuses on a group of teenagers living in a very well-established community in Nebraska where things are pretty tame and zombies (or empties) are more of an annoyance than an existential threat.

This community is aligned with the Civil Republic Military or CRM, which is almost certainly the same group that took Rick seven years earlier. One of the leaders of the group, Lt Col. Elizabeth Kublek (Julia Ormond) is visiting when the show kicks off, along with some heavily armed troops. Im not certain if Kublek is the highest ranking leader of the CRM or just one of its leaders, but shes an important antagonist.

There will be some sort of crossover between this show and the other two, and clues as to Ricks whereabouts, perhaps even something tying directly into the Rick Grimes movies.

Fear The Walking Dead

Fear The Walking Dead also returns to AMC this October. The show ended on something of a cliffhanger at the end of the atrociously, inexcusably terrible fifth season. I honestly cant get over just how bad Season 5 of Fear The Walking Dead was. Somehow it managed to be even worse than the ridiculously awful 4th season (which, itself, was a downgrade from the excellent Season 3).

I wont rehash all the horrible things we had to watch in Season 5 (Ill do that in a separate post!) but I will say that even though it was really bad, Im actually looking forward to Season 6, mostly because theyve put together a pretty damn good trailer:

Fear The Walking Dead returns on October 11th at 9pm with an episode of World Beyond airing directly after each week at 10pm.

So well get episode 2 of World Beyond directly after the FearTWD season 6 premiere on the 11th, the third episode following Fears second and so on and so forth. The new show is only ten episodes long, however, and I assume Fear will only air eight of its Season 6 episodes before taking a break.

In any case, as I was saying above, the show ended on a cliffhanger with Morgan quite possibly dead (though he clearly isnt now that weve seen some promotional images and the trailer) and the group broken up by the new bad guys after calling on them for help for some reason. After one of the cheesiest TV weddings ever filmed. Just awful.

We have a new bounty hunter character joining the show as well, and hell be the new scary antagonist who ties the disparate storylines together it appears. The show will be told as something of an anthology this season, as the characters are all split up and will have their own stories. I figure it cant be any worse than Season 5, and if it is well just have some laughs at its expense.

This is the only show that I have not gotten a screener for from AMCat leat not yet. That might be because its airing a week later than the other two, but Ive seen at least one review of the show up which means screeners are out there. Whether this is all a mixup or Ive finally been cutoff by AMC for

With The Walking Dead wrapping after Season 11 and World Beyond only two seasons long, the future of The Walking Dead looks quite different. Im not sure how much longer Fear will air, but if it doesnt see a major improvement in Season 6 I cant imagine it will be able to hold on to an audience much longer.

That leaves us with several future projects:

There will almost certainly be more announcements as we go forward and The Walking Dead Universe really takes shape. But will any of these shows, movies and other projects ever return to the series to its early greatness?

I watched the series premiere of The Walking Dead the other day and theres just no question that this show used to have higher standards and better storytelling. It was also novel, despite being a zombie show, and that novelty wore off a long time ago. Im also not sure the show will ever recover from the Negan wars and general drop in quality in Season 7 and 8, despite Angela Kangs best efforts in Season 9 and 10.

Will you be tuning in to any of these shows in October? Let me know on Twitter or Facebook.

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The Walking Dead Returns With 3 Shows This October Heres What To Expect - Forbes

Reviewed and Recommended by Erik Baquero