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The Walking Dead: Origins
Who's in it
Cast
The principal ensemble across the run of the series.
The Nutevio profile
TV DNA
How The Walking Dead: Origins actually feels to watch, measured on the traits our editors track across every series.
Signature profile
The Walking Dead: Origins reads strongest on Bingeability, Character Depth and Serialized.
How hard it is to stop after one episode.
How fully written and psychologically layered the ensemble is.
How much each hour depends on the one before it.
How much the series is designed to affect you.
How often an episode ends on a hook you can't ignore.
The sustained pressure the series keeps you under.
The scale, internal logic and texture of the world.
How often the series is genuinely funny, by design.
Visual ambition — scale, craft and set-piece filmmaking.
The story
What it's about
The Walking Dead: Origins is a series of specials exploring the journeys of the series' most celebrated characters. Each episode charts the story of the zombie apocalypse from the point of view of a single character and features new interviews and narrations from the actors that portray these iconic characters, interwoven with clips from the most pivotal moments of their journeys so far.
The run
Seasons
1 season · 4 episodes.
Season 1 · Complete
Season 1
20214 episodes
7.4IMDbThe stories of key characters from The Walking Dead, presented and narrated by the actor who plays them - Daryl Dixon (Norman Reedus), Maggie (Lauren Cohan), Negan (Jeffrey Dean Morgan), Carol (Melissa McBride) plus an exclusive look at Season 11.
Best episode · S01E01 Daryl's Story
Where the series peaks
Best Episodes
The hours that define the show, ranked by audience response and editorial signal.
S01E01
Daryl's Story
The epic story of Daryl Dixon, as told by Norman Reedus, the actor who plays him, with a look back at key moments from "The Walking Dead".
S01E03
Negan's Story
The enigma that is Negan, as told by Jeffrey Dean Morgan, the actor who plays him, with a look back at key moments from "The Walking Dead".
S01E04
Carol's Story
Reliving the evolution of Carol, as told by Melissa McBride, the actress who plays her, with a look back at key moments from "The Walking Dead".
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