The Walking Dead is an American post-apocalyptic horror television series. It is based on the comic book series of the same name by Robert Kirkman, Tony Moore, and Charlie Adlard. Andrew Lincoln played the series’s lead character, Rick Grimes, until his departure during the ninth season. Other long-standing cast members have included Norman Reedus, Steven Yeun, Chandler Riggs, Melissa McBride, Lauren Cohan, Danai Gurira, Josh McDermitt and Christian Serratos.
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The Walking Dead is an American post-apocalyptic horror television series. It is based on the comic book series of the same name by Robert Kirkman, Tony Moore, and Charlie Adlard. Andrew Lincoln played the series’s lead character, Rick Grimes, until his departure during the ninth season. Other long-standing cast members have included Norman Reedus, Steven Yeun, Chandler Riggs, Melissa McBride, Lauren Cohan, Danai Gurira, Josh McDermitt and Christian Serratos. The series is exclusively broadcast on AMC in the United States and internationally through the Fox Networks Group. The tenth season premiered on October 6, 2019, and has been renewed for an eleventh and final season. AMC have also further developed the series into related media; a spinoff series, Fear the Walking Dead, premiered on August 23, 2015, and is currently airing its sixth season. A second spinoff, a two-season limited series, The Walking Dead: World Beyond, premiered on October 4, 2020. AMC announced plans for three films to follow Rick’s story after Lincoln’s departure. The walking dead has attracted the most 18- to 49-year-old viewers of any cable or broadcast television series, though viewership has declined in later seasons. It has been nominated for several awards, including the Golden Globe Award for Best Television Series – Drama and the Writers Guild of America Award for New Series. It will conclude in 2022 after the eleventh season commences airing in 2021. The Walking dead takes place after the onset of a worldwide zombie apocalypse.
The zombies, colloquially referred to as ‘walkers’, shamble towards living humans and other creatures to eat them. Although it initially seems that only humans that are bitten or scratched by walkers can turn into other walkers, it is revealed early in the series that all living humans carry the pathogen responsible for the mutation. The mutation is activated after the death of the host, and the only way to permanently kill a walker is to damage its brain or destroy the body, such as by cremating it. The group travels to the Centers for Disease Control for the sole cure for the pandemic, but find from sole member that there is no cure. Rick’s group takes shelter at Hershel Greene’s farm while they search for Carol’s missing daughter, Sophia. The noise draws zombies, forcing Rick and Hershel’s group to evacuate the farm after it is discovered that Hershel has kept friends and family turned into zombies. Rick learns that Shane and Lori were romantically involved at the outset of the apocalypse, and Shane and Rick’s friendship becomes increasingly unhinged when Lori reveals that she is pregnant with Rick’s son Carl. Rick is eventually forced to kill Shane in self-defense in order to protect his family. He becomes the leader of a group of survivors from the Atlanta, Georgia, region as they attempt to sustain and protect themselves not only against attacks by zombies but by other groups of survivors willing to use any means necessary to stay alive.
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