Old Acquaintances
- Episode aired Jun 15, 2023
- TV-MA
- 50m
IMDb RATING
7.7/10
4.5K
YOUR RATING
Maggie finds Negan and they travel to Manhattan, meeting a quiet young girl named Ginny. A marshal named Armstrong follows Negan.Maggie finds Negan and they travel to Manhattan, meeting a quiet young girl named Ginny. A marshal named Armstrong follows Negan.Maggie finds Negan and they travel to Manhattan, meeting a quiet young girl named Ginny. A marshal named Armstrong follows Negan.
Zeljko Ivanek
- The Croat
- (as Željko Ivanek)
Justin Clarke
- New Babylon Criminal
- (uncredited)
Tate Kenney
- Walker
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaMichelle Hurd (the bar owner) is married to Garret Dillahunt, who played John Dorie on Fear the Walking Dead (2015).
- GoofsBased on the age of Herschel, it is at least 14-20 years into the zombie apocalypse. The Marshalls are driving cars, which may seem impossible, as gasoline becomes unusable after a year or so. However, it is later revealed that The Croat and New Babylon are creating their own gasoline.
Featured review
"Old Acquaintances" is a great season premiere which offers brilliant writing and acting, giving us a location that breathes new life to The Walking Dead
The Walking Dead: Dead City begins a couple of years after the ending of The Walking Dead, it's a new showrunner and he impresses me with his writing, Eli Jorne (the showrunner) wrote the season premiere titled "Old Acquaintances". It was directed by Loren Yaconelli who directed five episodes of TWD: World Beyond, a show I wouldn't call any good, but what's positive about that is her knowledge of the universe and it was always the writing that was bad in that show and not really the direction. For this episode, both the writing and direction is quite great, mostly the writing and acting. Honestly, the dialogue is brilliant, especially the scenes with Maggie and Megan. Their deep conversations are some of the episode's best scenes, I liked all the dialogue and writing, it was great! The whole production is impressive and I'm glad AMC brought them the budget needed, everything looks great, even the VFX. Sound design and the musical score was great, which brought suspense and tension to every scene.
Maggie finds Negan and they travel to Manhattan, meeting a quiet young girl named Ginny. A marshal named Armstrong follows Negan.
TWD: Dead City brings new life to the universe, bringing us a never before seen city and everything that comes with it. I'm of course talking about the world building, the new settlement called New Babylon and the new characters the city of New York City has to offer. Two who stand out the most are Gaius Charles as Perlie Armstrong: A marshal for New Babylon who is tasked in hunting down Negan, but also Zeljko Ivanek as "The Croat": The ruthless former member of the Saviors who has kidnapped Maggie's son, Hershel Rhee. But the focus is about the fan favorites Maggie and Negan, played by Lauren Cohan and Jeffrey Dean Morgan respectively. From the little we got to see of Logan Kim as Hershel Rhee, I can't wait for more! Zeljko Ivanek is terrific in the little we got to see of him, he'll be the antagonist of the film and I got a good feeling about this character, the history he has with Negan is actually a really great retcon. Gaius Charles is too quite great! Honestly, there are not a single bad performance in this episode and why is that? Dead City was cast well and the actors got to work with a good director and were given a great script, then nothing can stop them from doing a good performance. Lauren Cohan and Jeffrey Dean Morgan were the best though. These actors are in good hands, regarding screenplay. This was truly a great season premiere which gets you hooked in the first half and throws you into New York City in the second half, I loved it! But what I loved other than the duo, is the location and scenery of New York City, I mean of course of how different it is to Virginia and the locations in The Walking Dead. This is more like Atlanta, but ten times worse for the protagonists, which is satisfying and engaging for us viewers. It's nothing we have seen before. It's like the golden era of TWD, unpredictable and high in suspense, also lots of gore and zombies. It was also a long time since I was grossed out during an episode of The Walking Dead, Dead City leans on the horror side of things regarding gore and zombies. The new title sequence was great! To summarize, if you're a fan of The Walking Dead and was wondering if the first spin-off is any good, I would have to say this, hell yeah.
Maggie finds Negan and they travel to Manhattan, meeting a quiet young girl named Ginny. A marshal named Armstrong follows Negan.
TWD: Dead City brings new life to the universe, bringing us a never before seen city and everything that comes with it. I'm of course talking about the world building, the new settlement called New Babylon and the new characters the city of New York City has to offer. Two who stand out the most are Gaius Charles as Perlie Armstrong: A marshal for New Babylon who is tasked in hunting down Negan, but also Zeljko Ivanek as "The Croat": The ruthless former member of the Saviors who has kidnapped Maggie's son, Hershel Rhee. But the focus is about the fan favorites Maggie and Negan, played by Lauren Cohan and Jeffrey Dean Morgan respectively. From the little we got to see of Logan Kim as Hershel Rhee, I can't wait for more! Zeljko Ivanek is terrific in the little we got to see of him, he'll be the antagonist of the film and I got a good feeling about this character, the history he has with Negan is actually a really great retcon. Gaius Charles is too quite great! Honestly, there are not a single bad performance in this episode and why is that? Dead City was cast well and the actors got to work with a good director and were given a great script, then nothing can stop them from doing a good performance. Lauren Cohan and Jeffrey Dean Morgan were the best though. These actors are in good hands, regarding screenplay. This was truly a great season premiere which gets you hooked in the first half and throws you into New York City in the second half, I loved it! But what I loved other than the duo, is the location and scenery of New York City, I mean of course of how different it is to Virginia and the locations in The Walking Dead. This is more like Atlanta, but ten times worse for the protagonists, which is satisfying and engaging for us viewers. It's nothing we have seen before. It's like the golden era of TWD, unpredictable and high in suspense, also lots of gore and zombies. It was also a long time since I was grossed out during an episode of The Walking Dead, Dead City leans on the horror side of things regarding gore and zombies. The new title sequence was great! To summarize, if you're a fan of The Walking Dead and was wondering if the first spin-off is any good, I would have to say this, hell yeah.
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- Jun 19, 2023
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- Runtime50 minutes
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