While AMC has been greenlighting and filming the Walking Dead spin-off Daryl Dixon non-stop, already approving of four seasons before the third has even aired, it’s all coming to an end.
AMC has announced at the show’s Comic Con panel that season 4 will be the last season of Daryl Dixon, a bit of a surprise given how full-steam it’s been going since its premiere in 2023. Again, it’s only been two years and the show is defying traditional streaming rules by coming out quickly with seasons often filming as others are airing, or near that.
Daryl Dixon ending means that there is literally just a single, non-cancelled (as of now) show in The Walking Dead universe. That is Dead City, which was surprisingly renewed for season 3 recently. It stars Negan and Maggie in New York City, and has been less popular and lower profile than Daryl Dixon. But it’s coming back all the same.
It is hard to imagine, given this news, that the complete and total end of The Walking Dead, at least for a long, long while, is not nigh, lasting probably two more years, at best, barring any huge announcements. Everything is done:
- The Walking Dead
- Fear the Walking Dead
- The Walking Dead: World Beyond
- Tales of The Walking Dead
- The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live
And now Daryl Dixon, but if Dead City lasted longer than when season 4 of Daryl Dixon is out, likely in 2027, I would be surprised. There have been no other spin-offs announced featuring other characters from the series, characters that I would say would have to be less popular than Rick, Michonne, Daryl, Carol, Negan and Maggie, really all of the still-alive main leads, that are now seeing their projects wrap up.
The Walking Dead really was a global phenomenon for a while, its peak being back in 2014 with the introduction of Negan, albeit his brutality began a sharp fall-of shortly after. The main show ended in late 2022, but with its spin-offs ending and nothing new on the docket, this may be it.
Of course, this is Hollywood and it’s possible that The Walking Dead will simply be rebooted someday. Hell, I’m not even sure it’s a bad idea, given some of the huge, very bad changes the series ended up making over the years (RIP Carl) that it could then have the chance to correct. It’s also possible that AMC may announce even more TWD projects in the coming years, but more than anything, it feels like this well has gotten dry, and it’s time to move on to other, more current projects like the channels burgeoning Anne Rice universe.
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