Where You Can Watch The Walking Dead

After a decade-plus run, the final season of The Walking Dead ended in 2022. You can catch up on all 11 seasons on Netflix.

Scroll down to see our expert recommendations for the best streaming services and TV providers to watch America’s favorite zombie-apocalypse wish fulfillment series and its spinoffs.

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• What is The Walking Dead?
• Where to watch The Walking Dead
• Where to watch The Walking Dead spinoffs

What is The Walking Dead?

The Walking Dead (TWD) is a character-based horror series about a zombie apocalypse, based on Robert Kirkman’s Image Comics graphic novel of the same name. The TV series premiered in 2010 on AMC and concluded its 11th and final season in 2022.

Though there are plenty of zombies on The Walking Dead (which are never referred to as “zombies,” but “walkers”), the show is really about its living characters and their shifting relationships post-society. Famed Night of the Living Dead director George A. Romero has even referred to TWD as “a soap opera with occasional zombies” (The Big Issue, 2013).

At its ratings peak in 2014 with season 5, The Walking Dead was watched by over 17 million viewers, a staggering number for a cable TV drama. The current season, which premiered in August 2021, has averaged around 2 million weekly—the show has lost more viewers than heroes, villains, and showrunners, which is saying something.

The Walking Dead was survived by AMC’s spinoff series Fear the Walking Dead, which concluded in 2023, the anthology show Tales of the Walking Dead, and three continuation series centered on Maggie, Negan, Daryl, Rick, and Michonne. Like the zombie apocalypse, the TWD universe is endless.

Where to watch The Walking Dead

The Walking Dead aired 177 episodes, which means newcomers have several power-binge weekends ahead of them. Fortunately, all 11 seasons of TWD are as easy to find as a lumbering zombie pack.

The Walking Dead seasons 1–11 (2010–2022)

Seasons 1–11 of The Walking Dead are streaming on Netflix. You can also buy or rent episodes from Prime Video, iTunes, Google Play, Vudu, or YouTube. But, at $1.99 an episode, why would you? We’d obviously recommend the Netflix route.

You can also watch The Walking Dead for free on Pluto TV, through the Stories by AMC channel (135). But Pluto TV is “live,” which in this case means the content on all channels stream on a 24/7 loop that can’t be paused. The Stories by AMC channel runs blocks of TWD episodes daily, but unless you catch the beginning of the loop, you’ll just be lost in the woods.

Netflix and Pluto TV plans and pricing

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Where to watch The Walking Dead spinoffs

AMC creates The Walking Dead spinoffs like zombies create more zombies. As of right now, there are six Walking Dead spinoffs:

• Fear the Walking Dead
• The Walking Dead: World Beyond
• Tales of the Walking Dead
• The Walking Dead: Dead City
• The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon
• The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live

Here’s where to watch them live and on demand.

Best cable providers for AMC and The Walking Dead

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Best satellite providers for AMC and The Walking Dead

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Best live TV streaming providers for AMC and The Walking Dead

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AMC+ plans and pricing

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Final take: The Walking Dead will never die

Whether you’re a Walking Dead lifer, a curious newbie, or a former fan who dropped out sometime around when Negan and his barbed-wire bat “Lucille” showed up (we feel you), there’s no denying the pop-cultural impact of the series. When you can even buy Walking Dead wine glasses, you know full media saturation has been achieved.

Even though The Walking Dead has ended, there’s still plenty of zombie drama to be had from the TWD universe; we were partial to Fear the Walking Dead. But, the newer sequel series with Maggie and Negan in New York (The Walking Dead: Dead City) and Daryl in France (The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon) were, for lack of a better phrase, totally killer. We’re pretty sure The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live with Rick and Michonne will follow suit.

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