The hit spinoff series The Walking Dead: Dead City will return for a second season in 2025. Ahead of the show’s return, the stars of the series discussed what it’s like to work on the show.

At New York Comic Con, Kevin Polowy of CBR discussed Dead City with franchise Chief Creative Officer Scott M. Gimple along with series stars Lauren Cohan (Maggie) and Gaius Charles (Perlie Armstrong). Gimple took a moment to reflect on his journey with the franchise, which first began as a fan who was not directly involved. He now feels grateful to be present for the development of the franchise’s continued spinoffs, though they vary in just how much he’s able to contribute.

“I loved the show before I worked on the show,” Gimple said. “I ended up working on the show. And it’s a blast helping make the other shows, whether it’s helping launch them, helping create them, helping as they go along, and making new things, working on how they might all touch each other in one way or another. It’s great. I’m very, very lucky. It’s weird, it’s been a long time, but it doesn’t feel like that long… I feel very lucky to have the best seat in the house and be there to help, however.”

Season 2 of The Walking Dead: Dead City Arrives in 2025

The Walking Dead: Dead City was previously renewed for a second season, and it was recently confirmed that Season 2 will premiere in 2025. Gimple and the actors were asked if they could tease what’s to come in the new episodes, and though they couldn’t get specific, they offered some interesting hints. Cohan said that the second season gets “very hairy,” and she further hinted that certain characters get “toe fungus,” but “Hershel (Logan Kim) doesn’t, because somebody took his toe off.”

“We go deeper into everything the first season was,” Gimple added, “Emotions get deeper, the action gets bigger, and there’s just more to the world. More characters, we learn more about what happened to New York City through these characters, and of course, it gets very intense between Maggie and Negan (Jeffrey Dean Morgan). It’s the first season cranked up.”

It’s the first season cranked up.

Cohan then noted, “We sort of land and then lay roots, and things pop up from those roots. Groups, and drama, et cetera.”

Perlie Gets a Better Undersanding of Negan and Maggie

Charles also addressed what the relationship will be like between Maggie and Perlie moving forward. He pointed out how Perlie didn’t know about the history between Maggie and Negan, but he’s ending into the second season with a better understanding of where those two are coming from.

“We weren’t the best of friends at the end of Season 1, but we end up having to work together to get some things done, and I get to finally understand what this crazy relationship is between Maggie and Negan,” Charles said. “The audience knows, obviously, but my character doesn’t know, and so, it’s just like, ‘Oh, okay, interesting. That’s what that is. Kind of weird energy there.'”

Cohan further teased about Season 2, “We left off at the end of Season 1 with what should have been a resolution with her and Hershel, and should have been a settled, decided thing with the trade with Negan, and it just isn’t that simple. So, we’re definitely launched into the season with what seems, at first, like a fix. Personally, what [Maggie’s] going through is a great reckoning this season. It’s a reckoning with when you put horse blinders on, in your life, and dealing with trauma, or your teenage child.”

The Walking Dead: Dead City will premiere its second season on AMC and AMC+ in 2025.