The Walking Dead: Dead City (2023)
Keep your enemies close.
Maggie and Negan travel to post-apocalyptic Manhattan - long ago cut off from the mainland. The crumbling city is filled with the dead and denizens who have made it a world full of anarchy, danger, beauty, and terror.
| Type | TV series |
|---|---|
| First aired | 18 June 2023 |
| Status | Returning Series |
| Genre | Action & Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy |
| Created by | Eli Jorné |
| Starring | Lauren Cohan, Jeffrey Dean Morgan and Raúl Castillo |
| Seasons | 3 seasons, 22 episodes |
| Episode length | about 45 min |
| Time to watch it all | about 17 hours |
| Rated | TV-MA |
| Scores | TMDB users 7.9/10 |
Where to watch The Walking Dead: Dead City
The Walking Dead: Dead City is streaming on Netflix ($19.99 a month) in the US. It is also on Prime Video ($13.98 a month). At ten hours a week, all of the series takes about 1 month of Prime Video, or $13.98 at list price.
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Where to watch The Walking Dead: Dead City in 40 other countries
| Country | Streaming on (price a month) |
|---|---|
| Antigua & Barbuda | Prime Video |
| Argentina | Prime Video $5199 ARS |
| Australia | ARD/ZDF |
| Austria | Canal+ |
| Bahamas | Prime Video |
| Barbados | Prime Video |
| Belgium | NRK |
| Belize | Prime Video |
| Bermuda | Prime Video |
| Bolivia | Prime Video |
| Brazil | Prime Video R$19.90 |
| Chile | Prime Video $6490 CLP |
| Colombia | Prime Video $24900 COP |
| Costa Rica | Prime Video |
| Denmark | Disney+ 119 kr DKK |
| Dominican Republic | Prime Video |
| Ecuador | Prime Video $5.99 |
| El Salvador | Prime Video |
| Finland | Disney+ €11.99 |
| Guatemala | Prime Video |
| Guyana | Prime Video |
| Honduras | Prime Video |
| India | Prime Video ₹299 |
| Ireland | Skygo, Now TV |
| Italy | Skygo, Now TV |
| Jamaica | Prime Video |
| Mexico | Prime Video $99 MXN |
| Nicaragua | Prime Video |
| Norway | Disney+ 129 kr NOK |
| Panama | Prime Video $5.99 |
| Paraguay | Prime Video |
| Peru | Prime Video S/25.90 |
| St. Lucia | Prime Video |
| Sweden | Disney+ 129 kr SEK |
| Switzerland | Canal+ |
| Trinidad & Tobago | Prime Video |
| Turks & Caicos Islands | Prime Video |
| United Kingdom | Skygo, Now TV £9.99 GBP |
| Uruguay | Prime Video $U249 |
| Venezuela | Prime Video |
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What kind of watch this is
Dead City is a 2023 action drama that drops Maggie and Negan into a Manhattan that has forgotten how to be a city. The skyline is a graveyard, and the people left are running it like a feral petri dish. It is 17 hours of watching two people who have seen the worst of each other try to solve a kidnapping in a place where the dead outnumber the living. The tone is less about zombies as monsters and more about the architecture of chaos. It is a tight, gritty look at what happens when a society eats itself from the inside out.
What the critics said
Rotten Tomatoes shows the first season at 80% approval from 58 reviews, averaging 7.2 out of 10. The consensus notes it shakes off the franchise's rigor mortis thanks to a change of scenery. Metacritic lands on 58, labeling the reception mixed. The second season dipped to 56% approval. Then the third season hit 100% from 9 reviews, averaging 7.5. The trajectory is odd, but the final result is tidy.
How it did with audiences
The Walking Dead: Dead City hit the screen with a 7.9 TMDB user score. That number sits comfortably. No box office figures exist to debate, so the verdict rests entirely on those who actually watched. It is a solid entry for fans who want zombies without the usual moral quibbling.
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Sources
- The Walking Dead: Dead City on TMDB — synopsis, cast, ratings and recommendations
- Wikidata Q113838713 — review scores, box office and awards (CC0)
- “The Walking Dead: Dead City” on Wikipedia, by its contributors (history) — reception, audience figures and legacy, summarised and adapted here under CC BY-SA 4.0
- Where to watch and prices: Binge Boss, from TMDB watch-provider data (powered by JustWatch) and our own provider list
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