![]() Then he starts talking to Daryl about math, of all things. There are no men at the convent besides a little boy named Laurent, who spots Daryl across the courtyard and immediately starts to imitate him. However, that doesn’t stop him from a bath, à la The Witcher. The fact that they’re keeping the zombified priest Pére Jean locked up doesn’t help their case. There are so many dystopian groups and fanatics in the TWD universe that you must keep your guard up. Daryl seems suspicious, and honestly, I would be too. The organization is part of a larger group called The Union of Hope (Union de L’Espoir). She has been following him and putting up signs that read “Dieu Vous Aime,” which translates to “God Loves You.” Isabelle and her fellow nuns cauterize Daryl’s wound and set him up with a cozy sweater and some adorable suspenders.Īs Daryl and Isabelle bond over their siblings and their scars, reminding them that the past is real, we learn more about the abbey. Enter Isabelle: A nun played by Clémence Poésy, who you may recognize from In Bruges or Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire but appears to be in depressed Tenet mode in Daryl Dixon. They don’t kill him, however, because a woman approaches just as he’s passing out and takes him back with her. The partnership is short-lived, however, as father and daughter knock Daryl out and grab his supplies when he’s barely conscious. When one of the armed men threatens Maribelle, Daryl fights back, and he and Maribelle manage to take both of them down. They offer to travel with him but are soon joined by two soldiers. I like that, even in a post-apocalyptic future filled with zombies, dads are still in the background rambling on about World War II. Thankfully, she speaks English and seems friendly, and he rambles some kind of dad ramble in the background about the Americans and the French working together in World War II. Cool slogan! Later, he sees some less empowering graffiti that reads “attention affamés,” (“starving”) on the side of a building.Įventually, Daryl comes across a woman named Maribelle and her father, Guillaume. In the next town he encounters, there’s some graffiti that reads ”pouvoir des vivants” - “pouvoir” means power and “vivants” means the living, but the preposition “des” here could mean “of,” “from,” or even “by” depending on your intention. Next thing we know, he’s doing his best Aragorn impression on a Tolkien-esque hike. That’s our first vague clue about how he got to the continent. “I went out looking for something, and all I found was trouble,” he says. Perhaps that’s just Daryl being Daryl.īefore starting his adventure in the great, wide somewhere, he leaves his own message on the cassette tape. Maybe this has happened to him before in the intervening time between the TWD and now. He doesn’t seem all that panicked that he’s in a different country. He stumbles through an abandoned seaside town, finds a boat with some errant supplies, and within a few hours has a poncho and a fish on a grill while listening to the voice of an Irish survivor whose cassette tapes he found. In true The Walking Dead fashion, the spinoff begins in media res with Daryl on a boat serving as a raft that washes up on the shore in the South of France. The outside world seems to be all he’s found. Judith told him that he deserved a happy ending. He left the Commonwealth searching for Rick, Michonne, and possibly answers about the outside world. The last we saw Daryl Dixon, not the first or second person you’d pick for a hero’s journey, was in the series finale of The Walking Dead. It’s different! It also introduces a few themes into the Walking Dead canon that pique my interest as a fan of the show’s comic book roots and mythology: mutiny and messiah.īut first, let’s start with the man himself. With gorgeous, actual European scenery and a fearless approach to silence, this show is off to a good start in my book. Zut alors! Bibliotheque! How the merde did The Walking Dead’s grizzliest loner and leather enthusiast Daryl Dixon end up in France? Your guess is as good as mine in AMC’s latest spinoff, The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon, though by the end of the first episode, we can start putting some of the pieces together. ![]() Photo: Emmanuel Guimier/AMC/B) 2022 AMC Film Holdings LLC.
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