Director: Eli Jorné
Manhattan has been sealed off for years, left to rot behind a wall while its dead residents wander the streets, and that ruined island is exactly where this spinoff sends two of the franchise's most complicated survivors.
What is The Walking Dead: Dead City about?
The Walking Dead: Dead City strands Maggie and Negan on a mission into a Manhattan cut off from the mainland long ago, now overrun by the dead and reshaped by scattered communities who have built their own strange order inside its ruins. Maggie needs Negan's knowledge of the city to track someone connected to her, forcing two people with a violent and unresolved history to rely on each other while neither fully trusts the other's motives. Moving through flooded subways, gang territory and half-collapsed skyscrapers, the series keeps its focus tight on their uneasy alliance rather than the wider apocalypse, letting old grievances resurface at the worst possible moments.
Cast & crew
Lauren Cohan and Jeffrey Dean Morgan reprise Maggie and Negan directly from the flagship series, joined by Gaius Charles, Zeljko Ivanek and Mahina Napoleon as new figures shaped by the isolated city they now call home.
Context & significance
Premiering in 2023 as one of several The Walking Dead spinoffs, Dead City narrows its scope to a single sealed setting, trading the original series' sprawling geography for a claustrophobic urban survival story built around one specific, fraught partnership.
Where & how to watch
The Walking Dead: Dead City is available on K-Time with a free account login, offered with both a Persian dub and Persian subtitles for viewers who prefer either option.