Tales From The Walking Dead

Tales of the Walking Dead – Season 1

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🎞️ Let’s start by showing y’all the trailers, shall we?

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🧠 Now before we dive into anything… let’s talk about how dumb this show is.

The concept? Anthology episodes exploring different stories across the apocalypse. Sounds cool, right?

Execution? Absolute mid. Most of these episodes feel like someone took The Walking Dead, ripped out the zombies, and replaced them with vague vibes and bad dialogue.

Instead of giving us interesting perspectives—like how different countries handled the outbreak, or how early chaos went down—we get episodes where the highlight is a guy arguing with his doomsday bunker fridge, or an Alpha prequel that still tells us nothing we didn’t already know.

Half the episodes feel like they were written by AI trained on sad AMC commercials.

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📖 Plot Rundown (No Spoilers):

Each episode is its own standalone story, with new characters, new locations, and new levels of disappointment.

The idea is to show how different people survived—or didn’t—throughout different stages of the outbreak. Some are early-day chaos stories. Others are post-collapse. Some are meant to be character studies. Most are just boring.

A couple try to get weird or experimental (time loops? hallucination horror?), but it never lands. There’s zero emotional payoff, and very little connection to the main franchise—aside from Alpha’s origin story and maybe one CRM whisper.

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👥 Character Rundown:

Here’s a lightning-fast breakdown of each episode and its characters:

Episode 1 (Joe & Evie) – A lonely prepper and a weird hippie go on a road trip. Ends exactly how you think.

Episode 2 (Blair & Gina) – Office workers caught in a time loop. Yes, a time loop. In a zombie show. It’s basically Groundhog Dead.

Episode 3 (Dee) – Alpha’s backstory. Tries to be deep and haunting. Ends up as a whispery slog that tells us… nothing new.

Episode 4 (Amy & Dr. Everett) – Scientist in a walker conservation zone meets a girl who wants to leave. They argue a lot. That’s it.

Episode 5 (Davon) – French-speaking amnesia murder mystery. Confusing, overacted, and forgettable.

Episode 6 (La Doña) – Supposed to be a ghost-horror episode. Turns into a bad haunted house hallucination with zero logic. Zombies barely appear.

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✅ Pros:

Cool concept on paper

Alpha’s actress still brings it, even with weak material

Some episodes try something different

At least the episodes are short?

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❌ Cons:

Most of these stories go nowhere

Zero connection to the main Walking Dead universe

“Time loop” episode makes zero sense and feels like a dare

The Alpha episode is 80% moping in the woods

Ghost episode is literally just characters hallucinating and screaming

Zombie action? Barely any

Feels like AMC dumped unused scripts from other shows into this one

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💭 Final Thoughts:

This show was supposed to expand the universe. Instead, it makes you appreciate Fear the Walking Dead more—and that’s saying something.

Tales of the Walking Dead had a golden opportunity to tell bold stories: what was happening in other countries? What about people stuck in prisons, hospitals, ships? What about anything new?

Instead, we got office drama with a time loop, a zombie birdwatcher, and a haunted house episode that might as well have been fan fiction.

There’s no urgency. No tension. No continuity. Just isolated mini-messes pretending to be profound.

You’ll walk away from this show with only one thought: Why did we waste six episodes on this instead of just giving us a Carol & Dog road trip series?

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⭐ Rating: 2/10

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⚠️ Spoiler Warning – Everything below this point is full of spoilers:

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Episode 1: Joe (prepper) meets Evie (artist). They go on a road trip to find her boyfriend and his ex. Turns out the people they’re looking for are dead. Joe dies. Evie drives away. The end.

Episode 2: Blair and Gina relive a gas station explosion over and over. It’s never explained why. Eventually they escape the loop. It’s never mentioned again.

Episode 3: “Dee” is Alpha’s origin story. She murders her way into leadership but mostly spends the episode talking to herself and sulking.

Episode 4: Dr. Everett believes walkers should be “studied” in the wild. Amy wants to escape the zone. They argue. Amy dies. Dr. Everett goes back to studying walkers. That’s it.

Episode 5: Davon wakes up with memory loss. He’s accused of murder in a French-speaking community. He’s innocent. The real killer was someone else. Everyone dies.

Episode 6: Idalia and Eric hide in a cabin. They both begin seeing ghosts. Or hallucinations. Or maybe it’s mold. It’s never explained. They turn on each other. Zombies show up at the end like, “Hey, remember us?”