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TOTAL DARKNESS envelops the Senoia, Georgia, soundstage housing The Walking Dead’s grandiose prison set. It’s an unspoken rule to always be mindful where you step, as one can easily trip over life-size zombie dummies sprawled on the floor. The weathered walls are thick with blood spatter that’s trickled down to form sticky maroon pools. Welcome to the West Georgia Correctional Facility, the latest battlefield in the gruesome war waged between the alive and the undead when the AMC drama returns tonight for Season 3. “[The prison] has a lot of different personalities—out in the field, inside the cell block and the hallways,” says producer and special-effects guru Greg Nicotero. “It really has aspects that play like a haunted house.” For Rick (Andrew Lincoln) and his band of survivors, that haunted…

THOSE WERE THE WORDS of advice imparted by a bleeding-out Morgan Jones (Lennie James) at the end of Fear the Walking Dead’s Season 5 finale. The former leader lost his fellow survivors to the series’ gun-totin’ big bad Virginia (Colby Minifie) and the Pioneers, who split up the once hopeful group, shipping them off to an undisclosed number of settlements. But can Morgan himself learn to just live? Will he live at all? The Season 6 premiere jumps roughly six weeks from the events in the finale and will reveal how Morgan—now sporting a well-grown beard when the postapocalyptic series picks up—managed to survive that point-blank shot in the chest and the walkers that were zeroing in on him as Virginia left him for dead. Not-so-spoilerish alert: He isn’t out…

TWD SEASON 1, EP. 01 Rick is shot and comatose. After suffering multiple gunshot wounds, sheriff’s deputy Rick Grimes (Andrew Lincoln, far right, with Jon Bernthal’s Shane Walsh) goes into a coma in a King County, Georgia, hospital. Meanwhile, strange reports of unrest across the country spread. FTWD 101 Outbreak! The virus spreads rapidly. On Fear, addict Nick Clark (Frank Dillane) finds his “turned” girlfriend Gloria (Lexi Johnson, right) eating someone’s flesh in a Los Angeles drug den. FTWD 201 L.A. is firebombed. Fear’s Clark family and their band of survivors board the luxury yacht Abigail and watch in horror as the City of Angels goes up in flames—a result of Operation Cobalt. The military response also targeted Atlanta on TWD. TWD 101 Rick enters the new world. After the…

Did orange tabby cat Skidmark survive Fear’s nuclear blast? “Skidmark is OK,” confirms exec producer Ian Goldberg. “There were enough bleak things in [the Season 6 finale], we weren’t going to let anything bad happen to that cat.” Can Beyond couple Felix (Nico Tortorella) and Will (Jelani Alladin) make it work? “They’re together again, but moving forward, I think they both experienced a lot,” teases Tortorella of the pair, who reunited cross-country in Season 1’s ender. Will TWD’s final season have any unexpected return visitors? “It’s TBD,” showrunner Angela Kang admits. “There’s still a lot that we’re working out.”…

TO ANY OUTSIDER setting foot on the Griffin, Georgia, set of The Walking Dead, the sense of heightened security and secrecy is immediately apparent. Production assistants string giant tarps across the entrance to a small alley, shielding any on-camera action from the eyes of dozens of gawkers who have parked themselves across the street in the 90-degree heat holding homemade signs professing their love for AMC’s hit zombie drama. (“I ♥ Daryl Dixon” is one popular sentiment.) Brief glimpses of the show’s stars elicit the kind of eardrum-tearing screams usually reserved for the latest boy band. It’s a scene that perfectly illustrates the growing influence of The Walking Dead, which burst onto TV in 2010 with 5.3 million total viewers (the network’s highest-rated premiere at the time) and, last March,…

Lincoln wrapped shooting in late June, but to the rest of the tight-knit cast, that farewell could have been yesterday. McBride still feels his presence, saying with a hint of sadness, “Everything we do just has Rick all over it.” She jokes that the “always prepared” actor would arrive on set “like, five hours before call time. There’s nobody around to whip us into shape!” For Morgan, losing Lincoln—as well as Cohan—hit extra hard because of the production’s remoteness in rural Georgia. “Some great friendships are formed here. We’re out in the middle of—” He stops. “We have each other to lean on.” And just as Rick and Daryl bonded, so have the two men who play them. “Andy has been my best friend for 10 years,” Reedus says. “Every…

IN A WORLD where the dead outnumber the living, it’s no surprise that beloved characters have come and gone on The Walking Dead and Fear the Walking Dead. Whether they were killed by the flesh-eating infected or the true threat—other desperate survivors—we’re still grieving these folks…for better or worse. And though we miss leader Rick Grimes (Andrew Lincoln) and badass warrior Michonne (Danai Gurira), we’ll see more Rick in the upcoming feature films, and we can only hope that Michonne joins him. For these 20 characters, though, the adventure has ended. SHANE WALSH (JON BERNTHAL) Hotheaded Shane was best friends with even-tempered Rick, his partner in the sheriff’s department. Postapocalypse, the tough guy, whose heroics kept the survivors from being zombie snacks, was obsessed with taking the lead in the…

THE UNDEAD HERE are known as “empties,” but World Beyond’s second and final season is chock-full of answers. Mostly about the Civic Republic Military (CRM), the shadowy cabal that’s already gotten its hands on The Walking Dead’s Rick Grimes (Andrew Lincoln) as well as several Fear survivors, in addition to terrorizing many on Beyond (set 10 years after the start of the apocalypse). “You’re going to get a lot of insight about what you’ve heard passed around between Dead and Fear,” notes Aliyah Royale, who plays fierce teen Iris Bennett. Last season, Iris and her edgy adoptive sister Hope (Alexa Mansour) left the safe haven of Nebraska’s Campus Colony for New York to locate their scientist dad, Leo (Joe Holt), who was sent there to research the dead for CRM.…

10 “Clear” (Season 3, Episode 12) Before aikido stick–wielding survivor Morgan Jones (Lennie James) showed up in Alexandria, Rick Grimes (Andrew Lincoln) stumbled upon his old friend (they met in the pilot)—and found him writing on walls, obsessed with “clearing” the dead, his mental state in shambles after the death of his son. James turns in a moving performance as a father consumed by grief, and the growing bond between Michonne (Danai Gurira) and Carl (Chandler Riggs) in the episode’s other plotline provides levity. 9 “No Way Out” (Season 6, Episode 9) If only scared Sam Anderson (Major Dodson) had kept his mouth shut! In one of the show’s most pulse-pounding hours, Alexandria is overrun by a massive horde that kills the kid when they hear him whimper. His vengeful…

THE WAR AGAINST the creepy Whisperers cult may finally be over, but AMC’s zombie drama The Walking Dead taught us a long time ago that lowering your guard is never a good idea. The series-ending Season 11 (consisting of 24 episodes broken up into three intense installments that wrap in 2022) features multiple postapocalyptic menaces for the survivors, according to showrunner Angela Kang—and some we’ve already met. “There’s a variety of big bads,” she says. “And characters’ roles in things that go wrong are not always clear. That’s something we’ve been playing with, because villainy comes in many forms and isn’t always black and white.” That’s especially true for Jeffrey Dean Morgan’s reformed Saviors leader Negan Smith. In the first episode back, he finds himself entangled even further with the…

CAROL AND DARYL HIT THE ROAD A PAIR OF beloved TWDU heroes will soon be heading back into action—side by side. After The Walking Dead’s 11th and final season signs off, a sequel planned for 2023 will star deeply bonded zombie apocalypse survivors Carol Peletier (Melissa McBride) and Daryl Dixon (Norman Reedus) on new adventures as they try to stay alive, find shelter, execute hordes of the undead and keep their frequent disagreements from tearing them apart. Talk about familiar terrain! You might call the spinoff about the (so far) nonromantic best friends fitting, since both characters—on the front lines of the original series since Episode 3—have consistently fallen at or near the top of multiple critic and fan-favorite lists. While most details are still TBD, expect the sequel to…

From @TWDBrasil: For Norman Reedus (Daryl) and Melissa McBride (Carol)—which season did you enjoy filming the most and why? McBride: There’s something about all of them that we miss. I think the first season will always be the most special because it was the first season. Reedus: Same. The first season was the best in terms of memories because it was brand new. It was such a gung-ho spirit. It felt like we were becoming a family right off the bat. Season 9 was really good too. There’s a lot of stuff I’d been waiting to do with [Andrew Lincoln] that I got to do. Or the season where Dog showed up. We’ve jumped in time so many times, I’m not sure where that dog came from! From @fentwd: If…

ACROSS 1 Type of computer port (abbr.) 4 The Walking Dead network 7 Sassy 11 Fear’s Season 2 survivor Oscar 13 Nickname for Beyond’s Dr. Bennett 14 Huge landmass 15 Margarine 16 Feel crummy (like after a zombie bite!) 17 Highway exit 18 Daryl on TWD (2 wds.) 21 Toy pellets 22 Dairy sound 23 TWD actress Hilker 26 One of the Brady girls 27 Poker winner’s prize 30 Soothing substance 31 Workweek start, often (abbr.) 32 Jason’s ship, in myth 33 Musician’s job 34 Actor Affleck 35 Alpha’s opposite 36 Linden or Holbrook 37 That ship 38 Andrea on TWD (2 wds.) 44 Sound that Fear’s Skidmark would make 45 Place for a massage 46 Home state of TWD actress Danai Gurira 47 Bank conveniences (abbr.) 48 Envy or sloth, say 49…