The Walking Dead might have ended back in 2022, but the universe continues to expand thanks to its spinoffs. Chief among them is Dead City which follows Maggie and Negan in New York City (streaming with a Netflix subscription). Season 3 is coming in July, and both Jeffrey Dean Morgan and Lauren Cohan seem thrilled about the major changes coming to their characters' dynamic. Let's break it all down.

After its premiere, some fans were surprised by how much they enjoyed The Walking Dead: Dead City. On top of providing a new adventure in the apocalypse, the show is also emotionally impactful thanks to Maggie's history with Negan, who famously killed her husband Glenn. During an interview with EW, Morgan confirmed that they're no longer going to be at odds in Season 3, saying:

That's certainly going to be a new color for Dead City's pair of protagonists. Their relationship is a fascinating one, and we've watched as Maggie has tried to kill Negan, betray him, and eventually become his ally. Season 3 will show them finally moving on from the violence of their shared history, and it should be fascinating to see how that changes the action of the Walking Dead spinoff.

In the same interview, Maggie actress Lauren Cohan also spoke about the change in her relationship with Negan in the third season of Dead City. In her words:

This shift of dynamic is just one reason why I can't wait to see what happens when The Walking Dead: Dead City returns to the small screen in July. Then there's the cliffhanger about Hershel, who has remained in New York with The Dama instead of staying with his own mother. Plus there's the ongoing conflict with New Babylon. Clearly there are plenty of narrative threads to pull from.

The Walking Dead: Dead City will return to AMC on July 26th as part of the 2026 TV schedule. We'll just have to see how well Negan and Maggie work together now that they're leaving their history in the past.

Spoiler alert! This story discusses events from Grey’s Anatomy Season 22, so if you’re not caught up, stream the episodes with a Hulu subscription.

Things have been wild this season on Grey’s Anatomy — killing off main characters, plenty of near-death experiences (including for a series OG), lots of returning familiar faces, and (as always) as much relationship drama as there is medicine being practiced. Amongst all the noise, however, I’ve become really invested in the fate of one of the hospital’s patients, Katie Rogers, and I’m really afraid the show is about to repeat a big mistake from Season 2.

Is Katie Rogers The New Denny Duquette?

Katie (Samantha Marie Ware) has been a recurring character on Season 22 as a Stage IV cancer patient of Miranda Bailey (Chandra Wilson). Her heartwrenching story and the undeniable spark between Katie and Lucas Adams (Niko Terho) have made her a fan favorite. The whole thing is reminiscent of Denny Duquette and Izzie Stevens in Season 2, and I can’t help but think that if they kill her off, they’re going to regret not having that character around — just like they did with Denny.

We’ve been on such a rollercoaster with Katie this season, seeing her brighten up with the hopes of getting better and traveling the world … until she received the gutting news that her medical trial had been canceled and that she would likely never leave the hospital again.

There are no LVAD wires for Lucas to cut in this scenario, like Izzie (Katherine Heigl) did for Denny (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) back in one of Grey’s Anatomy’s best episodes, “Losing My Religion,” before a blood clot caused a fatal stroke and he died anyway.

Instead, Lucas, Simone and Kwan offered to give Katie palliative care from Lucas’ “Aunt Meredith”’s house, and boy does it look like we’re in for a sobfest on March 19:

I definitely don’t love the idea of such a great character being taken away from us — not to mention that she’d be such a good love interest for McDreamy’s nephew.

Don’t Relegate Katie And Lucas To The Same Fate As Denny And Izzie

Anything is possible in the world of Grey’s Anatomy, so as bad as things look for Katie, I haven’t given up all hope yet. However, I’m skeptical that any last-second reprieve is coming, mostly because the ABC medical drama just did that storyline at the end of Season 21 — Nora was a terminal patient when Owen Hunt (Kevin McKidd) fell for her, only to have his wife, Kim Raver’s Teddy Altman, come up with a life-saving procedure in the 11th hour.

Back in 2006, Jeffrey Dean Morgan recognized how Denny and Izzie’s romance had “taken the world by storm,” and he begged Shonda Rhimes not to kill him off. Of course his efforts were unsuccessful, and while I won’t go so far as to say Rhimes regretted the decision she made, the writers sure seemed to miss having him around, given how many scripts Denny’s ghost got written into (never forget Izzie’s ghost sex era).

Let’s not relegate Katie Rogers to posthumous hallucinations, OK? She is, after all, the only character who can make McBroody (my nickname for Lucas) even remotely tolerable, and I think letting her die would be a mistake.

I’m not sure how the writers could pull it off at this point, but I’m holding out hope that they’ll remember how much it sucked to lose such a fan favorite character (with love interest potential) in Season 2 and figure out a way to let Katie live.

Tune in to see what happens when “Wrecking Ball” airs at 10 p.m. ET Thursday, March 19, on ABC and streaming the next day on Hulu. You can also rewatch the Denny Duquette era — or find any of your favorite Grey’s starting points — on Hulu or with a Netflix subscription.

While he doesn't have a huge role in it, Matthew Lillard can currently boast being part of the biggest movie of the weekend, the critically eviscerated sequel that fans can’t get enough of, Five Nights at Freddy’s 2. The goal is for him get a more worthwhile amount of screen time in a hypothetical third feature, and I sincerely hope it happens, since he’s easily the most watchable human in either movie. As it happens, Lillard was nearly one of the most watchable parts of an entirely different mega-popular horror franchise, The Walking Dead.

Personally, I think it’s fun to imagine a world where the Scream vet (and upcoming Scream 7 co-star) portrayed the role of Carl Grimes, son of Andrew Lincoln’s Rick, but I know that doesn’t make any sense. In reality, Lillard very temporarily grasped the role of the show’s skull-demolishing antagonist Negan, at a point when Jeffrey Dean Morgan seemed like he might not jump on. Speaking to Comic Book Resources about FNAF 2, Lillard shared the following:

The majority of TV roles do not require casting directors to call in household celebs for four auditions, but Negan was certainly an exception to many rules of the small screen, and his arrival helped The Walking Dead both reach its peak audience, while also being the cause for the viewership to cascade downward. Not that it was Jeffrey Dean Morgan in and of himself that turned fans away, but rather the character's brutally unforgivable actions upon his arrival in Season 6, which then carried into the Season 7 premiere.

So how close did it get? Well, if Jeffrey Dean Morgan had dropped his phone in a toilet or had an untimely cold, Walking Dead fans might have had an entirely different reaction to the villain's game-changing introduction. Lillard continued, saying:

Wowzers and then some. To think that Matthew Lillard could have gone from Twin Peaks' enigmatic return season to playing one of the most celebrated comic book villains of the modern era. This is totally one of those points in life where I wish Sliding Doors-esque situations where possible, and I could watch a parallel universe's version of The Walking Dead where the SLC Punk vet is the one filling out Negan's leather jacket while swinging his beloved bat Lucille down on character's busted skulls. Also in that alt-dimension, Rick Grimes is played by fellow Scream killer Skeet Ulrich.

Lillard doesn't think he would have shared the same story arc as JDM's Negan, given their physical differences and performance types, and I wonder if things would have skewed closer to the comics in that respect. The Walking Dead has long treated Negan as something of an unkillable anti-hero, with two seasons so far of the spinoff Dead City focused on his continued survival. That said, I think it wouldn't have been long before Lillard's version also attained anti-hero status, give how affable the actor is.

Also, for what it's worth, Lillard gave Morgan props, saying "He's great - different and masculine." In that other reality, I wonder if Lillard would have bulked up to fill out that leather jacket that much more snugly.

Without any zombies around to massacre, the actor can be found in Five Nights at Freddy's 2, currently playing in theaters, with upcoming arcs in one of my most anticipated upcoming horror TV series, Mike Flanagan's Carrie and the second season of Daredevil: Born Again. Here's hoping he lands a DCU role with his Scooby-Doo director James Gunn.

Jeffrey Dean Morgan has played some pretty shady characters in his career, including The Boys’ “devil-on-Butcher’s-shoulder” Joe Kessler and The Walking Dead’s Negan, who’s only one of the most ruthless villains in TV history. In real life, though, he seems like the biggest sweetheart, as he just shared an amazing tribute to his wife Hilarie Burton — which included a shout-out to her fantastically punny tank top.

Hilarie Burton and Jeffrey Dean Morgan have been married since 2019, and the couple share two children. After what seems like a particularly hectic week for the One Tree Hill alum, Morgan posted a sweet message to Instagram to show his appreciation for all that she does:

OK, I am fully here for the “just because” tribute. It’s not Hilarie Burton’s birthday, and their sixth anniversary passed weeks ago. This is just a man paying attention to everything she’s doing as a mother, wife and activist and letting her know she’s seen. And come on, how is he NOT going to mention that shirt? Jeffrey Dean Morgan’s caption says:

Ugh, I love this couple so much. In addition to keeping hher hubs giggling, she’s got me laughting, too, with the “Nailed by Negan” tank top. We’re definitely picking up the double entendre he’s putting down, and you guys, this is not a man who masturbates 20 times a week.

The shirt is an obvious reference to JDM’s character on The Walking Dead and Negan's weapon of choice — a baseball bat wrapped in barbed wire (which is close enough to nails for me). The bat was famously named Lucille after Negan’s wife, and when the AMC show delved into the big bad’s backstory in Season 10, it was none other than Hilarie Burton who was cast in the role of Lucille.

She even joined the cast of The Walking Dead: Dead City to reprise the character of Lucille Smith for an episode in Season 2, which aired earlier on the 2025 TV schedule.

As far as being “Nailed by Negan,” Hilarie Burton seems proud of both her tank top and her husband, as she commented:

I agree. I'm always here for deeply inappropriate merch, and I'm definitely here for this couple.

If all this talk of getting nailed has you wanting to relive this iconic TV character’s journey, you can stream The Walking Dead and Season 1 of The Walking Dead: Dead City with a Netflix subscription.

The Supernatural fandom has been buzzing about Jensen Ackles’ latest series, Countdown, which began streaming with an Amazon Prime subscription in June amid the 2025 TV schedule. Even before the show premiered, many SPN fans expressed excitement. Unfortunately, it seems that hype wasn't enough, as Amazon has officially canceled the show after one season. Now, Jared Padalecki, Jeffrey Dean Morgan and more are showing love to Ackles, who also spoke about the heartbreaking news.

How Jensen Ackles Reacted To The Cancellation News

Not long after news broke about the cancellation, Ackles, who played Detective Mark Meachum, took to Instagram to share a video to speak out about it. He further confirmed that Countdown didn’t get picked up for another season, and said it was a “bummer” since he had an “amazing time” making the series and working with the cast and crew. Ackles went on to thank creator Derek Haas, former Amazon TV head Vernon Sanders. The leading man also noted that it’s just the way the industry works while also expressing gratitude. He said:

Even though Countdown’s Rotten Tomatoes score wasn’t great, as it’s sitting at only 35% for the approval rating, it’s still a surprise that it was canceled, considering it had been lingering in Prime Video's Top 10 for a while. The show offered both action and drama, with Eric Dane and Jessica Camacho also amongst the cast members alongside Elliot Knight, Uli Latukefu and Violett Beane. Check out Jensen Ackles' full response below:

The fact that Countdown’s first season ended on a cliffhanger makes the cancellation hurt even more. Having enjoyed the series, I am definitely bummed as well. At the very least, plenty of people are showing their love and support for Ackles in the aftermath of this unfortunate development.

Jared Padalecki, Jeffrey Dean Morgan And More React Out

Many of Ackles’ Supernatural and The Boys buddies took to the comments of his Instagram video along well as other famous friends. I'd imagine that a TV cancellation is rarely ever easy for an actor, but the notion of fellow actors showing love could be comforting. Check out some of the lovely comments sent Jensen Ackles' way:

• Their loss brother. You were amazing in it. Which is no surprise to ANYBODY. I’ll still be re-watching. And I can’t wait to see what you do next. 😎 - Jared Padalecki
• I have a sneaky suspicion you’ll land on your feet, pal. Big love to you, and entire cast and crew. X - Jeffrey Dean Morgan
• Enjoyed watching, bud 🔥 - Tom Welling
• ❤️ They made a bad decision. - Felicia Day
• Love ya, man❤️ - Jack Quaid
• Aw, I’m sorry bud❤️❤️❤️ - Aya Cash

It is sweet seeing so many people that Ackles has worked with and has remained close to sharing their support. Of course, I would very much prefer a world in which these comments are celebratory reactions to a second season of Countdown and not consolation over its cancellation.

At the very least, Jensen Ackles is remaining busy, as he’s set to appear in the third season of Tracker on CBS. He’s also working on The Boys prequel, Vought Rising, reprising his role as Soldier Boy. He is also returning for The Boys’ fifth and final season, which has yet to have a premiere date. Considering Ackles' star status, I wouldn't be surprised if he lands another role sooner rather than later. Still, I think I'm always going to wonder how Countdown's cliffhanger was going to be resolved.

Everyone loves a ruthless TV villain. From Cersei Lannister to J.R. Ewing to Mr. Burns, great villains come in all kinds of ways on our television schedule. They may be cold and calculating, or they may be impulsive and crazy, but a great villain always makes for a much better show. This is a list of just a few of my favorite and most ruthless villains in TV history. Enjoy! If you don't, they may come for you.

J.R. Ewing (Dallas)

J.R. Ewing (Larry Hagman) was a villain who was so cunning and so ruthless that when he was shot on the Season 3 finale of Dallas, literally all of America waited months to find out who shot him. It wasn't just one of the best cliffhangers ever; it was a cultural moment that I don't think will ever be matched.

Livia Soprano (The Sopranos)

When you're a mob boss and your worst enemy is your mother, you know you're in a bad spot. Livia Soprano, Tony's domineering and, frankly, nasty, mother, played by the late Nancy Marchand, was a brilliant antagonist for the powerful boss of the family. She was so underhanded and so unhinged at times, you never knew just what she was capable of or if there was any good in her at all. It would have been amazing to see where her character went, had we not tragically lost Marchand during the show's run.

Kilgrave (Jessica Jones)

Kilgrave, played by David Tennant in Jessica Jones, just might be my favorite comic book villain in the modern era. The fact that his ability to change the reality you understand in your own head is diabolical and terrifying. Tennant's performance is flat-out amazing.

Gus Fring (Breaking Bad)

Giancarlo Esposito's performance as Gus Fring, the mortal enemy of Walter White (Bryan Cranston) in Breaking Bad, is simply terrifying. He's calm and cold while exacting terrible violence. He's ruthless in his pursuit to control the game, and he's completely without remorse. It's the perfect combination to make an amazing villain.

Nina Myers (24)

There is nothing more ruthless than turning on your co-worker and country, like Nina Myers (Sarah Clarke) did in Season 1 of 24. It was a moment that completely blew viewers' minds, who never could have predicted that Jack Bauer's right-hand woman would end up the villain.

Negan (The Walking Dead)

I'll make a confession here: Negan (Jefferey Dean Morgan) was too much for me. I started to tune out of The Walking Dead right about the time he entered. He was just too violent and too mean for me to keep going. The Walking Dead had a number of great villains, but for me, he's the king of the worst.

The Trinity Killer (Dexter)

The only person to actually match wits with Dexter on the show of the same name was, of course, Arthur Mitchell, aka The Trinity Killer, played by the brilliant John Lithgow. He was an unbelievable foe for everyone's favorite anti-hero/serial killer and a big reason the show was as successful as it was over the years.

Aunt Lydia (The Handmaid's Tale)

The Handmaid's Tale is one of the hardest shows to watch, ever. There is just so much evil throughout virtually every moment of the show. That evil is personified by Aunt Lydia (Ann Dowd), the "aunt" who is "caring" for June Osborne/Offred and her fellow handmaids. It's impossible to sum up just how evil she is.

Moriarty (Sherlock)

One of the greatest villains in Western literature is Moriarty from the Sherlock Holmes books. On the show Sherlock, Moriarty is portrayed perfectly in a modernized way by Andrew Scott. He is a master criminal, sure, but really, he just wants to torment our hero, Sherlock (Benedict Cumberbatch)

Mr. Burns (The Simpsons)

Any villain who once tried to block out the sun to drive up profits for his company belongs on this list. Mr. Burns' attempt to shroud Springfield in darkness on The Simpsons led to dozens of suspects after he was shot. Of course, it was actually CM Burms' attempt to steal candy from a baby that actually got him shot. It's a toss-up as to which is worse.

Homelander (The Boys)

One of the most disturbing villains you can watch with a Prime subscription has to be Homelander from The Boys. He finally answers the question: "What if Superman were evil?" Luckily, he's as funny as he is scary, which makes him as watchable as any other baddie on this list.

Cersei Lannister (Game Of Thrones)

One show that gave us all multiple villains that could be on this is Game of Thrones. Perhaps the most coniving, most ruthless, and most disturbing of them all was Cersei Lannister (Lena Headey). She made it (almost) to the bitter end of the show after setting herself up as the villain very early on. She wasn't alone, but she was the most dangerous in the game.

Vern Schillinger (Oz)

Vern Schillinger (J.K. Simmons) is the personification of evil on Oz. The racist prisoner was ruthless, but he was also weak in a lot of ways, making him even more dangerous.

Al Swearengen (Deadwood)

There are no villains on this list with the verbal panache of Al Swearengen on Deadwood. Ian McShane's performance, delivering those amazing lines like only he could, made Swearengen a fan favorite, despite just how awful he could be. Just hope he doesn't turn that silver tongue on you, or you might get fed to the pigs next.

Ben Linus (Lost)

This first season on Lost saw the castaways mostly fighting among themselves. There was no real "villain" until the 14th episode of the show's second season. That is when Henry Gale is captured by Rousseau. Soon, we would all learn his real name, Ben Linus, and his real motive, and they weren't benevolent. Actor Michael Emerson played the role perfectly.

Wilson Fisk (Daredevil)

Matching his brains with tremendous brawn, Kingpin (Vincent D'Onofrio) has everything he needs to be one of the most powerful baddies on this list. In both the original Daredevil, which streamed on Netflix before moving to Disney+, and Daredevil: Reborn, Kingpin is as formidable as any villain ever. It doesn't hurt to have the talented D'Onofrio playing the supervillain, one of Marvel's best.

Alexis Carrington (Dynasty)

What J.R. Ewing did for Dallas, Alexis Carrington (Joan Collins) did for Dynasty. The show was a direct response to Dallas, and it had the same vibe, and Alexis was just as conniving and ruthless as J.R.

Skeletor (He-Man And The Masters Of The Universe)

This one is personal. When I was a kid, I was actually a little scared of Skeletor in the original He-Man And The Masters Of The Universe cartoon. He's been the central villain throughout all of the various versions of the franchise. He was thwarted most of the time, but he never stopped coming at He-Man and his cohorts.

Hannibal Lecter (Hannibal)

One of the most ruthless and terrifying villains on TV and on the silver screen has to be Hannibal Lecter. The cannibal psychiatrist was played by Mads Mikkelsen on the show Hannibal, after Sir Anthony Hopkins won an Oscar playing the role in The Silence Of The Lambs. Whomever plays him, he's pure evil.

Marlo Stanfield (The Wire)

One of the things that makes The Wire such an amazing show, one of the best shows ever in the peak era of television, was that there were very few pure villains. Every character, cop or criminal, was presented in shades of gray. Some good, some bad. One character that was pretty much all bad, however, was Marlo Stanfield (Jamie Hector). His takeover of the drug trade in Baltimore was as ruthless a takeover as you could imagine. He was cold and calculating, but he wasn't afraid to be as violent as he could.

Sue Sylvester (Glee)

Sue Sylvester might not be the most violent or the most criminal villain on this list, but that doesn't mean that she is any less ruthless in the pursuit of her goals than anyone else on this list. The great Jane Lynch was born to play the role, too. She was not only ruthless, she was hilarious. The perfect example of a character we all love to hate, and that's a complete compliment to the great Ms. Lynch.

Damon Pope (Sons Of Anarchy)

It wasn't often that SAMCRO ran up against a foe that they couldn't take out pretty easily in Sons of Anarchy. Damon Pope, played by Harold Perrineau, was one exception to that rule. Pope was the main antagonist in Season 5 of the show, and he was responsible for one of the most brutal deaths in SOA history when he arranged Opie's death in front of his brothers. I still get sick to my stomach just thinking about it.

Joffery Baratheon (Game Of Thrones)

In a show full of villains, Joffrey Baratheon was the most unpredictable and the most ruthlessly violent. He was a terrible sadist, as shown over and over, and he had absolutely no morals. He is among the most hated TV villains of all time.

Thomas Barrow (Downton Abbey)

Downton Abbey isn't a show that jumps out as having any ruthless villains, but Thomas Barrow (Rob James-Collier) definitely fits the bill here. He's conniving, sniveling, and awful. Sometimes his motives don't even seem reasonable, but that doesn't stop him from trying to undermine his perceived enemies.

Ralph Cifaretto (The Sopranos)

The Sopranos never really found a villain quite as evil as Livia Soprano, but when Ralph Cifaretto (Joe Pantoliano) returns from Miami in Season 3, we did get a formidable foe to Tony. He was rash and violent, but he also always found a way to justify his questionable decisions, even when they went against Tony's orders.

Amanda Woodward (Melrose Place)

As a spinoff of Beverly Hills, 90210, Melrose Place was decidedly more "adult," not just in the age of the characters, but in the way those characters acted and were treated. 90210 didn't really have villains, but Melrose had Amanda Woodward, played by the wonderful Heather Locklear. While she did garner some sympathy as the seasons rolled on, in the beginning, she was 100% villain.

Newman (Seinfeld)

There aren't a whole lot of villains in sitcoms, at least, not any as devious as Jerry's neighbor Newman (Wayne Knight). He was buddies with Kramer, but a sworn enemy of Jerry's, and it made every single interaction between the two characters hilarious. The disdain they had for each other was palpable every time they met. Newman and Jerry got along.

Sideshow Bob (The Simpsons)

While Mr. Burns is a villain to everyone in Springfield (even Smithers most of the time), Sideshow Bob (voiced by Kelsey Grammer) is a villain to just one poor kid in town, Bart Simpson. Over the years, the Bond Villain-like Bob has come up with all kinds of schemes to take out who he thinks is his nemesis, but he is thwarted each time. It's made for some of the best episodes of The Simpsons.

Sylar (Heroes)

Sylar (Zachary Quinto) was not only ruthless on Heroes, but he was insanely powerful, and that made him one of the scariest villains on this whole list. Zachary Quinto played the role masterfully,

The Governor (The Walking Dead)

Of all the villains in The Walking Dead, The Governor, played by David Morrissey in Seasons 3 and 4, is one of the most menacing. Maybe it's the eye patch, but there was always something very unsettling about him, even when he wasn't being totally awful (which was rare). The villains got more violent as the show went on, but they didn't get any scarier than The Governor.

Villanelle (Killing Eve)

Villanelle's cat-and-mouse game with Eve (Sandra Oh) is what makes the show so great. Jodie Comer, who plays Villanelle, and Sandra Oh have great on-screen chemistry, which is often underrated when it comes to great villains on TV. Sometimes, the back-and-forth is what makes the adversaries great.

Rowan Pope (Scandal)

It's always bad when your most ruthless enemy is part of your family. For Olivia Pope (Kerry Washington), her father, Rowan Pope (Joe Morton), was the one enemy who knew how to really twist the knife in the normally unflappable Olivia.

It’s that time again during the 2025 TV schedule when we address that age-old curiosity: just how often do celebrities masturbate, and is it directly comparable to the size of their hands? Actually wait, no, that's not something we ever talk about during any particular TV schedule, but the Internet provides nonetheless. After Walking Dead: Dead City star Jeffrey Dean Morgan learned he was the subject of a viral video hypothesizing his self-pleasuring habits, he shared a good-natured response.

Since there’s no truly proper way to introduce such a video about this subject, just give it a watch. But probably not around any impressionable children or at work or during a funeral or anything.

Stand-up comedian Jon Shefsky has been sharing videos under the shared titled "The Jacket Report" that, quite obviously, hypothesizes about how often celebs are cranking one out. Given his semi-behemoth size, it's surmised that he likely masturbates upwards of 20 times per week, which is a highball number for anyone's self-love habits.

Always a good sport, Morgan shared quite the tickled reaction to the viral vid, sharing it on his own IG Stories while also leaving a comment on Shefsky's post, starting with:

Can we assume this was his face after reading that?

So often when someone can "neither confirm nor deny" something, the answer is 100% yes, and they're desperately hoping to keep the outside world from knowing it. In this case, however, JDM's incredulousness implies he actually does NOT masturbate 20 times a week, on average or otherwise. I'm sorry to any gamblers out there who wagered big on that one.

Morgan continued, pointing out why it would be difficult for him to find the time, energy and then some to make the viral vid true.

Those duties technically don't even account for his new-ish gig hosting the competition series Destination X, limiting his time even further. Granted, that show isn't among the reality TV series where masturbation is frowned upon, but one can just assume that jerking off in the wilderness wouldn't have been a great move either.

I can only imagine how amused his wife Hilarie Burton Morgan was when she saw the video. The duo are among the most adorable couples in Hollywood (or outside of it, technically), and definitely share an offbeat sense of humor that can appreciate hyper-personal assumptions about masturbation habits. It's also fitting since she portrayed The Walking Dead's human Lucille, the namesake inspiration for Negan's barb-wire bat of the same name. I'll let everyone draw their own conclusions about that bat-centric comparison.

We'll have to wait and see if Norman Reedus gets this same under-the-microscope treatment whenever Season 3 of The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon kicks off, though I'm sure there's already some fan-fic out there about Daryl and Rick's eventual reunion that would be applicable here.

Warning: MAJOR SPOILERS are ahead for the Season 1 finale of Destination X on NBC, available streaming next day with a Peacock subscription.

The first season of Destination X has come to an end, with the finale revealing alliances and betrayals that determined who among Rick Szabo, Biggy Bailey, and Peter Weber would win the $250,000 grand prize. I've had fun watching the series as it aired after new episodes of America's Got Talent, but no episode really hooked me as much as when the series premiere hoodwinked me earlier in the 2025 TV schedule.

I was still happy to celebrate Rick getting the win by identifying Big Ben in London, and there's some real charm in a professional birdwatcher coming out on top. But it wasn't until I read some comments from host Jeffrey Dean Morgan that I realized that part of my happiness for Rick was likely because I was rooting against another competitor more than I knew. Sorry, Pilot Pete, but I just really didn't want you to win!

Now, to be clear – I wasn't rooting against Peter Weber because of his experience on The Bachelor or The Traitors. After all, gaining fame in Bachelor Nation (whether or not you're there for the right reasons) doesn't make one a geography expert, being banished from The Traitors Season 2 cast doesn't transform a competitor into a master cartographer, and working as a pilot doesn't guarantee the ability to crack clues. No, I didn't really care that much that Peter came in with reality TV experience.

Peter Weber was just my #3 pick out of the three finalists because of one big advantage that had nothing to do with his time on ABC or Peacock reality shows: he got to join Destination X a few episodes into the season, skipping out on some early eliminations. I came to my realization not when the final credits rolled on Rick's joy or after Peter's emotional final speech, but after I read some comments from Jeffrey Dean Morgan to Parade. He said:

Peter Weber was one of two reality stars who got to make late arrivals to Destination X, as he was joined by Love Island USA vet JaNa Craig to move into the bus in Episode 3. JaNa didn't last long in competition, but Peter obviously made it to the very end. Jeffrey Dean Morgan raised the question of whether "people think that that's fair" if he'd been the champion; I can't speak for everybody, but I sure wouldn't have seen it as 100% fair.

That said, I can't disagree with Morgan's additional point that it "makes for good TV if the audience knows some people," and Deal or No Deal Island did something similar by casting Survivor legend Boston Rob Mariano for Season 1. And the format of Destination X means that what Morgan described as Peter and JaNa being "very savvy" and "very smart" about reality TV dynamics won't be enough to win. Savviness isn't enough when you also need to identify locations in Europe! The playing field would have been pretty even if everybody started at the same time.

On the whole, I'm on board if Destination X is renewed and brings in reality TV celebs on the same level as The Bachelor and Love Island vets, but would find it a whole lot easier to root for them if they also have to start at the beginning like everybody else. Was Peter Weber an entertaining part of the final stages of Season 1 thanks to his secret alliance? Sure, but I don't think I'll change my mind that it would have been unfair for him to beat Rick or Biggy.

If you want to relive the wild ride of Destination X Season 1, you can find the episodes streaming on Peacock. Jeffrey Dean Morgan seems open to returning for a second season, especially after he revealed why he finally took the hosting job. The ratings as America's Got Talent's primetime partner were also solid, so I wouldn't be surprised to see NBC bring the show back as a new summer staple.

Tuesday nights in the summer months are generally dominated in primetime by NBC with America's Got Talent, but AGT isn't the only hit show the network has on Tuesdays at this point in the 2025 TV schedule. Destination X is a new travel competition show that takes contestants all over Europe in a bus with blocked out windows, and they have to connect clues and face physical challenges to try and identify where they actually are in pursuit of a grand prize. Jeffrey Dean Morgan of The Walking Dead franchise is the host, and if he seems like a surprising choice, he would likely agree based on some recent comments!

While Morgan once might have been most recognizable for playing (pre- and post-death) Denny on Grey's Anatomy or John Winchester on Supernatural with questionable parenting skills, he's likely best known nowadays as the baseball bat-wielding bad guy Negan in The Walking Dead world. Most recently, he starred opposite Lauren Cohan in Season 2 of The Walking Dead: Dead City. All of this is to say that the actor is known mostly for scripted TV shows, and in an appearance on Late Night with Seth Meyers, Morgan explained why he thought he was the wrong guy for the Destination X job:

I can't blame Jeffrey Dean Morgan for immediately assuming that somebody like Ryan Seacrest would be the obvious choice for a new hosting gig. Seacrest shot to fame as host of American Idol back as far back as the first season of the original run on Fox, and has landed hosting gig after hosting gig to the point that he now is the master of ceremonies on Wheel of Fortune. Seacrest is a professional host; Morgan is an actor with a long list of credits. He went on:

Apparently, the people at NBC tasked with casting the host for Destination X were set on Jeffrey Dean Morgan, to the point that they weren't taking "no" for an answer. Morgan went on to say that he thinks "what NBC saw" was that he does "like causing issues for other people and I enjoy it." And – to quote the competitor known as Biggy – "dadgum" it, he is delivering for the contestants of Destination X!

According to The Walking Dead villain, he didn't ultimately sign on for Destination X just because he wanted to have fun causing issues for the players. He credited wife (and One Tree Hill alum) Hilarie Burton for some words of wisdom, saying:

Destination X may have him trekking all over Europe to torment the players who are vying for the grand prize, but at no point has he had to wield a baseball bat wrapped with barbed wire to try and fend off a horde of zombies and/or fans who still begrudge Negan for what he did to Steven Yeun's Glenn.

New episodes of Destination X air on Tuesdays at 10 p.m. ET on NBC, immediately following America's Got Talent. You can also stream episodes next day with a Peacock subscription. Only five episodes have aired so far, so it wouldn't take too long to catch up if you haven't been tuning in so far.

Spoilers ahead for the series premiere of Destination X on NBC, available streaming now with a Peacock subscription.

Summer has come to the 2025 TV schedule, which means that NBC switched from The Voice Season 27 finale over to the Season 20 premiere of America's Got Talent and the debut of Jeffrey Dean Morgan's Destination X for Tuesday nights. While the actor is likely best known nowadays for playing Negan in the cast of The Walking Dead's world, he's now the host of the new unscripted travel competition show that's taking contestants all across Europe in the pursuit of $250,000.

I'll admit it – I wasn't really invested in the premiere for most of the hour, but oddly enough, my bold final guess being completely wrong is what makes me want to tune in again.

Why I Wasn't Loving Destination X

Perhaps because I was coming off of two hours of the very straightforward America's Got Talent, but Destination X struck me as pretty convoluted from the start. The first ten contestants were loaded onto a bus that would probably be a nightmare for any claustrophobes out there, and driven all over a mystery country while gathering clues about what "Destination X" is. At the end, an unlucky handful of contestants had to head to the Map Room to place a pin closest to where they thought they were.

There were fancy goggles that were basically blindfolds, coins with symbols, and a chase through the streets of a village that felt very Amazing Race to me. My sticking point was that the locations that were used as clues were all actually far away from Rome, which was supposed to be Destination X. The locations they got to see were in Italy, but they were never actually taken to Rome before they had to lock in their guesses.

Honestly, for a healthy chunk of the premiere, my hottest take was that I hoped the poor figurine shop had been staged for the show because the two racing contestants basically destroyed the place looking for the right Pinocchio doll. Plus, I'll come clean – I'm generally not great at guessing in competition shows. I'm pretty useless at The Masked Singer. Jeopardy? Any day. Destination X? I wasn't feeling it. Winning my grade school geography bee was a LONG time ago.

What Hooked Me

One would think that my usual failures at solving clues like on The Masked Singer would mean I was frustrated by how spectacularly wrong I was in my guess for what Destination X was at the end of the premiere, but that's not the case. Convinced as I was that the first Destination X wouldn't be as obvious as Rome, the coin with a "J" surrounded by a heart that one team identified as a clue about William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet gave me the answer to where the contestants were... or so I thought for the rest of the episode, anyway.

Let me nerd out here for a minute, because instead of assuming that the Romeo and Juliet clue was as straightforward as pointing to Rome – a.k.a. the first syllable of the title – I thought back to the opening lines of the actual play penned by Shakespeare, which were:

"Two households, both alike in dignity,

In fair Verona, where we lay our scene,

From ancient grudge break to new mutiny,

Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean."

Clearly, Jeffrey Dean Morgan was tricking viewers into thinking Destination X was Rome, when the location was obviously Verona! I was confident enough that I even overlooked other clues pointing toward the actual capital of Italy, and really went hard on assuming that the show was being trickier than it actually was.

And you know what? I had fun being wrong, and was so very wrong that I could laugh at myself and watch the promo for the next episode eagerly. Plus, Big Brother vet Josh Martinez made the most of being the first contestant eliminated by announcing to the rest of the competitors that "Rick is a snake" and everybody should watch their back around him.

Considering that Mack had been the most wily of the premiere, Josh dropping the Rick bombshell was a doozy of a way to end the episode. Was he right that Rick, the dad of the group, had been setting him up to guess Milan instead of Rome? I can't say, although I decided to keep an eye on him once he identified "Luigi" as one of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Whether or not Rick is a snake, good on the former Big Brother winner for stirring the pot before leaving the bus.

So, I will be tuning in for another episode of Destination X, because dang it – or, to quote Biggy, "dadgum" – I want to get a riddle right and not twist one single clue into some kind of Shakespearean conspiracy. Is that what Destination X was going for in the premiere? Almost certainly not, and I'm guessing most of the audience correctly named Rome as the answer instead of flashing back to high school English class.

Find out where the remaining contestants are headed next with new episodes of Destination X on Tuesdays at 10 p.m. ET on NBC, following America's Got Talent. You can also stream next day on Peacock.

With James Gunn’s Superman set to kick off a new live-action DC Universe, with Creature Commandos having set the animated foundation, any and all hopes of seeing Jeffrey Dean Morgan reprising the role of Thomas Wayne have been vanquished. Which remains disappointing, especially given Zack Snyder’s plans to adapt the revered “Flashpoint” storyline, with Morgan donning a revised cape and cowl as Batman. Even hearing the Walking Dead actor reflecting on it now gets me riled up.

Morgan is currently promoting AMC’s latest zombie spinoff The Walking Dead: Dead City, with the second season hitting the 2025 TV schedule in early May. But his deadly anti-hero Negan wasn’t the only comic book character on tap for an interview with him and co-star Lauren Cohan shared on Den Of Geek’s TikTok. When asked if Snyder cast them as Thomas and Martha Wayne as a jokey TWD reference, JDM pointed out that he wasn’t in that world yet. In his words:

“Unfortunately” is underplaying things considerably, especially with the idea that Snyder already had some goalposts in mind for how he wanted to adapt Flashpoint’s timeline-changing narrative. It’d be one thing if that was just a fleeting pipe dream of an idea in Snyder’s brain when casting Jeffrey Dean Morgan for Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice.

But we were closer than ever to seeing Geoff Johns and Andy Kubert's timeline-shifting arc come to life, with Justice League setting up the pieces, and Morgan seemingly down to reprise the role of Thomas Wayne in whichever capacity was landed on. Somehow, though, amidst all the behind-the-scenes turmoil over Justice League's production and Ezra Miller's controversies, we only ever got Andy Muschietti's The Flash movie in its place.

Maybe one day Zack Snyder will turn his "Flashpoint" ideas into a novelized narrative, or even a storyboarded comic or something. Even an audiobook would work, so long as Morgan returned to voice Big Papa Batman.

Circling back to the topic of sharing the screen with Lauren Cohan, Jeffrey Dean Morgan said that the Batman v Superman casting may have been the catalyst that inspired The Walking Dead's showrunner to reach out when casting Negan. As he put it:

All things considered, Morgan still has quite a few years left to go before he would be wildly out of place to play Thomas Wayne age-wise. So here's hoping James Gunn doubles down on the idea of telling Elseworlds tales, and takes that opportunity to give "Flashpoint" another go.

Jeffrey Dean Morgan can be seen reprising the role of Negan alongside Lucille and Lauren Cohan's Maggie every Sunday night on AMC, with new episodes of The Walking Dead: Dead City airing at 8:00 p.m. ET.

There have been some truly heartbreaking and shocking deaths on Grey’s Anatomy, whose 21st season is currently airing on the 2025 TV schedule. George O’Malley and his “007” reveal is one that sticks out, as well as Derek Shepherd, of course (although I still think the McDreamy death episode was terrible). However, there’s another character fans just can’t get over — Denny Duquette — and it turns out Katherine Heigl and Jeffrey Dean Morgan tried to save him.

Denny Duquette made such an impression on Grey’s Anatomy fans that I’d go so far as to say it’s one of Jeffrey Dean Morgan’s best roles. Not even Shonda Rhimes could have predicted how upset fans would still be over that Season 2 storyline, and it’s not just us. Morgan reunited with Katherine Heigl to talk about their time together on Grey’s, and they revealed they’d actually asked Rhimes to let Denny live. Check out a portion of their viral TikTok chat with EW:

It's well-known that Katherine Heigl and Shonda Rhimes butted heads at times on the Grey’s set. However, Heigl felt strongly enough about this that she and Jeffrey Dean Morgan approached the showrunner in an attempt to get her to tweak the Denny storyline. Heigl said:

I guess you don’t get to be as successful as Shonda Rhimes if you cater to every actor’s request, like Katherine Heigl bargaining that they could still bring Denny “close to death.” Jeffrey Dean Morgan added that Rhimes was set in her ways, even when he tried to buy his character another season.

When the day came to film that heartbreaking scene for “Losing My Religion” — one of Grey’s Anatomy’s best episodes — Jeffrey Dean Morgan said he refused to go to set. He recalled:

I can’t imagine how difficult that day was for Katherine Heigl, especially knowing the dark places Heigl took herself in order to show Izzie’s grief for Denny. The two actors involved aren’t the only ones still traumatized, though. Fans spoke out in the comments, writing:

• Denny and Izzie was the end game sorry – sunflower_2046
• Them going to Shonda and asking for Denny to not die is so Izzie and Denny coded though. – jacketpotato24601
• TBH Denny dying hurt worse than Derek 😭 – brittanychapman153
• No one wanted Denny to die… but Owen Hunt is still around!! – nic.marq
• No one will get over Denny Duquette's death 😭😭😭 – klshhhhhhhhhh
• Denny was the worst death. I’ll die on this hill – _arianaharrington

Jeffrey Dean Morgan has said that playing Denny changed his life, as it got him noticed and led to other big roles, and I love that the actor who may be more well-known these days for his roles on Supernatural, The Walking Dead or The Boys, seems to have a soft spot in his heart for Grey’s Anatomy.

The Denny and Izzie love story is without questions one of the best starting points for a Grey’s Anatomy rewatch, with the first 20 seasons of the medical drama being among the best shows to binge on Netflix right now. Meanwhile, all 21 seasons are also available to stream with a Hulu subscription, as new episodes of Grey’s Anatomy continue at 10 p.m. ET Thursdays on ABC.

The Boys has been delighting and disgusting fans for four seasons now as one of the best sci-fi series on Amazon Prime, but sadly that’s all coming to an end in 2025 (or whenever Season 5 comes out). The casting over the past five years has been stunning, skyrocketing actors like Jack Quaid to fame (is it just me or is he in, like, every movie on the 2025 calendar?) and hiring actors like Giancarlo Esposito and Jensen Ackles for substantial characters. It turns out Sterling K. Brown was also once offered a role, and I’ve got a guess about which character that might have been.

Sterling K. Brown Talks Turning Down A Role On The Boys

Sterling K. Brown has turned in some fantastic performances in his career, earning three Emmys for three different projects, including his role as Randall Pearson on the beloved NBC tearjerker This Is Us. He was also nominated for an Academy Award for his role in American Fiction. This all means Brown has gotten to be more selective about the parts he accepts, and he revealed to Variety that The Boys was one show he turned down. The actor said:

Sterling K. Brown said he was heartbroken to reject an offer to work with Eric Kripke again after previously appearing on four episodes of Supernatural, and I would love to say that I’m thrilled for the actor to be in such a fortunate position, but damn that’s disappointing. So the big question is, what role was Brown offered?

Could Sterling K. Brown Have Been Offered The Role Of Joe Kessler?

This Is Us’ Randall was a consummate sweetheart, but I have no doubt Sterling K. Brown would have relished playing a big bad, and there are definitely plenty of those to go around on The Boys. Given what he said about it being a season-long arc, I’m wondering if he was offered Joe Kessler — a role that ultimately went to Jeffrey Dean Morgan.

If you don’t remember the big Kessler reveal in Season 4’s “Dirty Business” — you can stream the episode with an Amazon Prime subscription, but I’m going to spoil it here anyway — we learned that Jeffrey Dean Morgan’s character died years ago, and Butcher (Karl Urban) was merely manifesting the devil on his shoulder all season in the same way Becca’s ghost appeared as Butcher’s angel. It was very Fight Club but still quite effective.

I can totally see Sterling K. Brown in that role, and the only reason I’m not super bummed it didn’t happen is because Jeffrey Dean Morgan was just so delicious as the villain.

I could be wrong, too. Brown didn’t specify which season he was offered the role, so it’s always possible it was a different character. I don't think it would have been Jensen Ackles' Soldier Boy, bit I could easily picture him playing Stan Edgar (Giancarlo Esposito) or in a governmental position like Claudia Doumit’s Victoria Neuman (RIP), but they have appeared throughout the series, not just one season.

Either way, it all likely worked out well for everyone involved, and as The Boys’ fifth and final season looms, Sterling K. Brown has reunited with This Is Us creator Dan Fogelman for Paradise, which can be streamed with a Hulu subscription when it premieres Tuesday, January 28.

When it comes to the smartest TV detectives we’ve ever seen, Adrian Monk definitely can count himself among them – right next to Columbo, Sherlock Holmes, and Luther (to name a few). For eight seasons of the USA Network series, Adrian Monk’s tendency to see all the details, often tied with his OCD, matched with his personal motivation to get “the guy” following the death of his wife, Trudy, was exciting to tune into week-to-week. All the while, major actors would often guest star. Some of which were big names before Monk, and others that have since skyrocketed into fame. 

Jeffrey Dean Morgan 

Over a decade before Jeffrey Dean Morgan became The Walking Dead’s Negan, the famed TV actor was in the Season 3 premiere of Monk, “Mr. Monk Takes Manhattan.” In the episode, Monk travels with the SFPD team to New York City to do some work in association with the murder of Trudy, but in the meantime, Monk gets embroiled in the case of a recently deceased Latvian ambassador. Morgan’s character catches the detective’s eye in connection to the ambassador’s death. 

Malcolm McDowell

The lead of Stanley Kubrick’s masterful A Clockwork Orange, Malcolm McDowell, made his way into Monk during Season 4 in a particularly great episode of the series that takes the detective into the world of fashion. In “Mr. Monk Goes To A Fashion Show,” he decides to pay a visit to the inspector of his favorite collared shirts when he notices recent inconsistencies. It leads him and Natalie to meet a British fashion designer named Julian Hodge, played by McDowell. 

Jennifer Lawrence

Did you know that Silver Linings Playbook Oscar winner, Jennifer Lawrence, was in Monk? Back in 2006, when the actress was a teenager and had not yet starred in any movies, she had a very small role as a high school mascot in the Season 5 episode “Mr. Monk and the Big Game.” Her head is covered for most of her scene, but she does take off the helmet for a moment in the episode. 

Jason Alexander 

Seinfeld’s Jason Alexander guest starred in Monk for the Season 4 premiere “Mr. Monk and the Other Detective” as another P.I. in town named Marty Eels. During Monk’s latest case, the detective begins to be overshadowed by Alexander’s character, which hilariously has Monk calling him a cheater. As Eels becomes a big competitor for Monk, it’s a blast to see Shalhoub and Alexander act together. 

John Turturro 

Monk perfectly cast the detective’s brother in 2004 by bringing in John Turturro in a fabulous guest role, that he would play in three episodes. Turturro, who is famous for being in movies with the Coen Brothers, Spike Lee and Adam Sandler played Ambrose, who suffers from severe agoraphobia and deepened Monk’s backstory. He was so memorable in the series that he earned an Emmy for “Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series” for the episode in which he debuted the character, in Season 2’s “Mr. Monk and the Three Pies”. 

Stanley Tucci

One of the strongest Monk episodes of the series is definitely Season 5’s “Mr. Monk and the Actor.” In the 2006 episode, an actor named David Ruskin is set to play Adrian Monk in a movie based on his life and comes to shadow Adrian on his cases. Stanley Tucci plays Ruskin as the actor goes a bit too method with the role of Adrian and debunks some demons regarding what it’s like to be Monk. Tucci won an Emmy for the guest role, and was actually a finalist to play Adrian Monk prior to his guest role. 

Rainn Wilson 

Just a couple years before Rainn Wilson would become Dwight Schrute on one of the best sitcoms of all time, The Office, the actor made a small guest appearance on Monk in Season 2. He played a massive baseball fan and collector as Adrian Monk looked into a case involving a star baseball player. 

James Brolin 

Longtime TV and movie actor James Brolin (who is also the father of Josh Brolin and husband to Barbara Streisand), made his way into Monk for 2005’s Vegas episode. Brolin plays a millionaire casino owner who becomes a suspect following the death of his wife, and Stottlemeyer brings in Monk to solve the case. 

Sean Astin 

In Season 5, Lord of the Rings and The Goonies actor, Sean Astin crossed paths with Tony Shalhoub’s Monk in an episode called “Mr. Monk Is At Your Service.” Astin plays a young billionaire, Paul Buchanan, whom Monk and Natalie come across amidst a visit to Natalie’s parents' wealthy neighborhood. Monk ends up going undercover as Paul’s butler to learn more about him. 

Sarah Silverman 

Famed standup comedian, Sarah Silverman, guest starred in three episodes of Monk over the years as a character named Marci Maven. She first became part of the procedural in 2004 for “Mr. Monk and the TV Star,”  where she played an obsessed fan of the star of a hit show made up for the series called Crime Lab S.F. 

Danny Trejo 

In “Mr. Monk Goes To Jail” in Season 2, Danny Trejo, of Spy Kids, From Dusk Till Dawn and Desperado (among many of his movies), also got to work alongside Tony Shalhoub’s Monk. During the episode, Monk goes undercover as the cellmate of Trejo’s character, who is a convicted quadruple murderer. As you may suspect, comedy ensues. 

Snoop Dogg 

Snoop Dogg was also in Monk for the Season’s “Mr. Monk and the Rapper,” where he played a fictional hip hop star, Murderuss. In the episode, Murderuss approaches the detective to hire him to clear his name after becoming the primary suspect in the death of another rapper. The best part? Snoop Dogg actually raps Monk’s famous “here’s what happened” segment at the end. 

Alfred Molina

Beloved character actor, Alfred Molina, has also been part of Monk for a Season 6 episode. What’s interesting about Molina, is he was actually one of the finalists to play the lead role of Adrian Monk before Shalhoub was cast. In his guest role, he played a billionaire software mogul whose beach house has a view of a nudist beach. 

Jon Favreau 

MCU actor and famed director Jon Favreau was in “Mr. Monk Goes To The Dentist,” which aired during the series’ fourth season in 2006. Favreau plays a dentist who Lieutenant Disher goes to and swears murdered someone while he was under anesthesia for a procedure. 

Carmen Electra

All-star actor, model and singer Carmen Electra can be found in the Monk episode “Mr. Monk and the Panic Room” which came out in 2004. The episode has the detective investigating a crime scene where it seems like a chimpanzee has killed his owner. The victim is a record producer and Electra plays his pop star wife. 

Craig T. Nelson 

Poltergeist and Parenthood actor Craig T. Nelson earned a very important role in Monk for its two-part finale, “Mr. Monk and the End.” He plays Judge Ethan Rickover, who was on the California Court of Appeals and has a history with Monk’s late wife, Trudy. 

Tim Curry 

In Season 1, an enemy of Monk’s was introduced as financier Dale “The Whale” Biederbeck. After the character was originated by Adam Arkin, none other than The Rocky Horror Picture Show’s Tim Curry embodied the role for a brief time in “Mr. Monk Goes To Jail.” 

Niecy Nash

Reno 911’s Niecy Nash made a guest spot in Monk in the early days for “Mr. Monk and the Girl Who Cried Wolf.” The episode follows Adrian’s first assistant Sharona as she starts to believe she’s losing her sanity when she keeps seeing a man with a screwdriver sticking out of his ear (that no one else can see). Neicy Nash plays Sharona’s friend and fellow nurse, Varla should step in to assist Monk. 

Jeffrey Donovan 

The star of Burn Notice, which also was on USA Network like Monk, turned up in the detective series in the episode “Mr. Monk and the Astronaut.” In the Season 4 episode, Jeffrey Donovan plays an astronaut who Monk is sure killed someone, but his alibi is airtight… considering he was in space when the murder occurred. 

Laurie Metcalf 

Roseanne actress Laurie Metcalf had some fun on Monk when she guest starred in the Season 4 episode “Mr. Monk Bumps His Head.” When Adrian wakes up in a small town with amnesia, Metcalf’s unhinged character uses the opportunity to convince the detective he is her husband. 

Nick Offerman 

Parks and Recreation’s Nick Offerman made an appearance in 2005’s “Mr. Monk and the Election” before he became famous for playing the very quotable Ron Swanson. Look out for the actor in his clean-shaven days during the Season 3 episode that has Natalie Teager running for the school board. 

Jane Lynch 

Before actress Jane Lynch rocked sweatsuits on Glee, she did guest for “Mr. Monk Gets Married.” In the episode, Randy Disher is concerned about his mother getting suddenly married to a man who is 30 years younger (played by Lost’s Nestor Carbonell) than him and asks Monk to look into it. This leads Monk and Sharona to pretend to be a married couple for a retreat that Lynch’s psychologist character is in charge of. 

Amy Sedaris 

The very funny Amy Sedaris was on two episodes of Monk to play Sharona’s younger sister, Gail. She first appeared in 2002’s “Mr. Monk and the Earthquake” before also being part of 2003’s “Mr. Monk Goes To The Theater.” Since she’s an actress in the series, her part in a local play that turns into a crime scene makes the second episode a particularly juicy appearance for Sedaris. 

Rachel Dratch

Saturday Night Live’s Rachel Dratch found her way into Monk for “Mr. Monk and the Missing Granny.” In the 2004 episode, Dratch’s character is stressed about the kidnapping of her grandmother and offers to help reinstate Monk to the police force if he can help find her alive. 

Howie Mandel

The Gremlins actor and game and competition show host played the role of Ralph Roberts in two episodes of Monk in 2008. Howie Mandel played the head of a religious cult called Siblings of the Sun in the Season 7 episodes. Mandel is a germaphobe in real life like Monk is.

Holland Taylor

Two and a Half Men actress Holland Taylor played Natalie Teager’s mother Peggy in two episodes of Monk. In the series, Peggy is a well-off woman who married into the Davenport Toothpaste business. She is part of 2005’s “Mr. Monk Goes To A Wedding” and 2007’s “Mr. Monk Is At Your Service.” 

Gena Rowlands

Gena Rowlands is an Academy Award nominee who starred in movies like Woman Under The Influence and Gloria in her youth before famously playing the older version of Allie in The Notebook. In Season 7’s “Mr. Monk and the Lady Next Door,” Monk becomes friendly with Rowlands’ Marge Johnson, but suspicions about her true intentions begin to grow. 

Ariel Winter

Before Ariel Winter became part of Modern Family’s Dunphy family, the actress was in Monk as an eight-year-old for “Mr. Monk and the Astronaut.” She has a small but pivotal role as the neighbor of the victim, whose place in the story leads Monk to track down the killer. 

Julie Bowen

In Season 7’s “Mr. Monk and the Bully,” Julie Bowen plays a character that Adrian Monk investigates after his childhood bully comes out of the woodwork asking for help from the detective. The Truman Show’s Noah Emmerich plays her husband and Monk’s former bully. Julie Bowen is a two-time Emmy winner for her leading role in ABC’s Modern Family. 

Eric Stonestreet

Modern Family’s Cameron Tucker was on Monk the same year the hit ABC comedy first arrived on network television. In “Mr. Monk and the UFO,” Eric Stonestreet plays a small role as a local mechanic named Boom-Boom whom Monk offends and ends up raising his estimate. 

Sung Kang 

Sung Kang, who famously played Han in the Fast and the Furious movies, also guest starred in Monk as two separate characters. First in “Mr. Monk vs. the Cobra” he plays an employee of a martial arts school they visit while investigating the death of a fictional kung fu star, Sonny Chow. Four years later, Kang stars in “Mr. Monk on Wheels” as the cousin of a criminal named John Kuramoto.

Angela Kinsey 

The Office actress Angela Kinsey had a guest role in Monk as Arlene Boras for two episodes of the series. She plays an X-ray technician who was in Alfred Molina’s episode, “Mr. Monk and the Naked Man.” She reprised her role for the 100th episode of Monk as well. 

Warning! Spoilers ahead! 

AMC's massive hit The Walking Dead established earlier on that anything could happen at any time, including the worst. Still, a number of characters made it quite a long time. While none of the cast members on the show appeared in all 177 episodes of the show, here are the actors who appeared in the most episodes of The Walking Dead. 

Norman Reedus (175 Episodes)

Daryl Dixon, played by Norman Reedus, was a fan favorite almost from the very beginning, and by the end of the show, he was hands down the most popular character. Reedus was amazing as the gruff, tough-as-nails survivor and he appeared in more episodes than any other actor, 175 in total. He also returned in the follow-up show The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon.

Melissa McBride (174 Episodes)

The character on The Walking Dead that had the most incredible character arc has to be Carol played by Melissa McBride. Carol was a fairly meek housewife to an abusive husband. She didn't stay the way and by the end of the show's run, and McBride's 175 episodes, she was someone you definitely wanted to have on your side against the zombies. 

Lauren Cohan (144 Episodes)

It's hard to believe that viewers didn't meet Maggie Greene Rhee until the second season when the survivors reached the farm. Still, actress Lauren Cohan appeared in the third-most episodes by the end, 144 in total. Though she had one of the most tragic story arcs, she comes out on top at the very end, proving how tough she really was.  

Christian Serratos (130 Episodes)

Fans of The Walking Dead aren't introduced to Rosalita, played by Christian Serratos, until Season 4 and Serratos didn't become a main cast member until the following season. From then on though, she becomes a key survivor right up until the very end when she becomes the final victim of the zombies on the show, after 130 episodes.

Josh McDermitt (130 Episodes)

Josh McDermitt's character, Eugene, is one of the most interesting characters on the show. At first, he's weak, selfish, and spineless, but he eventually grows into one of the most capable survivors on the show, using his smarts to help out in many ways. 

Danai Gurira (126 Episodes)

From the first time viewers see Michonne, played by Danai Gurira, until the end of the show, she was among the most beloved and awesome characters. Though she wasn't introduced until the end of Season 2, Gurira appeared in 126 episodes over the final 10 seasons. And she wasn't someone you ever wanted to mess with.

Seth Gilliam (125 Episodes)

Former cast member of The Wire Seth Gilliam plays one of the more controversial characters, the priest Gabriel Stokes. Though he didn't join the show until Season 5, he played a huge role, both good and bad, with the survivors over the final seven seasons. 

Andrew Lincoln (121 Episodes)

If there is a main character of The Walking Dead, at least in the first nine seasons, it's Rick Grimes, played by Andrew Lincoln. He's the de facto leader at almost every point in the show, and the father of two kids. At the end of Season 9 Grimes disappears and at the end of Season 11 it's revealed he's still alive, but only a little is revealed about where he ends up until the follow-up show, The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live.

Ross Marquand (116 Episodes)

Audiences first meet Ross Marquand's character Aaron when he recruits the survivors to join the community he's a part of in Alexandria. From Season 5, when he is introduced, until the end of the show, Aaron is a key character who appeared in a total of 116 episodes. 

Chandler Riggs (109 Episodes)

Carl Grimes was, other than his infant sister, the youngest member of the group of main survivors. Rick's son, played by Chandler Riggs, was a key character in both the TV and in the comic books, though his run on the show ended before the character's arc is over in the comic books. Riggs left the show in dramatic fashion after 109 episodes to attend college. 

Jeffrey Dean Morgan (95 Episodes)

The Walking Dead became known for introducing a big baddie in every season, but no one was ready for Negan, played by Jeffrey Dean Morgan. As the leader of The Saviors, Negan is absolutely brutal, and within minutes of meeting him, he commits the two most horrific murders in the show's entire history. His character arc is fascinating, however, and it meant he lasted 95 episodes, right up until the end. 

Alanna Masterson (87 Episodes)

Tara Chambler, played by actress Alanna Masterson, starts out as a follower of the antagonist known as The Governor but soon realizes he's a bad person. During the attack on the prison by the survivors, Tara switches sides and ends up an important member of the survivors before she is attacked and killed in Season 9, after appearing in 87 episodes. 

Khary Payton (83 Episodes)

Khary Payton introduction as King Ezekiel in the seventh season was a big moment. Not only did was it a dramatic shot, with him sitting with his tiger, but it brought in a character that would become a key player over the next 83 episodes. 

Steven Yeun (81 Episodes)

The Walking Dead was famous for the brutal deaths of some of its most beloved characters and at the top of that list is Glenn's horrifying death at the hands of Nega in the Season 7 premiere. It was hard to stomach, and even harder to take, emotionally. Actor Steven Yeun's character was a fan favorite and after 81 episodes, suddenly he was gone. 

Cooper Andrews (81 Episodes)

Actor Cooper Andrews' character Jerry is the kind of character everyone loves. He's a bit of a goof, but dedicated and loyal to his people, and very capable. Though the character wasn't introduced until Season 8 and wasn't a main cast member until 10, Andrews still appeared in 81 episodes. 

Sonequa Martin-Green (70 Episodes)

Sasha, played by Sonequa Martin-Green, who appeared in 70 episodes was a character created for the show, rather than in the comic book from which The Walking Dead was adapted. Still, Sasha becomes an incredibly important character from Season 3 when we meet her until her heroic death at the end of Season 8.

Eleanor Matsuura (58 Episodes)

Eleanor Matsuura, who plays Yumiko, is a late joiner to the cast, not appearing until the 9th Season. Still, she proves her worth quickly and appears in almost every episode from there out, a total of 58. 

Nadia Hilker (56 Episodes)

One of the new characters introduced in Season 9 is Magna, played by actress Nadia Hilker. She's a tough customer who seemingly trusts very few people, and who can blame her after surviving the zombie apocalypse for as long as she has. She also survives the final battle in Alexandria at the of Season 11 and is seen living happily with her girlfriend, Yumiko, after 56 episodes on the show. 

Lauren Ridloff (56 Episodes)

Along with Magna and Yumiko, Lauren Ridloff's character Connie is a tough survivor who joined the show in Season 9. Like those characters Connie appears in most of the final three seasons, a total of 56 episodes. 

Callan McAuliffe (55 Episodes)

 Alden, played by Callan McAuliffe, was a member of the brutal Saviors when viewers met him, but he eventually switches sides and teams up with the Hilltop Community led by Maggie. In all, he ended up in most of the final shows in the final 4 seasons, a total of 55 episodes. 

Cassady McClincy Zhang (54 Episodes)

Lydia is a character who is quite different in the show than she is in the comics, mostly due to the changed story arc of her love interest in the books, Carl Grimes. In the show, she is introduced in Season 9 when she is taken captive by Michonne and Daryl. She ends the series alive, 54 episodes later. She was played by Cassady McClincy Zhang.

Cailey Fleming (53 Episodes)

The youngest member of the main cast was Cailey Fleming, who played the older Judith Grimes in seasons 10 and 11, a total of 53 episodes. Of course, the character appears in way more episodes going back to the very beginnings of the show, but for years, she was a baby, presumably played by different people and definitely not played by Fleming.

Lennie James (52 Episodes)

Morgan, played by Lennie James, is one of the earliest characters viewers meet in the show, though he remains an enigma and only occasionally appeared in the early days. James became a main character in Season 6, and in total appeared in 52 episodes over the first 8 seasons of the show before he leaves the group. The character became the protagonist in the first spinoff, Fear The Walking Dead. 

Emily Kinney (50 Episodes)

Emily Kinney played Beth Greene in 50 episodes of The Walking Dead. She was Herschel's daughter and Maggie's half-sister. She was introduced on the show when Rick and the rest of the survivors got to the Greene farm. Initially, Kinney had a much smaller role than those of her family members, but by Season 4 she had become a full-time cast member. It wasn't for long though, as Beth was killed by Dawn in one heck of a disastrous moment that also saw Daryl kill Dawn. 

Katelyn Nacon (50 Episodes)

The second-to-last episode of Season 10 of The Walking Dead is a brutal one. The mysterious character called Alpha proves to be a brutal baddie when it's revealed that her people, The Whispers, have killed a number of people, including Enid, played by Katelyn Nacon. Nacon portrayed Enid in 50 episodes, starting in Season 5. 

Tom Payne (45 Episodes)

The Hilltop Community becomes one of the most important settlements in the post-apocalyptic world and viewers of the show, and the core survivors, are introduced to it by Paul "Jesus" Rovia, who was played by Tom Payne for 45 episodes, starting in Season 7. Jesus is both a spy and an ambassador of sorts for the Hilltop folks, who ends up recruiting and fighting with Rick and the others against The Saviors. Sadly, he doesn't make it past Season 9 when he is killed by The Whisperers. 

Michael Cudlitz (38 Episodes)

What can we say about Abraham Ford? Played by the great Michael Cudlitz who first found major fame on TV as a member of the cast of Band of Brothers, Abraham was a fan favorite from the first time viewers met him in Season 4. That made his death in the Season 7 premiere, after starring in 38 Episodes, at the hands of Negan incredibly heartbreaking. 

Scott Wilson (38 Episodes)

Everyone loves their grandfather and in a way, that's who Scott Wilson's character Herschel Greene represented on the show. The patriarch of Maggie and Beth's family, Herschel is tough, he's fair, and he's righteous. Introduced on the farm in Season 2, Herschel is killed by The Governor in Season 4, after appearing in 38 episodes. 

Austin Amelio (36 Episodes)

Dwight, played by Austin Amelio, always seemed like a reluctant, if brutal, member of Negan's group, The Saviors. With his badly scarred face, he was a standout character for 36 episodes before Amelio left The Walking Dead to join the spinoff Fear The Walking Dead. 

Kerry Cahill (36 Episodes)

For a character that appeared in 36 Episodes of the show, Dianne, played by Kerry Cahill, is the least developed on this list. Cahill is first seen in The Kingdom, playing one of the community's best soldiers, a skill she later takes to the Hilltop Community. For the rest of the series, she is part of many battles, but we never learn too much about her. 

Sarah Wayne Callies (35 Episodes)

Sarah Wayne Callies plays Lori Grimes, Rick's wife, and mother to Carl and Judith. In the first three seasons, she's one of the most important characters on the show and gets herself stuck in a love triangle between Rick, whom she believed was dead, and Rick's best friend, Shane Walsh (Jon Bernthal). During Season 3, Lori is forced to give birth to Judith via C-section, and without proper medical facilities, the procedure kills her in one of the hardest moments of the show to watch. In total, Callies appeared in 35 episodes.

Laurie Holden (35 Episodes)

Actor Laurie Holden is one of the original cast members of the show, playing Andrea from the earliest episodes. At the end of Season 2, she gets separated from the rest of the survivors at the farm and is saved by Michonne. Both end up at Woodbury with The Governor, who Andrea grows close to. Trusting him was a mistake as she is eventually taken prisoner by him which leads to her death at the hands of a walker towards the end of Season 3 after 35 appearances. 

Major spoilers below for anyone who hasn’t yet watched through The Boys Episode 6 with an Amazon Prime subscription, so be warned!

The Boys’ ability to pull off shocking reveals is second to none on the small screen, whether it’s a raunchy supe orally pleasuring himself, one of Homelander’s milk-obsessed treats, or Will Ferrell starring in A-Train's origin story. But it’s not necessarily a show that constantly aims to pull wool capes over viewers’ eyes in setting up brain-rattling twists, though each season features a true gobsmacker or two. It’s safe to say Season 4’s biggest doozy so far centered on the true relationship between Karl Urban’s Butcher and Jeffrey Dean Morgan’s Joe Kessler.

While I was indeed expecting something bonkers to come out of Butcher and Kessler’s sporadic conversations, with Shantel VanSanten’s Becca often in the mix, I admittedly had a completely different idea for what was actually going to be revealed. And while I legitimately love the way things went down on the show itself, I’m kinda disappointed my own theory won’t pan out.

What The Actual Joe Kessler Twist Was

With Jeffrey Dean Morgan being arguably the biggest new cast member of Season 4, his character was immediately imbued with importance. And given how closely he seemed to be working with Butcher in secret, their siloed conversations initially didn't incite suspicion, even while the latter’s V-affected sanity was being challenged due to his Becca hallucinations.

But as it was revealed in “Dirty Business” — hereby known as "the Tek Knight sex cave episode where Ashley rubbed one out tickling Hughie's feet" — the real Joe Kessler seemingly died years prior, with Butcher’s subconscious claiming that he left Kessler behind in the Panjshir Valley, and didn’t actually drag him out of harm’s way. Cue the Fight Club-esque sequence in which Urban looks like a total nutjob engaging in convos and drinks with empty space.

I feel like Omid Abtahi’s Sameer would have asked Butcher about his off-kilter behavior a ways before the tumor-laden character’s own fractured personality pointed it out. But I’ll allow that being held captive without proper sustenance is a great reason to not want to provoke one’s captor, particularly if they’re showing signs of a mental breakdown.

In any case, The Boys successfully pulled off the reveal that Butcher’s hallucinations are growing in number, making it all the more bothersome that both of the ones we know of are of people whose deaths he was acutely involved in and presumably feels guilt for. So even though it seems like JDM will be the biggest threat inside Butcher’s head, there may be bigger skeletons in that cancerous closet.

Where I Thought The Boys' Big Twist Was Going

While the Becca hallucinations were essentially the set-up for the Kessler reveal, I thought The Boys was gearing up for a completely different revelation with Becca. Without having considered the idea that Morgan was playing a mental apparition, I was thinking one of Butcher's V-related "talents" would be the power to turn his hallucinations into reality.

So I was waiting on / hoping for the point when someone would walk in on Butcher talking to Becca, and the twist would be that she wasn't just a guilt-ridden mirage, but rather a living and breathing person once more. Although not the real Becca, which would have its own weird payoffs and disturbing consequences, no doubt.

As one might imagine, I flipped out a little at the moment whenever Kessler tells Becca to shut her cake hole, thinking my theory had panned out, and that Butcher successfully mind-willed his lost love into living matter. Then I flipped out all over again once it was clear that my theory was wrong, and that instead of talking to two human beings, Butcher was arguing with 100% nothing.

No arguments here against this being a cool twist that could turn Butcher into a more unpredictable menace in the future, but I can't help but feel a little bummed out by the way things turned out. Not just because I wasn't right, since I truly think it would be a rad power for one of The Boys' Supes to be able to conjure things up Green Lantern-style. But also because it means Jeffrey Dean Morgan isn't playing an actual character here, but rather a splintered off piece of Butcher's psyche.

I'm holding out hope that we'll learn one day that the real Joe Kessler that Butcher possibly left for dead didn't actually die, and that he's out there somewhere pining for revenge against his former brother-in-arms. Which would lead to a presumably mindblowing moment for Butcher in which he comes face to face with the real Joe standing alongside his mental projection. But that's probably taking things too far for a story that's approaching its Butcher Vs. Homelander endgame in its final season.

With more reveals no doubt on the way in the final two episodes, The Boys drops new installments on Prime Video every Thursday. Head to our 2024 TV schedule to see what new and returning shows are on the way soon.

Spoiler alert! Major spoilers ahead for The Boys’ Season 4 episode “Dirty Business.” Stream the series with an Amazon Prime subscription to catch up.

If there were a Venn diagram that showed the number of people who watch The Boys alongside Grey’s Anatomy fans, I honestly don’t know how much overlap there would be. Stick me right in the middle of those circles, though, because even though the Seattle medical drama has been around longer, I’m just as entranced by the hyper-violent, comic book-based world of evil superheroes. Assuming there are others out there like myself, I probably wasn’t the only one who was immediately reminded of Jeffrey Dean Morgan’s stint on Grey’s when that major plot twist was revealed on The Boys’ latest episode, “Dirty Business.” So was that callback intentional?

Much of “Dirty Business” revolved around the Batman-spoofing Tek Knight and Hughie infiltrating the Tek-Cave sex dungeon. Butcher (Karl Urban), meanwhile, continued his work with JDM’s Joe Kessler on attaining more Supe-killing virus in hopes of taking out Homelander. When Kessler voiced his plan to kill not just Antony Starr’s big bad, but all Supes, we got the shocking reveal that Kessler was merely a hallucination brought on by Butcher’s worsening brain tumor. Holy Denny Duquette, Batman! Did Eric Kripke intentionally craft that plot to mirror Jeffrey Dean Morgan’s Grey’s Anatomy role? The showrunner told The Wrap: 

It may have been unintentional, but the similarities hit me so hard and so immediately that I actually gasped watching the episode. Jeffrey Dean Morgan first appeared on the ABC medical drama as Denny Duquette in Season 2. The patient fell in love with his doctor, Izzie Stevens (Katherine Heigl), and despite her efforts to get him the life-saving surgery he needed, Denny died one of the most shocking deaths in Grey’s Anatomy’s history.

However, Denny Duquette returned in Season 5, appearing to Izzie in hallucinations (some of them quite racy) that we eventually learned were a symptom of a brain tumor.

The interesting thing in this situation is that on Grey’s Anatomy, we knew Denny couldn’t be real because we’d watched him die, and it was the brain tumor that was the huge plot twist. On The Boys, however, we knew about Butcher’s brain tumor, but the fact that Kessler wasn’t real was the big surprise, despite the fact that we knew Butcher was hallucinating his wife Becca (Shantel VanSanten). Eric Kripke mused:  

I’d say it was a pretty good twist, complete with Fight Club-esque flashbacks to previous scenes that showed Butcher talking to himself anytime we thought he was conversing with Kessler.

Some fans of The Boys have been complaining about Season 4, but I’ve personally been enjoying seeing the fun moments like comic book references that would make great spinoffs, even if there have also been some pretty bleak moments like Sister Sage’s lobotomy twist and the straight-up depressing symbolism behind Hughie Sr.’s superpower. 

There are only two episodes to go in The Boys’ penultimate season, so strap in and hang on for what promises to be a doozy of an ending for one of Amazon Prime’s best original series. 

Simply by taking place during the post-apocalypse, The Walking Dead franchise is one of TV’s deadliest, and remains that way thanks to spinoffs starring Jeffrey Dean Morgan and Lauren Cohan, among others. The co-stars’ characters Negan and Maggie first shared the screen in the Season 6 finale and then in the infamous Season 7 premiere, in which the leather-clad villain brutally killed off two fan-favorite characters. It’s been roughly eight years since that viewership-killing episode aired, so how does TWD vet Andrew LIncoln feel about it now?

As it happens, Lincoln is able to look back at Negan’s introduction in hindsight and say that it may have been the straw that broke the zombie camel’s back, so to speak. In an interview with Empire, he said:

That’s a major “maybe” in the scheme of things, since The Walking Dead’s creative team definitely wanted to hammer home just how emotionally devastating Negan’s arrival was the way Robert Kirkman penned it for the comic book. To the point where Charlie Adlard’s gnarly visuals were partially represented in the form of Steven Yeun’s bulging eye-socket prosthetic, which the show made sure to focus on applicably.

Of course, before he even got around to smooshing in Glenn’s head in front of his pregnant wife, JDM’s Negan had already viciously murdered Abraham in a similar manner, with the red-headed behemoth’s body still twitching in the moments afterward. The times were not so optimistic.

To that end, The Walking Dead’s Season 7 premiere was among the two or three most-watched episodes of the show’s 11-season run, with more than 17 million people tuning in early on. The series enjoyed those double-digit viewership totals for several seasons prior to Negan’s arrival, and it’s unlikely any other AMC series will ever reach that same level of popularity. But once Jeffrey Dean Morgan’s joyously callous villain became a mainstay, the audience decline was quite obvious., and many were quite up front about why Glenn's death was so upsetting.

Not that Andrew Lincoln felt any sort of foreboding viewership threats when filming the controversial sequence, and only has good things to say about that experience, and about Morgan in general. As he put it:

It was definitely an emotional shoot, as it was by and large the last time the cast would spend that much time around stars Steven Yeun and Michael Cudlitz, though the latter later returned for Abraham's dream sequences with Sonequa Martin-Green's Sasha. But as much as fans have wanted to see Yeun back as Glenn in any upcoming Walking Dead series, even if just in the anthology spinoff, he's expressed hesitance about returning to the role.

While waiting to see more from Negan in The Walking Dead: Dead City Season 2, head to our 2024 TV premiere schedule to see what else is coming soon.

The Good Wife was a popular courtroom drama on CBS that ran from 2009 to 2016. The show starred Julianna Margulies as the main character. Juliana played Alicia Florrick, the wife of a disgraced former state's attorney trying to piece her life back together after the fallout from her husband's affair and suspected corruption. Fans of the show watched as Alicia navigated the challenges of resuscitating her legal career and the pressure of supporting her husband after his very public fall from grace.

Since The Good Wife finale in 2016, many of the cast members have stayed busy with new and interesting roles, and gone on to achieve continued success in their careers. 

Julianna Margulies (Alicia Florrick)

We'll start off with the star of the show herself, Julianna Margulies -- She has made numerous TV appearances since The Good Wife ended its run. She appeared as Kitty Montgomery in AMC's Dietland and as Catherine Brant in the Showtime series Billions. In 2019, she appeared as Dr. Nancy Jaax in the National Geographic series The Hot Zone. Most recently, she has  appeared as Laura Peterson in the Apple TV+ series, The Morning Show, alongside Reese Witherspoon and Jennifer Anniston. 

Christine Baranski (Diane Lockhart)

Christine Baranski played Diane Lockhart, the formidable senior attorney at Lockhart Gardner, the law firm that offered Alicia Florrick a position after her fifteen year absence from practicing law. Being part mentor and part adversary, Diane was a notable character on The Good Wife and had a big influence over Alicia and the events of the series. 

Christine Baranski was so memorable as Diane, she went on to star in her own spinoff to the series, The Good Fight, which premiered in 2017 and ran for six seasons. Fans of Christine can currently watch her in the cast of The Gilded Age on HBO Max. 

Josh Charles (Will Gardner)

Josh Charles played the memorable Will Gardner, another named partner at the firm of Lockhart Gardner. Will and Alicia's relationship went through ups and downs throughout the show, with phases of both rekindled romance and alienation. The chemistry between Will and Alicia was memorable, but fans may have stronger memories of his abrupt departure from the show. 

Since leaving The Good Wife, Josh Charles has gone on to make multiple television appearances including in HBO's miniseries We Own This City, which aired in 2022. He has also appeared in The Power on Amazon Prime which premiered in 2023. 

Archie Panjabi (Kalinda Sharma)

Archie Panjabi played Kalinda Sharma, the enigmatic investigator at Lockhart Gardner. There were few subjects who could outsmart Kalinda when she set her mind to discovering the truth of the case. Panjabi left The Good Wife in 2015 amid rumors of conflict on the set. Despite the murky circumstances of her departure, Panjabi left her mark on the series with Kalinda being one of the most interesting and impactful characters throughout the course of the show. 

Fans of Archie Panjabi can watch her performances in multiple TV series, including the Peacock original Departure, which aired from 2019 to 2022. She currently appears in the Apple TV+ series, Hijack, which premiered in 2023. 

Matt Czuchry (Cary Agos)

Matt Czuchry played Cary Agos in The Good Wife. As Alicia's Florricks rival in the early seasons of the show, Cary was motivated to compete with Alicia for the one available permanent position at the firm. Over time, Cary and Alicia's relationship evolved with the two trusting and relying on one another. In the later seasons, Alicia and Cary became partners and opened their own firm. Since the show ended, Matt Czuchry has appeared as Dr. Conrad Hawkins on Fox's medical drama The Resident, which ran for six seasons and ended in 2023. Czuchry has also appeared as Dexter Harding Jr. in the newest season of American Horror Story. 

Chris Noth (Peter Florrick)

Chris Noth played the husband of the titular character on The Good Wife. It was Peter's dubious actions that set the events of the show in motion and required his wife to be as good as she was. 

After the end of The Good Wife, Chris Noth returned to playing another of his iconic roles, Mr. Big. For six seasons he played the handsome yet unattainable love interest of Carrie Bradshaw on Sex and the City. Noth resumed the role of Mr. Big as Carrie's husband in the Sex and the City spinoff And Just Like That. Although his run on the spinoff was brief, it brought back a character that largely defined his career. Noth also appeared in the CBS series The Equalizer, playing William Bishop, the mentor to the show's star, Queen Latifah. 

Carrie Preston (Elsbeth Tascioni)

Carrie Preston brought welcome comic relief to tense moments in The Good Wife with her role as the unconventional yet brilliant Elsbeth Tascioni. Elsbeth had a style all her own, but she could be counted on to come through for her clients in some of the most challenging cases featured on the show. 

Preston returned to play the character again on The Good Fight alongside Christine Baranski, and she is now featured in the title role of the new CBS drama series Elsbeth, which premiered in February 2024. 

Alan Cumming (Eli Gold)

Alan Cumming managed to be both ruthless and lovable in his role as the shrewd campaign manager, Eli Gold, on The Good Wife. Eli took on the insurmountable task of restoring Peter Florrick's reputation and rescuing his political career after his infamous press conference that ended his time as state's attorney and resulted in criminal charges. 

Fans of Alan Cumming can see him in the many prominent roles he has played throughout his career, including as Nightcrawler in X-men. Since The Good Wife ended, he has continued the role of Eli Gold in two episodes of The Good Fight. He has also appeared in the Apple Plus series Schmigadoon alongside Keegan Michael-Key and Cecily Strong. In January 2023, Cumming began hosting The Traitors US on Peacock, a reality show featuring a murder mystery game in which the contestants compete to win a $250,000 prize. 

Jeffrey Dean Morgan (Jason Crouse)

Jeffrey Dean Morgan played private investigator Jason Crouse in the final season of The Good Wife. As an investigator, Jason assists Alicia with the challenges that come along with managing her own firm and navigating the ongoing battles with Peter Florrick's career and corruption charges. 

Morgan has maintained a flourishing career since his time on The Good Wife. He has appeared in multiple feature films including Walkaway Joe and The Unholy. However, his most notable role in recent memory is as Negan in The Walking Dead. Jeffrey Dean Morgan's performance as Negan is both unsettling and captivating, resulting in his continued appearance in The Walking Dead: Dead City. 

All of these talented cast members contributed to the show's seven successful seasons, and fans have plenty of options to view their favorite stars in current roles. The Good Wife can be found streaming on Paramount Plus for those of us who want to go back and revisit the drama of Lockhart Gardner. 

The Boys are back in town! After waiting for what feels like an eternity, Season 4 is finally on its way, and it's as funny, super, gross and action-packed as you'd expect it to be. Along with all the drama continuing on from Season 3, we're getting new characters and storylines as the first teaser revealed, and I can't wait for! So, let's break down Homelander's scary descent into even more madness, Jeffrey Dean Morgan's introduction to the Prime Video superhero show and more, because there's a lot to be excited about when it comes to Season 4 of The Boys. 

Along with Dean Morgan (who we’ll discuss soon), there are many other new characters featured in the Season 4 teaser trailer, including the previously announced Sister Sage and Firecracker, who are new members of The Seven. The video also builds on the end of The Boys spinoff Gen V, which featured a Homelander cameo that seemed to allude to him being even madder than normal, which is actually terrifying. 

As the trailer above shows, The Boys seems to pick up where it left off in Season 3 after Homelander and Ryan left together. While I didn't think Antony Starr's insane supe couldn't get madder, it seems like he has – I mean, did you see that shot of him covered in blood? – and I don't think we're ready for what's coming.

Adding to the excitement we also saw hints at what our favorite characters are up to, including Hughie and Starlight, who seem to be creating a campaign against The Seven.

However, I’m most excited about the new character we were introduced to played by Jeffrey Dean Morgan. It seems like his character is connected to Butcher, who is down because he only has a few months to live and he lost Ryan at the end of The Boys’ third season. It looks like the two might be working with The Boys to continue their quest to take down Vought. Based on the bro-high-five shared between Butcher and Dean Morgan, it seems like they’re close, but it’s unclear how exactly they’re connected.

While it looks like Karl Urban and Dean Morgan’s characters are happy to see each other, I assume the reason Butcher has sought out this new guy is for help, because as the season’s synopsis explained “the world is on the brink.” 

According to the synopsis, Season 4 will follow Victoria Neuman’s campaign for president, remember she’s supe who can make peoples’ heads explode, and the nation seems more polarized than ever before. With this as the backdrop for what was already bound to be an explosive season, I think it’s safe to say we’re in for a wild ride, and I can’t wait for all the action, drama, superpowers and dark comedy we’ve come to know and love from The Boys.

Overall, Season 4 of The Boys looks like it's going to be wild, and we wouldn't expect anything less. While there's no premiere date yet, the show will drop some time on the 2024 TV schedule. As we learn more about the newest installment of one of Amazon Prime's best shows, we'll be sure to keep you posted. In the meantime, you can stream Seasons 1 through 3 along with the spinoff Gen V with a Prime Video subscription. 

It’s been over 17 years since Denny Duquette’s heart beat for the last time, nearly two decades since Izzie Stevens had to be carried away from the man she thought she was going to marry. Somehow, as Grey’s Anatomy approaches its 20th season, that performance by Katherine Heigl alongside Jeffrey Dean Morgan — two actors who have long since moved on from the ABC medical drama — remains one of the most affecting of the series. There’s a reason for that, as Heigl recalled tapping into a painful place for that performance, and she admitted what she wishes she’d done differently.

In the Season 2 finale “Losing My Religion,” Denny Duquette received a heart transplant (thanks to Izzie illegally cutting his LVAD wire) but died hours later, when a blood clot caused him to have a stroke. Meredith, Cristina, Alex and George found Izzie afterward, lying next to Denny’s body, refusing to move until Alex insisted that wasn’t Denny anymore and carried her away sobbing. Katherine Heigl recalled the scene for Variety’s “Actors on Actors” series, telling Ellen Pompeo: 

Izzie’s grief was palpable during that scene, and knowing that the actress drew upon the emotions of losing her brother when she was just 7 years old adds a whole new level of heartbreak. Katherine Heigl admitted that she wished she hadn’t recalled those horrible feelings, as she told her former co-star: 

Katherine Heigl wrote about her brother Jason on Instagram back in 2021, recalling his death in 1986 at age 15. Jason was in a car accident that left him in the ICU for a week before he was taken off of life support, the actress said.

It must have been unspeakably hard to allow that grief to come to the surface for that famous scene, but Ellen Pompeo pointed out that it was that performance and show of emotion that made Grey’s Anatomy as iconic as it is, and it’s true. There’s a reason we still talk about Jeffrey Dean Morgan’s guest spot on that show, a reason the actor said playing Denny Duquette changed his life. That performance is what makes “Losing My Religion” one of Grey’s Anatomy’s best episodes.

However, Ellen Pompeo has made similar admissions, recalling the scene in Season 6’s “Sanctuary/Death and all of His Friends” when Derek Shepherd (Patrick Dempsey) was shot. She said she and Sandra Oh had to “scream and cry and go crazy 30 fucking times,” and that wasn’t something she’d be willing to do again.

All 19 seasons of the medical drama are available to stream with a Netflix subscription, and if you don’t want to start from the beginning, there are plenty of jumping-off points for your Grey’s Anatomy rewatch, including the Denny Duquette era. We don’t yet know when Season 20 will premiere, but keep your eye on the 2023 TV schedule for that and all of the other shows that are starting in the meantime. 

People get loved ones' names tattooed onto their bodies all the time, from common titles like “mom” and “dad” to children’s names, and it is a super creative way to show affection. Jeffrey Dean Morgan has done this by getting his daughter’s name on his arm in a very adorable and unique way, which includes blood drops dripping down the tattoo. 

However, this story starts long before 5-year-old George thought up her bloody design. This sweet story came up because Morgan was asked which tattoo means the most to him. He recalled a story about when he got married to Hilarie Burton, which ultimately led to his most meaningful ink, he told Men’s Health:

After being together for ten years, Morgan and Burton got married in 2019. Their friends, family and kids were there, and so was a tattoo artist. As The Walking Dead: Dead City star said, everyone got some ink that night, and then he went back to the same artist to get his daughter’s name. Since his daughter is 5 she came up with a design only a little youngster could think up, and you can see it in the TikTok below:

Morgan’s kids, Gus and George are 13 and 5, respectively. Augustus “Gus” Morgan got to play a zombie in Season 11 of The Walking Dead, and Burton also joined the show to play Negan’s wife Lucille in Season 10. After seeing this punk rock, bloody tattoo, it seems like George would also fit into this sci-fi world. Who knows, now that The Walking Dead: Dead City’s Season 1 finale has come and gone, maybe she’ll pop up in some way during Season 2. 

While Jeffrey Dean Morgan has been working a lot, based on the adorable stories he tells about his kids and partner, it sounds like they’re his whole world. He even let his daughter design a tattoo for him that has blood dripping off of it. Not only is it a super cool piece of art, it also shows the love he has for his kiddo and her creativity. Let’s just say it’s “badass.” 

Along with spending quality time with his children and Hilarie Burton, Jeffrey Dean Morgan also has some exciting projects in the works. His series Dead City will stay on the list of upcoming Walking Dead shows, as was renewed for Season 2. He’s also set to star in Season 4 of The Boys. So, we have a lot to look forward to after we take the time to truly appreciate this sweet story and adorably bloody tattoo. 

Spoilers below for the sixth and final episode of The Walking Dead: Dead City, so be warned if you haven’t yet watched!

After six episodes, The Walking Dead’s latest spinoff wrapped up its initial arc in a way that obviously paved the way for the upcoming second season, whose renewal was revealed timed to this year’s Comic-Con. “Doma Smo,” a Croatian phrase meaning “We are home,” delivered temporary conclusions for Lauren Cohan’s Maggie and Jeffrey Dean Morgan’s Negan that offered up more surprises than I expected for a season that has retread a lot of the same storytelling ground as the flagship drama. Let’s take a closer look at the finale's biggest surprises below. 

A New Reference To Maggie’s Mom Josephine Greene

Within the Season 2 timeline of The Walking Dead, Maggie’s birth mother Josephine Greene was alluded to largely through photographs within the family home, with Hershel confirming her fate in the episode “Judge, Jury Executioner,” without further detail. Bafflingly enough, seeing a Macy’s storyfront sparks Maggie to share a childhood tale with Negan that started off with a super-rare instance of the late matriarch’s existence, even if the story itself was technically way more about Maggie’s own childhood dreams. Here’s the story, which was perhaps unfortunately interrupted by opposing forces driving by: 

Now we know that Josephine Greene died from some kind of sickness that had her bedridden long enough for Maggie to remember it being a time for stories. Given the way Hershel kept his second wife cooped up with others inside his barn after everyone went the way of the walker, I’m still not sure which woman had it worse. 

Negan And Maggie Finally Brawled, Though Not For Long Enough 

Over six years have passed in real-world time since Negan arrived and shattered Glenn’s skull with Lucille, and it’s been even longer within the fictional timeline, so seeing him in a flat-out brawl with Maggie has been a long time coming no matter how you look at it. And while The Walking Dead: Dead City obviously couldn’t spend a fourth or more of its finale dedicated squarely to cathartic fisticuffs, Negan and Maggie’s fight sequence was indeed fun and badass enough to make me wish that the sequel series had built in an episode that was one long and brutal clash. 

That big drop helped put it over, too, even if it wasn’t quite on the level of a hardcore WWE match from the late ‘90s. If Negan would have landed a flying elbow drop on Maggie from that height (which would potentially break her neck clean off of her body), it would have been the greatest TWD moment that could ever exist. Here’s hoping for a longer Round 2 next season, and for Negan to start wearing "Macho Man" Randy Savage's color scheme.

Maggie Came Out Victorious Only To Feel And Be Treated Like A Shitty Mom 

Throughout the season, it’s been clear that Maggie’s hunt for Hershel was more complicated than just her being a worried mother. But when they finally came eye to eye again during the ep, even I was shocked by how palpable the lack of warmth and love was between them, with Hershel offering up pure facial disgust at the idea of being traded back to his mom for the dude who slaughtered his dad. And their conversation was all the more troubling, as he revealed that in the years prior to Dead City’s timeline, that Maggie was in a constant state of worried aggression over the idea that Negan might show up again, enough so that it strained their relationship to a possible breaking point. It also didn’t help that Hershel voiced his preference for being the Croat’s prisoner rather than returning back to their community where risks were high and supplies were in short supply.

So for all that fans have been watching this season with the hopes that Maggie would be reunited with Hershel, the actual reality is that they’ve evolved into something more jagged than the mother-son combo we were used to. I mean, the happiest Maggie may have looked all season was when delivering the aforementioned Santa Claus story, and that was fucking depressing in and of itself. This woman needs a victory in every which way, including loose.

Negan Was Being Vetted For Leadership By A New Loony Antagonist 

The Negan twists kept on coming in “Doma Smo,” after previous reveals about his past with The Croat, as well the latter’s reason for kidnapping Hershel being solely to force Maggie into tracking the elusive Negan down. But the former Savior isn’t the head honcho in this violent organization either, and answers to the beck and call of The Dama, as portrayed with off-kilter lunacy by Ozark’s Lisa Emery. And what is her deal? Why, she’s heard a lot of stories about how fucked up Negan used to be in his leather-wearing heyday, as well as how quickly he can return to that unabashedly horrifying behavior when need be. 

The Dama wants to put those particular skills to work going forward, as she is anticipating war on the horizon over resources that remain unique to the island. Just such a future was hinted at during Marshal Perlie’s debriefing in New Babylon, when he was asked quite dramatically about “THE METHANE!” And so who better to have leading a charge than the most psychotic dude in the building? Only Negan’s not really that guy anymore, which is going to no doubt lead to some ethical dilemmas in Season 2.

Hershel Totally Had One Of His Toes Cut Off

The Dama already came off as a bit mentally untethered during her sit-down with Negan, but then went ahead and pulled out an arrow pointing to her face with a picture of a screw next to a picture of a ball. Or, more literally, she teased Negan with the “keys to the kingdom,” and then had him unlock a container with another box inside that had a severed toe in it, as if it were a piece of squishy jewelry. I dunno the sanest way to give someone a toe, but that’s not it.

Anyway, The Dama revealed she had one of Hershel’s toes removed (and then presumably had legit medical workers fix him up), but not because she wanted to torture the kid to get information out, which was precisely the kind of act that caused Negan to cut ties with The Croat. No, she permanently disfigured Hershel simply as a message telling Negan not to screw things up, knowing that threatening the boy would strike a chord with Negan’s particular sense of protectiveness. To put it another way, she cut off Hershel’s toe fully keeping in mind that she might need to have him kidnapped again in the near future. That’s some dark shit, and speaks even more to the teen’s situation that he would have preferred staying there than going back with Maggie. The fact that he drew The Dama’s portrait was a little overboard, but intriguing in a Stockholm syndrome kind of way.

Ginny Seemed To Have Had Zero Impact On The Main Story 

Mirroring Maggie and Hershel’s awkward reunion was Ginny and Negan’s, as she offered up high emotions and even spoken words, only to be met with his disappointment, anger, and the admission that he’s the one who killed her father. At which point she was then taken back to mainland civilization by Marshal Perlie, even more traumatized than she was when she first left for Manhattan. And no fault to Mahina Napoleon’s expressive performance, but I was rather surprised that her entire arc to this point didn’t functionally impact the core narrative, and essentially little would change if she were taken out completely. 

Obviously, Ginny’s story adds a layer to where Negan’s life was at going into Dead City’s timeline, but considering we found out he shipped his actual wife and child off to live without him, I never really felt like they had a parent-child bond going. Which worked out, with Negan breaking her heart by saying he was only tracking her to begin with because of what he’d done, despite any paternal feelings he might have sprouted for her during the time together. But take all of that out, and I don’t think Negan’s story would have suffered at all. Here’s hoping the next six episodes change that up, presumably with Ginny being on New Babylon’s side in the impending war. 

Now the wait is on for Season 2, which may or may not be impacted by the recent WGA writers strike and the SAG-AFTRA actors strike. While awaiting updates, watch all episodes of The Walking Dead: Dead City and other shows in the franchise with an AMC+ subscription, which can be used to watch all of the upcoming Walking Dead franchise shows as well.

Spoilers below for anyone who hasn’t yet watched The Walking Dead: Dead City’s latest episode, so be warned!

For all that Lauren Cohan’s Maggie Rhee is just trying to swoop up her son from his kidnapping so that they can get the hell out of New York City, The Walking Dead: Dead City doesn’t seem to be as quick or willing to leave things behind. (Well, except for Negan’s wife Annie, that is, whose absence was harshly explained in Episode 3.) The first three episodes spent quite a bit of time with Jeffrey Dean Morgan’s Negan front and center, once again trying to (unsuccessfully) prove himself not a bad guy, once again while also being guilty of some heinous bad-guy acts. The fourth installment, “Everybody Wins a Prize,” hearkened back to the past in a more direct way, by bringing in The Walking Dead vet Stephen Ogg for a return as the fan-favorite Savior Simon, complete with his unmistakable mustache.

It admittedly gave me quite the joyous jolt to see a less-graying Negan sitting astride his former second banana, the barb-wire bat Lucille, within his former Sanctuary digs. The spark that pops up in Morgan’s eyes whenever Negan is feeling his worth is missed, so I appreciate its return for this flashback opening. And before I could even put much thought into the idea of someone else from that era returning, they went and made the magic happen by getting Ogg back into action, albeit for a rather dark piece of exposition for Željko Ivanek’s antagonist. 

While I fully understand the value in bringing Simon back for this sequence, as a way to strengthen the flashback and to reflect the Saviors’ line of command, the episode didn’t really do much to respect Simon’s memory. Not that this spinoff needs to vilify any of the franchise’s villains for the sake of it, but I kinda hate The Croat, and I really don’t like him being the one to shit on Simon, either in the past or after the latter’s passing. 

Because really, that scene could/should have made Simon come off like a hero for being so hardcore about the off-limits nature of torturing and killing children, even within a group as twisted as the Saviors. That’s the rule that Croat-man once again broke by taking Hershel, proving how bad he is at following any kind of moral-based suggestions. (Do we know why The Croat seems to only be harming Asian kids?) And then to think he had the gall to call Simon out for not being the best henchman…ugh.

What makes the Dead City villain's insults sting all the more is the fact that he was so self-assured and proud to think he knew why Negan had showed up there, wrongly assuming he was after the New Babylon marshal, instead of putting two and two together. He talked about those Savior days as if they were super-recent, so he probably should have realized that "the Widow" was connected to Negan's return. Am I just being a whiny baby about all this? Yeahhh, maybe. 

Generally, I would be formally against the idea of The Walking Dead universe somehow retconning Simon's death in Season 8 so that he could illogically show up in the nick of time to take Croat out. But boy, wouldn't that be a sweet way to round out this spinoff's first season? Simon shows up, saves Negan, saves Hershel, brings justice to the island, and then flies away on the back of a mustachioed unicorn or some shit. Resurrection justice for Simon!

Actually, if there’s anything great to be found here, it’s that the episode kinda proved how unfit for NYC life Simon would have been had he survived to also follow The Croat’s footsteps. If anyone isn’t built for metropolitan life, either before or after the apocalypse, it’s that dude. 

Fans can rewatch all of Steven Ogg's performances on The Walking Dead with a Netflix subscription. And be sure to catch the final two episodes of Dead City on AMC on Sunday nights at 9:00 p.m. ET.

Spoilers below for the latest episode of The Walking Dead, so be warned if you haven’t yet watched.

When The Walking Dead kicked off its latest spinoff Dead City, fans had many narrative-based questions about Jeffrey Dean Morgan’s Negan and Lauren Cohan’s Maggie, thanks in part to the big time jump that followed the flagship series’ finale. One of the biggest mysteries revolved around the current status of Negan’s wife Annie, as portrayed by Medina Senghore, as well as their previously unnamed child. Now we finally have an answer to the “What up with Annie?” question, and — ding, ding! — anyone who expected the answer to be rather unfairly dour and depressing gets a prize. (Please note that the prize is Ginny's filthy stuffed dinosaur.)

The latest episode of The Walking Dead: Dead City gave fans a bit more of the origins of Negan and Ginny’s relationship, while also showcasing The Croat’s baffling MMA octagon zombie death-match challenge that was clearly inspired in part by Saw. But it was during one of the more quiet moments in “People Are a Resource” where JDM’s ever-deadly quasi-villain opened up about his family life, or lack thereof, after previously dismissing Maggie’s questions about it. And I can't tell if it's because of mishandled writing, or if the point was to make Negan look like a moron in front of Maggie, but it was a rather frustrating set of reveals. Here’s how he explained it: 

Obviously that story wasn't going to revolve around Annie and their kid stumbling across a literal Garden of Eden where they could feel safe and confident that no danger would ever befall them again, but damn, y'all. Couldn't even get any "We were so happy that..." anecdotes before hearing about all the bad shit that happened. 

In any case, let’s break down the biggest takeaways from that harsh anecdote. 

• Negan and Annie's kid is apparently named Joshua.

Negan’s story immediately started off with a big reveal, as we finally learned the name of his kid, though clearly with as little post-apocalyptic fanfare as humanly possible. No clues into why the li’l dude’s name is Joshua, and whether that has any specific significance to Annie’s past, or if it was a purely random choice. (Because if it was related to Negan’s past, we’d have already heard 14 stories about it by now.) 

• Annie Was Severely Beaten And Robbed

While I’m certainly happy viewers didn’t have to actually witness this ordeal (at least not yet), it’s a damned shame that our first big update about Annie centers on the idea that she was beaten so badly after being robbed that she couldn’t make it back home to Negan. That can’t have been an easy situation for the kid to deal with, either, so I guess I’m doubly glad that Negan didn’t share that part in his story.

• Annie’s Attackers Were The New Babylon Marshals That Negan Is Wanted For Killing

Okay, so JDM’s character didn’t come right out and say all of the above, but it didn’t take much dot-connecting to piece things together, especially when his Wanted poster was actually brought out and read aloud later in the Dead City ep. So the murders that Gaius Charles’ Perlie Armstrong was hunting Negan down for concerned the men that beat and robbed Annie, assuming Negan was telling the truth when talking to Maggie. Considering most of the men were marshals, with one being a magistrate, that just paints the New Babylon Federation in an even darker light. 

By all means, I get that this isn’t highly unlikely or anything, especially in the TWD Universe, but gawdamn. The Commonwealth at least looked like a normal slice of life for a little while before its various corruptions surfaced. At this point, there’s not even a promise of structure before a safe haven is revealed to be a nightmare hive run by monsters. Obviously this wasn’t the first sign of the monstrousness, but I digress. 

• Negan Sent His Family To Missouri And Lied About Following Them

Okay, I'm at a total loss here. Negan has been presenting himself as an okay guy, and not as big of a demon as The Croat, but even when we remove the whole "murdering Abraham and Glenn in cold blood" thing, and all the stuff that happened at the Sanctuary, this anecdote further proves that this guy is a mess. He sent the possibly still-healing Annie and their son on a wagon train to Missouri, with no intentions of joining them at their final destination despite telling them he'd be behind, but why didn't he go with them?

If the point of him staying behind was to get vengence for her beating, that'd be one thing, but he was already wanted for the marshals' deaths by that point. So instead of actively keeping his family safe while on the lam, he sent them off to be even farther away from him. Which perhaps keeps them "safe" from Marshals tracking Negan down, but that whole wagon train could have been set ablaze with everyone still on board — heaven forbid — and Negan wouldn't have a whisp of a clue.

And what's more, him lying about following them means that Annie and Joshua are possibly still worrying about what happened to Negan even as he's telling Maggie that story. Unless he sent word out to them after the fact, somehow, then they likely thought he was A. caught and imprisoned, B. caught and killed, or C. just never followed them to begin with. None of those options are great for a mother and her young child to cope with, but this bearded bastard over here was too busy selling himself as Mr. Nice Guy to think about how insanely damaging his idea was. 

But hey, at least we don't have to go on wondering about Annie anymore, right? Wait, no, now we're still wondering about it, and with more worried urgency than ever before. Dammit, Negan.

Here's hoping Medina Senghore can return within an  upcoming Walking Dead TV show to possibly reveal that life got WAY better for her and Joshua whenever they left Negan behind. I guess I'd be okay with Negan going back to them after the events of Dead City, assuming he would no longer be a wanted man. Otherwise, they're probably better off without him.

In the years since Jeffrey Dean Morgan’s Negan first arrived in all his fuckity-fuck glory on The Walking Dead — and I’m talking both real-world years and canonical years — the actor and the franchise’s various creative teams have gone to sometimes absurd lengths to prove to viewers that the guy who murdered Abraham as an appetizer to bashing in Glenn’s brains isn’t actually all that bad of a dude. Sometimes it’s come from his arguably virtuous actions, and sometimes it’s been shoveled into our ears via the former antagonist’s back-patting speeches. The spinoff Dead City provided the latter approach in its latest episode, and Morgan himself shared his thoughts on how accurate Negan’s history lesson was, though I’m not all that convinced. 

During The Walking Dead: Dead City’s second installment, Negan and Lauren Cohan’s Maggie were taken in by a group of survivors being tracked down by Željko Ivanek’s villain The Croat, sparking a history lesson about the villain’s time within the Saviors. Negan attempted to paint The Croat as the group’s biggest monster for taking things too far with a child survivor, all while saying his own actions as the Saviors’ leader were only for the greater good of keeping his people safe, and that his more extreme actions were more performance than reality. Speaking with TVLine about the new project, Jeffrey Dean Morgan shared his thoughts on how much both he and his character bought into those claims. In his words:

Considering everything we know about Negan’s transition from the comics to the small screen, and what we’ve seen, this isn’t a totally bullshit take or anything. The character has always held strong to a sense of theatricality and showmanship, albeit with differing intentions from one era to the next. But I think the more questionable idea there is whether or not Negan ever believed his performances were a means of non-violent threats. Because to me, the show and the violence came part and parcel, with plenty of proof of his core callousness on display. Abraham and Daryl’s fates aside, he still did awful shit to otherwise decent characters — enter: Dwight’s face — had a harem of wives, and almost definitely wouldn’t have found anywhere near the same sense of redemption if not for Team Family taking him down and imprisoning him. 

Plus, “Who’s There?” featured Negan raining a dude’s intestines down onto others as just more of him putting on a show — definitely gonna be a splash zone warning for that show — which was reminiscent of the time when he disemboweled Spencer during his trip to Alexandria in Season 7. That’s what someone does when they’re the monster.

Jeffrey Dean Morgan brought up the idea that Negan has performed lots of good and championable acts over time alongside the “questionable-at-best” moments, but that those don’t get the same kind of recognition. 

Understanding that The Croat likely wasn’t a glimmer in any Walking Dead writers’ eyes in the years before Dead City came into existence, and thus wasn’t a consideration for Negan’s character development, I think there’s a somewhat easy takeaway here that can match up properly. Since Negan's backstory showed him off as being kind of a douche, instead of a horror show, it's likely that he was initially put off by The Croat's initial actions, but then adapted his own behavior to become more extreme over time. Though obviously never allowing for that connection to hold true when reflecting on his own actions, while still holding judgment against his former interrogator.

Given it'll be a bit difficult to show himself off as a good guy in the weeks after showering guts in front of Maggie, Negan has his work cut out for him throughout the rest of The Walking Dead: Dead City's run. Check out new episodes airing every Sunday night on AMC, and stay tuned for all the other upcoming Walking Dead shows that are still on the way.

Though The Walking Dead flagship show ended its eleven-year run only seven months ago, the zombie-centered series is the franchise that refuses to die, with several upcoming TWD series on the horizon. Jeffrey Dean Morgan and Lauren Cohan’s reprisal of fan-fave rivals Negan and Maggie, respectively, in AMC’s newest offshoot subtitled Dead City, has already hit the 2023 TV schedule with a Dixon spinoff coming soon. However, some fans have already shared some complaints with the Norman Reedus-led production, prompting the Negan actor to respond. 

Addressing the concerns of "toxic fans" who have been critical of the upcoming spinoffs, the Negan actor recently shared an intriguing hint about the forthcoming AMC drama. In a social media post on Twitter, Morgan posted a picture of Norman Reedus and Melissa McBride in character, expressing his excitement and shutting down the negativity surrounding the new shows. 

Back in 2020, a spinoff featuring the beloved motorcycle-riding, crossbow-wielding hero was announced, and fans naturally assumed that Melissa McBride would be a part of the show considering her character's history with Daryl and their undeniable chemistry. However, in 2022, it was revealed that the actress would be exiting the Daryl/Carol spinoff, leading some fans to direct their frustration toward the Dixon actor. 

But in the recent Twitter post, Jeffrey Dean Morgan shared a picture of the fan-favorite duo while expressing his excitement about the news that McBride would appear in the spinoff. In his post, the Watchmen alum showed his enthusiasm and addressed the negativity surrounding the situation, sarcastically apologizing to Reedus for “talking oodles of shit.”

Reports suggested McBride turned down the spinoff due to her reluctance to relocate to Europe for the production. However, some fans online criticized Reedus, implying that he played a role in Carol's departure from the show. This speculation enraged Morgan, prompting him to express his frustration on Twitter. In a passionate defense of Reedus, he wrote:

More recently, Morgan responded to a user questioning whether these toxic fans would take credit for McBride's return to the project due to their constant complaints. In response to the commenter, he said:

Two things are obvious: You want to be friends with Jeffrey Dean Morgan because the dude is gonna have your back. And fans will see Daryl and Carol reuniting after all. 

Morgan currently stars in the new spinoff titled The Walking Dead: Dead City, which our own Nick Venable had some thoughts on. The series, which airs new episodes on AMC every Sunday at 8:00 p.m. ET, departs from the wilderness and takes the action to the ruins of Manhattan. Alongside him, Lauren Cohan reprises her role as Maggie, reluctantly teaming up with the once baseball-wielding baddy to rescue her kidnapped son in New York City. You can watch the action-packed trailer below: 

As we anticipate the reunion of the popular zombie-killing team in The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon on AMC, you can revisit the entire flagship series with a Netflix subscription. 

Grey’s Anatomy has been beloved by TV fans for the better part of two decades, and when you think back to the MAGIC days of Meredith, Alex, George, Izzie and Cristina, it’s hard to believe how many traumas, romances, medical miracles and natural disasters we’ve witnessed. It’s tempting to want to go back and rewatch all of Grey’s Anatomy’s heart-pumping drama — especially with all 19 seasons readily available to stream with a Netflix subscription — but with 420 episodes so far, that’s a pretty massive undertaking. We’re here to help by giving you the best starting points from all of the best eras of the Shonda Rhimes drama.

Now, if those early days of Meredith and McDreamy, 007, and Cristina’s bad-assery are what you’re craving, by all means, hit play on Season 1’s “A Hard Day’s Night” and ride that wave through nearly two decades of episodes. However, if you’re more interested in a specific period of time — or a specific character — allow me to suggest these other episodes as good places to jump in. (I tried to keep the SPOILERS to a minimum, but reader beware if you’re new to the series.) 

The Denny Duquette Era (Season 2, Episode 13)  

We’re 19 seasons into this medical drama, and Jeffrey Dean Morgan’s appearance in Season 2 quite possibly still stands as the best guest-starring role the show has ever seen. Morgan played Denny Duquette, a heart patient with charisma to spare, who had an immediate and undeniable mutual attraction with Katherine Heigl’s Izzie Stevens. If you want to relive the rollercoaster of their complicated relationship, start with “Begin the Begin” in the second season. 

Meredith And Derek Get Together For Good (Season 5, Episode 19)  

Ellen Pompeo’s Meredith Grey and Patrick Dempsey’s Derek Shepherd kicked off the series with a bang — literally — engaging in a one-night stand just hours before he was revealed to be an attending surgeon at her new job. However, it was quite a while before this on-off couple was finally fully "on." The way Derek treated Meredith in some of those earlier episodes was far from McDreamy, so if you want to skip the "Oh yeah, I'm still married," of it all and get straight to prime MerDer territory, fire the series up at Season 5’s “Elevator Love Letter.” 

The Mercy West Era (Season 6, Episode 5) 

The first time Grey’s Anatomy added a new batch of doctors came in Season 6, when Seattle Grace merged with Mercy West Medical Center amid a tough economic climate. Season 6’s “Invasion” introduced fans to Jackson Avery, April Kepner, Reed Adamson, Charles Percy, and while I won’t spoil the fates of Nora Zehetner and Robert Baker’s characters (IYKYK), fans of a certain would-be couple undoubtedly would want to start watching here, or skip a couple of seasons forward to … 

Japril: The Beginning (Season 8, Episode 21)  

When they were introduced in Season 6, nobody knew that Jackson (Jesse Williams) and April (Sarah Drew) would go on to become one of the most adored couples in Grey’s Anatomy history. The ups and downs of their relationship — from the most romantic wedding interruption ever to the devastating death of their baby (which actually sent Drew into early labor) — have fans so invested, we’re still begging for more. Relive the show's best love story by starting with the night of Jackson and April’s first hot hookup — Season 8’s “Moment of Truth.” 

Welcome New Interns: Meet Jo Wilson And Her Rookie Class (Season 9, Episode 1) 

Every few seasons the drama rains down a new class of characters, with a few often sticking around for the long term. Season 9 saw the hospital’s veterans still reeling from the fallout of the plane crash, but amidst the chaos, the premiere introduced new doctors Jo Wilson, Stephanie Edwards, Shane Ross, Leah Murphy and Heather Brooks. If you want to relive the origin story of Camilla Luddington’s character, or refresh yourself on what exactly came to be of the rest of these interns, start with “Going, Going, Gone” in the ninth season. 

Maggie And Amelia Replace Cristina (And Lexie) As Meredith’s Twisted Sisters (Season 10, Episode 23) 

Meredith finding support in her sisters — biological or otherwise — was huge for the character, so I don’t think it was any coincidence that Maggie Pierce (Kelly McCreary) made her entrance as the love child of Meredith’s mother and Richard Webber, just one episode before Sandra Oh’s final appearance as Meredith’s “person,” Cristina Yang. Meredith also lost her sister, Lexie Grey (Chyler Leigh), in Season 8, but with Caterina Scorsone becoming a series regular as Amelia Shepherd in Season 11, Meredith was back to having two sisters. Jump in at Season 10’s “Everything I Try to Do, Nothing Seems to Turn Out Right” to watch the new twisted sisters’ relationship start to grow. 

The B-Team Era: Meet Levi ‘Glasses’ Schmitt And Friends (Season 14, Episode 4)  

Another group of interns was introduced in Season 14, including Jake Borelli’s Levi Schmitt (known back then as “Glasses”) and Jaicy Elliot’s Taryn Helm. The six new characters also starred in a six-episode web spinoff called Grey’s Anatomy: B-Team, which featured cameos from the drama’s main cast. Relive this era starting with Season 14’s “Ain’t That a Kick in the Head.” 

If you’re a big Jake Borelli fan, though, go ahead and start watching at the Season 14 premiere. “Glasses” was initially supposed to be a small guest role, but they chose to keep him around as part of the incoming class. Good decision, since he remains a fan favorite today! 

The Crossover Era: Station 19 Premieres (Season 14, Episode 13)  

Later in Season 14, the Seattle universe expanded when Ben Warren (Jason George) changed careers, thus introducing fans to the firefighters of Station 19. Season 14’s “You Really Got a Hold on Me” served as a backdoor pilot for the spinoff, introducing Jaina Lee Ortiz as Andy Herrera. To this day, the cast members often show up on each other’s shows, particularly when there’s romance (or tragedy, of course) involved.  

The Reboot Era: Meredith Prepares To Leave As We Meet McDreamy’s Nephew (Season 19, Episode 1) 

As we’ve seen, it’s not uncommon for Grey’s to drop a handful of interns into the hospital every so often, but Season 19 was the first time since the MAGIC days that five new characters became the focus. Ellen Pompeo’s impending exit as a series regular necessitated a reboot of sorts, and we quickly found ourselves getting swept up in the will they/won’t they of McDreamy’s nephew, Lucas Adams (Niko Terho), and Simone Griffith (Alexis Floyd), as well as the stories of Mika Yasuda (Midori Francis), Benson “Blue” Kwan (Harry Shum Jr.) and Jules Millin (Adelaide Kane). 

If you need a refresher on this newest era of our beloved show, pop on Season 19’s “Everything Has Changed.”

Nobody knows how many more eras Grey’s Anatomy will have before it closes the book, but the show has definitely proven capable of adapting its stories and characters to keep fans invested. Hopefully this list sets you on the right path for your rewatching adventure. Be sure to keep your eye on the 2023 TV schedule to see when this and all of your other favorite shows will premiere. 

Spoilers below for The Walking Dead: Dead City’s series premiere, so be warned if you haven’t yet watched!

It’s somehow only been seven months since The Walking Dead mothership officially wrapped up its eleven-season saga, with the franchise’s initial spinoff Fear the Walking Dead set to bow out later this year. But this post-apocalyptic universe isn’t dying off anytime soon, with several upcoming TWD series on the horizon, starting with Jeffrey Dean Morgan and Lauren Cohan reprising the fan-fave rivals Negan and Maggie, respectively, for AMC’s newest offshoot subtitled Dead City. Having watched the new horror drama’s linear premiere, it’s safe to say I have a few thoughts about this new chapter.  

Kinda Weird To Start This Show Off With Maggie Nearly Getting Taken Out By A Chunky Walker

While I do realize this cold open was all about setting up Maggie going all 2001: A Space Odyssey ape and letting a little bit of rage seep out, I feel like that could have been done without her getting snuck up on by a big sloppy walker that would realistically be terrible at stealth. This premiere managed to have two of these moments, as Negan himself would have easily been chomped out of existence later in the department store thanks to a bizarrely silent zombie that didn’t immediately try to feast. Regardless of such tropes, I just didn’t want to see Maggie’s survival skills get called into question so soon after she returned to audiences. 

I Would Watch A Whole Show Centered On This (Or Another) Post-Apocalyptic Bar

I’ve been readily anticipating the arrival of a watering hole in The Walking Dead: Dead City since the bar locale was first announced, and its arrival didn’t exactly disappoint, even if it was pure TV blasphemy to introduce a Michelle Hurd character only to kill her off ten minutes later. The bartender was a bit of a creepster, and this place’s clientele maybe wasn’t ideal, but the scene more or less proved that the post-apocalyptic bar scene is worthy of more exploration. I especially loved that this place also had a motel attached, though that almost definitely doesn’t help with the quality of the regular customers. Negan notwithstanding, but only halfway. I wish the bar would have been on Manhattan island, and would have served as Negan and Maggie’s homebase each week, but here’s hoping we see it again in the end, and Hershel can do a kegstand. 

Beyond Flashbacks To Negan's Arrival, I'm Kinda Surprised There Weren't More Callbacks

Negan might think he’s all good and forgiven for his past transgressions while swinging his old pal Lucille around, but Maggie’s flashback-induced nightmare about Glenn’s murder made it quite clear that this is not the case. But beyond that murder, a Hilltop mention, and Maggie’s inquiry about Annie, Dead City didn’t really dish out a whole lot of callbacks or references to the flagship drama, and thus didn’t delve into much exposition to fill in the timeline blanks. Which could obviously change in future episodes, but I was fully ready for this spinoff to immediately go hard on tie-in connections. Hopefully this show will pull off a franchise return for actor Stephen Yeun, as unlikely as it seems, with that head-smashing flashback setting the stage for it. 

I'm Not Actually Against Armstrong Just Yet

As a symbol of civilized authority, Gaius Charles’ Marshal Perlie Armstrong automatically has a veneer of antagonism, which is strengthened by his central task of apprehending one of the characters that viewers were already familiar with. But I have a feeling he’s going to end up being a much better person, generally speaking, than either Negan or Maggie, and that the onus will be put on audiences when it comes to choosing whether or not to see him as an actual villain. Of course, that prediction might end up being laughably far from the truth, seeing as how he accidentally killed his deputy already, but I like the idea of Morgan and Cohan’s characters being trapped between ostensibly “good” and “evil” threats, as it were. 

Nope Nope Nope Nope To All Those Roaches

This isn’t the evil that was spoken of in the previous entry, but that scene with all the CGI roaches was pure ungodly wickedness, just as Lauren Cohan teased it would be. It started with the extended pacing, in which the characters were each way too casual at first about brushing roaches off of their arms and out of their hair. Approaching walkers or not, the only way my body would know how to react to that situation would be to haul ass in the opposite direction while shattering any nearby crystals with my disgusted screeching. And that’s before the actual nightmare of Pulsating Roach Mountain was uncovered. If The Croat really wants Hershel to talk, he’ll push his face into Pulsating Roach Mountain, and that kid would soon run out of confessions to offer up.

Željko Ivanek Always Plays Great Villains

Željko Ivanek is the kind of actor who is so good at playing bad guys that even when portraying genuinely moral protagonists in movies and TV shows, I'm unable to completely shed my skepticisms and suspicions. So he's was absolutely a top-tier choice to take on a villainous role with the Walking Dead universe, as he's capable of playing scenes as chillingly understated, while also being able to spin things on a dime to go far bigger and scarier with his performances. With his first scene in Dead City, his character was threatening torture on a child that he'd kidnapped, and while I'd never believe Ivanek himself would do such a thing, I didn't for a second question how far The Croat will end up taking things if Hershel doesn't offer up some info. 

The Walking Dead: Dead City airs new episodes on AMC every Sunday night at 8:00 p.m. ET, and can be streamed early with an AMC+ subscription. Head to our 2023 TV schedule to see what other new and returning shows are on the way soon.

The Walking Dead: Dead City is coming back for Season 2 as part of the 2025 TV schedule. That’s right, Maggie, Negan, The Croat, Perlie, and more are all coming back for a second time around – and we’re heading right back into the thick of things.

Dead City follows two enemies-turned-forced allies when Maggie’s son is taken from her – and she must team up with Negan to hunt down the people who took him, leading them to Manhattan, of all places – hence the title, “Dead City.” With some faces that are familiar and others that are brand new, here is where you’ve seen the Dead City cast before, including those that will be coming as part of Season 2.

Lauren Cohan as Maggie Greene (Season 1 - Present)

First up on the list is the obvious one, Lauren Cohan, who plays Maggie Greene in The Walking Dead: Dead City. Cohan played Maggie all throughout The Walking Dead as well as the first season of Dead City, and will continue her story in the next season.

Cohan, however, has done much more than just TWD during her time in television and movies. Besides her main role on the show, she also had a main role on her own series, Whiskey Cavalier, for a season, and had recurring roles on several other TV shows, including the hit fantasy series Supernatural, for one season, the teen drama series The Vampire Diaries, Chuck, and the adult animated series, Archer.

With film, Cohan’s biggest credit thus far was her starring role in the horror movie The Boy, one of the scariest doll movies out there, but she was also in films such as Batman V. Superman: Dawn of Justice, Mile 22, All Eyez on Me, and Reach Me.

Jeffrey Dean Morgan as Negan (Season 1 – Present)

Next up on this list is the man, the myth, the legend, Negan himself, the person who was arguably the best villain on TWD – and later turned into a decent guy down the line. Dead City brings back Negan, played by Jeffrey Dean Morgan, someone who has been in the movie and television industry for some time, and his story will continue in Season 2.

Morgan has been in many films that you might recognize him from, including Rampage, Heist, Walkaway Joy, The Resident, Watchmen, Shanghai, Jam, Road Kill, The Unholy, Fall and more. But television has been where Morgan has really shined in the past.

He appeared in recurring roles in shows such as The Good Wife, Extant, The Burning Zone, Grey’s Anatomy, Supernatural, The Secret Life of Marilyn Monroe, Leopard Skin, and more. He also had a big guest role in Season 4 of The Boys.

Gaius Charles as Perlie Armstrong (Season 1 – Present)

Moving on, we take a look at Gaius Charles, who plays Perlie Armstrong in The Walking Dead: Dead City and is expected to come back in Season 2. The first of many new characters within The Walking Dead universe, Perlie is a strong and confident man who is willing to do anything in order to build a safe world for his family, including killing those that get in his way.

Charles has been around on television for some time. He was a part of the main cast of Friday Night Lights, and had recurring roles on television shows such as Necessary Roughness, Aquarius, Grey’s Anatomy, Roswell: New Mexico and Queens. He was also a part of the main cast of God Friended Me.

Besides that, Charles has also appeared in movies such as The Messenger, Salt, Takers, Batman: Bad Blood in a voice role, Alice, Land of Dreams, and The Stanford Prison Experiment.

Željko Ivanek as The Croat (Season 1 – Present)

The next person we’re going to talk about is Željko Ivanek, who plays The Croat in Dead City, and will certainly be back in Season 2 in a big way with Negan’s plot.

Ivanek has appeared in many television shows before this, with many big roles. He has had parts in series such as Damages, Homicide: Life on the Street, Heroes, 24, True Blood, Suits, Revolution, 12 Monkeys and so many more. Most recently, he had a main role on the hit show, Madame Secretary, where he played Russell Jackson, the chief of staff at the White House.

Besides that, Ivanek has also appeared in a variety of films. Some of his biggest include The Last Duel from Ridley Scott, The Courier, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, X-Men: Apocalypse, Seven Psychopaths, The Associate, Argo, Tower Heist and others.

Mahina Napoleon as Ginny (Season 1 – Present)

Next up is Ginny, who is played by Mahina Napoleon. Like her castmate before her, Napoleon is relatively new to the industry, as the only major role she’s had so far, besides this, was a recurring part on NCIS: Hawai’i, but it’ll be exciting to see where she goes from here on out.

Kim Coates as Bruegel (Season 2)

Deadline confirmed in early April 2024 that Kim Coates would play Bruegel in Season 2 of Dead City. Bruegel is the leader of a gang in New York City, and has a surprising “manipulative” brain that no one expects.

The actor is primarily known for his role as Tig in Sons of Anarchy, but has appeared in various other television shows like Bad Blood, Prison Break, CSI and more. He’s also appeared in big movies like Bad Boys, King of Sorrow, and The Last Boy Scout among others. He’s also done a lot of stage work as well.

Keir Gilchrist as Benjamin Pierce (Season 2)

Back during the 2024 San Diego Comic-Con in July, executive producer Eli Jorne gave us insight into several new casting additions. The first of which is Keir Gilchrist, who will play Benjamin Pierce in Season 2 of Dead City.

The actor has appeared in various television shows before, including United States of Tara, Atypical, and more. He also held roles in movies like It’s Kind of a Funny Story, It Follows, Flashback, The Featherweight and more.

Dascha Polanco as Major Lucia Narvaez (Season 2)

The next name confirmed was Dascha Polanco, who will play Major Lucia Narvaez in Season 2 of The Walking Dead: Dead City. Polanco has appeared in various movies including In The Heights, Samaritan, The Irishman, and more.

The actress is primarily known for her role as Daya in the Orange is the New Black cast on Netflix, but has appeared in several other TV shows including Poker Face, The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story, and more.

Jake Weary as Christos (Season 2)

Jake Weary will play Christos in Season 2 of Dead City. The actor appeared in movies such as It: Chapter Two, Rushed, The Birthday Cake, Smartass and more prior to his role in Dead City.

He also appeared in television shows like Pretty Little Liars and Animal Kingdom, among others.

Pooya Mohseni as Roksana (Season 2)

Pooya Mohseni will portray Roksana in Dead City Season 2. The actress has appeared in various movies and TV shows such as Heather, The Arrival, Bound, Remote, and more. She’s also done voice-acting work as well.

Jonathan Higginbotham as Tommaso (Season 1)

Moving on, we take a look at Jonathan Higginbotham, who portrayed Tommaso in The Walking Dead: Dead City. Higginbotham is relatively new to television, as he’s only had guest roles prior to his major role in shows such as The Blacklist, Bonding, and Shining Vale. He was also in the movie Agent Toby Barks. His character died in the first season and is not expected to return in Season 2.

Trey Santiago-Hudson as Jano (Season 1)

The last person on this list is Trey Santiago-Hudson, who played Jano in The Walking Dead: Dead City. The actor has been in two movies before, You Hurt My Feelings and Vineyards, but he also had a guest role in the popular show, New Amsterdam before it ended in early 2023. His character died in the first season and is not expected to come back in Season 2.

While we’re not sure where these characters will take Maggie and Negan on this epic adventure, I’m sure that it’s going to be a wild ride indeed, especially after the intense first season. Are you ready to dive deeper into Dead City?

Before you know it, The Walking Dead will once again expand its horizons with the franchise’s latest spinoff, TWD: Dead City, which will arrive on AMC in June. While we’ve known for quite a while now that the New York-set series will team Negan and Maggie together on a hunt for her kidnapped son Hershel, the newly released trailer seen above thankfully connects a lot of the disparate details that have trickled through during filming and the early months of promotions. Now we know exactly why Maggie needed Negan to accompany her, despite their rocky past, and the new visuals also reveal a recasting for the ‘napped kid, a parkour-friendly walker, and arguably the most monstrous zombie the franchise has delivered yet. 

Meet The New Hershel Rhee

As it turns out, Lauren Cohan’s Maggie felt it necessary to bring Jeffrey Dean Morgan’s Negan with her to New York City because of the man who nabbed Hershel. As portrayed by Madam Secretary and Three Billboards vet Željko Ivanek, the character known as the Croat apparently has a past relationship with Negan that almost definitely isn’t a good thing for anyone involved.

This storyline is a good thing, however, for Ghostbusters; Afterlife star Logan Kim, who took over the role of Hershel Rhee from Kien Michael Spiller, who first appeared in the role in Season 10, at the time replacing the younger Peyton Lockridge. (TWD showrunner Angela Kang’s son Ethan Charles temporarily took the Hershel mantle for the flash-forward dream sequence in Season 7’s tragic premiere.) Given the fact that Kim is around 4 years older than Spiller, that should allow for quite a bit of evolution for Hershel and his relationship with Maggie and others. Post-apocalyptic teen angst is no joke. 

Meet The Walking Dead Universe's Most WTF Creature Yet

Of all the upcoming Walking Dead shows, I’m looking forward to Dead City the most specifically to see how this franchise will handle its metropolis setting, as compared to so many years in rural and woodsy areas. And I guess I have one of my answers with the ugly mofo seen above, which doesn’t look like anything that could possibly have come out of Alexandria, Virginia. Or even Atlanta. Honestly, it looks like it could have only come out of the New York in which Jason Takes Manhattan is set.

Because seriously, what is happening there? Is it a case where some people died in some toxic sludge that melded their bodies together in such a gross-tastic fashion? Or is this like a Human Centipede kind of thing where Croat-man or some crafty lunatic out is surgically connecting walkers? Or maybe they were put together before they were resurrected? There are surprisingly more scenarios than one might expect, and all of them are fucking ewww. But I for sure want to blow up this gnarly bastard in a video game at some point. 

Meet The Parkouring Dead

The Walking Dead’s final season and the World Beyond spinoff finally brought back the concept of active walkers that do more than just walk, which was largely abandoned after Season 1. The franchise has largely held to the status quo of shambling zombies at mostly slow speeds, but with the idea that there are some sections of the undead population that have a bit more dexterity and physicality. And unless this trailer is pulling a fast one on viewers, it appears as if at least one walker in New York City (seen above) is seasoned in parkour.

That’s already a lot for the brain to handle, but then this trailer takes the parkour-walker notion a step further by introducing him doing this shit on top of a tall building’s roof. Say what now? How’d he get up there? Are there sidewalks around that look like Jackson Pollock paintings because of all the splattered walkers who were also trying to land wall jumps atop skyscrapers? I can’t wait to see if there are also zombie buskers and street magicians in this world. 

With other co-stars such as The Walking Dead: Dead City will bring its ghastly walker-zords to viewers on Sunday, June 18, at 10:00 p.m. ET, presumably near the time when Fear the Walking Dead’s final midseason finale will air. Stay tuned for future footage from other spinoffs The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon and The Walking Dead: Rick & Michonne.  

In the most on-brand post, Prime Video decided to promote Jeffrey Dean Morgan’s involvement with Season 4 of The Boys by way of a horribly Photoshopped still from what they claim is the latest season of the superhero satire. And of course, the longtime villain on The Walking Dead had an A+ reaction to the post.

Morgan’s involvement in The Boys as a recurring character was announced last September. Considering the final season of The Walking Dead is airing on the 2023 TV schedule, and with a TWD spin-off called Isle of the Dead on the way, it was exciting and unexpected news to learn that the Negan actor would be appearing on Amazon's superhero satire. So, now the show’s social media is starting to promote Morgan’s involvement in Season 4 on Twitter, however, it’s not exactly legit. 

Check it out for yourself:

Clearly, the Photoshop job seems intentionally bad, as Morgan’s legs are nonexistent, which is hilarious. The actor then got in on the discourse with an A+ reaction to the “not at all Photoshopped” preview of Season 4 by tweeting: 

I mean, if you’ve seen The Boys, you know some characters have some wild powers, so it really doesn’t seem completely far-fetched to me that Morgan would have a silly power like an invisible lower half. While an invisible bottom half will likely not be his power, it is hilarious to see the actor joke about his character in the new season of the comic book adaptation. 

Fans also had great responses to Morgan’s claim about his new power, like Josee who wrote: 

To which The Walking Dead mainstay responded by saying: “We all are.” And he’s right, if this is indeed his power, which I highly, highly doubt, it’s hard to imagine how it’d be useful. 

Based on Morgan’s history on the zombie hit as well as his past with The Boys showrunner Eric Kripke on Supernatural, him joining the gritty Prime Video show is super fitting. The current boss of The Boys was also one of the minds behind Supernatural, and he has been bringing in alum from The CW staple consistently, with Jensen Ackles starring in Season 3 as Soldier Boy, and Rob Benedict joining Season 4 with Morgan. So, based on all their shared history, this is bound to be a fun collaboration, and hopefully, we’ll see Morgan and the Supernatural crew all over Season 4. 

I know I can’t wait to see how Jeffrey Dean Morgan plays into Season 4 of The Boys, and this response from him about his fake character reveal only solidifies just how well he’ll fit into the show. 

It’s currently unknown when The Boys will return for its fourth season, but you can watch Seasons 1 through 3 with an Amazon Prime subscription. 

Though 2023 kicked off as the first year in over a decade without a new season of The Walking Dead universe’s flagship series on the horizon, a host of news has already been revealed for the rest of the franchise’s upcoming TV projects. For one, we know that the long-running spinoff Fear the Walking Dead will follow up on that Season 7 shocker by ending with its upcoming, time-jumping eighth season. Plus, we know for sure that the highly anticipated Rick and Michonne limited series won’t be around until 2024. Thankfully, this week also brought some new details and imagery from The Walking Dead: Dead City, Jeffrey Dean Morgan and Lauren Cohan’s next chapter as Negan and Maggie. And one of those new pics features a specific location that I’ve long wanted to see in this world: a bar.

AMC put out several new peeks at the upcoming spinoff, which will have Maggie and Negan traveling into the heart of New York City, in part to track a dangerous killer. That kind of life can certainly make one want to take a load off by sitting back and cracking open a cold one, or perhaps nursing a bottle of wine or whiskey. It appears just such an experience can be had for Dead City’s characters, as evidenced by the shot below.

Is it just me, or does this look like it’s coming out of a completely different franchise? That kind of purple and green lighting is just completely foreign to the general Walking Dead aesthetic, and I kind of love it. Especially with Maggie’s leathery clothing choices. I do wonder what kind of booze she’d opt for, and certainly hope we’ll find out. If anybody deserves to get slap-faced shithoused in this post-apocalypse, it’s the woman who has to team up with the behemoth that murdered her husband. 

The Entire Walking Dead Timeline, Explained

Just in case anyone thought I was making assumptions about the setting based loosely on what’s seen, Maggie is opposite actor Charlie Solis, who is credited with playing the character “Bartender,” so unless that’s a pretty particular surname, this is a bar. (I hope to hell that Mo Collins’ Sarah finds out about this place before it’s all over with, and that Mr. Bartender has some quality suds on tap.)

To bring things back around to the hubby-killing Negan, another one of the new images has him held at knifepoint, and seemingly ready to have it all come to an end, even though we know that's not happening.

Several of the new shots are similar to the one seen below, with the main characters out and about in the city streets, with that weird greenish night glow happening. As if things were being viewed through a Heineken bottle or something. The third actor shown below is Trey Santiago-Hudson, who'll star as Jano. 

Let's cap things off with another new character, the grim-faced Armstrong, as portrayed by Grey's Anatomy vet Gaius Charles. He looks like he could smell Negan's bullshit from halfway across the country, and I'm hoping one of the first things his character does is explain how he keeps his hat looking so fresh and so clean.

With The Walking Dead's final season now available to stream with a Netflix subscription, the spinoff Dead City is set to debut on AMC in June, with an exact premiere date yet to be revealed. In the meantime, head to our 2023 TV premiere schedule to see what other new and returning shows are on the way.

At long last, the dream of many Constant Readers may actually come true. Stephen King fans have been waiting patiently for years to see Hollywood produce a proper live-action adaptation of The Dark Tower series, and the first steps towards making that happen have been taken: Mike Flanagan and Trevor May’s Intrepid Pictures has acquired the rights to the books and are planning an adaptation as a five-season television series that is followed by a pair of feature films. As of right now we have no idea how quickly the project will come together or where it will be developed… but that’s not going to stop us from already imagining who will play all of the major characters.

Of course, when it comes to fantasy casting The Dark Tower one has to start with Roland Deschain. Idris Elba did a serviceable job playing the part in the truly terrible 2017 movie, but if we’re discussing a live-action version of the character that is more faithful to the Stephen King books, Hollywood has a number of great options to choose from. The majority of them would have to sport a pair of blue contact lenses, but here are eight actors we’d love to see play the Gunslinger in Mike Flanagan’s The Dark Tower.

Timothy Olyphant

This isn’t a ranked list, but I will unequivocally say that Timothy Olyphant is my top choice to play Roland Deschain. As proven many times over the course of his career, he can rock the hell out of a Stetson, and he’s an ace when it comes to characters with grizzle and dark swagger. His role as “Spirit of the West” in Rango directly affirmed that he has the Man With No Name energy, and that is ultimately what the performance will need. This is the role he was born to play.

Javier Bardem

Over a decade ago, Javier Bardem was cast as Roland Deschain in the Dark Tower movie that Ron Howard was set to direct, and while that didn’t end up becoming a thing, it’s a casting choice that has aged well. His on-screen presence remains as commanding and powerful as ever, and it really only works better for the part that he is older (take note that all of the actors on this list are 50 and over). His stature and demeanor has led him to deliver amazing villainous turns in his career, but he could use them in a very different and incredible way playing Roland.

Ewan McGregor

Ten years ago I probably wouldn’t have included Ewan McGregor as a potential candidate to play Roland Deschain, but his work since then has changed my attitude. Admittedly a big part of this is Doctor Sleep, which sees McGregor deliver and dark and powerful performance working in collaboration with Mike Flanagan, but I’ll also throw some credit to seeing him stoically wind-beaten in the desert playing the titular role in the Obi-Wan Kenobi Disney+ series. My only question mark about his ability to play the character would be his voice – which he would have to deepen and erase his accent from.

Hugh Jackman

Assuming that Hugh Jackman’s run as Wolverine will actually come to an end with his role in the upcoming Deadpool 3, the actor is in a position to take on a new character that will define a new era of his career, and Roland Deschain could be a brilliant fit. Gunslinger vibes can be clearly registered from his performance in Logan, and he’s consistently shown throughout his career that he can play a blend of grit and ultimate warmth that the character needs.

Karl Urban

Between Lord of the Rings, Star Trek, Dredd, Thor: Ragnarok, and The Boys, Karl Urban’s genre cred is beyond reproach, but starring as Roland Deschain in Mike Flanagan’s The Dark Tower series could be the icing on the cake. He has an intimidating screen presence that the character needs, and he is capable of the necessary quiet charisma.

Jeffrey Dean Morgan

Jeffrey Dean Morgan is another actor who is cut from the Clint Eastwood cloth, and has the tough and gruff standing for the part. His time as Negan on The Walking Dead has come to an end, and, like with Hugh Jackman and Wolverine, it could be the next role that takes him into the next phase of his career. He has both the gravitas and subtle emotional range that the turn would need – from letting Jake Chambers fall to his death to continue his pursuit of the tower, to embracing Jake, Eddie, Susannah, and Oy as his family.

Josh Brolin

Between playing Cable, Thanos, Gurney Halleck, and more, Josh Brolin’s resume is already stacked with standout pop culture characters, but that’s not going to stop me from suggesting that he could be an excellent Roland Deschain (and he’s never actually been in a Stephen King adaptation before). From No Country For Old Men to True Grit to Outer Range, there is no questioning that the man is a snug fit for the western genre, and it’s effortless to imagine him playing any scene from any of the Dark Tower books. He has the stature and demeanor that the role requires in all facets.

Denzel Washington

While we’re having this discussion, we might as well take some big shots, right? At the present age of 67, Denzel Washington is admittedly considerably older than all of the actors on this list, but that doesn’t actually matter in the discussion of a relatively ageless character, and he obviously has the necessary gravitas for the part. Unlike a lot of his contemporaries, Washington has not yet brought his talents to the modern television landscape, but The Dark Tower could be an awesome fit.

Stay tuned here on CinemaBlend as Mike Flanagan’s The Dark Tower hopefully continues to take steps to get closer and closer to becoming a reality. You can keep track of all Stephen King projects that are in the works with our Upcoming Stephen King Movies and TV guide, and learn about the long history of adaptations with my weekly Adapting Stephen King column.

As The Walking Dead gets closer than ever to its final episode (at least of the flagship series, if not its various spinoff projects), the characters are gearing up for what will assumedly be a deadly and explosive conclusion. Not so deadly for everyone, of course, as fans are already aware Jeffrey Dean Morgan’s Negan is heading off to island pastures for the spinoff The Walking Dead: Dead City. Someone whose future fate is still unknown is the cancer-toppling Ezekiel, and someone who isn’t so pleased to see Negan surviving and thriving is star Khary Payton, whose character brought out the verbal weaponry in the latest episode, “Outpost 22.”

In the installment, the former leader of the Kingdom found himself opposite Negan working at one of the Commonwealth’s labor camps, and while JDM’s reformed villain may have thought everything was swept under the rug with the King, that was certainly not the case. Ezekiel voiced his lasting distaste for Negan’s treatment of his face-melted followers, his harem of wives, and the people he’d murdered from other communities. Such as, oh I dunno, Glenn Rhee. And Payton was pumped to be the one to put Negan in his monstrous place, telling Insider when asked if he was satisfied by that moment:

Khary Payton may love and respect Jeffrey Dean Morgan himself, but seeing him on set on a daily basis as Negan is a brutal reminder of the character’s hardcore first couple of seasons on the show. And while The Walking Dead has pulled off some winning moves in turning him from baddie to goodie, Negan likely can’t do anything that would wipe his slate completely clean where Ezekiel, Maggie and others are concerned. Even Hershel had a mind to put a bullet in the dude, and that gun recoil likely would have messed that little dude’s arm up. 

Though Payton may be as big a fan of JDM as anyone else, the actor clearly enjoys getting a rise out of his grizzled co-star when possible, even when it’s not directly prodding him with T-shirt messages. The Young Justice star said he also enjoys ribbing Morgan for being put out by gross weather. In his words:

A lot of female fans were no doubt happy to hear Ezekiel finally be the one to put Negan in his place for his violent, tyrannical reign over the Saviors. He might be a happy-go-lucky hubby and father-to-be this many years later, but he deserves to know on a daily basis that his past actions are still very much on the minds of those who were around. Not that I think Ezekiel or Maggie or anyone else would murder Annie as a revenge plot, but it seems like his redemption story isn’t over just yet. 

As far as upcoming Walking Dead shows go, Morgan and Lauren Cohan are urrently filming its Dead City spinoff, and it was only a couple of weeks ago when Norman Reedus revealed the Daryl Dixon follow-up is also in production in Paris, France. And the mothership series is gearing up for its series finale, which will simulcast across both AMC and AMC+ on Sunday, November 20, at 9:00 p.m. ET. After rewatching the entire series in preparation, head to our 2022 TV premiere schedule to see what new and returning shows are popping up soon.

Even though one of pop culture's biggest juggernauts from the last decade is coming to a close soon, The Walking Dead’s overall presence isn’t going away, thanks to AMC’s spinoff-focused plans for the future. (Not to mention oodles of merch from beyond the TV series.) Jeffrey Dean Morgan’s blood-spatted legacy as reformed villain Negan will continue beyond the flagship drama’s conclusion for the New York City-set spinoff that’s now called The Walking Dead: Dead City. As awesome as it’s been to know the actor and co-star Lauren Cohan will carry the torch for the limited series, the announcement’s timing didn’t seem ideal at the time, and Morgan has shared some less-than-approving (though completely SFW) thoughts about AMC maybe having botched that roll-out. 

Fans were made privy to the news that Negan and Maggie would be teaming up for a follow-up project, then called Isle of the Dead, back in March, before Season 11’s middle eight episodes were finished airing. The move in some ways removed all reason to worry about either of the characters’ fates for the remainder of the season, and Jeffrey Dean Morgan told EW he doesn’t think that was the right move, while acknowledging it was far from his call to make.  

If anything, one would have thought AMC and the Walking Dead team might have chosen to keep that reveal under lock and key at least until San Diego Comic-Con came around, although I guess I understand that the Rick and Michonne limited series news took precedence in that specific instance. Even if that happened, though, it still wouldn’t have reversed the fact that the entire fandom is aware that Negan and Maggie are living and breathing when Season 11 wraps. (Unless they go full supernatural and it’s actually Maggie’s ghost that’s following Negan around in Dead City like a vindictive guardian angel.) 

Weirdly, not even some of The Walking Dead’s top brass had any pull in saying when the spinoff news should go public. Director, effects master, and executive producer Greg Nicotero says he was surprised himself to hear that the announcement was being unveiled so early. In his words:

Considering both Maggie and Negan survived in the comics, and have become as beloved as anyone else in the Walking Dead's live-action canon, I dare say a lot of fans wouldn't have been too worried about either of them getting killed off on TV anyway. But there was at least the chance that such shocking outcomes could play out, which isn't the case now.

On a more positive note that won't immediately be clear by the end of this first sentence: Jeffrey Dean Morgan revealed there was a point in time, ahead of the spinoff concept being revealed to him, that he was ready to hang Negan’s leather jacket up for good. But fans can take some comfort in knowing that he was convinced to flip that idea around due to how good the story for Dead City was. So here's hoping it's not only worth the long wait, but also the semi-spoiled storylines. 

Check out the SDCC trailer for The Walking Dead's final episodes below. 

The Walking Dead’s final eight episodes will begin airing on AMC on Sunday, October 2, at 9:00 p.m. ET. Head to our 2022 premiere schedule to see what else the ongoing Fall TV season has to offer.

Fans have been waiting for the moment that Brendan Fraser would grace us again with his presence on the big screen. From the day The Mummy star knew making a Hollywood comeback would be the right decision, he’s landed steady work for movies in projects like Batgirl and The Whale. While we may never see the former, the latter recently landed Fraser a standing ovation. Now, The Walking Dead’s Jeffrey Dean Morgan is sending some love in the middle of this Brennaissance. 

There’s no better way to make a Hollywood comeback than to give it everything you’ve got. In this case, that meant playing the challenging role of an overweight man looking to make his own comeback in his estranged daughter’s life. After receiving warm love at the Venice Film Festival debut of the movie, actor Jeffrey Dean Morgan responded on Twitter to a video of the standing ovation, dropping an NSFW f-bomb in the process. 

The response was to a video Tweet which showed him in tears as he received a six-minute standing ovation for his performance in The Whale. There was no leaving that theater as the thunderous applause encouraged him to stay and take a bow. Watching the full ovation video, I can see why Jeffrey Dean Morgan reached out to him. Seeing the video of his response definitely put tears in my own eyes. It sends a message that Fraser was missed by his fans and that people are rooting for him.

Jeffrey Dean Morgan wasn’t the only one to send his praises to the returning actor. Batgirl’s co-director Adil El Arbi posted a sweet message saying how happy he was for  the star and that it had been a great honor working with him. While the cancelation of Batgirl means audiences will probably never get to see it, at least those who worked on the scrapped film have fond memories of spending time with the Inkheart actor. Dwayne Johnson also sent his praises for Fraser’s Hollywood comeback as he touched on their shared The Mummy background. The 53-year-old actor is receiving nothing but love from his fellow actors and those who have followed his film career throughout the years.

Critics and fans already had a good feeling the new movie would be triumphant for Brendan Fraser as soon as The Whale's first photo was released. Once festivalgoers were able to watch this movie in full, they had a lot of praiseworthy thoughts about Fraser and co. 

Jeffrey Dean Morgan and a number of other actors have an understanding of how important it was for Brendan Fraser to receive the honor of a standing ovation. This will give the Bedazzled actor all of the confidence he needs to go forward with his Hollywood career. You’ll probably want to send your own praises to the actor once you see the upcoming movie The Whale in theaters on December 9th.

Though The Walking Dead is concluding this year with its eleventh season, Jeffrey Dean Morgan won’t yet say goodbye to the character Negan, as the actor is currently still in zombie-killing mode while filming the spinoff formerly known as Isle of the Dead. (It's now called The Walking Dead: Dead City.) But with that being a limited-episode project, and nothing else planned beyond its 2023 airing, Morgan is now able to take on other projects that his schedule hasn’t allowed for in years past. Such as the superhero satire The Boys, which he’d been pining to appear on for a couple of years now, and voiced his dedication for back in May. Now, The Boys has revealed Morgan will at last join the star-studded cast for Season 4, and his reaction to the news would get a thumbs up from Negan. 

Immediately after the news broke that Jeffrey Dean Morgan will reunite with his former boss, Supernatural creator Eric Kripke, for the latter’s suped-up streaming hit The Boys, Morgan shared his response on Twitter:

If anybody knows how to drop an F-bomb, it’s JDM, whose Negan verbalized an endless plethora of variations on the word “fuck” within Robert Kirman and Charlie Adlard’s comic series. Even though Morgan didn’t get to utilize the NSFW dialogue nearly as much as fans would have wanted, I do believe the monster-turned-softie would give a thumbs up to his Boys reaction. And, obviously, the thumb would be wrapped in barbed wire, and would also be as large as a baseball bat. 

Jeffrey Dean Morgan shared a longer reaction in another tweet, which contained a far less inflammatory four-letter word. 

As noted in the tweet from The Boys’ Twitter, his casting news doesn’t point to who (or what, I guess) he might be playing in Season 4. There are obviously still characters from the comic series to bring into live-action, though the first three seasons made it clear that Eric Kripke & Co. have no problems creating entirely new heroes, Vought employees and more. One thing is for sure: Morgan won’t be underutilized, whatever he ends up playing. (My not-at-all-secret hope is that he gets a musical number with Karen Fukuhara.) 

It’ll be wild if Jeffrey Dean Morgan not only shows up on The Boys, but also somehow reprises his role of John Winchester for The CW’s upcoming Supernatural prequel spinoff The Winchesters. That’s not said to be happening or anything, but working with Kripke again, who’d worked again with Jensen Ackles for The Boys’ third season, might inspire him to return to that world, and I can’t imagine the creative team would balk at writing up a flash-forward.

The Boys is currently filming now, with Eric Kripke and some of the stars sharing social media posts to mark the occasion. Amazon Prime subscribers can get ready to see Jeffrey Dean Morgan in that world at some point in 2023, and can hit up our 2022 TV premiere schedule in the meantime to see when Negan will return for The Walking Dead’s final eight episodes. 

Despite being a beloved actor whose films and TV shows have amassed hordes of fans over the years, Jeffrey Dean Morgan has seemingly always remained as level-headed and grounded as a celeb can get. Which is almost necessary when it comes to playing a character as polarizing as The Walking Dead’s Negan, since fans have taken little issue with expressing the full gamut of opinions over the years. Though everyone has plenty to say about Negan and his arguably redemptive actions, the spot-on video clip shared below, which invokes The Boys’ devious Homelander, didn’t need any words at all to win over Morgan (and presumably everyone else who gave it a watch).

Check out the Twitter post below, which isn’t so much a moral-based comparison between Jeffrey Dean Morgan’s character and Antony Starr’s Homelander, but rather some good-natured shade regarding Negan’s effortlessly foul mouth. 

Anybody who earns an exclamation point from Jeffrey Dean Morgan is someone who can go to sleep happy at night. That’s possibly generalized hyperbole, but prove me wrong!

Negan’s language in the current era of The Walking Dead isn’t anywhere near as salty and kid-unfriendly as some of his dialogue was in the years after he was first introduced. (To be sure, fans were also cursing up a storm at the time, considering Negan killed off two of the show’s more beloved characters at the time.) And even then, Jeffrey Dean Morgan wasn’t allowed to go as far and filthy as the comic book character, since AMC probably wouldn’t have ever allowed 347 uses of the word “fuck” per episode, which was closer to how Robert Kirkman scripted things for the source materia. (I can’t imagine anyone says the phrase “fucking fuckity fuck” without Negan in mind.)

Similar to Negan, The Boys’ Homelander is very rarely driven to being speechless as the world’s most powerful superhero (who also happens to have a hot streak of hyper-villainous behavior). Though Antony Starr’s supe isn’t so swear-heavy while in the public eye on The Boys, he has damned sure voiced some truly horrific dialogue over the show’s three seasons so far. I feel like Negan would be a fan, even if his current mindset likely wouldn’t be fully down with Homelander’s more bigoted stances. 

Hopefully this won’t be the only Boys-related situation that Jeffrey Dean Morgan will be enjoying. Though the actor is busy with AMC’s zombified spinoff Isle of the Dead, he and former Supernatural boss Eric Kripke (also The Boys’ showrunner) have discussed getting JDM into the streaming superhero satire in one capacity or another. They just need time and scheduling on their side. 

In another Twitter post, Jeffrey Dean Morgan shared quite the interesting tribute video, which featured a variety of Negan quotes and other moments edited together over a vocal-free orchestral cover of Coolio’s “Gangsta’s Paradise.” And while it’s a solidly crafted vid, I think Morgan’s short and direct comment on the post is as apt as it gets.  

While waiting for The Walking Dead to return to AMC for the final eight episodes of its 11-season run, all three episodes of the recently concluded The Boys can be streamed in full with an Amazon Prime subscription, and our 2022 TV premiere schedule has everything else that’s hitting the small screen throughout the rest of the year. 

AMC’s popular zombie apocalypse series The Walking Dead will be ending later this year after 11 seasons. While it will be hard to say goodbye, there are still multiple projects in the TWD universe that are either airing or in development, with the Tales of the Walking Dead anthology unveiling first looks at its all-star cast. That spinoff list also includes the much-discussed offshoot focusing on Negan and Maggie, and Jeffrey Dean Morgan shared a pretty big and exciting about it with fans.

A spinoff following Jeffrey Dean Morgan’s beloved character has been in the works for a short while now, without many more details being revealed after the initial announcement, even as the spring finale of The Walking Dead unintentionally started to set up the spinoff's narrative. In responding to a fan on Twitter, though, Morgan revealed he and co-star Lauren Cohan now know exactly what to expect from Isle of the Dead, and he thinks fans should keep a tight grip on their minds. In his words:

It’s not surprising that Jeffrey Dean Morgan had this extreme a reaction to experiencing the spinoff in script form, considering he's not one for subtle responses. How exactly Negan's New York City adventure will blow our fucking minds is obviously unknown at the moment, but finding out is a splendid enough reason to eventually check out Isle of the Dead when it debuts. And, of course, seeing him work with Lauren Cohan again will definitely be a plus for TWD fans, as Negan and Maggie continue to morph their relationship. It sounds like this spinoff will not disappoint, even if Morgan isn't the most impartial judge on such things. 

In April, the upcoming series added Grey’s Anatomy and Friday Night Lights vet Gaius Charles as the spinoff’s first original character. He will portray Izaak, who is confident and ruthless and will do anything to get what he wants, which obviously sounds a little like the Negan of old. Not much else is known about how Izaak will play a part in the new series, but he doesn't sound like someone eager to make quick friends.

Meanwhile, Isle of the Dead will center on Negan and Maggie as they journey through a Manhattan that has long been cut off from the rest of the country, and has since changed into something else entirely. While traversing an unfamiliar new area as full of unpredictable wildlife and humanlife as it is full of walkers, the two characters have to trust each other in order to survive the trip, whose purpose is still unknown.

The series is set to have six episodes for its first season, though it does not yet have a premiere date. Fans can likely expect Isle of the Dead debut at some point in 2023, though, and hopefully now that we know that Jeffrey Dean Morgan and Lauren Cohan have read the scripts, the projected production schedule can be come that much clearer. We're gonna need to know well in advance when our minds will be fucking blown, just in case we need to schedule clean-up.

As of now, there is no set return date for Season 11 of The Walking Dead either, but be sure to check out CinemaBlend’s 2022 TV schedule for any updates and see what else to look forward to this year!

While TV fans can already take comfort in knowing the Supernatural universe will soon open up anew on The CW thanks to the prequel tale The Winchesters, there was a potential shot at seeing Jensen Ackles and Jeffrey Dean Morgan together again with former showrunner Eric Kripke for The Boys. It won’t be happening, not to burst anyone’s bubbles, due to scheduling and other restrictions. But while Kripke doesn’t seem all that confident that it’ll ever happen, given AMC’s impending spinoff Isle of the Walking Dead, Morgan himself sounds far more optimistic. 

The latest update on the matter comes as The Boys is set to debut Season 3 on Prime Video, with Jensen Ackles having joined the show as a crass O.G. supe named Soldier Boy. Speaking with EW, Eric Kripke confirmed that the show did reach out to Jeffrey Dean Morgan behind the scenes to gauge the reality of a possible appearance for Season 3. In his words:

Now, does that mean that Kripke himself called up Jeffrey Dean Morgan and tried to sweet-talk him there on the spot? Of course not, because that’s not how Hollywood works. But after the correct people had their exchanges, it was deemed not possible for JDM to show up in the world of Billy Butcher and Vought. Any hopes that it would happen after The Walking Dead’s final season were appropriately dampened once AMC made the NYC-set spinoff a reality.

But wait! Jeffrey Dean Morgan provided his own update in response, and this is the kind of answer that fans will presumably want to believe in far more than Kripke’s practical logic. 

Huzzah! Call all the people, tell them to stop what they're doing and to start readying Jeffrey Dean Morgan's entrance into the Boys-verse. 

Everybody with an Amazon Prime subscription knows that The Boys is as extreme and hilarious as it gets with powered-up comic book characters — okay, I see you, Harley Quinn — and Jeffrey Dean Morgan would probably have a blast and be amazing within that sordid world. Truly, any former Supernatural cast members would rock within this world, as I’d also be into seeing Jared Padalecki and Misha Collins shrinking in fear under Homelander’s gaze. 

Even though JDM didn’t get to make it onto The Boys for Season 3, that doesn’t mean his interest in what’s happening waned at all. According to Jensen Ackles, he was trying to extract spoilers immediately. 

Jeffrey Dean Morgan, who was quick to defend now-former co-star Norman Reedus regarding the upcoming Daryl spinoff, is set to join both Lauren Cohan and Grey’s Anatomy vet Gaius Charles for Isle of the Dead, which is set to premiere at some point in 2023. Which will hopefully be just before The Boys Season 4 debuts with Morgan front and center. 

The future is already set in gore-splattered stone for The Walking Dead on AMC, with the final eight episodes dropping later this year, and thus the franchise’s future is now taking up more of the spotlight. Of the various spinoffs in development, the biggest no-brainer was the Daryl and Carol offshoot that was announced back in 2020, but things took an unexpected turn when star Melissa McBride dropped out of the project. Fans have shared all manner of reactions to that news, with some outright blaming Norman Reedus for how things played out, but Jeffrey Dean Morgan had some strong words for anyone taking part in such “toxic” behavior. 

No stranger to being candid on social media, Jeffrey Dean Morgan took to Twitter in the early morning hours with a pointed condemnation of Walking Dead fans who were quick to rail on Norman Reedus over the Daryl and Carol spinoff’s setback, despite him not being actively involved. Here’s how Morgan put it, presumably while adjusting his leather jacket and cracking his knuckles.  

Fans are definitely known for taking things too far on social media, regardless of what the context is, so it’s perhaps not entirely surprising that a swath of viewers would instinctively choose to rain blame down on Norman Reedus for Melissa McBride bowing out of their Walking Dead offshoot. For anyone who doesn’t actually look into the matter with fact-checking in mind, it may have seemed wonky that Reedus’ Daryl Dixon was given solo star status in the spinoff as soon as McBride’s exit was announced. But correlation is not causation, and Jeffrey Dean Morgan is not here for shitty people sharing shitty opinions. 

While it’s absolutely possible that there is more happening with this situation than meets the eye, AMC followed up on the initial news with a statement saying the spinoff’s European filming schedule “became logistically untenable” for Melissa McBride to currently handle. It’s unclear why the overseas production is untenable, whether it’s due to personal or professional reasons, but that’s not even the point. 

Regardless of what the deal is, it was presumably McBride’s call, and as Jeffrey Dean Morgan noted, that should be respected by any and all fans. Even if someone doesn’t fully believe that to be the case, that doesn’t at all justify aiming one’s negative and hateful views onto Norman Reedus just for being the only other star involved. Ironically, those people will probably end up being the ones who stump for the spinoff the hardest whenever it actually gets here. Fandom is a complicated mess.

While Jeffrey Dean Morgan is clearly unhappy with the aftermath of McBride’s exit from that particular spinoff, his own upcoming follow-up Isle of the Dead unveiled its first new-to-the-franchise cast addition. Morgan and co-star Lauren Cohan will be joined by Grey’s Anatomy and Friday Night Lights vet Gaius Charles will be joining the NYC-set fun as a menacing family man named Izaak. Could Melissa McBride somehow factor into that spinoff now, presumably its production details are more agreeable for the actress? Or is she just completely done with the franchise altogether? 

Only the future can reveal such things, and speaking of the future, The Walking Dead will return to AMC with its final eight episodes later in 2022. In the meantime, the flagship’s first spinoff Fear the Walking Dead is playing out the back half of Season 7, with episodes airing every Sunday night at 9:00 p.m. While waiting for the next one, relive all of Jeffrey Dean Morgan’s biggest and best moments as Negan.

The first third of 2022 has been quite eventful for the Walking Dead franchise, when it comes to not only the soon-to-conclude flagship series, but also its various spinoff projects. As a counter the unfortunate news that Melissa McBride had to drop out of the previously announced Carol and Daryl spinoff — hereby referred to as just “the Daryl spinoff” — the newest member of the Walking Dead universe was revealed. Jeffrey Dean Morgan and Lauren Cohan’s upcoming Isle of the Dead spinoff has tapped Grey’s Anatomy and God Friended Me vet Gaius Charles as its first wholly original character.

Gaius Charles, who is also well-known within the Friday Night Lights cast as the Dillon Panthers running back Brian “Smash” Williams, is set to take on a role that sounds like it could take the actor out of his usual wheelhouse. Within Isle of the Dead, he’ll portray the character Izaak, who is described by Deadline as being full of confidence and ruthlessness in equal measures. Sounds quite a bit like JDM’s own Negan, and that’s not the only similarity they share. 

Izaak is the kind of person who seeks out his own brand of justice, and has little issue with forcing his and others’ hands to get what he wants. What’s more, he enjoys this way of life, and despite his malicious and terrifying behavior, Izaak has maintained a sense of humor. Will he also think “pee pee pants city” is a winning turn of phrase? Will he be the first character in this world to properly utter the phrase “fuckity fuck fuck” with reckless abandoned? 

Where Izaak has more in common with Maggie than Negan — at least as things currently stand ahead of Negan’s new and pregnant wife Annie — is that he’s a full-on family man, keeping his clan safe by any means necessary. Within the narrative of Isle of the Dead, Izaak will apparently open an old wound tied to a major loss in his life. And it sounds like he might have been responsible for some of the skeletons in his closet, but he’s not someone who shies away from his screw-ups. It’s probably easy not to feel judged where there are fewer and fewer people around to do the judging.

Details are still someone minimal regarding what the overarching story will be for Isle of the Dead, though it’s likely the creative team will need to wait for The Walking Dead to conclude its eleventh and final season before divulging details into the futures of main characters like Negan and Maggie. We know that the setting will flip its setting from the landlocked U.S. to a post-outbreak Manhattan, which is populated by a wealth of survivors and walkers that have been cut off from the mainland for years. 

Already, the spring finale helped to lay the groundwork for bringing Maggie and Negan to a point where anyone would believe they’d go off on a New York City adventure together, presumably with Annie and Hershel in tow (along with whatever other youngins are applicable). We’re in a zone where each of the four characters is at least tolerant of the other three, even though it looked for a hot minute like Hershel would bring some Glenn-flavored justice to Negan earlier in Season 11. (Plus, the hulking former villain could have just called for help from the phone that was sticking out of his pocket in the scene.)

I’m already curious to know whether Gaius Charles’ Izaak will be understanding of why Negan felt the need to use Glenn and Abraham as gory cautionary tales, or if he will side with Maggie in believing that Negan committed the ultimate sin by mauling a husband in front of his wife. Something tells me neither Negan nor Maggie will give a shit what Izaak thinks, but still. 

After starring in Friday Night Lights across its first three seasons, Gaius Charles later landed the marquee role of Dr. Shane Ross in Grey's Anatomy's ninth and tenth seasons, with follow-up parts in shows such as Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Taken, and Rosewell, New Mexico. (Not to mention two solid turns on Drunk History.) Don't be shocked if you think you've already seen Charles popping up in other 2022 projects, as he appeared in episodes of both ABC's Queens and The Wonder Years, and also starred in KeKe Palmer's racially charged feature Alice. 

It’s kind of a bummer that these Walking Dead spinoffs were revealed so early, since it’s resulted in huge drop-offs in tension when it comes to Negan, Maggie, Daryl and Carol’s stories, since they’re all guaranteed survival through the end. But I guess that also means we won’t go through any attempts at fake-out deaths, such as the one that plagued Steven Yeun’s Glenn back in Season 6. 

The Walking Dead Season 11 will return later this year, at which point we’ll likely hear a little bit more about Isle of the Dead and the rest of the upcoming projects in the Dead franchise. 

You want to know a character that I genuinely love the heck out of? Negan. 

There are some great TV villains out there, from Gus Fring in Breaking Bad to Joffrey Baratheon in Game of Thrones, but for the longest time, I’ve had my eye on Negan, who has become one of my favorite villain-turned-antiheroes on the iconic zombie series, The Walking Dead. 

Played by Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Negan has become a staple character of The Walking Dead, and has become a huge fan favorite alongside the likes of Daryl Dixon and Rick Grimes. Today, in honor of the show coming to an end in the upcoming final part of Season 11, I’m going to be going over Negan’s biggest and best moments on The Walking Dead, from his first time popping up on our TV screens to now. 

Negan’s Introduction (Season 6, “Last Day On Earth”)

No one can quite forget Negan’s introduction in The Walking Dead Season 6’s finale, “The Last Day on Earth.” The group that we’ve all come to know and love are all grouped up in a circle when this man, this legend emerges from an RV with Lucille along his back, with that damn smirk on his lips, asking the group if they’re pissing their pants yet. 

That scene felt like it was plastered right out of the comics, and the moment we see Jeffrey Dean Morgan as this character, it was like a match made in heaven. I genuinely cannot imagine this character played by anyone else at this point because whenever Morgan is on screen, he is the perfect Negan. The sheer terror I feel from this scene even years later - brilliantly done. 

When Negan Killed Spencer (Season 7, “Hearts Still Beating”)

Come on, you hated Spencer too. It’s hard not to. 

But this is one of the moments in The Walking Dead, during Season 7’s “Hearts Still Beating,” where we see that Negan actually does have standards to an extent. When Spencer comes to Negan and says that Rick is a horrible leader and wants to take him down, Negan actually guts the kid for doing so behind Rick’s back and coming to him personally for it. 

He wants people to be fighters and not cowards, and he saw Spencer as the ultimate coward - running to someone else to do his dirty work. Definitely a moment where we saw a part of Negan we hadn’t seen before. 

Negan And Carl’s Interactions (Season 7, “Sing Me A Song”)

Negan and Carl were certainly a weird relationship on The Walking Dead - and even weirder in the comics. While Negan hated Rick, he admired his son, Carl, for the balls that the kid had to confront Negan all by himself in Season 7’s “Sing Me A Song” - so much so that Carl wanted to kill him. He even gives the kid a tour of the Savior base because he’s so impressed with him. 

It’s such a great moment that shows that Negan actually does hold a measure of respect for people he deems deserve it, and he knew that Carl, despite who his father was, just wanted the best for his family and would do anything to accomplish it. Negan has done stuff like that himself - which is why he genuinely liked Carl. There are even some scenes that are directly from the comics that were perfectly adapted into the show. 

When Negan Was Actually Devastated By Carl’s Death (Season 8, “Wrath”)

In the Season 8 finale, “Wrath,” the Savior War is finally coming to an end and Rick is trying to get the upper hand on Negan, and in this brawl, Rick tells Negan that there can somehow be a peaceful world for the both of them if he just hears him out for Carl’s sake. Negan’s guard falls down at this and Rick uses this opportunity to beat him, slicing his neck. 

While he doesn't die because Rick orders his men to stitch him up, it’s telling to see Negan still at that moment. Carl’s death is literally the reason that Negan lost the war and ended up getting imprisoned. It’s a great moment and all the more important for his character development later on. 

When Negan Saved Judith In The Blizzard (Season 9, “The Storm”)

At this point in Season 9 of The Walking Dead, we’ve seen Judith and Negan interact a few times from his jail cell down below, but it’s not until the Season 9 finale “The Storm,” where we see Negan put his life on the line to save the girl. When Judith goes out into a blizzard to save Dog (Daryl’s pet dog), she ends up getting lost. 

Negan takes it upon himself to break out and save Judith from dying from the cold, bringing her back home to her family. We had already seen many cute moments between the two - like when Judith needed help with her homework and asked Negan - but this instance cemented that Negan does truly care for Judith and is willing to go the extra mile to save her. 

Negan And Daryl Team Up Against Beta (Season 10, “A Certain Doom”) 

There are plenty of badass Daryl moments, but how many badass Daryl and Negan moments are there together? This is one of them. In the Season 10 episode, “A Certain Doom,” Beta from the Whisperers has lured a huge horde to a hospital that the group is stationed out in. 

Negan takes on a fight against Beta, trying to knock him down within the walkers covered in guts, and while he gets him distracted, Daryl plunges his knives into the eyes of Beta, successfully wounding him and his yell of pain luring the walkers to his flesh not that long after. I always love this scene because these two used to be literal mortal enemies. Daryl was kidnapped by Negan’s men in the Season 7 premiere, and yet here they are, working together. 

It’s even cooler to watch knowing that Norman Reedus and Jeffrey Dean Morgan are buddies in real life.  

Negan’s Backstory (Season 10, “Here’s Negan”)

I absolutely loved all of the Season 10 episodes, “Here’s Negan.” Learning about Negan’s backstory with Lucille, how he lost her, and how he became the man that he was, was some of the best hour of television I have seen in a long time - and I watch a lot of TV. 

Not only was it essential in establishing who Negan is as a person and why he is the way that he is, but it adds so many more layers to his character than we thought possible. You just can’t like Negan and not like this episode.

And When He Gave Up Lucille (Season 10, “Here’s Negan”)

Obviously, for those who don’t know (why are you even here if you don’t), Negan’s iconic spiked bat is named after his wife, Lucille, who was sick with cancer before the turn and ended up killing herself later on. And in this finale, he digs up this bat, uses it in self-defense and burns the rest of the bat so he can finally be at peace. 

This is such a significant moment for his character - especially with how he has been in Season 11 of The Walking Dead. He’s done being that version of himself and wants to push forward, regardless of what the cost is. He knows that people hate him - including Maggie, which we’ll talk about later - but he is okay with whatever comes next. That burning of Lucille was perfect, and much-needed for everything he does later on. 

When Negan Is Disgusted By A Young Man Idolizing His Past Violence (Season 10, “What It Always Is”) 

I mean, I would be disgusted too. In the Season 10 episode, “What it Always Is”, Negan has escaped from Alexandria but is found by Brandon, a man who idolizes him from when he was the leader of the Saviors, and kills a mother and son to impress Negan. 

Understandably, and rightfully, Negan kills the kid for doing such a thing. He made quick work of the boy, and showed a huge part of his character - that he cares about the innocent and doesn’t just want to blindly kill people, at least not anymore. 

When Negan Comforts Lydia After Her Mother’s Demise (Season 10, “The Tower”) 

Alpha and Lydia’s relationship was always a little different in the show than in the comics, but something else that was different was Lydia’s relationship with Negan, of all people. Negan feels this sort of guardian-like relationship with the girl because he feels bad for what she has gone through, starting off with him literally saving her from getting beaten to death, and especially now, since he’s the one who killed her mother, he is there to comfort Lydia in the Season 10 episode, “The Tower.”

It’s a powerful scene, where Lydia is angry at him but he knows a part of it is because her mother is gone, even if her mother was abusive to her. Negan understands this pain too well and holds her until she stops crying, trying to comfort the teenager. It’s a moving scene that shows the two, despite their age differences and different lifestyles, understand each other.

When Negan Kills Alpha (Season 10, “Walk With Us”)

But that relationship between Alpha and Negan was just perfect, right. 

While Negan kills Alpha in Season 10 of The Walking Dead during “Walk With Us,” the build-up to this was absolutely amazing. From Negan “joining” the Saviors to him getting close to Alpha to their strange, sexual relationship to the moment he slits her throat and then cuts off her head to show it to Carol, of all people - every little part was so well-done and perfectly shows his willingness to still get the job done.

His and Samantha Morton’s chemistry was fantastic, and those two killed it - pun intended. 

When Negan And Maggie Team Up To Take On The Reapers (Season 11, “Hunted”) 

Negan and Maggie have some complicated relationship - He did kill her husband, Glenn, so there’s that - but I have to admit, seeing the two of them team up to take down the Reapers in The Walking Dead during Season 11’s “Hunter,” moving towards Meridian together, was the most hyped I’ve gotten for this show in a while. 

They work together well, somehow, despite all their problems, and make a great badass pair. Honestly, it makes me eager to see what they do with this Maggie and Negan spinoff that is planned right now. I can’t wait to see what they do next. 

Negan Is Hitched - And Expecting (Season 11, “The Rotten Core”)

In Season 11, Part 2 of The Walking Dead, during the episode “The Rotten Core,” it’s been some time since Negan has left Maggie and crew and gone on his own. In this time, Negan is married to a woman named Annie in a settlement - and is expecting a kid. 

That’s right, Negan is going to be a daddy. 

Just writing those words made me twist my face up in disgust but at the same time, I can’t help but think this is such a big moment for him. I mean, he’s spent so much time protecting kids in this show, pretty dang often, it’s fitting that out of everyone, he’s the person who gets hitched and has a kid. I think that’s a nice twist on his character. 

With one more part to go in Season 11 of The Walking Dead, who knows what Negan will do next. But I’m sure he’ll do anything badass in his own fun way with that smirk we all love. 

Spoiler warning for anyone who hasn't yet watched The Walking Dead's final spring finale!

Even though The Walking Dead tried to pull a fast one on viewers by making it seem as if Maggie was a goner in “Acts of God,” it was pretty obvious that someone was going to step in at the last minute, with Daryl as the obvious choice. At least, it was obvious to anyone who’s been paying attention to news about the TWD universe as a whole, since the announcement about Negan and Maggie’s Isle of the Dead spinoff essentially confirmed that Lauren Cohan and Jeffrey Dean Morgan’s characters would survive the entirety of the flagship’s final season. And the AMC drama’s final midseason finale took a step in the direction of setting up said spinoff, even if it wasn’t intended to be that way at the time it came together. 

How The Walking Dead’s “Acts Of God” Planted Seeds For Isle Of The Dead Spinoff

When it was first announced that The Walking Dead was officially getting a Maggie and Negan spinoff, which Jeffrey Dean Morgan is as here for as anyone, the biggest question that fans likely had in mind was: how is this show going to work with two characters who clearly aren’t ever meant to be BFFs within this universe. After all, one of the show’s other highly anticipated offshoots will be focused on Daryl and Carol, who have remained very loving and close over the years despite any and all temporary setbacks. Not so much the case for the hardcore heroine and her hubby’s murderer, though.

But things definitely took a turn in “Acts of God,” although it’s one that has been somewhat imminent ever since Lauren Cohan returned to the show in full. Once it was clear Maggie and Negan weren’t going to come to blows during any of their first moments together on screen this season, it didn’t take much to then assume that showrunner Angela Kang and the rest of the creative team would find a way to bring them even closer together in non-antagonistic ways. With that kind of animosity-driven dynamic, it’s only natural. But this episode featured Maggie making the fairly shocking request for Negan and his new wife Annie to watch over Hershel as she went off to battle, and then doubling-down on that shock after the former villain pointed out that Hershel didn’t trust him. In her words:

Gross, Maggie, gross! Although not altogether irrational or illogical, considering the circumstances. Even if she’ll never truly forgive him for making Glenn’s head burst open via baseball bat, she has come to recognize his redeeming qualities, and that he has an empathetic soft spot for younger survivors. And when he called her “Maggie Rhee,” invoking the name of his most beloved victim, it was a sign of respect, as opposed to any form of trolling like the old Negan might have done. Instead, he offered a sincere dedication to appeasing Maggie’s wishes.

Plus, it 100% helps Negan’s case that Annie is sweet and charismatic and didn’t also murder anyone in Maggie’s family. And it will probably also be wise of him not to seemingly leave Maggie for dead again, as he did when Season 11 began. 

So even though the episode didn’t deliver any specific signposts indicating how or why Maggie and Negan end up together en route to New York for Isle of the Dead, “Acts of God” at least leveled the emotional playing field to the point where viewers can accept them taking a giant road trip together without instant bloodshed. It also seems as if Annie and Hershel will have to be involved in the spinoff in some way, either as catalysts for drama or as support. Not that Hershel is very skilled and practiced by way of “killing zombies and murderous human threats.” But who’s to say there won’t be a time jump that ages him up into more of a teenage badass?

Why “Acts Of God” Wasn’t Actually An Intentional Stepping Stone For Isle Of The Dead 

For as much as TV viewers may like to believe that the creative teams behind their favorite shows have a big wall where every story element is conceived and planned out to the fullest, that’s just not the case a lot of the time. In the case of The Walking Dead, the events that played out in Season 11’s middle eight episodes (and possibly some of those in the final eight) were crafted and scripted far ahead of the point when AMC execs made the decision to put in a series order for Isle of the Dead. As showrunner Angela Kang put it in an interview with Deadline: 

It’s impossible to know just how much of an inkling Angela Kang had about the chances of a Negan-centric spinoff happening, although it seems like The Walking Dead’s resident overlord Scott Gimple might have hinted at such potential futures as Season 11 was coming together, if only to steer the writers away from setting Negan up to lose his legs in an accident, and to avoid introducing characters sharing news that New York City fell into the ocean or something. Isle of the Dead wouldn’t have needed to be a sure thing in order to guide the creatives in such a way, and it was definitely set in stone ahead of the final days of TWD’s production, which wrapped as March came to an end. 

That said, it’s highly likely that Maggie and Negan’s story arc would have played out largely as is regardless, since it’s a more interesting take on their situation for them to have to co-exist with their horrific shared past, rather than just having Maggie impulsively bashing Negan’s head in with the butt of a rifle. (Assuming there aren’t any spare baseball bats around.) To that end, Kang continued, saying: 

Negan didn’t need to pull off any magnificently heroic acts in order to win some of Maggie’s favor. All he had to do was keep her kid safe and treat him the exact opposite of the way he treated Glenn, and Maggie found a way to wrap her brain around not entirely hating the dude. And there’s still a lot of time for the characters to grow closer and become ever so slightly more friendly on the way to the spinoff. 

We still have no idea how the story is going to take Negan and Maggie from Virginia to New York City, but that information probably won’t come out until after The Walking Dead has hung up its (cowboy) hat for good with Season 11’s conclusion. It’s still unclear when the show will return to AMC for the final eight episodes, but fans can look forward to watching the back half of Fear the Walking Dead Season 7, which returns to both AMC and AMC+ on Sunday, April 17, at 9:00 p.m. ET, with the streaming service debuting Episodes 709 and 710. Don’t forget to check out everything else hitting the small screen soon with our 2022 TV premiere schedule. 

There are few celebrities that can pull off one name recognition, like Madonna, Beyonce, and Zendaya; on the other end of that spectrum, though, are the maybe even rarer Hollywood icons that pull off that full name glory. That brings us to the one and only Jeffrey Dean Morgan, who has had some absolutely killer (literally) roles over the years, even the ones you may have forgotten about. 

The man has some wild range, from The Walking Dead’s post-apocalyptic juggernaut Negan to Grey’s Anatomy’s lovable and charming Denny. From roles from one end of the Good Guy/Bad Guy spectrum to the other, fans pretty much ever know where Jeffrey Dean Morgan is going to land in a project. We’ve compiled a list of his absolute best movies and TV shows, which makes for pretty much the perfect guide to an amazing Morgan marathon session.

Supernatural (2005 - 2019)

We’re starting off with a perfect example of Jeffrey Dean Morgan blurring the lines of good guy and bad guy as Daddy Winchester in Supernatural. On one hand, Morgan’s character is quite literally fighting to save both his family and the world throughout his time on the CW series. On the other hand, he has completely wrecked his kids in his search for vengeance. 

The whole Supernatural family is kind of a mess, but they all wormed their way into the hearts of a hardcore and loyal fan base. The love for the long-running series has no bounds, even though it concluded over a year ago. This, along with a potential prequel spin-off on the way, gives Supernatural a pretty concrete place on Jeffrey Dean Morgan’s top projects.

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The Walking Dead (2016 - 2022)

Jeffrey Dean Morgan traded his demon hunter journal for his zombie killing bat named Lucille in AMC’s The Walking Dead. Morgan plays oddly lovable (he’s even getting his own spin-off) and obviously vicious villain Negan in the series, and became a mainstay in the long running series after his introduction in Season 6. 

Once pretty much universally hated for the brutal killing of two fan favorite characters, Negan has now become something new on the series. Fans now either still hate him or have a new outlook on the character, but you can’t really deny that Jeffrey Dean Morgan absolutely eats the character up. Negan is only one of the many strong and overall interesting characters in The Walking Dead, so it’s no real surprise it’s making this list. 

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Grey’s Anatomy (2006 - 2009)

Like a lot of other Jeffrey Dean Morgan fans, the first time he really stole my (and Izzy’s) heart was as Denny Duquette in Grey’s Anatomy. His storyline was an emotional rollercoaster (and one that changed the actor’s life), which isn’t exactly out of the norm for the Shonda Rhimes series. The series has some serious tearjerker moments, and it’s almost an expectation that tears will fall when you watch it. However, nothing in the show gets me as teary-eyed as Denny Duquette.

Even though Jeffrey Dean Morgan was on the show back near the beginning, Grey’s Anatomy is still going strong on ABC with a Season 19 renewal. It’s one of the most recognizable medical dramas, and has a large viewership. If you haven’t seen it, it’s one you’ve got to check out when you’re up for a good cry.

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Watchmen (2009)

Before Wonder Woman, The Justice League, and The Army of the Dead, Zach Snyder made a gem of a superhero movie called Watchmen. Watchmen is kind of like if Amazon’s The Boys was made over a decade ago and took itself a lot more seriously. Both superhero projects take a closer look into the person that makes up the superhero and what it really is to be a superhero on a primal level. 

Jeffrey Dean Morgan’s portrayal of Edward Blake AKA Comedian is probably one of his most recognizable roles for any typical millennial who isn’t into The Walking Dead. He’s pretty awesome as the jokester antihero, and was one of the highlights of Watchmen. His performance is one that would do justice to a number of other comic book characters he’d be perfect for.

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The Losers (2010)

Right after his role in Watchmen, Jeffrey Dean Morgan played in another comic book inspired film: The Losers. This film almost feels like another version of The Expendables franchise without all of the big-name action stars, as they have a similar premise. They actually came out the same year, if you don’t count the fact that The Expendables is actually a remake. 

There is loads of action, and a good amount of laughs in the film. Jeffrey Dean Morgan takes on a leadership role in The Losers, which is actually one of the first times we see this from him, and may have even set a precedent for some of the other leadership roles we know from him.

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P.S. I Love You (2007)

So, this is actually a pretty interesting role for Jeffrey Dean Morgan. At this point, he’s already proven that he can win over both his women and male audience, and P.S. I Love You definitely plays into women’s love for his tall, dark, and handsome persona he’s got going on. They also give him an Irish accent, if he isn’t already hunky enough. 

While Gerard Butler plays the main love interest (even though he is technically dead pretty much the whole film), Jeffrey Dean Morgan swoops in at the end and pretty much steals the show, and every woman’s heart, when Hilary Swank’s character lets go of her departed husband and becomes open to moving on. 

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The Good Wife (2015 - 2016)

Jeffery Dean Morgan has quite the resume when it comes to long running series, and The Good Wife is another on that list. Morgan shows up in the series in the very last season, but he is a heavy presence throughout. He plays the central character’s love interest.

This role is particularly interesting for Jeffrey Dean Morgan, because he was playing Negan on The Walking Dead at the same time. The differences in the two characters are quite literally worlds apart. 

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Rampage (2018)

Alongside Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, Jeffrey Dean Morgan lays off the zombie killing as Negan and starts tracking down some seriously out of control animals in Rampage. Morgan does channel his inner Negan charm, though, and pretty much steals the spotlight from Johnson in the film. 

Rampage is a fun film, and it’s pretty much exactly what you would expect it to be, all with a stellar cast behind it.

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Heist (2015)

Everybody loves a good heist, and this Jeffrey Dean Morgan film is no different. Morgan is joined by Guardians of the Galaxy’s Dave Bautista and the iconic Robert De Niro in the robbing of a casino. While the film scored low on Rotten Tomatoes, the movie was otherwise received pretty well. It's action packed and just plain fun, a thriller that doesn't take itself too seriously, which makes for a feel-good viewing. 

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Honorable Mention: Dead & Breakfast (2004)

I’m an absolute sucker for a bad horror flick, and Dead & Breakfast fits that bill. I love when I can spot big name actors in a B-Movie, it’s the most satisfying guilty pleasure ever. Dead & Breakfast fills the cult horror/comedy void, but it is also a musical. It may not be any Rocky Horror Picture Show, but it’s definitely putting out some serious Tim Curry in fishnets and heels vibes with that genre mash-up.

However, Dead & Breakfast isn’t your typical low budget horror film, as there are a number of recognizable faces in the movie, like Arrested Development’s Portia de Rossi and Kill Bill’s David Carradine. Also interesting, the writer/director is Super producer Matthew Leutwyler. If you’re into comedy horrors that double as a musical with some awesome talent, check out Dead & Breakfast. It can actually be a hard film to find, but you can stream it if you've got a Roku device. 

Whether he is the good guy, bad guy, or somewhere in the morally gray area, Jeffrey Dean Morgan is damn entertaining to watch. He puts out powerful performances with a great attitude and comedic personality, making his movies and TV shows not only emotional, but super fun to watch.

Lucky for us, some of Jeffrey Dean Morgan’s best films and shows are among some of the best things to watch on Netflix right now, so it’s a great time to have a JDM-filled night.

As The Walking Dead has been proving for nearly eleven full seasons now, it's hard out there in the post-apocalyptic world, even when it comes to just acting in it. For a high-profile cable show like this, hundreds, if not thousands, of moving parts need to work in conjunction in order to produce the quality work that fans are used to. Of course, the devil is in the details, and The Walking Dead has featured few characters more devilish than Jeffrey Dean Morgan's villain-turned-protagonist Negan. So perhaps it makes sense that actor behind the redeemed character earned some finger-pointing after Morgan's cell phone made an anachronistic cameo in the episode "The Rotten Core.” Once the actor caught wind of it all, he acknowledged the flub with a short and sweet response. 

After Season 11’s latest episode aired on AMC, eagle-eyed Walking Dead fans took to the Internet to spotlight the timeline-breaking appearance of Morgan’s phone, which immediately brought to mind one of TV’s biggest on-screen prop errors: Game of Thrones’ infamous coffee cup. And much like fans’ screengrabs will forever remind us about that out-of-place drinking vessel, so shall fans’ pics of the phone hanging out of Negan’s jeans. Here’s how he reacted to the telecommunicative error on Twitter:

If anything, this speaks to Jeffrey Dean Morgan’s assumed penchant for quickly hopping on his phone during gaps in filming, though fans will obviously wonder why he didn’t feel it back there in the moment. It’s not like Negan needs a wallet, either, so something should have felt funny.

Perhaps unfortunately for viewers who saw the phone immediately and disrupted their own suspension of TV disbelief, Jeffrey Dean Morgan’s phone was visible during one of the most emotional scenes of not only that episode, but the season thus far. Not to mention an exchange that will likely have ramifications while heading toward Negan and Maggie’s upcoming spinoff Isle of the Dead. 

It came as Kien Michael Spiller’s Hershel held Negan at gunpoint, having figured out that the brute was responsible for turning Glenn’s head inside-out. Rather than defusing the situation by force or by panicking, Negan calmly laid things out for the fatherless youth. While he understood the need for revenge, and even mostly agreed that he deserved a fatal punishment for Glenn’s death, Negan pointed out that pulling the trigger in that situation wouldn’t just be the wisest choice, since the loud gunshots would instantly draw Carlson and his soldiers to their hideout. We already know that Jeffrey Dean Morgan himself wishes he could go back in time to stop Negan from killing Glenn, and we can now assume he wishes he could go back and ask a nearby production assistant to hold on to his phone for a while.

Amusingly enough, this wasn’t the only time Jeffrey Dean Morgan’s phone popped up within the world of The Walking Dead, as one of the replies to the actor’s “Oops” message pointed out a previous instance. In one Season 7 episode featuring Negan inside Alexandria, there’s a very particular phone-shaped bulge in the front pocket of his jeans that was never digitally adjusted. I guess that one could be explained away as an old pack of cigarettes or…I dunno, a few packs of baseball cards? Whatever the case may be, The Walking Dead’s editing crew may be paying that much more attention to character’s pocket details when putting together the remaining eps. 

The Walking Dead has just two episodes left to go ahead of its final midseason hiatus, as Season 11 will return later this year for the AMC drama’s final eight episodes ever. (Just for the flagship, of course, since there are spinoffs galore.) It airs Sunday nights at 8:00 p.m. ET, as followed by Talking Dead. While waiting for the next new ep, check out all the other shows like TWD that are ending in 2022, and head to our 2022 TV premiere schedule to see what new and returning shows are coming soon.

As soon as The Walking Dead started going harder on setting up spinoffs for its post-apocalyptic mothership series, it seemed like an inevitability that Jeffrey Dean Morgan's ever-popular Negan would be front and center for a future offshoot. Considering the actor voiced his willingness to keep the former villain’s storyline going, it was only a matter of time before AMC pulled the metaphorical trigger with an announcement, and that time has come. Fans can look forward to seeing not only Negan in the location-changing new project, but also the character’s situational nemesis in Lauren Cohan’s Maggie.

The new series will be titled Isle of the Dead, and will be set in the universe’s biggest metropolis since its Atlanta origins. The show will center on Negan and Maggie as they make their way into and through a completely upended Manhattan that has been completely cut off from the rest of the country for many years. To be expected, this island will be full of walkers of all shapes and sizes, but also a population of living citizens who have turned the area into a place that is every bit as uniquely beautiful as it is dangerous and unpredictable. The anarchic setting sounds like the polar opposite of the Commonwealth that is currently being explored on the main Walking Dead series, and will likely force Maggie and Negan to put trust in each other like never before in order to survive. 

Jeffrey Dean Morgan gleefully imagines the Dead-verse incorporating some of the country’s most iconic landmarks when Isle of the Dead arrives. In his words:

The first teaser poster for Isle of the Dead definitely plays up the New York City-ness of it all, complete with the franchise’s iconic “Dead Inside” doors. 

I'm sure the grafitti on the wall and the other signage are clues about what fans can expect, but it's possibly all a little too vague and early on to make any big guesses. Although I do now hope that Negan and Maggie meet up with a character called Traffic Cone. 

Negan is currently unaccounted for on The Walking Dead, having made the surprising decision in the winter premiere to go out on his own after all but one of the Reapers were eliminated. Trailers for the latter chunk of Season 11 already revealed his return was imminent, and with a new friend by his side, so it’s no real shock that the character will apparently earn more late-stage focus than his comic book counterpart did. It is 100% surprising, however, that the new spinoff will focus on him and Maggie, though, since their communication skills with one another leave much to be desired. As much as Morgan might want to go back and stop Negan from killing Glenn, it happened, and the character will forever be in Maggie’ doghouse for it.

Set for a six-episode first season, Isle of the Dead is being written by Walking Dead writer/co-executive producer Eli Jorné, who boasts an overall deal with AMC. He will serve as the showrunner and EP for the new show, with Jeffrey Dean Morgan and Lauren Cohan also taking on EP roles behind the scenes. Overseeing the entire project will be the franchise's chief content officer Scott M. Gimple, who had his own anticipation-spawning explanation for the show:

Lauren Cohan also sounded excited about going public with the news with her statement, though she wasn't quite as quick to say that the new series will revolutionize everything we know about The Walking Dead. But maybe she's just better about surprises that way.

While Isle of the Dead obviously doesn't have any exact dates locked down for when viewers might be able to tune in, fans can at least expect the Big Apple spinoff to debut at some point in 2023. Until then, be sure to keep watching new episodes of The Walking Dead every Sunday night on AMC at 9:00 p.m. ET. And then head to our 2022 TV premiere schedule to see all the new and returning shows popping up soon.

Spoilers below for anyone who hasn’t yet watched the latest episode of The Walking Dead Season 11, so be warned!

The post-Super Bowl weekend marked the TV return of AMC’s The Walking Dead, which is kicking off the second eight-episode stretch of its eleventh and final season. The winter premiere, titled “No Other Way,” featured what was essentially the defeat of the polarizing villain group The Reapers, with Lynn Collins’ Leah being allowed to go off on her own after the other survivors were offed by Maggie. Leah wasn’t the only one making a presumed temporary departure, though, as the episode ended with Negan taking his own leave of absence after making it seem as if he might murder Maggie as a way to dissipate their ongoing tension.

Having helped Maggie, Daryl & Co. survive their back-and-forth with the Reapers and ever-present walker threats, Negan definitely wasn’t fooled into thinking he would once again be accepted into the larger community while Maggie was still around. And so, after they returned to Alden to find that he’d died in the interim, Negan told Maggie he wasn’t giving her a chance to impulsively break her word in saying they’re square, and he would just be heading out on his own instead. Jeffrey Dean Morgan offered an explanation for Negan’s choice to leave, saying this to Insider: 

While living with Alexandria and other communities’ sub-luxuries may be ostensibly better than being out on one’s own amidst an increasingly depopulated planet, Negan clearly weighed that option against “living eternally opposite Maggie’s hate-filled glares” and decided a farewell made more sense. Perhaps if he’d had a bunch of really close friends to support him, instead of a minimal smattering, it would have been worth the discomfort, but no, especially not after seeing Maggie’s more ruthless nature of late.

It’s definitely worth noting that Negan also took a long-term sabbatical in the comics around this point in the timeline, except in the source material, he was only able to do so after Maggie decided not to kill him. Things obviously played out slightly differently in the TV series, and we can probably expect the future to also have a different turnout, considering Negan didn’t show up again in full on the page until the post-ending special Negan Lives.

Thankfully, we already know that Negan will show up again in Season 11, thanks to the look-forward trailer that was released in January. In the preview, Jeffrey Dean Morgan’s reformed villain can be seen alongside an unidentified character we haven’t met before. While he wasn’t able to say much about this new face, and wasn’t even entirely sure what he was able to say ahead of time, Morgan confirmed that he will not be alone when fans see him again, saying:

Check out the trailer below, which features a shot of Negan and the aforementioned mystery woman, who we now know for sure is a “friend” of some kind. 

 One of many TV shows ending this year, The Walking Dead is back at it, with Season 11's middle eight episodes airing Sunday nights on AMC at 9:00 p.m. ET. While waiting to see where things go next, and whether or not Andrew Lincoln will be involved, head to our 2022 TV premiere schedule to keep up with all the other new and returning shows cropping up in primetime and beyond.

If you’re a fan of The Walking Dead, you’re probably aware of the looming end to the AMC series that has spawned a franchise of spinoffs. Although part of the 11th and final Season of The Walking Dead has premiered, the last of the episodes are still being filmed by the remaining members of the cast. Ahead of finally wrapping on filming the long-running series, star Jeffrey Dean Morgan reveals The Walking Dead moment he would have changed for his legendary character Negan.

In an exclusive interview with Insider, Jeffrey Dean Morgan talked about Negan and what he wished went down differently back around the time he first entered The Walking Dead. His answer matches up what a lot of fans think, as he said he wishes his character hadn't killed Glenn. Here's what Morgan had to say exactly:

Glenn’s death was brutal, and the word "probably" doesn’t even come close to describing how awful Negan’s killer use of his barbed wire bat Lucille really was. Not only was it a smashing (I’m so sorry) way to kill off a character, but Glenn was beloved by fans. In fact, his death brought about a mass exodus from the series. He was one of the core survivors of the group and had been with fans since the second episode of the AMC series, as well as the second issue for the original Walking Dead comic book series.

Jeffrey Dean Morgan’s thought that killing Glenn off was a bad decision probably rings pretty true, even though his death ended up following the comics the series is based on pretty well. Fans of the comics knew what was coming, but it doesn’t make Glenn’s death sit any more comfortable with people. The death was so impactful that viewers are still seeing some major ramifications of it in the show four seasons later through the confrontation between Negan and Maggie.

Of course, there are some majorly heartwarming moments on The Walking Dead, but Glenn’s death was far from one. While Jeffrey Dean Morgan may have known this going into the show, it doesn’t sound like there would have been much he could do to stop the brutal killing of the beloved character. In the same interview, Morgan talked about what actors have to do in terms of what they are given with scripts, even if they don’t always agree. In his words:

Though Glenn’s death was a key moment in the show (albeit an unpopular one for many), there’s likely really nothing many people could have done to prevent that moment from playing out. Jeffrey Dean Morgan was also a newcomer to the show at that point, with his killing of Glenn only happening on his second episode in the series. That isn’t really a great time to be making huge script changes - even if you are Jeffrey Dean Morgan. 

The Walking Dead Season 11 may be the final one for the series, but we still have quite a bit of the season to go. Due to the pandemic mucking things up, Season 11 was split into 3 parts. The first is already available to stream on AMC+ and the second part is set to premiere later this month on February 20th. With filming almost complete on the last set of episodes, we can possibly look for part 3 of Season 11 to follow sometime later during this year’s TV schedule. 

The Walking Dead fans don’t need to worry too much, though, as the series lives on in its many spinoffs. Fan favorites Daryl and Carol are set to get their own spinoff series, and we may get to see more of Jeffrey Dean Morgan’s Negan, as he too has been in talks to star in his own series. The Walking Dead may be taking its leave just as Glenn did back in Season 7, but some of our other favorite characters still have a future on our screens.