After season 2 of this The Walking Dead spinoff series, Daryl Dixon, which was released in July 2024, we waited until this month (September 2025) to finally have season 3.
That’s a one-year interval, but I didn’t really feel the huge gap because it has been AMC’s culture with The Walking Dead universe to stretch the release of the seasons and episodes.
Episode One [Costa Da Morte]
So we see Daryl and Carol in their journey home to America, landing in England after they passed through the tunnel at the end of season 2. Along the line, they met Julian, “the last English man in England,” as he calls himself. A very fun character — I love his ease in acting, so natural and smooth — but I just knew he was going to be killed off, as has been the custom of the show.
Daryl and Carol convinced him to sail them across the big ocean as they continued their journey to America, but high tides attacked them on the way. The boat capsized and they landed where? Guess what? Spain. How???
As much as I love the series to the core, the traveling logic has not been so good. These countries share very large boundaries, and for them to be jumping across these geographical locations so easily doesn’t sound convincing at all.
Well, Julian died in the process of the boat capsizing and turned into a walker (zombie). He almost got Carol, but Daryl came to her rescue. Carol also sustained a severe injury from the boat accident, and for this, they needed medical attention. Unfortunately, they were stuck in a land they knew nothing about, and they didn’t even know whether people still existed there. They kept walking, sickly, looking for a means to treat Carol.
Episode Two [La Ofrenda]
Yo! They landed in Spain. Yeah, their boat crashed into Spain, and while they were searching for means to treat Carol, they stumbled upon two love birds having fun in the bush. But little did they know they were being trailed. Eventually, the attackers caught them and were about to kill them when Daryl decided to intervene with his iconic weapon, the crossbow. He killed all of them except one who escaped.
The two love birds thanked them and, though reluctantly, took them to their city after Daryl forced them — since Carol needed proper treatment.
I must say, I love seeing new people and new faces on the show. The city is a small and lovely one, but they have an ugly tradition, which the situation of survival has forced them to adhere to, just like in the days of Negan and the Saviors.
Trouble emerged, which I fully expected, and their long stay in the city cannot be guaranteed as we wait for the rest of episode 3.
Episode 3 is to be released next Sunday.
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