The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon

The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon
Format	Series
Created by	David Zabel
Country of origin	Ohio
Language(s)	French English
Production
Executive producer(s)	Scott Pimple Bob Kirk Greg Nicotine
Distributor	AMC
Broadcast
Original channel	AMC+
Picture format	High Definition
Chronology
Preceded by	The Walking Dead
Followed by	The Ones Who Live

The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon is an American post-apocalyptic television series created by David Zabel. Set after the The Walking Dead, Daryl Dixon gets his own spin-off adventure. However, unlike Maggie and Negan's spin-off, The Walking Dead: Dead City, Daryl got the Obi-Wan Kenobi treatment, and the show was named after him - just so people know that it's his very own show. The second season also stole from Star Wars, with it being titled The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon – The Book of Carol. Boba Fett, however, will not appear.

Premise

After the season eleven finale, Daryl ends up in France somehow, where he is quested to become Joel from The Last of Us.

Cast and characters

• Norman Reedus as Daryl Dixon: suffering from plot disorder, Daryl finds himself in France with no explanation. The former right hand man of Rick Grimes, and silent biker with a crossbow turned Stormtrooper, Dixon is still a virgin.
• Melissa McBride as Carol Peletier: Daryl's non-sexual girlfriend, killer of many children, and along with Daryl, is one of the few people to survive all eleven seasons of the main show plus its spin-offs.
• Clémence Poésy as Isabelle: a nun that somehow speaks perfect english, just so she can task Daryl with a quest. Also, she has no problem with killing.
• Louis Puech Scigliuzzi as Laurent: a young boy that can read minds. No, seriously. Take eleven seasons of sort of realistic zombie surviving, and just throw it out the window.
• Anne Charrier as Genet: leader of The Cause, and wearer of dark trench coats.
• Romain Levi as Codron: has a personal grudge against Daryl cause he thinks he killed his brother, but all the ink on his face must be making him dumb by not seeing the bigger picture (mainly because the tattoo is covering his eye).
• Adam Nagaitis as Quinn: owner of an underground nightclub, and British.

Episodes

Season 1 (2023)

No.	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original air date
1	"Lame Start"	Daniel Percival	David Zabel	September 10, 2023  (2023 -09-10)
Daryl's search to find Rick Grimes leads him to look in the ocean for whatever -- but mainly plot -- reasons. While doing so, Daryl loses his grip and gets washed out to sea, before finally being washed up on a beach. After building a sandcastle and drinking a seagull's water supply, Daryl looks at a map, only to find that it's written in baguette. Luckily, he also finds a translation book and a tape recorder. After listening to the tape, in which a guy talks about losing his family, Daryl tapes over it, telling the audience things they already know — such as his name, where he's from, and that this show is just to keep us occupied until The Ones Who Live releases. After getting branded by a new type of walker called "burners", who use old cellphones in order to not be tracked, Daryl trades his medical supplies for some apples (what a great deal!). Two miltia looking men appear, and since Daryl's translation book was seemingly forgotten about, Daryl mistakes the nice men (who were just trying to help him get home to America) for rapists and just generally bad people. Daryl kills them, but his trade partners turn on him, before being saved by a woman that likes to stand on top of cliffs. Turns out she's a nun, with a very convenient prophecy which fortold of Daryl's arrival as the man to deliver the next Jesus. This next Jesus being a young lad that can read peoples thoughts. Or so they think. In actuality, he just watched the season eleven finale and repeated what Judith Grimes said to Daryl. After a bath and some food, Daryl leaves not accepting the quest, but just as he does, the bad guys who are friends with the nice men Daryl killed, show up for revenge. A bunch of nuns die, the priest dies (again), and Daryl kills all of them except the leader. After Beth 2.0 starts singing, Daryl changes his mind and agrees to take New Jesus. Meanwhile, some boat people who are just the CRM-equivalent of this show talk in english, despite being French, about how Daryl ruined their plan.
2	"A Lot of French Words"	Daniel Percival	Jason Richman & David Zabel	September 17, 2023  (2023 -09-17),
During the outbreak, the future nun, Isabelle, is a sugar addict and has a British boyfriend, as well as a pregnant sister. As everyone around them gets bit and turned into zombies, sorry walkers, Isabelle leaves behind a young girl with only her scooter for protection — in hopes that she would scoot away and, hopefully, be faster than the walking dead (see what I did there?). Anyway, as the trio have no clue what is going on, they make a lot of bad choices like stopping for fuel, stopping to look at buring buildings, and asking for directions from the dead. The latter of which causes Isabelle's sister, Lily, to get bit. But oh no: she's pregnant! Whatever will they do? Leave behind the British boyfriend for no reason, that's what. Why? Probably cause he's British. The two then end up at the nunnery from last episode, where Lily gives birth to — plot twist — future Jesus. As she was bit, the ordeal of child birth proves to be too much and Lily dies and turns. Father Blue Jeans then kills her, while Isabelle stays and becomes a nun after looking at a statue and naming her nephew after it. Christians, ammirite? Back in the present, Isabelle, Daryl, new Jesus and Black Beth get adult-napped by a bunch of kids — who end up cooking them dinner, cause even in the apocalypse these kids somehow latched onto being religious, despite being like five when it happened. Daryl then agrees to go and help rescue one of the kids who is being held by an American sniper. Not the movie, nor Bradley Cooper, but just some American guy who has a sniper. He's also a nonce. Luckily for him, however, being American somehow makes him think he's immune to being bit (Americans, ammirite?), but unluckily, Daryl somehow always has a way to make a big explosion. As a thank you, Daryl is rewarded with a movie (not American Sniper) and a horse and carriage. New Jesus also finds out the truth of who is mother is, and proceeds to get his period. Back at the nunnery, Codron is given all the infomation he needs on Daryl and his journey cause someone was smart enough (probably not the writers, cause they're all on strike) to leave behind the tape recorder and their map that outlines their path to Paris.
3	"Tour Around Paris"	Tim Southam	Coline Abert	September 24, 2023  (2023 -09-24)
After a short detour, in which Daryl and Isabelle enjoy a nice date at the Zombie Orchestra, they finally arrive in Paris. In a graveyard Daryl points out the grave of John Lennon, and goes on to new Jesus how The Beatles were the greatest thing since sliced bread. Jesus then points out the obvious that Lennon didn't die in Paris, much like how Daryl won't either — at least, until the second season. Daryl and the group are then ambushed, in which the French ambushersjust so happened to know enough fluent English for Daryl to understand what was going on, turn out to be apart of the nun's cause to allow new Jesus to become, well, just Jesus. Not to be confused with The Cause, who are still after Daryl by hiring Codron to hunt him down. To thank Daryl for bring them their new lord, they make it their mission to help Daryl return to America and continue his search for Rick Grimes. In doing so, they take him to a secret catacomb nightclub, which is run by Isabelle's British (ex)boyfriend, with a drag queen host. After a bit of reminiscing, Daryl and Isabell reject his help and leave. At Isabelle's old home, they find the little girl with the scooter, still scooting along fifteen years in — except she's dead. Funny stuff. The Cause raid the nightclub, and the rooftop apartments where Daryl is chased, almost kills Codron, and then becomes Humpty Dumpty by having a great fall.
4	"The Iron Dame"		Shannon Goss	October 1, 2023  (2023 -10-01)
5	"Two Wuv"		Jason Richman & David Zabel	October 8, 2023  (2023 -10-08)
6	"Calling Home Alone"		Laura Snow & Jason Richman	October 15, 2023  (2023 -10-15)

Season 2 (2024)

A second season was announced at the same time as the first, as to milk the franchise as much as possible — as having one twelve episode season is not as good as having two short seasons of a measly six apparently. But, at least Melissa McBride will actually be in this season.

Season 3 (2025)

A third season was confimed by Scott Gimple in February 2024 during an interview for the upcoming series The Ones Who Live, and before season two of Daryl had even started filming. Additionally, it also spoils the fact that Daryl and Carol probably won't return to The Commonwealth at the end of the second season, meaning that Rick and Daryl might not even reunite for years to come.

Reception

On Rotton Tomatoes, Daryl Dixon sits at a negative 83% due to Rick Grimes not being seen in the first episode alone. A one-star review reads: "How can they show Judith, but not Rick? The whole point of the first episode was to explain his search for Rick at the end of another show, and all we get is one indirect mention? Not even a flashback? Not even a voice cameo? Not even confirmation that the Walking Dead franchise at this point is just a cover for a money laundering scheme? Just wow."