The Walking Dead’s final season has officially begun airing its very long stretch of episodes, which will run through next year. For those sad about the series’ ultimate end, I would tell you to wipe away those tears because: 1) we’ve got about another year before the series finale, and; 2) this franchise isn’t going anywhere even if the flagship series is.
Over the last decade, The Walking Dead has managed to keep itself alive despite falling ratings and enthusiasm. In fact, it stayed afloat long enough for the creative team to put together plans for an entire Walking Dead universe, with lots of new projects in the pipeline.
As far as the final season of the original show goes, the first two episodes were decent, but nothing to write home about. This is why I was surprised to learn that, apparently, The Walking Dead is the most in-demand show on Earth right now.
The Walking Dead’s final season revives interest in series?
This is according to demand analytics company Parrot Analytics, which measures audience interest by how much people are talking about it on social media and such. Despite shows like Marvel’s What If…? inspiring a lot of buzz, The Walking Dead is currently at the top of the charts.
Parrot’s data shows that the series is currently 75x more popular than the average show measured, beating out Game of Thrones, WandaVision, Loki, Brooklyn Nine-Nine, and Stranger Things, which all are around 50-70x times more popular. Bear in mind, this is not an “all-time” measure, but just from the past week.
Most of these shows I mentioned have either ended or are on hiatus. That brings more attention to The Walking Dead, especially since it’s the final season.
So this may be a short-lived victory, but one the show deserves. Any show that somehow makes it past the ten-season mark gets my congratulations (even though all great shows know when it’s their time to end).
Like I said earlier, The Walking Dead franchise is not going anywhere. We still have the Daryl and Carol spin-off on the way, an anthology series called Tales of the Walking Dead, season 7 of Fear The Walking Dead, the final season of World Beyond, and the highly-anticipated Rick Grimes movies.
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h/t Forbes