TWD Finale Will Make You Scream At Your Television, According to Norman Reedus
There are only two episodes of The Walking Dead left to be aired.
After 11 seasons, the sprawling zombie survival drama is finally approaching the finale, which will be released on November 20. Despite its decline in viewership over the recent seasons, TWD remains popular enough for multiple spin-offs to be planned for 2023 and beyond, but the main series is about to definitely end.
And what can the fans expect from the finale? The crew and the cast have provided us with teasers aplenty, most of them vague, and some tongue-in-cheek.
At least we can fairly sure that Norman Reedus (Daryl Dixon) was tongue-in-cheek when he told EW "And then everybody dies. NO, KIDDING!"
But alas, his "There are certain moments that are super sad" and "There will be people yelling 'Come on!' There will be lots of that sort of screaming at the television kind of stuff," statements are likely to be wholly serious.
As the showrunner Angela Kang confirmed: "In typical Walking Dead fashion, there are going to be tears."
Greg Nicotero (the finale director) went into some specifics: "We really wanted to pull The Walking Dead back into a season 1, 2, 3 vibe. We really wanted to make sure that the walker threat was real, that the stakes were high, and that they needed to do what they could do to save their community. There's a lot of emotion, there's some fantastic moments, there's some fun action scenes. And we even kind of upped the gore a little bit more than we usually do, which I know a lot of people like."
And Lauren Cohan (Maggie Rhee) spoke more of the brighter side of the ending and of good things which could be won despite all the death and loss:
"But, for me, the experience of making those parts of it were sublimely beautiful and only enhanced the surviving people's connection and bond. That has always been that everlasting light in the show for me: For everything you overcome together, how much more does it cement your sense of mission and your sense of purpose and the strength that we all need to find within ourselves?"
"I think it's exciting because it sets us up for where the remaining people will be and where they will go," she added.
So we probably should not fear everyone dying. But we can fully expect an emotional rollercoaster of a finale when it airs November 20.