

Season 2 (2011-12) Main article: Season 2 (TV Series) After being attacked by walkers at night, the whole group travels back to Atlanta to the Center for Disease Control (CDC) building, but find from the sole remaining scientist that no cure yet exists for the pandemic. After befriending Morgan Jones, Rick travels alone to Atlanta before finding his wife Lori, son Carl, and his police partner and best friend Shane Walsh in the woods with other survivors. When sheriff's deputy Rick Grimes of King County, Georgia, wakes from a coma, he discovers the world has been overrun by zombies ("walkers"). Season 1 (2010) Main article: Season 1 (TV Series) 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. 7.4.34 Television Critics Association Awards.

7.4.26 Rondo Hatton Classic Horror Awards.7.4.19 International Cinematographers Guild.7.4.16 Hollywood Makeup Artist and Hair Stylist Guild Awards.7.4.9 Directors Guild of America Awards.7.4.8 Critics' Choice Television Awards.7.4.3 ASCAP Film and Television Music Awards.5.3.6 Untitled Rick & Michonne Spin-Off.Three further spin-offs have been announced: The Walking Dead: Dead City featuring Maggie Rhee and Negan Smith, The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon featuring Daryl Dixon, and one untitled series featuring Rick and Michonne Grimes. ĪMC has also expanded the series into related media, including the spin-off series Fear the Walking Dead (2015-23), The Walking Dead: World Beyond (2020-21), and Tales of the Walking Dead (2022), as well as several webisodes and video games. 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. Beginning 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. The eleventh and final season premiered on August 22, 2021, and concluded on November 20, 2022. It is exclusively broadcast on cable channel AMC in the United States and internationally through the Fox Networks Group and Disney+. The series premiered on October 31, 2010. Glen Mazzara, Scott 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 showrunner for the first season. The Walking Dead is produced by AMC Studios in the state of Georgia, with most filming taking place in the 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, Alanna Masterson, Josh McDermitt, Christian Serratos, Seth Gilliam, Ross Marquand, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, and Khary Payton. 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 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 television universe.
