One in all The Strolling Lifeless’s highest-rated spinoffs is formally leaving Netflix US in August. Since The Strolling Lifeless’s flagship present got here to an finish after an 11-season run in 2022, its zombie-infested world has been stored alive in a number of sequels and spinoff exhibits.
These embrace The Strolling Lifeless: Lifeless Metropolis, which follows Maggie (Lauren Cohan) and Negan’s (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) unlikely partnership, The Strolling Lifeless: Daryl Dixon, which follows Daryl Dixon (Norman Reedus) and later Carol Peletier (Melissa McBride) as they trek throughout Europe, and The Strolling Lifeless: The Ones Who Stay, which lastly reunited Rick Grimes (Andrew Lincoln) with Michonne (Danai Gurira) and their youngsters.
The latter, which is at the moment the highest-rated Strolling Lifeless spinoff on Rotten Tomatoes with an 88% critic rating – for context, The Strolling Lifeless has a 79% score, Lifeless Metropolis has a 71% score, and Daryl Dixon has a 69% score – can be leaving Netflix US on August 19. Meaning the final day subscribers can watch The Strolling Lifeless: The Ones Who Stay on Netflix is August 18.
What This Means For The Strolling Lifeless On Netflix
The Ones Who Stay is at the moment the one one in every of Netflix’s accessible Strolling Lifeless exhibits slated to go away the streaming service. Due to a brand new 2025 cope with AMC, all 11 seasons of The Strolling Lifeless can be found to stream and can stay on the service till 2027. All eight seasons of The Strolling Lifeless’s prequel collection, Worry the Strolling Lifeless, are additionally nonetheless accessible to observe.
Of the newer spinoffs, Netflix subscribers can even benefit from the first seasons of Lifeless Metropolis and Daryl Dixon. We would count on season 2 for each exhibits to reach on the streaming service quickly, as we inch nearer to the discharge of their respective third seasons. Daryl Dixon will return to AMC and AMC+ for season 3 on September 7 and has been renewed for a fourth and remaining season.
The Ones Who Stay is the one Strolling Lifeless spinoff that was deliberate as a restricted, six-episode collection. Its final episode premiered on March 31, 2024. Licensed exhibits typically depart Netflix after a set time has handed following their remaining episodes. CW exhibits like Riverdale, Jane the Virgin, and the Arrowverse collection have all left or are set to go away Netflix 5 years after their remaining season premiered, as an illustration.
Our Take On The Strolling Lifeless: The Ones Who Stay’s Attainable Return
Strolling Lifeless mastermind and Chief Content material Officer Scott M. Gimple hasn’t completely dominated out the potential of revisiting Rick, Michonne, and their household. It is unlikely to occur in a second season of The Ones Who Stay, nevertheless. Throughout an interview with The Direct, Gimple defined that The Ones Who Stay was all the time meant to be a restricted collection, however that followers would not “necessarily never see those characters again.”
Star Andrew Lincoln has likewise teased his curiosity in returning to the world of The Strolling Lifeless. Throughout an interview with Leisure Weekly, Lincoln mentioned:
“Never say never. There are other very important characters in the universe that are still wandering around and alive, that I think it might be quite exciting to have them breathe the same air and see how long they survive together. But it’s a difficult one. It would have to be like this, a really exciting story.”
Some followers have speculated that Daryl is perhaps reunited with Rick (and Michonne) within the collection finale of The Strolling Lifeless: Daryl Dixon, although Norman Reedus was fast to close these theories down at this yr’s San Diego Comedian-Con. The star defined that he would not need the present to go there simply because the web thinks it ought to, and that the story wants to stay shocking.
The Strolling Lifeless universe remains to be going sturdy. Even when Rick and Michonne are leaving Netflix, even when they do not present up in Daryl Dixon’s remaining season, there’s an opportunity we’ll see them once more sometime. It will definitely be cathartic to see The Strolling Lifeless: The Ones Who Stay’s main characters reunited with their family and friends someplace down the road.
The Strolling Lifeless: The Ones Who Stay leaves Netflix on August 19.
