The Walking Dead: Dead City is a series that does away with some of The Walking Dead's usual qualities to mixed results.
Set an indeterminate time after the end of The Walking Dead , Maggie goes looking for Negan to assist her on a dire task. A man who goes by the moniker The Croat came to The Hilltop , took all their grain, and kidnapped Maggie’s son, Hershel. He promised that his men would return every few months for more grain and supplies. The Croat used to be one of Negan’s strongmen — one who was known as the torturer among Negan’s crew. He was so bloodthirsty that eventually Negan had to cut him loose.
The Croat is set up on the island of Manhattan, which was one of the epicenters of the zombie apocalypse. The government blew out all the bridges in the hopes of containing the outbreak; as we all know, that didn’t work, and Manhattan became home to millions of zombies and a handful of human survivors. One of them, apparently, is The Croat.I had some problems with the overall logic of the setting.
The Walking Dead: Dead City lacks the worldbuilding that the original series was so well-known for. It feels as though the show takes its established characters for granted, giving them new problems with little backstory. We do finally find out what happened to Negan’s wife and why he takes care of Ginny, but we never find out about what happened to Hilltop. Similarly, a major plot point is New Babylon, but we never find out anything about it.
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