'Going to Be So Exciting': TWD: Daryl Dixon Showrunner Explains Season 3's New Location

The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon showrunner David Zabel opened up about the creative team’s decision to move the show’s location for Season 3. The horror drama has just recently wrapped up its 6-episode second season, which is now currently available for streaming on AMC+.

During a recent interview with THR, Zabel explained that changing Daryl Dixon Season 3’s location was necessary in order to give them the opportunity to reinvent The Walking Dead spinoff. He also teased that the show’s location will continue to change in future seasons. "The characters should not settle down. It should be a road show. They have to keep moving [to return home]," Zabel said. "At the end of Season 2, they’re going somewhere. We don’t know exactly where, and it’s not a direct line to the next place they go. But the idea is to keep the characters struggling and striving to get home and moving. [Exploring a new culture is] going to be so exciting for reinventing the show. It felt like all signs pointed toward us continuing to move and get to the next place. In seasons five and six, it could be a different place. They’ll keep moving until they get home!"

The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon is executive produced by Zabel, Norman Reedus, Melissa McBride, Greg Nicotero, Scott M. Gimple, and Angela Kang. The next installment will take place in Spain, where Reedus’ Daryl and McBride’s Carol will be joined by a new batch of cast members: Eduardo Noriega (In the Fire), Oscar Jaenada (Chaos Walking), and Alexandra Masangkay (The Platform) as series regulars. The additional cast includes Candela Saitta, Hugo Arbués, Greta Fernández, Gonzalo Bouza, Hada Nieto, Yassmine Othman, and Cuco Usín, with The Office’s Stephen Merchant, Further details about their characters remain under wraps, as production continues on Season 3.

What to Expect in Daryl Dixon Season 3?

The official synopsis for Season 3 reads, "It follows Daryl Dixon and Carol Peletier as they continue their journey to somehow return home and to the ones they love. As they struggle to find their way back, the path takes them farther astray, leading them through distant lands with ever-changing and unfamiliar conditions as they witness the various effects of the Walker apocalypse." At the moment, it’s still unclear if surviving characters from the first two seasons would continue appearing in the next installment such as Louis Puech Scigliuzzi as Laurent. The character was last seen at the end of the Season 2 finale, where he was able to escape with Manish Dayal’s Ash.

Besides the Daryl Dixon spinoff, AMC is also preparing for the upcoming return of The Walking Dead: Dead City for its second season, which will once again take place in a post-apocalyptic New York City. In the new installment, franchise vets Lauren Cohan and Jeffrey Dean Morgan will be joined by new cast members in the form of Dascha Polanco (Orange Is the New Black) as Major Lucia Narvaez, Keir Gilchrist (Atypical) as Benjamin Pierce, Jake Weary (Oh, Canada) as Christos, and Pooya Mohseni (Law & Order: SVU) as Roksana, with Sons of Anarchy’s Kim Coates tapped for the key role of Bruegel.

Daryl Dixon Season 3 is expected to debut in 2025.