
Main article: List of The Walking Dead (TV series) characters He becomes the leader of a group of survivors from the Atlanta, Georgia, region as they attempt to sustain and protect themselves not only against attacks by walkers but by other groups of survivors willing to use any means necessary to stay alive. While in a coma, the world has been taken over by walkers.
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The series centers on sheriff's deputy Rick Grimes, who wakes up from a coma. The mutation is activated after the death of the pathogen's host, and the only way to permanently kill a walker is to damage its brain or destroy the body entirely, such as by cremating it. Although it initially seems that only humans that are bitten or scratched by walkers can turn into other walkers, it is revealed early in the series that all living humans carry the pathogen responsible for the mutation. The zombies, referred to as "walkers", shamble towards living humans and other creatures to eat them they are attracted to noise, such as gunshots, and to different scents, e.g. The Walking Dead takes place after the onset of a worldwide zombie apocalypse. Main article: List of The Walking Dead episodes The eleventh and final season premiered on August 22, 2021, and the series is set to conclude its run on AMC in 2022. It has been nominated for several awards, including the Golden Globe Award for Best Television Series – Drama and the Writers Guild of America Award for New Series. In addition, the series has been overall positively received by critics. In 2020, two further spinoffs were announced: one focused on Reedus' and McBride's characters, and an anthology series to feature individual character backstories.īeginning with its third season, The Walking Dead has attracted the most 18- to 49-year-old viewers of any cable or broadcast television series, though viewership has declined in later seasons. AMC announced plans for three films to follow Rick's story after Lincoln's departure. A second spinoff, a two-season limited series, The Walking Dead: World Beyond, premiered on October 4, 2020. AMC have also further developed the series into related media a spinoff series, Fear the Walking Dead, premiered on August 23, 2015, and is currently airing its seventh season. The eleventh and final season premiered on August 22, 2021, and is expected to air until 2022. The series premiered on October 31, 2010. The series is exclusively broadcast on cable channel AMC in the United States and internationally through the Fox Networks Group and Disney+. Gimple, and Angela Kang served as subsequent showrunners. However, conflicts between Darabont and AMC forced his departure from the series and resulted in multiple lawsuits by Darabont and others. The series was initially adapted from the comic by Frank Darabont, who also served as the showrunner for the first season. The Walking Dead is produced by AMC Studios within the state of Georgia, with most filming taking place in the large outdoor spaces of Riverwood Studios near Senoia, Georgia. Other long-standing cast members have included Norman Reedus, Steven Yeun, Chandler Riggs, Melissa McBride, Lauren Cohan, Danai Gurira, Josh McDermitt, Christian Serratos, Seth Gilliam and Ross Marquand. However, with the collapse of modern civilization, these survivors must confront other human survivors who have formed groups and communities with their own sets of laws and morals, sometimes leading to open, hostile conflict between them.Īndrew Lincoln played the lead character of Rick Grimes until his departure in the ninth season. The series features a large ensemble cast as survivors of a zombie apocalypse trying to stay alive under near-constant threat of attacks from zombies known as "walkers" (among other nicknames). The Walking Dead is an American post-apocalyptic horror television series based on the comic book series of the same name by Robert Kirkman, Tony Moore, and Charlie Adlard-together forming the core of The Walking Dead franchise.
