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22 - 28, 2021
Northeast Oregon TV Weekly
BY JAY BOBBIN
Lauren Cohan is among the stars of
“The Walking Dead,” which starts
its final season Sunday on AMC.
‘The Walking Dead’ walks
into its final AMC season
It’ll be a long goodbye for “The
Walking Dead,” which its many fans
aren’t likely to mind.
The 11th and final season of AMC’s
hugely popular zombie drama starts
Sunday, Aug. 22 – and it really is only
the beginning of the end, since after
that eight-episode arc ends, two more
will wrap up the series in 2022. The
Chris Hardwick-hosted “Talking Dead”
postmortem will continue to follow
each new episode, which also can be
accessed a full week earlier on the AMC+
streaming service.
Noting that a summer start for “The
Walking Dead” is unusual, executive
producer Scott Gimple explained in
a recent Comic-Con at Home session
that the last season tells “a big story,
and it takes a lot of turns. We reinvent
(after) every eight episodes, so we’re
going to put the audience through their
paces. We’re going to give them an epic,
extended goodbye.”
Jeffrey Dean Morgan has been a big
part of the “Walking Dead” cast as the
sinister Negan, though the Season 10
finale saw major developments that could
have made viewers more empathetic
toward him.
Nevertheless, Morgan reasons, “I don’t
think that ever will sway the people who
hate Negan. If there were people on the
fence about him, that may have turned
them a little bit. The opportunity to tell
that story was exceedingly special, and
to do it with Hilarie (Burton, Morgan’s
wife, who played Negan’s spouse Lucille)
certainly made it one of the highlights of
my time here.”
Lauren Cohan, who plays widowed
mother Maggie, says she’s been having
“the most fun I’ve ever had on the show”
since returning in Season 10 “in terms
of just navigating this ocean of what you
want to do and what you can do.”
One of “The Walking Dead’s” most
prominent actors as Daryl Dixon,
Norman Reedus notes, “I feel like
my character has changed in all these
different ways, but he takes little pieces
of all these people he learned from. I
know Negan is the show’s big baddie, but
if the apocalypse didn’t happen, Daryl
would be the one you wouldn’t put your
hand out and say hello to.”
Executive producer Angela Kang is
glad to get back to storytelling on a large
scale as “The Walking Dead” concludes.
“Obviously, the pandemic changed a lot
of how we had to do everything,” she
reflects. “It was really fun to do these
very focused, intimate episodes (to end
Season 10), but with Season 11, we’re
going to go out with a bang. The stunts
and scares are a lot of the fun for those of
us who work on the show, and I’m really
excited to share it with the audience.”
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