Love Is in the Air in a New Look at ‘The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon’ Season 3

Surviving the zombie apocalypse might not immediately drum up visions of love and romance, but the team behind Season 3 of The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon are here to tell audiences that there’s plenty of both on the way. In just a few weeks, on Sunday, September 7, the title will celebrate the premiere of its third time in the spotlight, with Norman Reedus and Melissa McBride reprising their beloved characters Daryl Dixon and Peletier for another jaunt through the zombie wasteland. The next set of episodes will see the beloved pair leave their mission in France behind and forge new memories and relationships while traveling through Spain. A newly released behind-the-scenes featurette pulls both Reedus and McBride in front of the camera, along with others close to the series like showrunner and executive producer, David Zabel, and director and executive producer, Daniel Percival.

“Love in the apocalypse” is one of the many themes that Zabel says he and the team will be exploring in the third season of The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon. For the titular character, that means working through the depths of emotions after leaving France in his rearview mirror, while for others — like several new-to-the-story folks — passion and romance take a front seat. Meanwhile, it looks like McBride’s Carol will strike up a deep bond with one of the members of the Spanish town that the pair put down their roots — no matter how shallow those roots may be.

News came last month at San Diego Comic Con that Season 3 of The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon would be the penultimate for the series. Season 4 is already in the works, with the team working hard to deliver a satisfying conclusion for the immense fandom who have followed the two leading players since their debuts in The Walking Dead. When Collider’s Steve Weintraub asked the pair how they’d like to see the end for their characters, each had something different in mind. Reedus said he’d like to keep things simple, explaining,

“I've always said the same thing in interviews since day one. They say, "How do you want your character to end?" And I've always said, ‘He walks up a mountain, a little dog follows him up over the mountain, and he gets smaller, he disappears, and people go, 'Whatever happened to that guy?'’ That's how I always wanted it to end. We talk about it all the time.”

On the other hand, McBride isn’t even thinking about saying goodbye to Carol yet, telling Weintraub,

“Well, there's still a way to go. Really, I just want to experience too much. I don't want to arrive before I get there. That's just one of these things. I try to live like that because I say that to myself a lot, because I usually end up arriving long before I get there, or I just don't go. You know what I mean? So I just really want to be in the moment from here on to the end, just really savoring these moments with this great group of people, being grateful for the people that I have worked with, these very talented artists, creative people, the writers, and I just want to experience that and not get too far ahead of myself thinking about whatever the end means, or a completion.”