Lauren Cohan as Maggie Rhee and Jeffrey Dean Morgan as Negan in a scene from AMC's 'The Walking Dead: Dead City.' Maggie is a white woman with chin-length brown hair holding a knife to Negan's throat in her black fingerless gloves, wearing a denim jacket. Negan is a white man with dark hair and a salt-and-pepper 5 o'clock shadow wearing several layers of shirts under a black jacket. He's holding his arms out with smirk on his face accepting that a knife to his throat is how it's gonna be now. They're standing outside with grass and trees in the background.

Will ‘The Walking Dead: Dead City’ Return for Season 2?

Vanessa Maki

Published: Jul 25, 2023 02:44 pm

It may come as a surprise, but The Walking Dead: Dead City is a big hit. Throwing two fan-favorites into a Walking Dead spinoff was a good idea after all. Dead City focuses on Negan Smith (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) and Maggie Greene (Lauren Cohan)’s forced alliance in a desolate city landscape with amazing Walker designs. Will we be heading back to The Walking Dead‘s version of New York? Or will we just be left with that cliffhanger ending?

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Good news: We’re heading back to a grimy New York because yes, The Walking Dead: Dead City has been renewed for season 2. That shouldn’t be a surprise given the fan reception as well as the exciting direction the creators are taking with this spinoff. Negan and Maggie are the most suitable people to lead a Walking Dead spinoff set in the city, not to mention how they play off each other so well despite their horrendous history. Negan did kill Glenn violently in front of Maggie all those years ago, after all.

Naturally, the spinoff won’t let us forget why Maggie distrusts Negan, thus leading her to betray him and maintain a lie from the moment they ran into each other again. The Walking Dead: Dead City is the perfect opportunity to finally allow Maggie to find closure, and allow Negan to be the character fans really want to see again. The Walking Dead: Dead City season 2 is guaranteed to up the ante, and I for one am excited to see what they do.

(featured image: AMC)

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Vanessa Maki

Vanessa Maki (she/her) is a queer Blerd and contributing writer for The Mary Sue. She first started writing for digital magazines in 2018 and her articles have appeared in Pink Advocate (defunct), The Gay Gaze (defunct), Dread Central and more. She primarily writes about movies, TV, and anime. Efforts to make her stop loving complex/villainous characters or horror as a genre will be futile.