Walking Dead Timeline Explained: When All 3 Shows Take Place (Each Season) – Screen Rant

Here's a full breakdown of the timeline forThe Walking Dead. Based on the series of comics by Robert Kirkman, AMC's live-action TV adaptation ofThe Walking Dead has taken on a life of its own, adding new stories, original characters and the spin-off series,Fear The Walking Dead. Currently, the prime series is coming towards the end of its tenth season and is already confirmed for season 11, whileFear The Walking Dead is readying its sixth run, albeit somewhat delayed due to the real-life pandemic that has put film and TV production on hold in the early part of 2020. AlthoughFear The Walking Dead hasn't exactly been a runaway success, AMC are pushing ahead with a second spin-off,World Beyond, and will also branch into the world of movies with Andrew Lincoln returning as Rick Grimes.

The originalWalking Dead comic series employsseveral extended time skips thatadvance the story years at a time. This most notable come after Rick defeats Negan, and then at the very end of the story, taking Carl from a teenager to a grown man with a child of his own. However, the timeline ofThe Walking Dead on TV has advanced at an ever faster rate, with the post-Savior time skip far longer than in the comics. Additionally, whereFear The Walking Dead initially charted the origins of the outbreak, it soon caught up to the main series.

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Details regarding the planned Walking Dead movie currently remain scarce, but the story can be reasonably assumedto take place in the time skip before the arrival of the Whisperers, revealing what Rick Grimes was up to during that period. The big screen adventures will likely then catch up to the prime TV series, since Michonne recently left the show to discover Rick's fate.With 2 shows already twisting and turning around each other and even more zombie apocalypse goodness on the way, the world ofThe Walking Deadis trickier to follow than ever. With credit toVincenzo Mei, here are where all 3Walking Dead TV series are set in relation to each other and the real world.

The Walking Dead season 1:The Walking Dead's story begins with Rick getting shot while on duty as a cop and falling into a coma.Although the timing is deliberately vague, Robert Kirkman has confirmed Rick was unconscious for approximately a month, which puts his accident aroundAugust 2010, withThe Walking Dead's first season taking place in the modern day (relative to when it was released). The present timeline kicks off with Rick's awakening and the entirety of the debut run comprises only a brisk 6 episodes, taking Rick from hospital to Morgan's house, then to an emotional reunion with his family, and finally to the CDC where season 1 concludes. These events take place inside 1 week during the September of 2010.

The Walking Dead season 2:The much malignedWalking Dead season 2 takes place mostly on the Greene family's farm, where Rick's group spend a couple of weeks camped up with Hershel's family. This moves the story into October 2010, and ends with Hershel's farm invaded and the 2 groups officially joining to head out into the wild.

The Walking Dead season 3:The first TV time skip occurs betweenThe Walking Dead's second and third seasons, moving the story ahead 7 months as Rick's group endure a harsh winter and hone their survival skills. When season 3 begins, the calendar has advanced to May 2011, at which point the characters encounter a prison to make their new home. Michonne is introduced and the first battle against The Governor takes place. This all happens in the space of a few weeks, flipping the calendar over to June 2011.

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The Walking Dead season 4:There's another time skip between season 3 and 4 ofThe Walking Dead, again for a period of months while the prison community enjoys a spell of peace. Now towards the end of 2011, the survivors are in flu season and endure a devastating outbreak. The prison is abandoned altogether after The Governor attacks, forcing Rick's people to split up and reunite at Terminus. With each second-half episode focusing on a different group,The Walking Dead season 4 only takes place over a several weeks, rounding off the post-apocalyptic 2011.

The Walking Dead season 5:Picking up directly whereThe Walking Dead season 4 left off, season 5 deals with the Terminus cannibals and moves Rick's group to Alexandria, with Beth and Tyreese falling during the journey. Another condensed season,The Walking Dead season 5 largely takes place in December 2011.

The Walking Dead season 6:Once again, there's no time skip prior to season 6 ofThe Walking Dead, and the first half of this run is even more constrained than before. The first 9 episodes focus on preventing a herd attacking Alexandria and only span a handful of days. A mini-skip of 1 or 2 months occurs during the midseason break, leavingThe Walking Dead in February of 2012. The second half of season 6 sees the first foray into the Saviors arc and lasts approximately a week in-story.

The Walking Dead season 7:WithThe Walking Dead season 6 ending on the notorious Negan cliffhanger, there's no gap between seasons. In fact, the season 7 premiere has to rewind a few minutes to show who met the wrong end of Negan's baseball bat. Over the course ofa week or so in either February or March of 2012, Negan's Saviors continue to lean heavily on both Alexandria and Hilltop, while contact is made with the Kingdom, Oceanside and the Scavengers. An attempt to overthrow Negan goes wrong thanks to theduplicitous Jadis.

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The Walking Dead season 8:Witha couple of weeks passing,The Walking Dead season 8 is well into March 2012, and once again only charts a period of a few days. This is enough for Rick Grimes to turn the tide against Negan and the Saviors, and by the finale episode, the threat of the Saviors is over.

The Walking Dead season 9:In what representsThe Walking Dead's first sizable time jump, the timeline moves ahead 18 months, with Alexandria and its allies enjoying its longest peaceful period now that Negan is in jail. The first 5 episodes ofThe Walking Dead season 9 likely take place in the month of November 2013 and only a span several days while the allied communities (now including the remaining Saviors) attempt to build bridges, literally and metaphorically. This is where Rick "dies" and a mammoth 6-year skip follows, with Judith now 8-years-old.The Walking Dead's story arrivesin November 2019. Most of season 9 covers a short period of days where the survivors make contact with the Whisperers. After Alpha's severed head display in "The Calm Before," however, there's another jump of a few months before the season finale, takingThe Walking Dead to February 2020.

The Walking Dead season 10:With time jumps now as commonas Negan's inventive insults,The Walking Dead's most recent season picks up some months after the season 9 finale, taking the story to the end of 2020. Fortunately, the timeline gymnastics pass, and the events of season 10 so far have taken place within the frame of several weeks, leaving the series in October or November.

Fear The Walking Dead season 1:Billed as a prequel toThe Walking Dead, the spin-off begins slightly before its predecessor in the period of time Rick Grimes was still in a coma, putting the series premiere at around July 2010, and then covering approximately 2 weeks of story. This takes Madison and her family from the moment they first take notice of the outbreak to their arrival at Strand's yacht.

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Fear The Walking Dead season 2:The first half ofFear The Walking Dead's sophomore run continues straight from the previous season and only adds another week or so to the timeline. When the series returns with "Grotesque," the action moves to Mexico but still only inches forward at a slow pace. The prequel is likely to be set in August 2010, with Rick still yet to awaken on the other side of the country.

Fear The Walking Dead season 3:Season 3 ofFear The Walking Dead picks right up from the previous season's cliffhanger ending but this time covers a slightly bigger expanse of over a month, as Madison and her family become embroiled in a post-apocalyptic battle between racist cowboys and Native Americans. By the time the action ends, the prime story ofThe Walking Dead has already begun elsewhere, and the Clark family have been separated by a dam explosion.

Fear The Walking Dead season 4:After only covering a couple of months in the space of 3 seasons,Fear The Walking Dead hits the accelerator and winds up 2 years in the future, now in September/October 2012.Away from season 4's present-day story,Fear The Walking Dead flashes back a year or so prior, when Madison's family hadsettled in a baseball field. The first half ofFear The Walking Dead season 4 covers only a few days, but a month passes before "Close Your Eyes," from which point the rest of season charts another week or so. At this point, Morgan has joined the group fromThe Walking Dead, and Rick's people are currently enjoying a peaceful period after Negan's defeat.

Fear The Walking Dead season 5:By the timeFear The Walking Dead season 5 begins, Morgan and his new friends have spent several months trying to help others in need, landing the spin-off in the Spring of 2013.The Walking Dead is still in the interim between seasons 8 and 9. The first 8 episodes ofFTWD season 5 begin with the survivors landing a plane in a radioactive area to help those trapped within, and ends with them miraculously managing to make their escape, which takes all of a week. When the story resumes, over a month has passed for Morgan's band of do-gooders, but the clash with Virginia and her group lasts only a further week, ending more or less in April 2013.

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The Walking Dead's second spinoff,World Beyond, is confirmed to take place a decade after the onset of the zombie apocalypse and will run for only 2 seasons. This time scale puts the new show's first season in mid-late 2020. Relative to the remainder of theWalking Dead landscape,World Beyond will be set after events seen inFear The Walking Dead thus far, although it's not yet known how far season 6 will take the original spin-off into the future. Lined up againstThe Walking Dead, the new series looks to more or less run concurrently with the prime show's season 10, taking place while Daryl and the gang are dealing with the threat of the Whisperers. This more or less guarantees the 2 won't crossover just yet, although the same can't be said forWorld Beyond andFear The Walking Dead.

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The Walking Dead and its spin-offs are currently delayed due to the pandemic.

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