Jeffrey Dean Morgan: Negan is “f***ed” in The Walking Dead: Dead City

The Walking Dead: Dead City is over, and fans have ended the seasons with more questions than they had going into it. Most notably: What will become of Negan in his new position working alongside the Croat in Manhattan? According to star Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Negan isn’t particularly pleased with how things panned out.

For context, in the season finale, “Doma Smo,” we learn that the only reason Maggie (Lauren Cohan) decided to partner up with Negan was so she could deliver him to the Croat (Željko Ivanek) in exchange for her son Hershel. It was all one big lie. Turns out the Dama (Lisa Emery), the leader of a community in Manhattan, wants to offer Negan a job. She knows his prowess as a showman and wants to enlist him onto her leadership team.

Negan is in a precarious situation. He can’t exactly decline the job offer. “He thinks he’s f***ed,” Jeffrey Dean Morgan told Entertainment Weekly. “He’s in a position that he didn’t anticipate being in — certainly.”

Jeffrey Dean Morgan thinks “fun things will happen” in Dead City season 2

Maggie was one step ahead of Negan the entire season. “Yeah, she’s got Negan,” Morgan said. “She’s a bit of a chess player and I don’t think Negan was prepared for her.”

"I think he was prepared for Željko’s character and knows at least who he is and what he’s going to bring to the table, so can anticipate that. But he did not anticipate what the Dama is bringing to the table. And so I think that what Negan is seeing — and you can see the wheels turning — I don’t think he sees a way out right now."

AMC has renewed Dead City for a second season. In the new episodes, Morgan expects Negan to try and fight his way out of the situation he’s found himself in. “Any time he can get put into a corner, fun things are going to happen. And so now we leave off here with Negan in a corner and we’ll get to tell the story of him trying to get out of it,” he teased. “Because he’s in a bad position right now, and he knows it. That’s a rare position for him, other than when he was in jail for, you know, 10 years in Alexandria.”

All six episodes of The Walking Dead: Dead City are now streaming on AMC+. Another season is officially on the way. In the meantime, we have the Daryl Dixon show to look forward to later this year, as well as the Rick and Michonne show The Ones Who Live in 2024.

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