The Walking Dead Universe

The Walking Dead and all six spinoffs — Fear, Dead City, Daryl Dixon and the rest.

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Where to start with The Walking Dead Universe

Release order, and treat it as a series of decision points rather than a commitment. Do not start with Fear the Walking Dead just because it begins earlier in the outbreak — it was made later and assumes you have met the original first.

  1. 1
    Series 1 — 6 episodes The Walking Dead

    Six hours, tightly made, and it tells you definitively whether you want this show. If it does not grab you here, it will not later.

  2. 2
    Series 2 — 13 episodes The Walking Dead

    The endurance test. Famously slow and stuck on one farm, but it is where the show's real subject — the group turning on itself — gets established.

  3. 3
    Series 3 The Walking Dead

    Introduces Michonne and the Governor, and gives the show its first proper human villain and its first great location.

  4. 4
    Series 4 The Walking Dead

    Blows up the status quo and proves the show will kill anyone, which is the promise the whole franchise runs on.

  5. 5
    Series 5 The Walking Dead

    The best-reviewed run the show ever had, and a natural place to stop and take stock.

Then what? If you are still in, series 6 leads to the Negan cliffhanger — be warned that 7 and 8 are the critical low point before things recover under a new showrunner. The spin-offs all come after the original, never before it.

A suggested way in, not an official one. The full list is below — tick anything off in either place.

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