Years

Rick Grimes returns in both a fascinating and shocking fashion, par for the course for his character.

Despite the fact that the viewers have been familiar with Rick Grimes for years, the show still manages to tell us new things about him and develop his character.

Despite this being only one single episode, this show's pilot is better than any other TWD spin-offs' episode and arguably the pilot of the main show.

All-in-all, relentless action scenes, incredible performances all across the board, lore establishment, fast-paced plot and outstanding character development make this new TWD spin-off well worth the wait.

And boy was it worth the wait.

Rick Grimes was mysteriously flown away in a helicopter early in Season 9 of The Walking Dead and fans have been waiting 5 years to find out where he's been. Rick's wife, Michonne. Also exited the series, leaving to search for her missing husband in Season 10. The two both made a brief cameo re-appearance in the closing moments of the Series Finale to set up this new show.

Now that leads us to this, The Ones Who Live. Originally intended as a trilogy of movies, Scott Gimple, Andrew Lincoln, and Danai Gurira have worked away to ensure that we get the resolution to Rick and Michonne's Stories, without sacrificing quality.

The series has 4x the budget of the final season of the flagship show but only a quarter of the amount of episodes. We can be sure that this will give the series an epic scale and action-packed eventful vibe. Episode 1 proves this right away with it's beautiful appearance and efficient storytelling of Rick's past and current state.

If Episode 2-6 continues to build with the same quality of 'Years', then we've got the best walking dead spin-off to date and a very satisfying epilogue for 2 of the most iconic characters in television.

I decided to start this before watching either of the other spinoffs and WE ARE SO BACK This was one of the best episodes of the walking dead and exceeded all expectations. The walking dead usually always has the best cliffhangers but the one on this episode is on a whole other level. I can't even write a proper review I'm so happy and satisfied with what I've just watched. If you have watched up to s9 ep5 of twd you need to watch this because it is so satisfying as someone who loves the show and dragged themselves through all 11 seasons through good and through bad. Scott Gimple is cooking with this show and I can't wait for next episodes.

One thing I'll say about the more recent walking dead series is that they are more vibrant visually. There's more color but it still doesn't take away from the gloomy reality of this zombie dystopia. One of my biggest concerns about this new show is the tendency of TWD and its spinoffs to rinse and repeat storylines, even if they start off as something new and fresh. Like I was so excited for the Daryl Dixon spinoff and after a couple episodes it became just another typical TWD show. I feel a little better in that regard because the series is only gonna be 3 episodes long. And despite it being that short, it still taking time to unravel the story slowly. I think the makers have the luxury of doing so because the audience is already acclimated with the leads so they don't have to build up as many character connections; We already know why they wanna find each other. Oh never mind I just found out it's 6 episodes long on google, IMDb is only showing three.

Hesitate to judge a show based on one episode but so far it's decent. Nothing crazy, nothing epic, I wasn't at the edge of my seat but I enjoyed it. Despite introducing a whole new city and government and army(again), the show feels grounded and calm. Not rushing to just some new big battle. Like the latter of the parent tv series, it seems like this series is going to be more about human affairs than actual walkers. The walkers are simply plot points. I'm not super pumped for this series, I've seen all the twd shows and spinoffs apart from world beyond;so it's hard to get super hyped, but I am looking forward to this and hoping it'll be good.

This episode went way over my expectations of it. After the final few years of TWD and the poor spin offs last year, I didn't have much faith in this delivering something I wanted to see. But it did, and then some. Seeing and hearing about Ricks tribulations over the years was important and very well done. It felt like we lived some of that with him. The action woven in was well done and traditional TWD, gory as hell. I think having this first episode focus on Rick was the smart move, though I am anxious to see what Michonne has gone through as well. OG TWD fans, this is what a lot of us have been hoping for, eat up.