How did Daryl Dixon end up in France on The Walking Dead?

When “The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon” premiered on AMC, my mom watched it before I did. At the time, I asked her how the crossbow-wielding fan-favorite character managed to get from America’s East Coast to France while living in an apocalyptic, zombie-infested wasteland. “Some bad guys got him,” she answered simply. On paper, this is a laughable explanation for the sudden and drastic change in scenery over the course of a decade in a series that only moves its characters in ways that make sense. After watching the show, it became clear that she was right: Daryl’s big move is to introduce new villains whose misdeeds take place in the vicinity of one of the most beautiful cities in the world. world.

Behind the scenes, Reedus and any of the returning cast and crew members from the main series also moved to France for filming, which is undoubtedly a big change after 12 years spent filming in Atlanta, Georgia. The “bad guys” explanation is actually deceptively simple, as the series spends most of its first season dancing around the details of how Daryl ended up outside before revealing the backstory (and bizarre motivations) of his captors in episode five. “Carol,” as Season 2 is subtitled, also reintroduces Carol Pelletier (Melissa McBride), who was Daryl’s survival partner for most of The Walking Dead. By the end of Season 2, the pair reunited, but also left France behind. This is another long story from a show that likes to tell long stories.

‘The Walking Dead’ started dropping hints about what Daryl’s spin-off series might entail long before it ended. In a flashback episode of Season 10, Daryl retreats into nature, the place where he feels most comfortable, to try to figure out what happened to Rick (Andrew Lincoln) when he supposedly died. There he met a woman named Leah (Lynn Collins) and her dog, Kalb, with whom both fell in love. Of course, since this is the depressing show in the world, Leia later reveals some dangerous tendencies and unclear loyalties, and Daryl is eventually forced to kill her.

The final two seasons of The Walking Dead tell us everything we need to know about Daryl Dixon’s series without actually learning about its plot or characters. Late-era “Walking Dead” Daryl is a loner, but he’s also able to show love and still has a strong relationship with Carol. He’s also quite the hero, even when it almost kills him. This all sets the stage for his eventual exit from the main series when, in the show’s finale, Daryl discovers that Rick is still alive. At the end of Season 11, he decided to set out once again to find his old friend.

Of course, Daryl doesn’t appear in the Rick-focused series The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live, because by the time Michonne (Danai Gurira) and Rick meet on-screen in this show, we’ve already seen Daryl drift off to a completely different continent. On his own show. Fans are shown Daryl passed out on a small boat at the beginning of “The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon,” but the full backstory behind that moment isn’t explained until Episode 5.

While on a quest to find Rick, Daryl runs out of gas in Maine and decides to help some people catch walkers in exchange for fuel to get home. The man who works at the gas station, Juno (John Alliss), is a real business man, and after he kills a boy named TJ (Martin Martinez) in cold blood, Daryl confronts him. It is later revealed that a group called Power of the Living (or Pouvoir Du Vivant) captures both Daryl and Juno after their fight and takes them on a ship made up of their Parisian band. On the plane, Daryl discovers that Marion Genet (Anne Charrier), leader of Beauvoir de Vivin, is conducting devious experiments on different variants of the treadmill in order to better understand the mechanics of the virus.

Later, the whole thing became a bit Victor Hugo (and well A bit of Mad Max for different reasons) Genet’s flashback also reveals that she was an abused museum worker who went on strike before the virus spread, and that she is using Beauvoir’s organization to claim the power hoarded by the upper classes early in the apocalypse. However, the group is violent and cruel at times, and when Daryl and Juno attempt to escape the ship, the latter is torn to shreds by a walker that is being kept for experiments. Daryl, a reluctant leader, led a mutiny on board the ship and played dead atop a small escape ship after crashing into his genie. For some reason, Beauvoir’s crew is conducting his experiments on a ship in international waters, so they get Daryl most of the way to France before he ditches the big boat and drifts through the final leg of the journey on his own.

Nevertheless It was initially announced that McBride was the co-lead of the spin-off and had to step down From the first season due to scheduling problems. Her voice can first be heard in Season 1, when she and Daryl speak briefly over a spotty radio connection. In her first appearance on the show, she runs over a man riding Darrell’s motorcycle in Maine, playing innocence before hitting him with a wrench and trapping him in the trunk of her car. The first season of the show ends on a strong note, with Carol riding Daryl’s bike, and she’s chasing after him.

However, it’s in Maine, and it’s not easy to get a flight to France several years after the apocalypse. Carol gets some information about Daryl’s location from the men at the gas station, but her transport turns out to be a small plane piloted by a man named Ash Patel (Manish Dayal). Carol meets Ash at his home, and despite their bond, he is unwilling to leave the place that has clearly been turned into a shrine to his deceased son’s memory. Carol has always been willing to do whatever it takes to get what she wants, and she does it here too, when she lies and tells Ash that her daughter Sofia (who was definitely turned into a zombie and was a victim of classic Rick Grimes) is a face In the second season of The Walking Dead) He lives in France.

The plan succeeds, and Ash flies Carol to Greenland. From there, she continues on to France, where she eventually reunites with Daryl despite the apparent lack of Google Maps available in this post-apocalyptic hellscape. The duo finished the second season with a plan to head to England Variety reported The third season of the show is being filmed in Spain.

“The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon” is currently showing on AMC+.