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This is the complete recap of Daryl from The Walking Dead,
to get you ready for his new show, Daryl Dixon.
Yes Daryl is getting his own series, it premieres September 10th on AMC and AMC+.
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and join in on Daryl's new adventure in The Walking Dead Universe.
Daryl Dixon was part of our original season one survivors’ camp.
He's a skilled outdoorsman who hunts with a crossbow and rides a motorcycle,
so a cool vibe, and a handy guy to have in the zombie apocalypse
But season one short hair Daryl is an angry young man,
He's especially angry right now because the group left
his brother, Merle Dixon, handcuffed on the roof.
And by the time they get back to rescue him,
Merle's cut off his own hand to escape and vanished without a trace.
But Daryl forgives Rick Grimes, he understands
that his brother Merle is kind of a bad dude who was probably asking for it.
In season two, as the group searches for Carol's lost daughter, Sophia,
it’s Daryl who really shines here, taking point on the search as the skilled tracker guy.
And we get to see Daryl softer side as he comforts the grieving mother Carol.
“Don't give up hope,” and pretty soon Daryl and Carol become best friends.
In season three our group moves into a prison, and we finally find Daryl's brother Merle,
who has replaced his cut-off hand with an awesome knife hand.
But Merle Dixon is not a good guy, the rest of the group wants nothing to do with him,
so Daryl leaves the group to go off with his brother alone.
But when Merle tries to rob some people, Daryl stops him,
“Yo, I'm a good guy now.” So finally stands up to his big brother.
Soon after Merle is killed by The Governor,
and Daryl's got to put his zombie brother down.
They had a complex relationship, Daryl hoped Merle could grow to be a better person,
but his story comes to an end.
But Daryl has found a new brother figure in Rick Grimes, our group's leader,
Daryl's become his right hand man.
As The Governor attacks the prison with a tank,
it's Daryl who blows it up with his sick Call of Duty skills.
But now, in season four, as the prison's destroyed our group gets separated,
Daryl escapes with Maggie's sister, Beth.
These two make a hilarious pairing as Daryl teaches her the ways
of eating rattlesnake and drinking moonshine.
And Daryl’s not the type to talk about his feelings, but Beth coaxes it out of him,
opens up about his rough early life, and now admits the traumas of the zombie apocalypse,
and Beth comforts him, “It's okay,”
so these two have formed a beautiful friendship.
But in season five, Beth's captured by the hospital,
which ends in her death! Oh, tragic!
Now over time Daryl has evolved, from short hair angry Daryl
to long hair, stoic, strong silent type Daryl.
Our group finally makes it to the safety of Alexandria,
a neighborhood with real big walls and running water and power.
But the outdoorsman, Daryl, has become a bit more feral than most.
He has a tough time adjusting back to civilization.
While the rest of the group happily cleans up,
Daryl famously doesn't shower, until Mama Carol makes him.
At the end of season six, the group meets Negan, their biggest villain yet,
who forces them on their knees while he kills Abraham.
Daryl’s not sitting still, he fights back,
which is against the rules and ends with Negan killing Glenn!
Oh! Daryl gets to feel guilty about that now.
Negan takes Daryl prisoner, wants him to join his group,
so tries to break him by playing on a loop, the upbeat, corny song, “Easy Street!”
But at the end of the war, Rick makes the decision to let Negan live,
which Daryl disagrees with, “That guy's got to die.”
These two have a best friend bro fight, which ends with them
falling in a pit that’s swarmed by zombies.
And as they’re climbing out, Rick calls him “Brother.”
Yes, not the brother he was born with, but the brother he found.
But it's right now that they get separated,
and Rick Grimes has to sacrifice himself to save Alexandria!
And oh! Daryl's lost his best friend.
But we find out Rick survived!
And was picked up by the Civic Republic helicopter,
which we'll learn more about in his own new series.
But now in season nine, Daryl spent the whole time jump searching for Rick,
since he never found a body, figures he must be out there somewhere.
And so Daryl's been living out here by himself,
Become the old hermit of the woods, Obi-Wan Daryl Kenobi.
He's not totally alone out here, though, he’s got a new best friend,
a dog named... Dog.
But his best friend Carol convinces him to rejoin the group,
We're the only characters from season one left.
And with Michonne also leaving the show to track down Rick,
it's Uncle Daryl who becomes the primary caretaker of Rick Grimes’ daughter Judith.
And Daryl and Judith have a heartwarming relationship,
She fixes up his old vest, paints one wing blue.
So in season ten, Daryl helps the group fight against The Whisperers.
Then in season eleven helps them fight the Reapers.
And Daryl knows one of the Reapers, it’s Leah,
Dog's original owner, and Daryl's girlfriend during the time jump.
So they find themselves on opposite sides of this conflict,
And in the end, when Leah’s trying to kill Maggie, Daryl has to kill her!
But the main villain of the final season is The Commonwealth,
a massive group with the Stormtrooper armor.
Our group joins the Commonwealth because it's much more than a survivors community,
it's a full on city with return to civilization!
And Daryl joins the Commonwealth military,
yeah he needs that Stormtrooper salary to provide for his family.
but obviously the Commonwealth turns out to be the bad guys,
and so when push comes to shove, Daryl chooses his friends, no question.
And as our group instigates the Commonwealth Revolution,
it's Daryl Dixon who's there at the center of it.
He channels his inner Rick Grimes with a speech
about how the living need to stick together to fight against the dead.
And in season five, as Rick said the iconic line, “We are the Walking Dead,”
pointing out the duality of the title that the survivors themselves have no hope for a future.
But now Daryl says, the counter line, “We ain't the Walking Dead,”
because there is hope for a future!
And now with the Commonwealth under new management, the future looks bright.
Ten-ish years into the zombie apocalypse, human civilization is making a comeback.
But Daryl Dixon is not sticking around, with Rick's kids now safe,
he's got to go back out there and find their father.
So, as The Walking Dead comes to an end, Daryl's riding his motorcycle
off into the metaphorical sunset of his new spinoff series, “Daryl Dixon.”
But this new show takes place in France,
and we don't know where Rick Grimes is, but it's definitely not France.
So the question of “Why France?” goes back to season one,
when our group came to the Center for Disease Control
and Doctor Jenner explained the basics of the zombie virus to them.
the world fell apart before they could find a cure,
but the French, apparently, were getting pretty close!
Then in The Walking Dead: World Beyond,
which you can watch my recap of to get the full story.
But the after credits scene is set in France,
where someone is pulling out the old messages from Dr. Jenner.
But someone else hunting them down, and they say that
the French scientists started the zombie apocalypse!
And indeed, the graffiti there, “Les morts sont nes ici,”
Oui, je parle un peu de Francais, that means “the dead were born here.”
But this guy also says “You started the zombie apocalypse, then you made it worse.”
We can assume what he's talking about is how this person turns immediately
and starts running for the door!
In France, they're not the Walking Dead, they're the Running Dead.
Yes in the final season, we got a glimpse that the zombies are evolving!
Yes some are smart enough to open doorknobs or climb things,
they call them “Variants.”
So I am pumped for this new Daryl show,
it looks like it's going to be pretty sweet!
It's an exciting new chapter in The Walking Dead universe,
so if you've ever been a fan of the show, now's the time to get back into it.
Daryl is obviously one of my all time favorite Walking Dead characters,
and will we actually learn about how the zombie apocalypse started?
And maybe try to cure it?!
Plus, what is going on in France? From the beginning of The Walking Dead,
we've always wondered, like, what's happening in the rest of the world?
We'll find out in Daryl Dixon,
which premieres Sunday, September 10th on AMC and AMC+.
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