Part of the reason I continued watching The Walking Dead and its spin-offs was the creation of characters I'm invested in. With Dead City, I find myself annoyed with these new additions more than anything else (save for Kim Coates' Bruegel). The mafia parallels and the introduction of Conscription are interesting, but much like Daryl Dixon, this doesn’t match the strong debut season. Having said that, this is much better than Dixon’s sophomore effort, and Jeffrey Dean Morgan remains infinitely watchable as Negan. I don’t know where this is going, but it feels time for these side series to converge back into one.