‘The Walking Dead: DEAD CITY’ is back on AMC & AMC+ and after a big weekend at San Diego Comic Con, the first episode of season 3 just dropped. Spoiled corpses ahead! If you haven’t watched the premier yet, then check out the season 2 recap, and season 3 NON Spoiler review HERE, and head back once you’ve met Renata and Luis.
***WARNING: SPOILERS AHEAD***
The Story for ‘Trillium’
No time has passed since Season 2 wrapped. Negan still has a fresh stab wound, courtesy of Maggie, and both of them seem completely done with the other’s BS. Of course, there’s no rest for the survivors of a zombie apocalypse, so two new fresh faces show up, and they’re desperate. The Croat has been bit, but they need his walker electricity recipe to save a baby. Cue an explosion right as we hear Hershel say, “Mom.”
Flashback to a baby shower. We see The Croat take the Negan approach and kill someone to get control. However, killing the dad-to-be at a baby shower, is gonna create some serious vengeful people. Especially the deceased’s siblings, Renata and Luis: Our new faces.
Back in present day we learn the baby is coming, and it’s gonna be early, so electricity is vital to power up an incubator. Following an explosion everyone finds themselves in a bar basement. Negan wonders up to the bar and meets a very eccentric bartender. Meanwhile the Croat tells Renata and Luis, he’ll take them to the tanks. He doesn’t want to die in the basement of a bar. Once they leave Maggie grabs new Lucille and brings it to Negan who wants nothing more than to stay in the bar with his new BFF. She tells him, “I need you.”
Hershel and Maggie reconciled, and now she needs Negan to help make a world that can work for her son to live in, not simply survive in. Negan reluctantly agrees, as he’s always got that soft spot for kids. Especially ones whose dad he murdered. Off they go… Negan finds The Croat who dies in his arms, as Negan sheds a tear.
The siblings find their zombie brother where the tanks are, and they use his body to power the electricity to save the premature baby. In death, he was able to provide for his child in the most insane way imaginable. We wrap with Renata and Maggie bonding, and Negan and Maggie showing some mutual respect for each other. Enter THE DAMA. Who is still alive.
Final Thoughts
This wasn’t the strongest Season Premier
Overall I loved this season, but I didn’t love this episode. So if you felt the same, just stay tuned because it’s about to get a lot better. With The Croat and the Dama still in play, it felt as if we were still wrapping up stories from season 2. Also, Hershel very quicky pivoted back to his mom. This felt a bit too quick, however, having raised a teenager myself, and having a current one in my house, I was able to accept that. It wasn’t Magneto in Dark Phoenix level. While groundwork is definitely laid for this Season in Episode 1 it felt more like wrapping up Season 2.
There were still moments I loved
16 years into the “walker” apocalypse and we’re still seeing new ways of dealing with apocalyptic style trauma. Negan’s BFF, Dillard, is a trip! He never left home, and he’s found the most absurd way of staying “sane.” I use that term sane very loosely, as he is clearly not the sanest. He talks to walkers (Tom Hanks talked to a volleyball). This isn’t the first time we’ve seen someone not able to let someone who has turned go, but this is very different. He’s entertaining himself with walkers, and Negan is entertained by it. They seemed to have instant chemistry, and I love it.
Another moment I loved that seemed very small, was Maggie grabbing new Lucille. While this isn’t the exact baseball bat that caused her husband’s eye to pop out, and leave her son with no father, it looks just like it! No Negan cosplay is complete without a bat wrapped in barbed wire. It’s part of him, named after his late wife. Not only is Maggie able to pick it up, but she hands it to Negan asking for his help. This did not happen over night. Their relationship has slowly evolved, and this simple gesture spoke volumes to that.
Overall Grade: 7/10
While, I did enjoy this episode it felt a bit, more of the same. However, the season as a whole does not feel like more of the same. So come back next week, because it really gets better, as Dead City, takes us to places we’ve yet to discover in a zombie apocalypse.
Head back every Sunday for the next 8 weeks for my spoiler filled reviews after the show! They’ll drop after 10 p.m. EDT.
Check out some ‘SUPERNATURAL’ Easter Eggs in ‘THE BOYS’ and more reviews from Lauren.
In addition to Lauren Cohan and Jeffrey Dean Morgan, season three also stars Jimmi Simpson, Raúl Castillo, Aimee Garcia, Logan Kim and Michael Emery. The Walking Dead: Dead City is executive produced by Scott M. Gimple, chief content officer of The Walking Dead Universe, showrunner Seth Hoffman, Lauren Cohan, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Brian Bockrath and Colin Walsh.
Did you watch the season 3 premiere of DEAD CITY? What are your thoughts?
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