![]() ![]() Kang, who joined The Walking Dead’s writing staff in Season 2 and ascended to producer in Season 3, executive producer in Season 5, and showrunner in Season 9, says, “There’s not always overt racism or sexism, but I would say that there’s what we’d call microaggressions built into parts of the show, or subtle hints of these things.” She notes that later in the two-part premiere, there’s a distinct difference between the way that three Black, Latina, and Asian characters, Ezekiel (Khary Payton), Princess (Paola Lázaro), and Yumiko (Eleanor Matsuura), respond to being placed in police custody at a larger community and the way cis white man Eugene (Josh McDermitt) does. “We’re talking about an apocalyptic situation, and as more and more years pass, the differences that were so prominent in the old world start to fade,” says Sherry Thomas, one of The Walking Dead’s casting directors. The world of The Walking Dead isn’t entirely post-racial, and its survivors certainly aren’t any more highly evolved than those of the actual America, but one curious upside of society disintegrating due to a zombie outbreak is that the series’ protagonists seem more accepting of anyone in their settlements who isn’t trying to feed on their flesh, regardless of color, creed, gender, or sexual orientation. ![]() But it’s based on the fact that these are the real things that America’s grappling with as well, because this season very much has to do with America and trying to reclaim what America was.”Įxplicit depictions of or references to racism are rare on The Walking Dead, which made the sign as arresting in its own way as any ghoulish, suppurating creature crafted by producer, director, and special-effects monster-maker Greg Nicotero. “‘And so, let’s just put something like that in there.’ As an Asian American woman and a Black man writing the premiere of The Walking Dead, it does have a significance to us. “That was just something that we took and said, ‘That’s a real type of a sign that was up in a real American city, as the pandemic’s raging and people are turning on each other,’” Kang says. Barnes drove around the city snapping photos of the real-world dystopia, and on one of his sojourns, he saw a sign that looked like the one they’d add to “Acheron: Part I.” “We were seeing a lot of images that looked like things that we’d done on our show,” Kang says. The coronavirus struck the States as they were working on “Acheron: Part I,” and the desolation of Los Angeles reminded them of The Walking Dead’s postapocalyptic cityscapes. Showrunner and executive producer Angela Kang, who cowrote the episode with co–executive producer Jim Barnes, says they included the flyer as a topical allusion to the anti-Asian incidents and worsened racial inequities that resulted from the COVID-19 pandemic. And the flyer, a relic from the fall of civilization that the series skipped past in its first season, hints at one reason why: A crisis can exacerbate old divisions. In The Walking Dead’s timeline, America definitely didn’t prevail. “AMERICA DOESN’T TOLERATE RACISM,” the stained and tattered message says. Transit Authority that the camera captures lying on the subway platform. As chilling as the undead fare evaders that lurk below, though, is a nod to more human horrors, in the form of a flyer from the D.C. You can guess how that goes: It’s a zombie show, so enclosed spaces such as pitch-black, subterranean tunnels tend to make for frightening commutes. Will you be giving TWD: Daryl Dixon a try? Hit the comments with a yay or nay.In “Acheron: Part I,” the premiere episode of the 11th and final season of The Walking Dead, a group of survivors on an expedition from Alexandria, Virginia, seek shelter during a dark and stormy night by descending into a Washington Metro station. In addition to Daryl’s spinoff, Dead-heads also have in store the return of Fear the Walking Dead for its eighth and final season (kicking off Sunday, May 14) as well as the NYC-set Walking Dead: Dead City, which starting in June continues the story of Jeffrey Dean Morgan’s Negan and Lauren Cohan’s Maggie, and Andrew Lincoln and Danai Gurira’s Rick/Michonne limited series (which is on tap for 2024). As he makes the journey, though, the connections he forms along the way complicate his ultimate plan.” The series tracks his journey across a broken but resilient France as he hopes to find a way back home. Per the network’s description of the offshoot, which is set to debut later this year, our hero “washes ashore in France and struggles to piece together how he got there and why. Now then, if you’re wondering how Daryl wound up in Europe, you’re not alone so is he. Eriq Ebouaney (by Jérôme Dominé), Anne Charrier (by Christian Geisselmann), Laika Blanc Francard (by François Berthier), Louis Puech Scigliuzzi (by Ian Scigliuzzi) and Romain Levin (by Laura Cortès)
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