The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon is now a zombie and a familiar hero in France!

On September 10, the first episode of The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon premiered. The hero, who went through 11 seasons of the main project, ended up in France.

The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon is the fifth spin-off based on The Walking Dead. It was originally planned that the series would tell about the adventures of Daryl Dixon and Carol Peletier, but Melissa McBride, who plays this heroine, dropped out of the project due to work commitments.

The showrunners of the new series are Scott M. Gimple (producer of 141 episodes of The Walking Dead and several spin-offs) and David Zabel (The Whale). Starring Norman Reedus (“The Walking Dead,” “Boondock Saints»). Also starring in the project are Clémence Poésy (“Lie Down in Bruges,” “Tenet”), Adam Nagaitis (“Chernobyl”) and others.

In the story, Daryl Dixon ended up in France. He doesn’t remember why he crossed the ocean, but he definitely had some kind of purpose. Suddenly the hero meets religious organization, who raises the boy and sees in him a messiah capable of beginning the restoration of the world. Daryl Dixon is the only one who can take the child to safety.

The writers don't come up with anything new.

The continent and the cast of characters have changed, but overall the spin-off is no different from the main series. So, it uses a structure that became boring to viewers back in the fifth and sixth seasons of The Walking Dead. The hero wanders the world, meets good people, finds an enclave with its own strange rules, and then encounters great evil. This has happened dozens of times over the 11 seasons of The Walking, so audiences can easily predict events.

They all look just as stupid and as if unexpected endings. When a blind man with a blindfold appears on the screen, a fan of The Walking Dead immediately understands: the character is not blind, he’s just pretending, because that’s how the original series works. And after a couple of minutes the hero turns out to be sighted - what a surprise! And if a weapon is pointed at Daryl, then there is no need to worry about his life, because the stupid enemy will turn away at some point, for which he will receive a blow with a knife. And, of course, any settlement must be destroyed after the arrival of the main character - also in the spirit of the original project.

The absurdity is off the charts

Heroes "Walking Dead“We have never been distinguished by intelligence and intelligence. Suffice it to remember that Rick Grimes led a group of people (which grew steadily) for nine seasons, although he was never effective - rather the opposite. However, the other characters were even dumber, so they didn’t notice the trick. The problem persists in the spin-off.

The writers had to resolve the language issue, because Daryl doesn't know French. And they came up with the idea that all the main characters would speak perfect English. Obviously, the authors themselves see the vulnerability of this solution, so the heroes constantly make excuses and tell why they speak a foreign language brilliantly.

But the details are unlikely to be as ridiculous as the general concept. Daryl Dixon sailed to France - in principle, it already sounds like a joke. Why he does this is not stated in the first episode; he himself does not seem to fully understand what he forgot in Western Europe. But this idea is quite consistent with the later seasons of The Walking Dead, where the desire to add new locations and characters was ahead of logic, and therefore the number of settlements grew exponentially.

Decisions in the series are made in the same way as in The Walking Dead. So, the entire first episode can be reduced to dialogue:

- Daryl, take the child with you!

- I won’t take it!

- So, well, now I’ll die and repeat, will you change your mind?

- Okay, I'll take it...

Yes, The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon is a series in which people say something important in a fading voice before they die, and then throw back their heads and die.

Superficiality infuriates

There was a problem in the last seasons of The Walking Dead - new characters were introduced so quickly that their deaths did not evoke emotions (sometimes the viewer did not even have time to learn their names). The spin-off works in the same way, using sad music at the moment of death it is unclear who. It’s as if you need to empathize, but you can’t, this is too superficial a drama.

The project’s equally frivolous attitude towards religion is also incredibly annoying. “The Walking Dead” has repeatedly flirted with it, each time relying on Christian morality and discussions about biblical apocalypse: the scriptwriters took into account that this should be understandable even to a 12-year-old viewer, and therefore everything simplified. The spin-off uses the idea of ​​messianism in the simplest possible form. The child is a genius and a savior, because he can count well in his head and knows the capitals of all countries (not the most useful skill in a world where there are no more states). We need to send him to some people who know how to use his powers. But there are those who want to take possession of it for evil reasons.

If you imagine that the series "The Last of Us" and the movie "Children of Men" had a child, you get "The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon." But with the condition that the baby was often dropped.

It seems like The Walking Dead will go on forever. When writers run out of clear ideas, they abandon logic and send familiar characters to a new continent. Perhaps in a few years there will be a spin-off that will show Rick Grimes exploring space, but even in this case, the characters will make stupid decisions, and the dialogue will look like a parody of dramas.