The best moments and curiosities of the end of ‘The Walking Dead’

It seems incredible but, somehow, everything is over. We review the criticism, curiosities and best moments of the end of ‘The Walking Dead’the last chapter of Part 3 of its 11th season. With 8 new chapters, the AMC series has concluded the story of its main title and, for many, one of the best series in history.

In Spain, the episodes are broadcast on FOX España TV with only one day of delay, so The release date of ‘Rest In Peace’, this final chapter, has been November 21, 2022an end that has been looming over us little by little, either with the return of Rick Grimes to ‘TWD’ in its last bars or with exhausting internet diatribes that ensured that they have been ensuring that ‘The Walking Dead’ dies exhausted and missing the viewer about it.

With the confirmation that the last episode of ‘TWD’ will be longer, it became clear that we were before a conclusion ready to close plots definitively but, will it have succeeded?

Criticism of the end of ‘The Walking Dead’

“In many ways, ‘Rest In Peace’ is a look back at some of ‘The Walking Dead’s’ greatest hits.“, reviews Ron Hogan in den of geek. “There’s a convoluted plan to blow something up to stop a horde of zombies. There’s a despot who locks people up and leaves them to die before a horde. There’s a great series of scenes in a hospital that serves as a reminder of one of the deaths most brutal in the series when Noah is torn apart in front of Glenn. There is an unexpected awakening of Grimes from a coma after being shot, just like Rick and Carl did. There is even a character who, improbably, escapes from a group of zombies through willpower and physical prowess, as Tyreese did in his day.”

That nostalgic trip seems to have been the fundamental pillar of a series that was moving towards its end, more out of inertia than narrative necessity..

“TWD pretends to follow the MCU model, but at least Marvel had the guts to kill off some of their most popular heroes in ‘Avengers: Endgame,'” Richard Rys notes in vulture. “In trying to please everyone – or at least not offend anyone, as Glenn’s death did in season seven – the ending fell short of being fully satisfying. The Dead is over, but those who live aren’t leaving anytime soon“.

“After following the series for more than a dozen years, several presidents, and a reshaping of society as we know it, the closing of this chapter remained riveting,” Chase Hutchinson describes in Collider. “It was rushed, chaotic and quite disappointing. While the series won’t be remembered as one of the best due to its drop in quality, it will certainly occupy an infamous place in television history for how long it ran.”

Curiosities of the end of ‘The Walking Dead’

– The duration of this chapter has been 90 minutes, double the usual chapter of the series.

– Chandler Riggs, who played Carl Grimes as a regular in the first 8 seasons, visited the set while it was filming and was convinced to be in the background of a scene.

– Scott M. Gimple already warned that the ending would be a different version of Robert Kirkman’s comics.

– The title of the series finale, ‘Rest In Peace’, is taken directly from the last volume of its predecessor in the comics.

– It is the second time that the term “the walking dead” is used in the entire series. The phrase is pronounced by Norman Reedus (Daryl Dixon).

– This episode marks the first appearance of Rick Grimes (Andrew Lincoln) since his disappearance after the bridge explosion, and the first appearance of Michonne (Danai Gurira) since she went looking for Rick.

And now? beyond the walking dead

Don’t worry, there are zombies for a while, either in its derivative products such as the ‘Tales of the Walking Dead’ anthology and other of the best zombie series. The AMC jewel premiered its first spin-off six years ago, ‘Fear the Walking Dead’, a series that began as a prequel (renewed for an eighth season) set in the city of Los Angeles and centered on a family that must survive the beginnings of the zombie apocalypse, showing the origin of the virus and how it spread around the world from the point of view of a family.

Seeing the results obtained, they did not take long to confirm a third title set in the same universe of extreme survival, ‘The Walking Dead: World Beyond’, two-season miniseries already finished that showed the first generation of teenagers native to the apocalypse.

This summer we may see a fourth product from the same universe, ‘Tales of the Walking Dead‘, an anthology of six stand-alone episodes that will tell stories starring familiar and new secondary characters, played by Olivia Munn, Danny Ramirez, Embeth Davidtz or Jessie T. Usher, among others.

How? What do you want more staggering dead? At AMC they listen to you and have already announced ‘Isle of the Dead’, a series in which Lauren Cohan and Jeffrey Dean Morgan will once again embody their characters Maggie and Negan on a trip to post-apocalyptic Manhattan, an island that has become a chaotic, walker-infested microcosm. The first season will have six episodes and will be seen in 2023, with Eli Jorné as showrunner. And it is not the only spin-off focused on two of the main characters of ‘The Walking Dead’ that we will see next year, as Angela Kang, current showrunner of the original series, is preparing another fiction starring Carol (Melissa McBride) and Daryl (Norman Reedus) and that, according to Norman Reedus himself, there will be big differences between Daryl’s spin-off and ‘TWD’.