The Walking Dead: Dead City
The Walking Dead: Dead City
Maggie and Negan travel to post-apocalyptic Manhattan - long ago cut off from the mainland. The crumbling city is filled with the dead and denizens who have made it a world full of anarchy, danger, beauty, and terror.
RipLinesMan reviewedMay 4, 2025
Dead City a whole is like if Event Horizon (1997) and The Purge hooked up during a blackout and dumped the kid in post-apocalyptic New York. The whole show is just filthy, dark, and totally cooked. Maggie’s got that “I’ve seen too much and I’m ready to snap” energy—she’s basically zombie apocalypse Dr. Weir (Sam Neill) but with a crossbow and way more screaming. And Negan? Bro’s like Captain Miller (Laurence Fishburne) with a leather jacket and a bad attitude—always trying to hold it together while everything around him burns, bites, or explodes. Manhattan feels cursed, like the whole island is this slow-motion gateway to hell, and it gets grosser every episode. The Dama is mad creepy, straight-up boss-level evil—like if the Event Horizon ship came back as a power-hungry grandma. The show’s got wild walker kills, people double-crossing each other left and right, and so much yelling you’d think they were in space with no oxygen. It never goes full horror meltdown like Event Horizon with eyeballs poppin’ and people eating each other in slow-mo, but it’s still metal. Not perfect, but if you like chaos, blood, and brooding antiheroes with trust issues, this show slaps. Easy 3.5 stars, no notes—except more explosions next time, please.