The Walking Dead Season 9

Right now you can watch The Walking Dead Season 9 on and — and it goes further with its ideas than most genre entertainment bothers to. A single, tightly-focused season means there is plenty to get through without ever feeling padded. With 17,971 viewer ratings on TMDB, this is not a title flying under the radar. Watch it for Andrew Lincoln — the performance elevates material that could easily tip into self-seriousness. There is no real reason to keep putting it off.

Part of the current wave of titles people are actually watching, The Walking Dead Season 9 earns its spot. The world-building is meticulous, but it is the characters who carry The Walking Dead Season 9 through its more ambitious moments. With the defeat of Negan and the Saviors, the survivors are now rebuilding civilisation under Rick’s leadership. However, the group are forced to face their biggest threat yet as the walkers around them have started whispering. Andrew Lincoln and Lauren Cohan lead a cast that brings real weight to the material. It was aired in 2018. The rules of The Walking Dead Season 9's world are consistent enough that the big swings never feel like cheating. The hit rate here is high enough that skipping ahead never feels like an option.

Viewers burned by ambitious sci-fi that could not sustain its premise should give The Walking Dead Season 9 a chance. It rewards viewers regardless of what else is in their watch history. The complete run is available and best experienced without too much prior knowledge of where it goes. Andrew Lincoln grounds the bigger ideas in something human. Once you are in, you will want to talk about it.