The Walking Dead: Ranking Every Season of the Original Series

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“The Walking Dead” is a post-apocalyptic horror drama series adapted from the comic book series created by Robert Kirkman, Tony Moore, and Charlie Adlard. The show features a sizable ensemble cast, including actors like Andrew Lincoln, Norman Reedus, Melissa McBride, Lauren Cohan, Danai Gurira, Steven Yeun, Chandler Riggs, Christian Serratos, Josh McDermitt, Seth Gilliam, and Jeffrey Dean Morgan.

The Walking Dead: Ranking Every Season of the Original Series

Season 8

Rick, Maggie, and Ezekiel rally their communities against Negan and the Saviors. A dispute arises when Carl defends a stranger, but Rick fears a spy. Alexandria is attacked, Carl’s bitten by a walker. Before his death, Carl urges Rick to end the war peacefully. Negan’s plan fails, and Rick spares him, honoring Carl’s wish.

Season 10

Alpha launches random walker attacks on communities. Carol tasks Negan with infiltrating the Whisperers, resulting in Alpha’s assassination. Carol and Daryl part ways, and amid tension with Maggie, Carol banishes Negan to Leah’s cabin. Michonne discovers evidence hinting at Rick’s survival. Aaron and Gabriel find an abandoned warehouse but face trouble from Mays, who claims it as his Safehouse. Eugene, Princess, Yumiko, and Ezekiel are imprisoned in separate boxcars by masked soldiers.

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Season 6

Deanna entrusts Rick with Alexandria’s protection. During a supply run, a truck crashes into the gates, and the Wolves use walkers in an attack. Carol disguises herself as a Wolf to eliminate intruders, but Morgan disapproves of killing. Deanna gets bitten, and the Anderson family perishes. Glenn seeks Enid, hiding from walkers. They discover Hilltop and Jesus, who offers a deal to confront the threat of the Saviors, led by Negan. Eventually, the group falls under Negan’s control.

Season 7

Negan brutally kills Glenn and Abraham with his barbed wire-wrapped bat, Lucille. To break Rick, Negan forces him to fight through a horde of walkers in heavy fog. Rick eventually submits to Negan’s demands to provide for him. The Saviors take Daryl with them. Sasha takes Maggie to Hilltop for medical care while the group returns to Alexandria. Carol, injured, awakens in The Kingdom led by King Ezekiel. Negan threatens Carl and Rick with Lucille but is interrupted by Ezekiel’s tiger. Fighters from The Kingdom and Hilltop arrive to aid Alexandria.

Season 11

With Alexandria’s food supply dwindling, Maggie, Daryl, Gabriel, Alden, and Negan venture to Meridian, Maggie’s former home. Simultaneously, Eugene, Ezekiel, Yumiko, and Princess undergo questioning by the Commonwealth, a prosperous community with a strict class structure. They persuade the Commonwealth to aid the Coalition, but tensions escalate when Governor Pamela Milton’s corruption is exposed, leading to a crisis involving the lower classes.

During a rescue operation, Rosita is bitten, and Michonne’s departure in search of Rick is revealed. Daryl departs in pursuit of Rick and Michonne, while Maggie embraces Negan as an ally and Ezekiel takes over as governor.

Season 2

Leaving Atlanta, Rick and the group halt on a highway blocked by abandoned vehicles, seeking fuel and supplies. A massive walker herd appears, chasing Sophia into the woods. Rick lures them away but returns to find Sophia missing.

The search continues, and Carl is accidentally shot. Daryl, on horseback, searches for Sophia but hallucinates about his brother Merle. They take refuge on Hershel’s farm, but tensions mount as Rick discovers a barn filled with walkers, and he must confront Shane’s jealousy and ultimately kill him. Walkers’ arrival forces an evacuation.

Season 4

Several months post-Governor’s attack, a deadly flu sweeps through the prison, taking many lives. Carol’s extreme measures to safeguard the group raise concern. Rick attempts to console Tyreese over Karen’s death but violently assaults him until Daryl intervenes. Rick and Carol embark on a supply run and discuss her actions, leading to her exile from the prison.

Meanwhile, a team seeks medicine for the sick, and Hershel and Maggie care for the ill. Following Hershel and the Governor’s deaths, the group departs, guided by signs to Terminus, seeking refuge.

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Season 1

The series begins with Sheriff Deputy Rick Grimes awakening from a coma, disoriented and alone. He leaves the hospital to search for his wife Lori and son Carl, encountering survivors Morgan Jones and his son Duane, who explain the world’s dire situation. In Atlanta, Rick, overwhelmed by walkers, gets trapped in a tank but is rescued by Glenn.

He joins a group including Merle Dixon and later returns to rescue Merle. Meanwhile, Lori and Carl, with Rick presumed dead, develop a relationship with Rick’s friend Shane Walsh. The group faces a walker attack, prompting a move to the CDC in Atlanta in search of help.

Season 3

Eight months after leaving the farm, Rick’s group takes refuge in an abandoned house for rest. While hunting, Daryl and Rick find a promising long-term location: a prison with ample food, guns, and medicine. Lori is nearing her due date and Rick is upset about her response to Shane’s death.

Amid clearing the prison of walkers and inmates, Hershel gets bitten, and Rick amputates his lower leg to prevent infection. Tragedy strikes when Lori dies during an emergency C-section, causing Rick to unravel and Carl to take a dire step. Meanwhile, Andrea and Michonne encounter Woodbury, led by “The Governor,” who aims to confront Rick’s group. Tensions escalate, leading Woodbury’s residents to join the prison.

Season 9

After Negan’s downfall, Rick proposes a bridge to facilitate trade between communities. When Saviors in the construction crew go missing, tension mounts, and Aaron loses an arm in an accident involving Justin, a troublesome Savior. Meanwhile, Maggie publicly executes Gregory, and Daryl and Maggie uncover a group targeting only Saviors, inspired by Maggie’s actions.

Maggie plans to assassinate Negan. Rick, hallucinating Shane, Hershel, and Sasha, heads to the bridge. To protect the group from walkers, Rick decides to destroy the bridge, sacrificing himself. Six years later, a new threat arises: the Whisperers, led by “Alpha.”

Season 5

Rick and his group’s arrival at Terminus takes a horrifying turn when they discover the residents are cannibals. Carol, who didn’t go to Terminus, saves them. She leads them to Tyreese and Rick’s daughter, Judith. The group encounters Gabriel Stokes, a preacher with a secret, who takes them to his church. During a food run, Bob is kidnapped by Terminus survivors, revealing he’s been bitten. They meet Aaron, who invites them to the Alexandria community.

However, Rick realizes they are unprepared for the outside world. Beth is captured by corrupt cops and taken to Grady Memorial Hospital. Daryl and Carol set out to rescue her, but Carol is injured. The group, including Tyreese, Sasha, and Noah, plans a hostage exchange to retrieve Carol and Beth.

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