Daryl Dixon’s Spinoff Is Nothing Like ‘The Walking Dead,’ Thankfully

The premiere of Daryl Dixon’s spinoff show The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon has already set itself apart from The Walking Dead, and it is definitely a welcome change.

The first episode features higher stakes and more elaborate sets than we have ever seen in the universe before.

In the spinoff, Norman Reedus’s Daryl embarks on a journey across the French landscape to prove that this spinoff will finally address its mother series’ fatal flaw: its inability to directly confront the actual apocalypse.

The Walking Dead deals almost exclusively with the consequences of the outbreak.

It extensively explores the potential groups that are formed, the types of survivors, and the line between morality and immorality.

But the narrative around the outbreak, and even walkers themselves, are pretty underdeveloped and sometimes inconsistent.

Fortunately, it looks like The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon is going to alleviate these issues while also taking the…

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