Hard as it to believe, The Walking Dead is officially ending with its upcoming eleventh season. Don’t get too upset, since there are still lots of spinoffs either on the air or on the way, but this is still the end of an era.
So what will Daryl, Carol, Negan, Maggie and the rest get up to in this final, super-sized stretch of episodes? AMC dropped a teaser trailer today that mostly looks back on the show’s long history, but also includes a glimpse of things to come. Watch below:
The trailer features Rick Grimes (Andrew Lincoln) pretty prominently. Might he show up for the finish? It would certainly be a fan-pleasing moment, but we’ll see. For now, we know that our surviving heroes will be encountering the Commonwealth, the most advanced civilization we’ve seen on the show yet. They even have a military; you can see them in their Stormtrooper-looking outfits towards the end of the teaser.
How many episodes in The Walking Dead season 11?
AMC is calling season 11 “The Final Season Trilogy,” since it’ll be split up into three parts. The first run of episodes will premiere on August 22 (although you can start watching them on August 15 if you subscribe to AMC’s streaming service). Parts two and three will debut in 2022. In all, The Walking Dead season 11 will have 24 episodes, which makes it the biggest yet. Suitable for the farewell season, no?
Before that, AMC is airing The Walking Dead: Origins, a series that looks back at the journeys of Daryl (Norman Reedus), Carol (Melissa McBride), Maggie (Lauren Cohan) and Negan (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) before they go on their final adventure…although Carol and Daryl are getting their own show afterwards; I wasn’t kidding about those spinoffs. The Walking Dead show is ending but The Walking Dead franchise is expanding.
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