The living dead return for one last story and to bed?

• Tales of the Walking Dead

  is the new series derived from the universe of zombies, now available in France on OCS, which broadcasts a new episode every Monday.

• This series is a six-episode anthology and allows you to explore the universe of

  The Walking Dead

  with a new look.

• Other spin-offs of the series are still in preparation, even if

  The Walking Dead

  is now complete.

The living dead are like serial actors, they always come back at some point.

universe

, entitled

(available in France on OCS), is an opportunity to find faces known to series fans, first and foremost Terry Crews, brilliant lieutenant and dad body-built in

.

We also meet Anthony Edwards from

, Olivia Munn from

, Parker Posey from

…

That aside,

is unlike any other series, and certainly not

, its parent series.

While their flagship had been losing steam for years, AMC delivered the coup de grace with a final season.

At the same time, the series' spin-offs have been rather disappointing.

This new version therefore looks like a swan song for the franchise.

Unless…

Another death is possible

Unless the public is charmed - and there is reason - by this new format, designed as the antithesis of

.

Longer seasons are over.

is an anthology of six episodes.

No more long interminable intrigues with endless twists.

is made up of six independent stories that are completed in just over an hour.

And above all, no more zombies.

Sure, the monsters are still there, but in

they're part of the scenery.

The real heroes are the characters and especially the scenarios.

By exploring other places (goodbye Atlanta…) and other temporalities (for example, we discover another version of the first days of the zombie epidemic),

allows itself to tell other stories.

Less horrific, more melancholy.

And other rhythms.

Either much more breathless with a tight plot, or more poetic, or downright comical.

Outrage?

Broaden the horizon

Of course, we find (in addition to the decomposed faces of the zombies), some familiar faces, like Alpha (Samantha Morton), before she became the formidable leader of the Whisperers in

.

But apart from her, the score played is quite new.

“We wanted to broaden the horizon of the universe, explains Channing Powell to justify that so few characters and settings from the original series are shown in

.

There is a mythology and rules to respect: how walkers work, the genesis of the apocalypse… But with that, we wanted to have fun, to take the story elsewhere.

»

And I put the sound back

The showrunner makes no secret of having had ten times more ideas for episodes than stories actually shot.

A way for him, and for the producers of the saga, to suggest that

is not dead, even if the main series is completed.

Thus, three spin-offs with still unknown formats are in preparation.

One on the character of Daryl Dixon who crosses the Atlantic, another on Dead City, and a last on the “power couple” Rick and Michonne.

But if

is successful, nothing will stop AMC from going further.

To tell new stories.

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