From Cosmopolitan · Leah Marilla Thomas · · 1m 40s
Will Maggie and Negan ride again in Dead City?
Season 3 is over, AMC has said nothing, and the whole Walking Dead universe may be riding on one renewal call.
In brief
Season 3 is over, AMC has said nothing, and the whole Walking Dead universe may be riding on one renewal call. Dead City is the last Walking Dead show without an end date attached, so its renewal decides whether the franchise keeps going at all. Originally reported by Cosmopolitan.
Season 3 got weird
Maggie and Negan went well past the Empire State Building this year, including an alternate universe episode built like a Hallmark Christmas movie.
“I won't be forgetting that alternate universe episode straight out of a Hallmark Christmas movie for a long time.”
The pairing should not work
A widow teamed with the man who beat her husband to death in front of her, while she was pregnant. Only Lauren Cohan and Jeffrey Dean Morgan's chemistry holds it together.
“No matter how reformed Negan may or may not be, Maggie does not need to put up with him!”
Too busy to fight
Warring factions and outsized personalities across greater New York keep pulling them into someone else's problem, so their own history rarely gets aired out.
AMC has gone quiet
As of the season 3 finale there is no renewal and no cancellation. Dead City has no New York Comic-Con panel in October, only Daryl Dixon does.
“But Scott Gimple, the franchise's chief content officer, can do what he wants!”
Summer 2027, probably
Season 1 landed in 2023, season 2 in 2025 after the strikes, season 3 promptly in 2026. Every season airs in summer, so a season 4 points to June or July 2027.
“Probably not May, but you never know!”
The universe is thinning out
The flagship series is done. Fear the Walking Dead ended. World Beyond lasted two seasons. Daryl Dixon wraps with a fourth and final season in 2027.
“Can a franchise about the undead ever die?”
It all rests here
The Ones Who Live was pitched as a limited series, though nobody has ruled out more. If Dead City doesn't return, the Walking Dead may be finished.
“If Dead City doesn't come back, this could be it for The Walking Dead.”
The headline
Dead City is the last Walking Dead show without an end date attached, so its renewal decides whether the franchise keeps going at all.
