Dead City" Season 2, Episode 1 After a combined 18 seasons in "The Walking Dead" universe, Scott M. Gimple considers Maggie (Lauren Cohan) and Negan (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) to be zombie-bashing pros. That's why it's been so thrilling to force these two characters to return to the highest stakes apocalypse landscape imaginable in "The Waking Dead: Dead City": New York City.

Dead City hit the ground running with a short time jump, the introduction of new characters and the promise of an all-out war brewing between the New Babylon Federation and the survivors of Manhattan.

Dead City when it comes to resetting the stakes. Maggie and Negan are back in the spinoff, this time on opposite sides of a full-blown urban battle, after a dramatic first chapter that compelled them into an uneasy collaboration.