#Auditions for rick the walking dead series#

Fear the Walking Dead was recently renewed for an eighth season, while anthology series Tales of the Walking Dead recently began its first season. The series returns for the last eight episodes of its 11th and final season on October 2 on AMC and AMC+, but that won't be the last you'll hear from this undead universe. Throughout the cast departures (and returns), heartbreaking deaths, and innumerable Zombie Kills of the Week, The Walking Dead has continuously captured the collective imagination and kept fans on their toes with a cascade of unexpected revelations.

Just consider, the words 'midseason finale' did not exist before Rick Grimes and his crew came onto the scene. Mad Men, along with Breaking Bad, may have introduced the era of peak TV, but it was The Walking Dead that made the most indelible and immediate impression, a show that became a consistent ratings juggernaut and would shape the television landscape into the present. In addition to bringing us some of our most beloved actors, not to mention characters, The Walking Dead introduced a new watermark for television violence, pushing the acceptable standards from the stylized, benign realm of CSI and 24 into full-on NC-17 territory. The inaugural season accomplished many things, amongst them launching the careers of Jon Bernthal and Steven Yeun, reinvigorating that of Norman Reedus, and proving that Andrew Lincoln could play more than the world's creepiest sign twirler. It may be difficult to recall, 12 years on, how innovative and positively shocking the first season of The Walking Dead was when it aired on AMC in October through December of 2010.

Auditions for rick the walking dead