Within the sophomore season of AMC’s apocalyptic spinoff The Strolling Lifeless: Lifeless Metropolis, the 2 leads, survivors Negan (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) and Maggie (Lauren Cohan), have been like ships passing within the evening — solely sharing just a few scenes right here and there, as they’re each unwilling individuals on reverse ends of a ugly battle for management of a methane operation in Manhattan.
However in TV Insider’s unique clip from the sixth episode, “Bridge Companions Are Arduous to Come by These Days,” which airs on Sunday, June 8, Maggie involves Negan after having misplaced her son Hershel (Logan Kim), who she believes has run off to be with the Dama (Lisa Emery). Kim revealed to TV Insider just a few weeks in the past that Hershel would face a tough selection between his courageous mom and the sort however ruthless Dama. Is that coming quickly? Possibly, possibly not.
Within the clip, Maggie appears crestfallen as she sits close to Negan. However he makes a giant admission: “The Dama’s lifeless. Burned to loss of life.” What does this imply for Hershel and his whereabouts? Time will inform. However for now, Negan tries his greatest to reassure Maggie. “The Dama has this fashion of studying folks, you realize, entering into their heads and making them do issues they wouldn’t usually do,” he says.
This installment additionally marks Cohan’s directorial debut after a few years appearing on Lifeless and serving as an government producer for Lifeless Metropolis. “I positively sought all the recommendation that I may,” she admitted to us throughout New York Comedian Con in 2024 concerning the new endeavor. “The arrogance that I had from taking part in Maggie and from being on this world for a very long time gave me the arrogance to know the locations I wanted assist. It made for an expertise that was a lot better than the sum of its elements… It was life-changing.”
She additionally teases that the episode is “coming at some extent within the season the place we get to drop into some very tender character moments for everybody within the present,” which sounds quite a bit like what we see within the unique clip above. “There’s an enormous motion sequence, and I had an advanced factor that I needed to direct myself in,” she continues, including that, “That is the most effective of this world. The Strolling Lifeless cake was divided equally on this episode.” Sounds scrumptious to us.
The Strolling Lifeless: Lifeless Metropolis, Sundays, 9/8c, AMC and AMC+