It’s been an interesting path the last couple of years with The Walking Dead as the show so totally threw me that I stopped writing about it after one particular character’s death in season eight. It didn’t keep me from watching the show but the investment level went done and I found myself simply not wanting to spend the time talking about it as much. The ninth season, the back half of which gets underway this coming weekend, has worked far better than I had hoped in charting a new course and exploring some new ideas while also playing around with the timeline a bit in how it tells its tale.
So, it’s no surprise, since we had learned previously about a series of movies being made and some spinoff material in the works, that the mothership series itself is getting a tenth season renewal. Who will be in it is, of course, uncertain at this point as we have eight episodes left to go in the current season. This season has a new showrunner for the first time in several years with Angela Kang and it has shifted its focus to Norman Reedus, Danai Gurira, Melissa McBride, and Jeffery Dean Morgan as the leads of the ensemble cast.
