Regardless of how some may feel about the show's narrative towards its end, AMC's The Walking Dead featured some of television's best and most complex characters. Not only did The Walking Dead showcase how people could survive in a post-apocalyptic world on a human level, but it also shone a light on how relationships could be formed during its tragic events, as well as sadly severed.
Despite the show ending in November 2022, with season 12 never materializing due to declining viewership, The Walking Dead's beloved characters still live on in the franchise as it continues with spin-offs like Dead City and Daryl Dixon. Even though many fans ended up switching off their TVs after the series' Season 7 premiere in 2016 due to the outrage following Glenn's death, the series has fought hard to regain the viewership and respect it once had. This can be seen in The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live, which revealed where Rick had been since Jadis snatched him away in a helicopter, making it the highest-rated The Walking Dead series of the lot. However, due to its hard-hitting themes and emotional turmoil, some of the show's actors can end up taking home the trauma their characters have sustained throughout the shooting process, and that's actually what happened to Lennie James, who plays Morgan.