tv echo March 25 Share March 25 (edited) Hollywood is facing serious franchise fatigue. How ‘The Walking Dead’ bucked the trend BY GREG BRAXTON MARCH 14, 2024 https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/tv/story/2024-03-14/the-walking-dead-the-ones-who-live-amc-richonne-andrew-lincoln-danai-gurira Quote So far, at least, “The Ones Who Live” appears to have bucked the trend, with the first two episodes topping the charts for cable dramas this season in key demographics. The Feb. 25 premiere attracted a combined total of 3 million viewers across multiple showings on AMC and simulcasts on other networks. (On AMC alone, the debut drew 1.3 million viewers, with Episode 2 bringing in 1.4 million. The series premiere is also the most-watched episode ever on AMC+.) By contrast, the premieres of two previous spinoffs, “Dead City” and “Daryl Dixon,” attracted 1 million and 851,000 viewers, respectively, according to Nielsen. * * * No decision has been made yet about a second season — “anything can happen,” Gimple said — and it remains unclear whether fan interest in the franchise is capable of surmounting the structural challenges facing basic cable in the long run, especially as AMC lacks a streaming partner with the scale of Hulu, like competitor FX has. Edited March 25 by tv echo Link to comment
tv echo March 25 Share March 25 'The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live' Episode 5 Recap: Wake Up, Rick! BY EMILY BERNARD MARCH 24, 2024 https://collider.com/the-walking-dead-the-ones-who-live-episode-5-recap/ The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live Recap: Cabin in the Woods By Leah Marilla Thomas March 24, 2024 https://www.vulture.com/article/the-walking-dead-the-ones-who-live-recap-episode-5-become.html Link to comment
tv echo March 28 Share March 28 (edited) Matt’s Inside Line: Scoop on Chicago Fire, The Rookie, All American, Chucky, Evil, Elsbeth, the FBI: International Doggo, Fire Country, TWD and More! BY MATT WEBB MITOVICH MARCH 27, 2024 https://tvline.com/lists/chicago-fire-severide-disappearance-spoilers-season-12-episode-11/ Quote Is there going to be a Season 2 of The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live? –Goldie As yet, there has been no official word from AMC that the “limited” part of the “limited series” will be removed. Spoiler But Sunday’s finale certainly leaves the door open for a continuation of the story. Whether this really is the end-the end, we suspect longtime fans of the franchise will find it extremely moving. (Keep those tissues handy, folks.) Additionally, the ep is peppered with several mini-montages of memorable moments involving Rick and/or Michonne from over the years. Edited March 28 by tv echo Link to comment
tv echo March 30 Share March 30 Did Tracker Tease Spinoff? Is SYTYCD Nixing Live Shows? Is Grey’s Doc Officially Unlikable? Was FBI’s Isobel Out of Line? And More TV Qs! BY VLADA GELMAN, MATT WEBB MITOVICH, DAVE NEMETZ, RYAN SCHWARTZ, REBECCA IANNUCCI, CHARLIE MASON MARCH 29, 2024 https://tvline.com/features/tracker-spinoff-tease-sofia-pernas-episode-6-tv-questions-1235193093/ Quote 1 | As nice as it is to see Rick and Michonne living the good life on The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live, aren’t things coming to them a little too easily this far into the dystopia? A hybrid pick-up truck, cases of ramen, a full bottle of Black Label…? (And as reader Lisa H. asked, would Rick and Michonne really have been dumb to leave noodle wrappers like a trail of bread crumbs for Jadis to follow?) Also, are the walkers who bit Jadis some new variant that is utterly silent until the instant it attacks? Link to comment
tv echo March 31 Share March 31 (edited) The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live Co-Creators Weigh In on Season 2 Prospects BY CHARLIE MASON, MATT WEBB MITOVICH MARCH 30, 2024 https://tvline.com/news/walking-dead-ones-who-live-season-2-update-1235192766/ Quote At the Television Critics Association’s winter press tour, the trio did their damnedest not to tip their hand. Almost in unison, Gurira responded to TVLine’s question about a possible Season 2 with “Can’t answer that” as Gimple said, “Let’s just be quiet on this one.” “Well, I die in the last episode,” joked Lincoln. “Oops,” responded his leading lady. “No.” “Or he’s doing a little psyop, and maybe he actually does,” Gimple suggested. “I would say anything is possible, even if Rick dies in the last episode. Anything is possible. “We’re focused on this one right now,” he added, “but this one came together in a really amazing way where there were all sorts of plans, and the world changed, so we altered those plans and wound up with something we really liked.” Edited March 31 by tv echo Link to comment
tv echo March 31 Share March 31 (edited) MAJOR SPOILERS for tonight's season finale (including the ending)... The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live Finally Revealed What The Echelon Briefing Is — And It Makes No Sense By Jonathon Wilson March 31, 2024 https://readysteadycut.com/2024/03/31/the-walking-dead-the-ones-who-live-ending/ Edited March 31 by tv echo 1 Link to comment
tv echo April 1 Share April 1 (edited) Spoilers for last night's season finale... TWD Boss Reveals The Ones Who Live Was ‘Very Different’ From Original Film Trilogy — Plus, the Latest Word on Season 2 BY MATT WEBB MITOVICH MARCH 31, 2024 https://tvline.com/interviews/the-walking-dead-the-ones-who-live-compared-movie-trilogy-1235194704/ ‘The Walking Dead’ Stars Andrew Lincoln and Danai Gurira Explain Spinoff’s “Amazingly Emotional” Ending BY JOSH WIGLER MARCH 31, 2024 https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-features/walking-dead-ones-who-live-finale-rick-michonne-ending-1235863702/ The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live finale ending explained By Dalton Ross March 31, 2024 https://ew.com/the-walking-dead-the-ones-who-live-finale-ending-explained-8622179 ‘Walking Dead’s Danai Gurira On Tonight’s ‘Ones Who Live’ Finale, Reunions, Renewal & Redemption By Dominic Patten March 31, 2024 https://deadline.com/2024/03/walking-dead-danai-gurira-interview-ones-who-live-finale-recap-1235872693/ The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live Season-Finale Recap: Pride and Prejudice and Zombies By Leah Marilla Thomas March 31, 2024 https://www.vulture.com/article/walking-dead-ones-who-live-season-finale-recap-episode-6-the-last-time.html Edited April 1 by tv echo Link to comment
Sailorgirl26 April 1 Share April 1 I hope they don't do a season 2. What's the hook? Michonne and Rick's raison d'être was to find their way back to each other, and they did that after a MASSIVE, years-long separation. Unless season 2 were to focus on a Judith and/or RJ kidnapping/disappearance and them going off on another quest to find them, Rick and Michonne's story has been told, which was the purpose of this six-episode run. Showing them living day-to-day as a family in the Commonwealth or Alexandria would just be the mothership redux. 2 Link to comment
Iguessnot April 2 Share April 2 (edited) 21 hours ago, Sailorgirl26 said: I hope they don't do a season 2. What's the hook? Michonne and Rick's raison d'être was to find their way back to each other, and they did that after a MASSIVE, years-long separation. Unless season 2 were to focus on a Judith and/or RJ kidnapping/disappearance and them going off on another quest to find them, Rick and Michonne's story has been told, which was the purpose of this six-episode run. Showing them living day-to-day as a family in the Commonwealth or Alexandria would just be the mothership redux. Yes, this needs to be the end of this storyline. Especially since they are committed to the RJ actor and when he appears on screen, a black hole of anti energy opens up. No one has been able to act with him at all. Edited April 2 by Iguessnot 2 1 Link to comment
tv echo April 8 Share April 8 Shōgun Lord Truly Bested? TWD’s CRM Never Spotted #Richonne’s Group? Good Doc Death Not a Shock? More Qs! BY MATT WEBB MITOVICH, KEISHA HATCHETT, CHARLIE MASON, RYAN SCHWARTZ, REBECCA IANNUCCI, DAVE NEMETZ APRIL 5, 2024 https://tvline.com/features/greys-anatomy-jessica-capshaw-return-no-arizona-callie-sofia-update-1235196266/ Quote 4 | Is it really believable that The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live‘s CRM — with all of its choppers flying around when Jadis was delivering them As and Bs from the Heaps — would never have spotted Alexandria? Should Michonne have been quieter when ransacking Jadis’ office? Wouldn’t Beame have a detail posted outside his door? How was everyone but Rick, Michonne and Thorne killed in that massive explosion? How did Rick survive setting off a grenade right in front of his face? Why didn’t anyone but the couple’s kids come to welcome #Richonne home? And why did Rick leave behind his nifty prosthetic hand? 1 Link to comment
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