The zombie plague is perhaps a little bit of a MacGuffin in AMC’s The Strolling Lifeless—you understand, as a result of the actual drama comes from battle between people—however that life-after-death theme now applies to the franchise too. After 11 seasons of the main series, plus 5 earlier spin-offs, the latest entry, The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live, is shaping as much as be a scores smash.
Tracing the post-Strolling Lifeless adventures of core characters Rick Grimes (Andrew Lincoln) and Michonne (Danai Guriria), The Ones Who Stay raked in three million viewers after three days of viewing following its Sunday premiere, in keeping with Nielsen information cited by Deadline. It’s “the most important premiere evening viewers for a brand new AMC sequence in six years, since 2018’s premiere of The Terror (that episode had a lead-in from The Strolling Lifeless),” in keeping with the commerce. The Ones Who Stay additionally fared properly on streaming, turning into “the most-watched episode of any present ever on AMC+ … the present’s viewership on streaming has already outpaced the primary week of viewership for any season premiere on the platform.” It additionally did a bang-up job luring in new prospects, making Sunday “the most important day for direct-to-consumer sign-ups within the historical past of AMC+.”
Not too shabby for a spin-off that’s trailing behind Concern the Strolling Lifeless and The Strolling Lifeless: World Past, which ran concurrently with the mainline sequence; anthology present Tales of the Strolling Lifeless; and still-current spin-off entries The Strolling Lifeless: Lifeless Metropolis and The Strolling Lifeless: Daryl Dixon, which each have second seasons on the best way.
A few of the viewership for The Ones Who Stay might be curiosity-driven; Rick and Michonne are fan-favorite characters who’ve been separated for a while, and the spin-off will presumably result in their longed-for reunion. In keeping with AMC, the present “presents an epic love story of two characters modified by a modified world. Stored aside by distance. By an unstoppable energy. By the ghosts of who they had been. Rick and Michonne are thrown into one other world, constructed on a battle towards the useless… And in the end, a battle towards the residing. Can they discover one another and who they had been in a spot and scenario in contrast to any they’ve ever recognized earlier than? Are they enemies? Lovers? Victims? Victors? With out one another, are they even alive—or will they discover that they, too, are the Strolling Lifeless?” The remainder of the solid contains Pollyanna McIntosh, Lesley-Ann Brandt, Terry O’Quinn, Matthew August Jeffers, Craig Tate, and Andrew Bachelor.
New entries in The Strolling Lifeless: The Ones Who Stay air Sunday nights on AMC; you’ll be able to make amends for the primary episode by streaming it on AMC+.
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