Sheriff's deputy Rick Grimes wakes from a coma into a world overrun by the dead and leads a band of survivors through farms, prisons and walled communities against the Governor, Negan, the Whisperers and the Commonwealth. Rick is taken by the Civic Republic Military, returns home with Michonne once the CRM falls, and the survivors scatter into spin-offs: Maggie and Negan now lead a reclaimed Manhattan, while Daryl and Carol, stranded in Spain, are still trying to get home, with the final Daryl Dixon season due in February 2027.
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No. 01 · 2010 · Series
The Walking Dead recap
In season 1, Rick Grimes wakes from a coma in Georgia, finds his wife Lori and son Carl in a camp outside Atlanta with his partner Shane, and leads them to the CDC, which is destroyed. In season 2, the group shelters on Hershel Greene's farm, Lori is pregnant, and Rick kills Shane, who has turned on him; everyone is infected and will turn when they die. In season 3, they take over a prison, Lori dies giving birth to Judith, and they fight the Governor of Woodbury, gaining Michonne. Season 4 sees the Governor destroy the prison, scattering the group toward Terminus, a trap run by cannibals. In season 5 they escape and reach Alexandria, a walled town where Rick eventually takes charge. Season 6 ends with Negan of the Saviors killing someone with his bat, revealed in season 7 as Abraham and Glenn; Maggie, pregnant, survives, and Rick's communities unite with the Kingdom and Hilltop. Season 8 is the war with Negan, which costs Carl his life and ends with Rick sparing Negan. In season 9, Rick is lost in a bridge explosion and taken away by helicopter; six years later Michonne leads Alexandria and the Whisperers, who wear the skins of the dead, kill ten people from the communities. Season 10 brings the war with the Whisperers, the death of their leader Alpha at Negan's hands, and Michonne leaving to find Rick. In season 11, Maggie returns, the survivors find the Commonwealth, a city of fifty thousand run by Pamela Milton, and Daryl, Carol, Maggie and Negan bring down its corrupt leadership.
How The Walking Dead ends
The main series ends with the dead overrunning the Commonwealth. Judith is shot and survives, Rosita dies after being bitten saving her daughter, and Pamela dies among the dead. A year later, the communities live in peace, Negan leaves on his own path, Daryl rides off on his motorcycle and Carol stays behind. In a coda, Rick, held by the CRM, writes to Michonne, who is searching for him, leading into The Ones Who Live.
No. 02 · 2015 · Series · optional
Fear the Walking Dead recap
In season 1, as the outbreak begins in Los Angeles, guidance counsellor Madison Clark, her children Nick and Alicia, her partner Travis and his son Chris shelter with the barber Daniel Salazar and flee after the military takes over. In season 2, they escape by sea on Victor Strand's yacht and land in Mexico; Chris is killed and the group splits. In season 3, they shelter on Troy Otto's ranch near the border, Travis dies in a helicopter attack, and the season ends with the Gonzalez Dam blown up. Season 4 brings Morgan Jones from The Walking Dead to Texas, where he meets John Dorie and Althea; Nick is killed, and Madison is believed to have died leading the dead away from a stadium. In season 5, the group helps strangers on the road and falls under Virginia's Pioneers, who shoot Morgan. Season 6 follows life under Virginia, the death of John Dorie and a doomsday cult led by Teddy that fires nuclear missiles at Texas. In season 7, Strand rules a tower in the fallout, Alicia is infected and leaves to help others, and Madison returns, working for PADRE, a group that takes children. In season 8, Morgan rescues his adopted daughter Mo and leaves with her for Alexandria, and years later Madison fights PADRE, which is now run by Troy Otto.
How Fear the Walking Dead ends
The series ends with Madison killing Troy and taking down PADRE. Alicia, who Troy claimed was dead, is alive and reunites with her mother, and Madison, Alicia and Troy's daughter Tracy head back toward Los Angeles. Strand stays behind to help rebuild PADRE as a better place, and June goes off to care for people in need.
No. 03 · 2020 · Series · optional
The Walking Dead: World Beyond recap
Ten years after the fall, sisters Iris and Hope Bennett live in a sheltered campus colony in Nebraska. Their father Leo, a scientist, works far away with the Civic Republic Military, the CRM. In season 1, Leo's messages suggest he is in danger, and the sisters set out for New York with their friends Elton and Silas, followed by Felix and Huck, who are sent to bring them back. The CRM destroys their colony behind a herd. On the road they meet Percy, a young magician, and Hope's guilt over killing Elton's mother comes out. The season ends with Huck revealed as a CRM agent and the group split up. In season 2, Hope is taken to the CRM research facility where Leo works, Iris and Felix shelter in a community called the Perimeter, and Hope learns the CRM plans to wipe out other survivors. Lt. Colonel Elizabeth Kublek is replaced by Jadis, who plans to attack Portland next.
How The Walking Dead: World Beyond ends
The series ends with the Endlings fighting back: Huck turns on the CRM and is killed by Jadis, but she blows up the gas stockpile. Silas joins the CRM to work from inside it, Iris and Elton head for Portland, and Hope stays with Leo to carry on his research. A final scene in France shows a scientist turning into a faster, more aggressive kind of walker.
No. 04 · 2022 · Series · optional
Tales of the Walking Dead recap
This anthology tells six standalone stories from the world of The Walking Dead. In "Evie / Joe", a man who has lived in a bunker sets out to meet an online friend and is joined by a woman searching for her ex-husband. In "Blair / Gina", two feuding co-workers relive the first day of the outbreak in a time loop. "Dee" shows Alpha before the Whisperers, living with her daughter Lydia on a riverboat. In "Amy / Dr. Everett", a scientist who sees the dead as evolution travels with a woman searching for her group. In "Davon", a man wakes with no memory in a Maine town where children have gone missing and he is blamed. In "La Dona", a couple seek shelter in the house of an old woman who may be haunting them.
How Tales of the Walking Dead ends
Each episode ends on its own. Joe and Evie set off together; Blair and Gina break their loop; Dee kills the Whisperers' leader and becomes Alpha; Everett adds the dead Amy to his specimens; Davon exposes the boy who killed the children and leaves; and the couple in "La Dona" turn on each other. There is only one season.
No. 05 · 2023 · Series · optional
The Walking Dead: Dead City recap
In season 1, Maggie teams up with Negan, the man who killed her husband Glenn, to rescue her son Hershel from the Croat, a former Savior who now rules Manhattan for a woman called the Dama. They are tracked by Perlie Armstrong, a marshal from New Babylon in New Jersey. Maggie secretly offers Negan to the Croat in exchange for Hershel; she gets her son back, Negan is taken to the Dama, and Hershel learns what his mother did. In season 2, the New Babylon Federation invades Manhattan to seize its methane, Maggie fights with them, and Negan, working for the Dama, tries to unite the island's gangs; Hershel is manipulated by the Dama, and the season ends with Maggie letting go of her revenge and agreeing to work with Negan and Perlie. In season 3, Maggie moves her people into Manhattan, the Dama is captured and killed by Negan, and Maggie lights the Statue of Liberty as a beacon for survivors. The settlement takes in groups from New Jersey, and Negan clashes with Dillard, a disturbed survivor who keeps the dead as companions.
How The Walking Dead: Dead City ends
Season 3 ends with Dillard killing Renata, whose Dead Squad hunts walkers, and seizing control of the community with her squad. Maggie chooses to stand with Negan, Hershel lures the dead into the building, and they defeat the squad; Maggie kills Dillard. A week later Maggie leads the community with Negan as head of security, and she proposes retaking the rest of New York City.
No. 06 · 2023 · Series
The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon recap
In season 1, Daryl washes up on the coast of France with no idea how he got there. He is taken in by nuns, including Isabelle, who believe a boy in their care, Laurent, is a messiah who will save humanity. Daryl agrees to escort Laurent to a safe haven in the north, the Nest, hunted by Codron of the Union of Hope, an authoritarian group led by Genet, which experiments on people to create faster, smarter walkers. The season ends with Daryl choosing to stay with Laurent as Carol, back in America, searches for him. In season 2, titled The Book of Carol, Carol flies to France with a pilot, Ash, while Genet takes over the Nest and kidnaps Laurent. Isabelle dies after making Daryl promise to look after Laurent, and Daryl and Carol escape France, heading toward England. In season 3, Daryl and Carol leave Britain by sea for America with a man called Julian, but a storm wrecks them on the coast of Spain. They join Solaz del Mar, a community that hands over young women each year to a powerful group called El Alcazar, and Daryl brings down the corrupt powers behind it while Carol grows close to a man named Antonio.
How The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon ends
Season 3 ends with Daryl and Carol stranded again: Fede, a man they defeated, is freed by his mother and destroys the boat they planned to sail home on. The fourth and final season, set in Spain, premieres in February 2027.
No. 07 · 2024 · Series
The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live recap
Rick Grimes has spent years as a prisoner of the Civic Republic Military, the CRM, after the helicopter took him from the bridge. He tries again and again to escape, and finally agrees to work his way up from inside under Lieutenant Colonel Okafor, who wants to reform the CRM. Okafor's helicopter is shot down by Michonne, who has been searching for Rick across the country, and the two are reunited. The CRM officer Jadis, Rick's old acquaintance, threatens to kill their families if they run. Michonne joins the CRM and learns its plans, Rick breaks off with her for her safety, and they jump from a helicopter during a storm. Michonne tells Rick about their son, R.J., and he admits he cannot face going home because of Carl's death. Jadis catches up with them, and is bitten.
How The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live ends
Rick shoots Jadis at her request, and he and Michonne renew their vows. They return to the CRM base to stop it: they learn its plan to gas Portland, Rick kills General Beale, Michonne kills Thorne, and they blow up the chlorine gas stockpile, destroying the CRM command. A civilian government takes over, and Rick and Michonne finally return home to Judith and R.J.
Common questions
What is the Walking Dead story so far?
Sheriff's deputy Rick Grimes wakes from a coma into a world overrun by the dead and leads a band of survivors through farms, prisons and walled communities against the Governor, Negan, the Whisperers and the Commonwealth. Rick is taken by the Civic Republic Military, returns home with Michonne once the CRM falls, and the survivors scatter into spin-offs: Maggie and Negan now lead a reclaimed Manhattan, while Daryl and Carol, stranded in Spain, are still trying to get home, with the final Daryl Dixon season due in February 2027.
Where did Walking Dead leave off?
The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live (2024) is the latest. Rick shoots Jadis at her request, and he and Michonne renew their vows. They return to the CRM base to stop it: they learn its plan to gas Portland, Rick kills General Beale, Michonne kills Thorne, and they blow up the chlorine gas stockpile, destroying the CRM command. A civilian government takes over, and Rick and Michonne finally return home to Judith and R.J.
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