Maggie And Negan Can’t Keep Their Hands Off Each Other In New ‘The Walking Dead: Dead City’ Trailer

It’s still very strange to me that less than a year after the big, dramatic conclusion to The Walking Dead, we’re already getting the first spinoff. Right after Fear The Walking Dead airs the first half of its final season, we get The Walking Dead: Dead City.

What’s even more bizarre is the fact that this show is all about Maggie (Lauren Cohan) and Negan (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) who, I should point out, pretty much resolved their relationship by the end of the flagship show. It wasn’t like they became friends, but they were able to set down the knives and Maggie was able to let go of her hatred for the man who killed her husband and the father of her child. She didn’t forgive him, they weren’t going to be besties, but the hatred she held for him in her heart was gone. They would go their separate ways.

So naturally the very first spinoff show is about the two of them teaming up and heading to Manhattan together. “Can they put their differences aside and learn to trust one another?” the trailer blurb asks, which is weird since they already put their differences aside and then actively chose not to work together.

It always pisses people off, but I’m still shipping these two. This is a zombie drama about the end of the world. It’s supposed to be a little twisted and screwed up. Nothing would be more screwy than these two hooking up. Yeah, Negan has a wife, but again: Zombie apocalypse. Lots of ways to get her out of the picture. Maggie’s kid, Hershel, also hates Negan. But . . . hey, it’s a tough world for little kids. They get eaten all the time.

So I’m on Team Naggie, or uh, Team Magen or whatever goofy mashup we need to come up with to make this happen. Maybe it’s the hate that makes me want this. Sometimes it’s the characters who hate each other the most who have the best romance. It’s more taboo, a little edgier and definitely a lot steamier than anything Maggie and Glenn (RIP) ever got up to. You know I’m right.

You know all this rough stuff in the trailer is just foreplay, right? It’s just these two denying their true feelings for one another. I mean, just watch for yourselves. This is TV’s most screwed up love affair just waiting to happen:

The Walking Dead: Dead City airs on June 18th right after the mid-season finale of Fear The Walking Dead. I’ll be reviewing because, well:

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