Spring is right around the corner, so that means it is time for The Walking Dead universe to give us something fresh to devour. Somehow, in the midst of all the ongoing spinoff action over the past two years, we are still waiting for The Walking Dead: Dead City to take us back to the Big Apple and continue the storylines of Maggie and Negan. But we don’t have to wait any longer. The Walking Dead: Dead City is back in the New York groove with a clip showing its opening two minutes and a May release date.
There’s not too much to really glean from the clip. And you know what? I like it that way. Don’t give me a bunch of insight into the new season please. We see a couple of “walker cleanup” folks on the streets of NYC. They take walkers to a facility where they are basically melted down into goo. The gases from their deceased bodies (ick) make fuel to keep things going. This fact was addressed in season one and now we will see more of it in action. We do not see Maggie nor Negan in this clip, but we are sure they will come to the forefront in a future trailer. For now, we can groove to this Dead City opening clip and its clever use of the glam rock band Hello’s “New York Groove.”
In addition to a teaser, The Walking Dead: Dead City set a release date of May 4. This means that we will get this season before Daryl Dixon’s third season hits, likely in Fall 2025. So far, there’s no word of other spinoffs at the moment. But perhaps what we get from Dead City and Daryl Dixon’s next chapters will put a plan in place for a crossover event that brings all the OG main players back together somehow. (It may not happen, tbh. I kinda think Daryl likes getting into mess overseas.)
The countdown is on to see how Maggie and Negan battle it out (again) in the next season of Dead City.