AMC Melissa McBride as Carol Peletier, Cassady McClincy as Lydia 'The Walking Dead' Season 11
On the air for over a decade, “The Walking Dead” is back for its 11th and final season.
While Season 11 won’t debut on the regular AMC TV channel until next week, the premiere will be available on AMC+ starting Sunday, August 15 on AMC+.
Here’s how you can watch:
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Amazon Prime
Amazon Prime subscribers (Prime comes with a 30-day free trial) can watch all AMC+ content via Prime Channels. You can try both Amazon Prime and the AMC+ Channel at no cost with a free trial right here:
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Once you’re signed up for the AMC+ Channel, you can watch “The Walking Dead” live or on-demand on the Amazon Video app, which is available on your Roku, Roku TV, Amazon Fire TV or Firestick, Apple TV, Chromecast, any device with Android TV (such as a Sony TV or Nvidia Shield), Xbox One or Series X/S, PlayStation 4 or 5, various smart TV’s, Xiaomi, Echo Show or Echo Spot, iPhone, Android phone, iPad or Android tablet.
You can also watch on your computer via the Amazon website.
Sling TV
AMC+ is available as an add-on to Sling TV’s “Sling Orange” or “Sling Blue” channel package. This doesn’t include a free trial, but it’s a good option if you also want other live TV channels (Sling Orange includes 36 channels, and Sling Blue comes with 47) or if you already have Sling TV, and you can get your first month for a total of just $17 ($10 for Sling Orange or Blue, and $7 for AMC+ add-on):
Once signed up for Sling TV and AMC+, you can watch “The Walking Dead” live or on-demand on the Sling TV app, which is available on your Roku, Roku TV, Amazon Fire TV or Fire Stick, Apple TV, Chromecast, Xbox One or Series X/S, Samsung TV, LG TV, any device with Android TV (such as a Sony TV or Nvidia Shield), airTV Mini, Oculus, Portal, iPhone, Android phone, iPad or Android tablet.
You can also watch on your computer via the Sling TV website.
‘The Walking Dead’ Season 11 Preview
The final season of “The Walking Dead” promises to be a real doozy. In the season 11 premiere episode, titled “Acheron: Part I,” “Daryl (Norman Reedus) leads a mission team to scavenge the military base he discovered; Maggie (Lauren Cohan) tells her story, prompting a new mission for survival that only Negan (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) can lead; Eugene (Josh McDermitt) and his group go through assessment by the Commonwealth’s paramilitary police.”
In an interview with Decider, showrunner Angela Kang teased that Daryl in particular will be pushed to the brink in the final season.
“We felt like there was a chance to tell a story about Daryl, this person who has lived through so much, and survived abuse, and fallen in with hard people before, and been perceived that way… What happens when he has to use those dark elements of the past to help him do something for the people that he loves and cares about so deeply now? And so, that felt like, from a character standpoint, a good place to push Daryl into very uncomfortable territory for him, as we’re in that final set of episodes for the season, and the series,” said Kang.
The final season will be divided into three eight-episode chunks. The first eight will air between August and October 2021 and the second two sets of eight episodes will air in 2022. Kang told Decider that each set of eight episodes will have a distinct arc building to something bigger.
“There are some mini-arcs that build up to something bigger. Doing 24 episodes, it’s a huge undertaking. So it’s also probably a huge undertaking to watch, but hopefully, it’ll be an entertaining journey. We, as the writers, think the show has always kind of been like every eight episodes, we kind of go into a new cycle of story, while some stories are carrying and building across time. So that’s very much a version of the structure we have here, where you will follow an arc for a while, but another arc is rising under it. And then things crash into each other. There’s a variety of arcs that are much longer versus shorter, or sometimes even very, very self-contained,” said Kang.
Laila Robins, Josh Hamilton, Margot Bingham, and Michael James Shaw have all been added as series regulars. They join other cast members Cohan, Reedus, Morgan, McDermitt, Melissa McBride, Khary Payton, Christian Serratos, and Eleanor Matsuura.
In addition to “The Walking Dead” taking its final bow, “Fear the Walking Dead” returns for its seventh season and “The Walking Dead: World Beyond” returns for its second season in October 2021.
“The Walking Dead’s” final season starts Sunday, August 15 on AMC+, then begins airing a week later, on August 22 at 9 p.m. ET/PT on AMC.