Welcome back everyone it's charlie a lot of you been asking me to do a new walking dead video
since this is going to be the final season in there been several trailers for the first
batch of episodes this is getting my walking dead season 11 refresher video AMC released
season 11 episode 1 a week early on their streaming bundle AMC+ so if you haven't seen it yet
Be sure to check it out there service AMC+ is available on all platforms and devices.
However you watch your TV show should be good to go up a link for that stuff in the description
below the boat is there is that you can watch the full episode one week early before they
are on television they been doing this for the past few years on a Thursday, so some
of you probably already known about it.
The difference this year.
Is this the first time AMC+ is releasing each episode.
The Sunday before airs on television.
If you really like the bonus content that they been doing for the final season they
been doing a bunch of special bonus episodes, interviews and all that for the main characters
that they been releasing each week they're trying to go all out.
Just because it is the last season of the main show as the dam posting this video AMC+
already has the walking dead origins episodes featuring Daryl Maggie Negan and Carol also
worked in a bunch of new preview footage from future episodes into those bonus episodes as well
But the real big thing for this final season for season 11 is that Maggie is back for pretty
much the entire season and their doing the Commonwealth storyline from the comics.
Finally, which is what that for commercial in the trailers all about hello I'm Lance
Hornsby welcome to the Commonwealth I love the whole VHS vibe that they get to that.
Like that's a take they just pass around make everybody watch whenever they bring them to
the Commonwealth, so just to explain what's going on with the Commonwealth because are
such a big group the like the next main antagonists in the series.
They introduce the Commonwealth during season 10 this past year.
They started with Eugene trying to figure out where Stephanie was from because they
knew that she was from another big community like Alexandria hilltop Oceanside, but she
always refused to answer any of his questions about where she was actually from so just
like Eugene does he just kept plugging away until she eventually caved in revealed that
she was from a community in Charleston West Virginia which is where the TV show version
of the Commonwealth is located.
But at that time when she was revealing that none of the characters had use the name Commonwealth
yet nobody was calling it that the first time that they actually tease them officially on
screen was during season 10 episode 16 a certain doom when Eugene's group was trying to find
Stephanie's group Wanda being ambushed by the Commonwealth soldiers in their full storm
trooper looking Walker riot gear all hardcore the soldiers trying to capture Eugene's group
are all you really learn about them until season 11 no coincidence that was also the
episode where Maggie came back to the show with a much larger baby Herschel got a little
bit bigger and the time jump is all that drama between her and Negan that they still have
to pay off during season 11 who is, since now come back to Alexandria and tried to help
them rebuild but the big difference between the Commonwealth and the other settlements
that we've seen on the show so far across the many many seasons.
Like Alexandria is the Commonwealth is like a fully functioning state made up of a bunch
of smaller communities is not any 1 Single place the name Commonwealth is actually a
reference to the collective group of communities that have banded together in a more organized
form of governance in the apocalypse way more organized than the alliances that we've seen
previously on the show.
Like when Alexandrian hilltop would team up.
All told, there's about 50,000 people that call themselves a member of the Commonwealth
between all the different pockets of communities even have a sports arena concerts with musicians
like they have a thriving cultural arts scene.
Despite the apocalypse like you see during that intro video that they give.
Like Buckham, the Commonwealth it actually looks like just a regular community where
you might go live before the apocalypse happened even have a railroad that they're building
between the different communities to speed up transportation and as you saw during season
10 with that big teaser.
They even have a fully equipped hardcore fully functional Army the like the most legit main
group that the characters on the show have ever encountered in the series.
Their leaders a woman named Pamela Milton her title is Govenor of the Commonwealth will
meet her during season 11 the Lance Hornsby character the you see in the trailer is just
one of the higher ranking members underneath Pamela the person you're seeing in the red
Commonwealth armor is Michael James Shaw, he's playing Mercer he is hardcore.
I want to get into spoilers for his character.
But he's a really big deal during season 11 what's different about their society, though
the way they organize themselves as they have this neo-feudal system differentiated by higher
classes and lower-class people based on what everyone's jobs were before the apocalypse
like all the upper-class people and their society are the business professionals from
for the apocalypse politicians, doctors, the lower-class of their society is made up mostly
of the people with blue-collar jobs from before the apocalypse like general tradesmen like
repairman grocers, farmers people like that.
But the Commonwealth isn't meant to be this perfect place.
As you can imagine.
Like they have the same types of internal issues that any large society has when they're
stratified with an extremely wealthy upper-class and extremely poor, lower-class with the whole
idea is that the Commonwealth is self like this nationstate made up of smaller communities
continues to take in other small communities growing larger and larger, so the ideas that
unless something just completely goes off the rails, which it often does.
People believe that the Commonwealth might eventually be the permanent replacement for
the former United States like structurally and governmentally like a totally new type
of nation just laid on top of what used to be the United States.
Maggie is a huge part of the Commonwealth storyline.
So that's one of the reasons why Lauren Cohan came back for so many episodes during season
11 if you haven't read it.
The comic book series ended a while ago's you cannot she go read that right now.
But the TV show isn't really doing the comic book storyline the exact same way.
Like Daryl for example 1 of the biggest characters on the show is not a comic book character
Carol Peletier another good example huge character on the show radically different from comic
book Carol some of the comic book stuff from the Commonwealth will seem familiar and there
always Easter eggs with the storylines they try to include on the TV show episodes.
As of right now they confirm Rick Grimes is still alive.
Even though his whereabouts are still unknown they plan on covering what happened to him
after season nine during the walking dead movies.
They're still working on right now I don't have any information about those, but they
have said that they're still working on them in early theory I wouldn't be surprised if
Andrew Lincoln makes another appearance on the main show at least by the very last episode
season 11 has a total of 24 episode.
So it is a supersize season many the actual series finale.
The very last episode of the walking dead won't air till next year if you do have any
big questions about season 11 or what's going on with any of the characters just right them
below in the comments and I'll try to address them.
Links for the new episodes on AMC+ are down in the description below.
Thank you so much for watching everyone stay safe and I'll see you in the next video!