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Everything you need to know about The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon
The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon is the third spin-off series of the franchise based on the smash-hit graphic novels by Robert Kirkman and artist Tony Moore.
The series finds fan favourite Daryl Dixon (Norman Reedus) washing up on the shores of France, having been kidnapped from America for unknown reasons.
After managing to escape the ship he was brought onto, Daryl finds himself in the country that’s home to the source of the outbreak of the zombie apocalypse.
Now he needs to figure out a way to get home.
Encountering paramilitary group Pouvoir des Vivants (Power of the Living) and a friendly nun from Union de L'Espoir (Union of Hope) along the way, Daryl needs to keep his wits about him if he ever has a chance to make it back to America.
This is made even worse by the evolved Walkers he encounters – including a variant that spits acid called ‘burners’.
But as time goes on, the self-styled loner quickly finds himself reluctantly attached to the new people in his life – but there are also people from his past wanting to find him.
Season 1 and 2 are available on Sky Max and NOW.
Read more about The Walking Dead here.
Who starred in The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon and where have we seen them before?
The main cast members of season one are:
- Norman Reedus (The Boondock Saints, The Bikeriders) as Daryl Dixon
- Clémence Poésy as Isabelle Carriere
- Louis Puech Scigliuzzi as Laurent
- Laïka Blanc-Francard as Sylvie
- Anne Charrier as Marion Genet
- Romain Levi as Stéphane Codron
- Adam Nagaitis as Quinn
Season two sees the return of Melissa McBride (The Mist, Living Proof) as Carol Peletier, with Manish Dayal (The Resident, Halt and Catch Fire) joining in the recurring role of Ash.
When can I watch The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon?
Both season 1 and 2 of the spin-off series will air on Sky and NOW in the UK in August. It will not be available on any other services such as Netflix or Amazon Prime.
How many episodes of The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon are there?
The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon’s first season ran for six episodes.
A second season is titled The Book of Carol and ran for six episodes.
There’s plenty of other Walking Dead content to sink your teeth into.
The Walking Dead’s main series ran for a total of 11 seasons and 177 episodes.
There are also five other spin-offs besides Daryl Dixon, eight seasons of webisodes, the multiple tie-in video games and, of course, the graphic novels that started the entire franchise.
What other spin-offs of The Walking Dead are there?
The Walking Dead is a whole universe - and at the time of writing (May 2024) there are six official spin-offs to build the world even more.
These shows are based before, during, and after the main Walking Dead series, building up the world as we know it and, in some cases, providing context to the behaviour or the main characters in the series.
Aside from Daryl Dixon, these are the other five spin-offs available.
Fear The Walking Dead (2015 - 2023)
The first spin-off of the show, Fear The Walking Dead can theoretically be split into two eras.
For the first three seasons, Fear acts as a prequel to the events of the main series, and focuses on a ‘blended’ family as they navigate life during the onset of the outbreak.
Central to this is Madison Clark, a high school counsellor, her fiancé Travis, and his ex Liza, as well as the children they have together and from previous families.
From season four, as Fear’s timeline begins to run in line with the main series, the show shifts to focus largely on Morgan Jones (Lennie James), a character who originated in The Walking Dead.
The show ran for eight seasons and 113 episodes, airing its finale on November 20, 2023.
The Walking Dead: World Beyond (2020 - 2021)
The Walking Dead: World Beyond follows a group of teenage survivors as they become the first generation to come-of-age in the wake of the zombie apocalypse.
Set approximately ten years after the outbreak, the group begin the series having grown up within the walls of Nebraska State University - a safe zone protected by the US military.
As a result, they have lived both a sheltered existence having never left the campus, but one where they’ve practically known nothing but life post-outbreak.
The show was fixed from the outset to only run for two seasons, totalling 20 episodes, and aired its finale on December 5, 2021.
Tales Of The Walking Dead (2022)
Tales Of The Walking Dead is a six-episode anthology series, with each instalment focusing on sole stories of people’s lives surrounding the outbreak that changes their world forever.
Among the stories is that of Dee (Samantha Morton), a protective mother trying to survive with her daughter, and her journey to become the Whisperers leader Alpha as we know her in the main series.
Other episodes include appearances from Terry Crews as a Doomsday prepper forced to leave the safety of his bunker to locate a friend, Olivia Munn as a woman on the road trying to find safety, and Parker Posey and Jillian Bell as warring employees who are forced to work together to survive.
The Walking Dead: Dead City (2023 - Present)
The first series released after The Walking Dead finale, Dead City tracks Negan (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) and Maggie (Lauren Cohan) after they break away from the main group.
Wanting to track down and recover Maggie’s son Hershel, the pair head to a derelict Manhattan, New York, after it's been cut off from the mainland.
In order to work together, the pair need to come to terms with their shared past, which includes Negan brutally murdering Maggie’s husband, Glenn.
The show has already been confirmed for a second season.
Read more about Dead City here.
The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live (2024)
The Ones Who Live is the long-awaited spin-off focused on the main series’ former leading man Rick Grimes (Andrew Lincoln) and Michonne (Danai Gurira).
The series tracks where Rick Grimes has been since he was last seen in The Walking Dead, and his efforts to get back to Michonne, as Michonne also tries to find him after discovering he was actually still alive.
The Ones Who Live ran for six episodes, with no announced plans at the time of writing (May 2024) for a second season.
Read more about The Ones Who Live here.
Webisodes
On top of the official six, full-length spin-offs, there are also eight seasons of ‘webisodes’ - totalling 63 episodes - that are connected to the show. These are exclusively short, online clips, with each collection having an overarching plot and loose tie-ins to both The Walking Dead and Fear The Walking Dead.
These are the official webisode ‘seasons’:
- Torn Apart - Six episodes
- Cold Storage - Four episodes
- The Oath - Three episodes
- Flight 462 - 16 episodes
- Passage - 16 episodes
- Red Machete - Six episodes
- The Althea Tapes - Six episodes
- Dead In The Water - Six episodes
All the webisodes are available to watch on YouTube.
What is the age rating of The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon?
The Walking Dead’s official rating in the UK, as certified by the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC), is 18 for the complete run.
This rating asserts the show is suitable for adult audiences only - and is definitely not for the faint-hearted.
Reasons for this rating include:
- Heavily implied sex scenes, including implications of rape or assault.
- Severe levels of violence including creative kills
- Regular depictions of decomposed, rotting corpses.
- Graphic use of blood and gore - including flesh being pulled from live bodies and spurting blood from wounds.
- Use of weaponry including guns, arrows, barbed wire bats and knives.
- Frequent depictions of perilous scenarios including torture, abduction, car chases, and facing numerous zombie hordes.
How to watch The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon in the UK
Sky is the official UK home for the essential shows of The Walking Dead franchise.
The original 11 series will be available on Sky, and we are the exclusive home of the spin-offs Dead City, The Ones Who Live and Daryl Dixon
In the US, The Walking Dead is broadcast via cable giant AMC.