The Walking Dead Timeline...So Far | Cinematica

- The last decade has been very wild, but "The Walking Dead" has not been wild. Despite all the zombies and bloodshed, AMC's hit show has survived for 10 years in the devastated wasteland that is cable television. "The Walking Dead" has had some of the most unbalanced and confusing time jumps ever, so we've broken it all down and put it back together into a digestible

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. Just in time for the second half of season 10! This won't cover most of the spin-off series, "Fear the Walking Dead," but leave a comment if it's something you want to see in the future. (film reel whirring) Pre-outbreak.

In World War II, Rick Grimes' grandfather was a soldier. Every day he went to war believing he was already a

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man. When the war came to an end, he allowed himself to return to life. Growing up, Rick would ask his grandfather questions about his time abroad, and these conversations would later inform Rick's survival in the apocalypse. Merle and Daryl Dixon don't have those role models. They lose their mother in a house fire, leaving them alone with their abusive father. He's so careless that he doesn't even notice when Daryl disappears into the woods for nine days.

Finally, Merle has enough and moves out, leaving Daryl as the sole focus of his father's abuse. The two brothers later rekindle their relationship and lead humble lives of crime and substance abuse. More than 150 years before the zombie apocalypse, the Greene family purchased a farm. It has been in the family for generations and is now run by Hershel Greene. He is a clumsy alcoholic, but stops drinking the day his daughter Maggie is born. His first wife, Josephine, dies, so he remarries Annette and they have a daughter named Beth. Also, Annette has a son named Shawn but he, like so many Walking Dead characters, doesn't really matter.

Lastly on the list of the main character's backstory, we have Michonne. She lives with her boyfriend Mike and her son Andre, and probably collects rainbow cat statues. 131 days before the global outbreak, the CDC detects the first case of the zombie virus. They codename it Wildfire and begin studying its resuscitating effects on the human brain. On the other hand, Rick has become a police officer and lives in Georgia with his wife Lori and his son Carl. He and his son take walks that Carl will remember for his entire life. In 2010, while on patrol with his partner Shane, Rick is shot and falls into a coma.

Shane breaks the bad news to Lori and then continues to watch over her and Carl in Rick's absence. As the zombie outbreak spreads, there are reports of inhumane assaults in five states. In due time it reaches the rest of the country. From day zero to day 83: the day passed. The infection becomes global. Shane rushes back to the hospital to collect Rick's comatose body, but the military beats him to it. They're shooting survivors on sight, so Shane locks the door to Rick's room and gets out of there. He picks up Lori and Carl and they head to a refugee camp, but the road is completely paralyzed.

When Shane and Lori go out to investigate, the military rains napalm on Atlanta. The bombing kills all of the patients evacuated from Grady Memorial Hospital who were outside. With nowhere else to go, Shane and the team set up shop at the quarry on the outskirts of town. They are joined by Carol Peletier and her family. Shane and Lore realize that Rick is

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, so at some point they start sleeping together. Meanwhile, in Baltimore, Lydia and her parents take refuge in an emergency shelter. Weeks go by without anyone coming to look for them. Tensions rise until Lydia's mother loses her mind, kills her husband, and then escapes with her daughter.

Around this time, Michonne, Andre, Mike and their friend Terry also take refuge in a survivors' camp. He is assaulted by walkers who kill everyone except Michonne. She blames Mike and Terry for Andre's death, so she cuts off their arms and jaws with a katana and uses them as zombie shields. She then loses her mind and goes into the desert. Almost two months after the outbreak began, Rick finally wakes up. He is the most confused anyone has ever been. Don't die, open inside, what does that mean? After leaving the hospital, he meets Morgan and Duane Jones. They inform him about the total hell that is the world, oh, and now there are zombies here.

The three load guns at the police station and split up, and Rick heads to Atlanta to find his family. At first he doesn't find them, but he does find a disgusting tank. He then finds himself trapped inside it, trapped by walkers. Fortunately, another survivor, Glenn, guides him by radio and Rick joins Glenn's group. - Hello idiot. Yes, you in the tank. Cozy in there? -They are also part of the quarry group, so they return Rick to his family and it is a happy ending for everyone, in the micro sense. In the big picture, the camp is overrun by walkers, killing some of the survivors, including Carol's, well, abusive husband.

Survivors head to the Center for Disease Control for safety and shelter. Well, they arrive and Dr. Jenner has no safety or sanctuary whatsoever. She actually tells Rick that everyone is infected and the world is lost, and then she blows the whole place into pieces. With no idea what awaits them, the survivors hit the road once again. As the group searches for supplies on a deserted road, they are ambushed by a swarm of walkers. Sophia flees into the woods and disappears, so the others go out to look for her. While Carl searches for her, a farmhand named Otis accidentally shoots him.

Rick and the others take Carl back to Hershel's farm for medical attention. The rest of the group moves there and the search for Sophia continues. What they don't know is that they don't have to look far; Otis already found it converted into a walker and kept it in the barn. On a separate supply run, Shane kills Otis and then loses his mind over it, while Glenn and Maggie Greene get together. Rick discovers that Lori has been sleeping with Shane and is now pregnant with her baby. After Rick and Shane argue about that, Sophia's containment in the barn, and their treatment of a hostage named Randall, Shane finally pulls a gun on Rick.

Rick is forced to kill his old friend, then Carl leaves Shane's reanimated corpse. The gunshot attracts a horde of walkers, which demolishes the Greene family farm and diverts our group. It's also a bad time; winter is coming. Day 84 to Day 321: Promotion of the Governor. After being separated from the pack, Andrea meets Michonne, who is still lurking in the wild. The two last the entire season, while the rest of the survivors move from one place to another. Between their dwindling supplies and Lori's pregnancy, they decide to re-inhabit an old prison. While cleaning the premises, Hershel is bitten by a walker and Rick amputates his leg.

That will put a stop to spaghetti Tuesdays. They also meet this group of prisoners who don't really matter and all die within a few weeks. One of them manages to lure a swarm of walkers into the prison, resulting in the deaths of Lori and T-Dog. Maggie is able to perform a C-section on Lori, saving baby Judith. Before Lori turns into a zombie, Carl shoots her. After learning of Lori's death, Rick loses his mind for a while while he does some things and also some things. At the same time, Andrea and Michonne encounter a town full of survivors called Woodbury, run by a man known as the Governor.

Merle has been there all this time, now sporting a sharp prosthetic arm and working as the Governor's henchman. Michonne finds all of that pretty suspicious, but Andrea isn't too worried. After all, the Governor isn't overtly evil, I mean, maybe if he had an eyepatch or something it would make the point, but hey, does he seem fine? It's not like he keeps his zombified daughter in a dungeon or anything. Unconvinced, Michonne sneaks out of town. Merle and some other red shirts chase after her, but instead run into Glenn and Maggie. Michonne sees them captured and informs Rick at the prison.

On the rescue mission, Michonne gets separated from the squad and finds the Governor's zombified daughter in the brig, and then the Governor finds her. They fight, the Governor loses an eye and yes, he also loses his head. Well, now I'm convinced he's evil. After the invasion of Woodbury, the Governor campaigns to destroy Rick's group. Andrea doesn't want her old team to be killed, so she acts as a mediator and sets up a meeting so the two sides can talk out their differences. The Governor gives Rick the chance to hand over Michonne and avoid war, but he has no plans to follow through on that deal.

When Andrea learns of the Governor's true intentions, she tries to warn Rick's group, but the Governor imprisons her. She leads an army to the prison, but Rick's group ambushes them, driving away most of the survivors. With their numbers dwindling, the governor flees. But when the group reaches Andrea, they have already bitten her. Michonne stays with her as she dies, and in her honor, Rick absorbs the people of Woodbury into her community, including Tyreese and Sasha Williams. Day 321 to day 554: Life between them. After his failure in prison, the governor's followers abandon him. He wanders aimlessly for two filler episodes before meeting Tara Chambler and her family.

Using his bright personality, he is able to convince them to attack the prison once again. Morgan Jones is also alone, having lost his mind after Duane's death. He meets a man named Eastman and his goat Tabitha, who teach him the art of Aikido. Yes, yes, this happened. They spend a couple of months in prison and Rick considers giving up everything and living a simple life as a farmer. His group and the people of Woodbury enjoy a period of harmony until approximately the 500th day of the apocalypse in 2011-2012. They introduce a questionnaire that they use to recruit new survivors: how many walkers have you killed, how many people, and why?

The Governor returns for a second round of invasion, this time taking Michonne and Hershel hostage. Rick tries to negotiate his return, but the governor decides he is too far away and beheads the farmer. Now Christmas is ruined forever. The ensuing battle demolishes the prison and tears the group apart. Rick and Michonne stay behind to take down the Governor and then join Carl and his pudding bucket. Over the next week, they each have their own solo missions: Carol goes all "Of Mice and Men" with a psychotic girl, Daryl and Beth get drugged with moonshine and commit arson, Rick rips out a guy's throat. and Maggie, Sasha, Bob, Glenn and Tara meet Abraham, Rosita and Eugene.

Those three have a mission to save the world. Spoilers, it doesn't work. Also, Beth is kidnapped by the police and wakes up in a hospital to "Everybody Hates Chris." All roads lead them to Terminus, a commune of cannibals that keeps them hostage in a boxcar. However, all the termites are dead and gone in just a few episodes, since, take it, Rick. - You're with the wrong people. - Morgan is still kicking with Eastman and Tabitha. However, they are both killed by walkers, sending Morgan on a journey to find his new relatives. After dispatching the cannibals and meeting Father Gabriel, the group resumes their search for Beth.

The trail leads them to Grady Memorial Hospital, but the hostage exchange goes wrong and Beth ends up dead. Tyreese follows his lead, sinking the group to their lowest point yet. Just when it seems so, in fact. - We are the

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dead. -Rick and his friends are saved by Aaron. He delivers them to the Alexandria Safe Zone, a fortified city that has been able to survive this year and a half of apocalypse. Spoilers, it doesn't work. Day 584 to 628: Total war. About a month passes as the survivors settle in Alexandria. Carl recovers perfectly from his stray gunshot wound and begins wearing a bandage over his diseased eye, while Rick and Michonne live in the best relationship since Glenn and Maggie.

Sorry, Abrasita and Byl fans. While searching for supplies, Daryl and Rick meet Jesus, a member of the neighboring Hilltop Colony. He warns them about a rival faction called the Saviors. They have this whole grasshopper deal from "A Bug's Life" with Hilltop, where they oppress them and take away half their supplies in exchange for not crushing them. So Jesus recruits Flick, I mean Rick, and his gang of circus critters to help him defend himself. Rick and his team are used to this kind of thing, so they raid a Savior outpost. During the assault, Carol burns a bunch of people alive and loses her mind over it.

She walks away alone, not wanting to continue being part of the cycle of violence. She also picked a good time, because the Saviors find out about the outpost and get angry. Which, come on, is kind of justified given that Rick slaughtered his people in cold blood. They block Rick and the entire A-Team from reaching Hilltop Colony and take them to a clearing. The king of the Saviors, Negan, has been waiting for them there, and he has his head-banging pants on. To make a statement, he prepares Lucille's bat, tells aeenie-meenie-miney-mo and kill. I've been your host, Marcus, and be sure to subscribe.

It is not a joke. He kills Glenn and Abraham and it's super gross. The group is traumatized and agrees to join Negan's grasshopper program. After a whole week of that, Michonne declares that they can no longer live under the Saviors' control, so she convinces Rick to start a rebellion. Meanwhile, Carol and Morgan discover a community called the Kingdom, ruled by the quixotic king Ezekiel, while Tara stumbles upon Oceanside. Also, Heath disappears to do a 24 spinoff and never returns. He probably died along with that show. Rick tries to ask the other colonies for help in the war, but no one bites.

Even the Scavengers, these strange trash-dwelling hipsters with their own language, are already in cahoots with Negan. Side note: if you make up your own language after only two years of the apocalypse, you probably had problems before the zombies showed up. Anyway, Spencer tries to collude with Negan, since Rick's reign over Alexandria hasn't been very good for his family. Negan sees him and kills him, prompting Rosita to shoot Negan. She only punches Lucille, but she inadvertently reveals that Eugene is capable of making bullets. The Saviors catch him by their own nefarious means. However, Rosita is still not happy with how alive Negan is, so she teams up with Sasha and they sneak into the Sanctuary.

Sasha is captured and imprisoned, but she convinces Eugene to help her. He gives her a cyanide pill, turning her into a zombie bomb that explodes on Negan. The attempt fails, but gives the Alexandrians the opportunity to attack. However, Negan shuts down that operation pretty quickly. He's about to kill Carl when Kingdom and Hilltop make their dramatic entrances! Maybe Shiva could have chosen a better person to kill her, but you know, she's still cool. After that long week, not good, very bad, the survivors call for a total war. The plan is to take out more Saviors outposts and then eventually attack the Sanctuary head-on.

Maggie takes over as leader of the Hillside Colony and begins conferring with Georgie. She comes from a sophisticated community with technological advancements far beyond the means of our military. Elsewhere, the Kingdom suffers great losses. But no death hits harder than Carl's. He doesn't even die in the war; They bite him while he rescues Siddiq from the walkers. The poor kid is only about 13 years old. (audience gasps) - Ooh. - Apparently. But Carl's legacy is that there is more to life than going to war over and over again. That resonates with Rick as the militia and the Saviors enter their final battle.

Eugene eventually becomes useful and sabotages the Saviors' bullets, leaving them paralyzed. Then, Oceanside arrives to eliminate them. Elsewhere, Rick and Negan fight hand to hand. Negan has him on the ropes, but Rick tricks him and cuts his throat. Remembering Carl's last wishes, Rick forgives Negan. In total, the total war lasted about seven days. Really, this whole Negan debacle happened over the course of a month and they dragged it out over two seasons. Two complete seasons. Day 628 to Day 1,448: The Bridge. About a year after the war, Lydia and her mother meet Beta in an abandoned hospital. They have a meet-cute that kills walkers, which inspires them to found The Whisperers.

These stinky nomads wear meat masks and live among zombies in the wild! Morgan takes advantage of this time to escape to the desert, then ends up in "Fear the Walking Dead" and ruins it. Elsewhere, the remaining Saviors have joined the militia under Daryl's leadership, but not all is rosy between them. Negan is still alive, just hanging out in a cell. People like Maggie and Daryl are unhappy with Rick's decision to forgive him, while the Saviors see it as a sign that the war is not over. However, Rick doesn't realize all that; he is simply determined to make Carl's dream come true.

He is leading the construction of a bridge that will speed up travel between the communities. Nobody really wants to do it, but they go along with the plan because, I don't know, you want to say no to Rick? Remember that time he ripped that guy's throat out with his teeth? But Maggie now has a son, little Hershel Rhee, and she decides enough is enough. She asks Daryl to distract Rick so she can get into Negan's cell and give him the old Glenn treatment. Once she sees the sad and pitiful state Negan is in, she decides to forgive him as well.

Meanwhile, Rick stumbles upon a herd of walkers heading straight for the community. And oh my, they can use the bridge as a direct route there! What a horrible, unforeseen consequence of connectivity! To save his family from him, Rick blows up the bridge while he is still on it. From his point of view, it looks like it exploded with him, but in reality it just flies off and floats down the river a bit. Rick arrives at a nearby shoreline, conveniently at the same location where the Trash Queen calls for an airlift. The helicopter descends and takes them both to the wonderful land of spin-off movie trilogies.

For months, Daryl and Michonne scavenge the riverbank looking for Rick's skin or hair. Unfortunately, they only find his gun. During this vulnerable moment, Michonne receives a visit from her old friend Jocelyn. She welcomes him to Alexandria, but she discovers that Jocelyn has been raising an army of feral children. That's weird, she didn't usually do that. To protect Judith from the Lord of the Flies nightmare, Michonne slaughters the children and is so traumatized that she completely closes the walls of Alexandria. Day 1,448 to Day 3,607: The Whisperer War. The communities have existed like this for six years. During that time, the Kingdom begins to fall apart, Daryl wanders into the desert with a dog, Maggie takes a sabbatical with Georgie, and Michonne gives birth to Rick's bastard son, so good times everyone!

By the way, six years is almost double the time spent on the rest of the program so far. To help fix the Kingdom's deteriorating infrastructure and rekindle the alliance between the communities, Ezekiel begins planning a fair. The only question is whether Michonne will allow Alexandria to participate or not. Well, Judith is all grown up and the little assassin decides it's time to open the doors of Alexandria again. He invites rookies Connie, Kelly, Magna, Yumiko and Luke to stay in town, much to Michonne's chagrin. As she moves them to Hilltop Colony, the recently recivilized Daryl and his group cross paths with the Whisperers.

They kill Jesus, but the team takes Alpha's daughter, Lydia, captive. Under her custody, Lydia bonds with Henry and decides to give normal life a chance. Alpha is not happy with that decision. She infiltrates the Kingdom Fair and kidnaps Siddiq, Tara, Enid, Henry and seven other random people, then she beheads them before Siddiq's very eyes. She loses her mind so hard that she represses the fact that she was held back by one of her lackeys, a new face in the Whisperer clan. Alpha mounts the heads on pikes and then shows Daryl the massive nuclear bomb from a walker horde the Whisperers have been building.

Months pass and eventually Alexandria welcomes a new survivor named Dante, who is totally normal and not even suspicious at all. She joins Siddiq in the infirmary. Not long after that, the Kingdom collapses and Carol and Ezekiel's romance breaks with it. Several more months pass, bringing us to approximately day 3,600, or year 10. The remaining communities have joined together in a coalition to stop future Negans, Governors, or Alphas. Rosita gives birth to her and Siddiq's baby, a girl named Coco. We finally have a child with two living parents in the program! After a day of training, Judith discovers a Whisperer mask washed up on the beach.

It drives everyone crazy, but no one as much as Carol. She seeks revenge after Henry's death, so she loses her mind, starts taking pills and hallucinates her dead children. The Whisperers employ other psychological warfare tactics, such as a recurring attack by walkers and. - Someone has poisoned a water well. - Totally normal guy Dante sabotages the filtration system, causing a group of Alexandrians to get sick. When Siddiq finally realizes what is happening, Dante kills him. Oh wow, sorry Coco, I spoke too soon. Aaron has been having secret meetings with a Whisperer named Mary, and she reveals the location of Alpha's horde.

So, while Michonne sets sail for a naval base to retrieve supplies for the war, Daryl and Carol lead a team of warriors toward the horde. When they arrive at the place, it is completely deserted, except for Alpha. Carol chases her into a dark pit and the rest of the group follows her. Now trapped at the bottom of a cave, the survivors face a massive herd of walkers with their backs against the wall. And that's where "The Walking Dead" ends. What are your predictions for the rest of season 10? Let us know in the comments. I've been your host, Marcus, and be sure to subscribe to Cinematica for more

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