Hard as it is to believe, the eleventh and final season of The Walking Dead is right around the corner, bringing to an end the very long journey of our hardy survivors…at least until all those spinoffs get going, anyway.
But first, season 11. According to producer Denise Huth, it’ll be as big as we’re hoping. “We’ll go out with a bang. Nothing lasts forever,” she said during a Twitch live stream with TWDUniverse. “It’s a cool story, and I’m so proud, and I’m so grateful that we’ve been able to tell it as fully as we’ve been allowed to do, and that’s one hundred percent a credit to the fans. If fans don’t show up, the show doesn’t go on.”
"We were very, very fortunate right from the beginning that it was lightning in a bottle — with the characters, and the story, and the audience. It all came together. 11 years later, 11 seasons later, to be here is an honor. This is a pretty rare era for television. It’ll probably never happen again in the world of streaming, which wasn’t much of a thing when we started. I’m proud. I just want to get through it and do the series proud and do these characters proud. You can never satisfy everyone, but I hope for the most part the audience is happy with the conclusion."
Saying “you can never satisfy everyone” could be taken as a red flag, but we’ll reserve judgment until The Walking Dead season 11 actually starts to air on August 22 (August 15 if you have AMC+).
The Walking Dead will “go out with a bang”
Huth also shared that while the final season of the show feels “much bigger” than the first — which is only natural — it evokes the show’s freshman run. “The thing I’ve noticed the most this year is actually just some of the shots, the way the directors are choosing to film things feels very Season 1 to me,” she said. “There’s a few moments where I’m just like, ‘Oh!’ It takes my breath away, it takes me right back to the pilot. There are subtle moments that are in there and some that are a little more obvious, but we always remember where we came from.”
Huth has been with the show since the beginning, so she would know.
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