The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live

The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live is an American post-apocalyptic horror drama television miniseries created by Scott M. Gimple, Danai Gurira and Andrew Lincoln for AMC. It is set after the conclusion of the original The Walking Dead series, with Lincoln, Gurira and Pollyanna McIntosh reprising their roles, and is the overall seventh television series in The Walking Dead franchise.
The Ones Who Live premiered on February 25, 2024, on AMC and AMC+, and concluded on March 31, consisting of six episodes. It received generally positive reviews.
A love story of two people kept apart by an unstoppable power, trying to find each other.
In 2018, following his departure from the main Walking Dead series, it was announced that Andrew Lincoln would star in a trilogy of films focusing on Rick Grimes for AMC. Scott M. Gimple was set to write the screenplays, with production expected to begin in 2019. In 2019, a teaser trailer was unveiled, confirming the trilogy would be theatrical releases distributed by Universal Pictures. The Walking Dead creator Robert Kirkman was said to be "heavily" involved with the trilogy.
In July 2022, it was announced by Scott M. Gimple, Andrew Lincoln and Danai Gurira at San Diego Comic-Con that the trilogy would be repurposed into a mini-series for television, with Lincoln and Gurira reprising their roles from the original television series. The limited series consisted of six episodes. It was initially titled The Walking Dead: Rick & Michonne, then retitled to The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live in July 2023.
The series was created by Gimple, Gurira and Lincoln, with an episode written by Gurira and Gimple serving as showrunner. The series was set up by The Walking Dead's series finale "Rest in Peace", which featured the return of Rick and Michonne.
Principal photography began on February 15, 2023, and wrapped on May 29, 2023, in New Jersey under the working title Summit. Additional filming and ADR would resume during the 2023 SAG-AFTRA strike due to an agreement between AMC and SAG-AFTRA.
The series premiered on February 25, 2024, on AMC and AMC+. The series was released on Blu-ray and DVD on September 10, 2024.
The review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes reported that 88% of 54 critics gave The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live a positive review with an average rating of 8.15/10. The website's critics consensus is, "A Walking Dead spinoff that balances past and present without skimping on blockbuster scope, The Ones Who Live is a consistent treat for longtime fans." Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned a score of 61 out of 100 based on 13 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".
The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live was included in lists of the best TV shows of 2024; it was listed #2 by MovieWeb in their list of the best TV shows as of April, and included in TheWrap's end of the year list as of December. In year-end lists, it was ranked #23 by Screen Rant, #22 by Hello! magazine, and included in Nerdist's list of the best 13 TV shows of 2024. The series was also included in Comic Book Resources's list of the 55 best drama TV shows of all time at #48 and on Collider's list of 60 best Netflix shows.
The premiere episode received 3 million viewers after three days of viewing, making it the biggest premiere for a new AMC series since 2018. The episode was also the most-watched episode of any show ever on AMC+ and that Sunday was the biggest day for direct-to-consumer sign-ups in the history of AMC+. The series became available on Netflix on January 13, 2025, and became the #2 most-watched TV show in the U.S. on the service, as of January 16. The series is also ranked at #8 on the list of global top 10 shows for the week of January 13 to January 19, receiving 2.3 million views, and a total of 11.7 million viewing hours. The show also ranked at #5 on the list of top 10 shows in the U.S. in its first week on the charts.