Season 1
- Norman Reedus ( Blade 2 ) as Daryl Dixon
- Clémence Poésy as Isabelle
- Louis Puech Scigliuzzi as Laurent
- Laïka Blanc-Francard as Sylvie
- Anne Charrier as Genet
- Romain Levi as Codron
- Adam Nagaitis ( Gunpowder Milkshake ) as Quinn
Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon (2023) [Season 1, Episode 1]
L'âme Perdue
Shown 10 Sep 23
Daryl Dixon (Norman Reedus - Blade 2 ) washes up on the shores of France, lashed to an upturned lifeboat. Evidently his journey was not easy, and if he had any travelling companions they are not with him any more. His destination is Marseilles, so he sets off overland.
Daryl discovers the local humans are just like in America - thieves and killers. However, the zombies are different - they can burn him just by touching his skin. This is a good way of making a previously unkillable character seem vulnerable enough for the audience to find relatable.
Isabelle ( Clémence Poésy ) is a nun who operates out of the local convent. It was built in the middle ages, and the nuns still have the medieval armoury. Well, no-one expects the Spanish Inquisition. The armoury is like Disneyland for Daryl, whose gimmick in the later Seasons of the original show is that he had a new cool weapon at the start of every Season. Anyway, the nuns have a prophesy that a messenger will come.
Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon (2023) [Season 1, Episode 2]
Alouette
Shown 17th September 2023
We get a flashback to the day the outbreak hit Paris. Isabelle ( Clémence Poésy ) was a professional pickpocket, and her boyfriend Quinn (Adam Nagaitis - Gunpowder Milkshake ) was some kind of gun-toting gangster. They made an escape attempt, accompanied by her pregnant sister. However, the sister was dying and Isabelle had to choose.
The episode needs some action-adventure to keep the pace fast. Daryl Dixon (Norman Reedus - Blade 2 ) breaks into a castle to steal some supplies. The owner is Gaines (Ned Dennehy - ), a Texan who is hoarding supplies. He is a cardboard villain, and his fate is both predictable and over-the-top.
Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon (2023) [Season 1, Episode 3]
Paris Sera Toujours Paris
Shown 24th September 2023
Daryl Dixon (Norman Reedus - Blade 2 ) and Isabelle ( Clémence Poésy ) reach Paris. Quinn (Adam Nagaitis - Gunpowder Milkshake ), her ex-lover, is running a nightclub for people with a live-for-the-moment mentality.
The thug from the first episode is back. He has actually done some good detective work, tracking Daryl across France and finding allies that want the American dead.
Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon (2023) [Season 1, Episode 4]
La Dame de Fer
Shown 1st October 2023
Daryl Dixon (Norman Reedus - Blade 2 ) and Isabelle ( Clémence Poésy ) search Paris for the boy, Laurent. He keeps having near misses with crowds of zombies. Perhaps it is because he keeps so still and silent that they lose interest. Or perhaps he is immune, like the blue man in Z Nation .
Quinn (Adam Nagaitis - Gunpowder Milkshake ), the boy's father, sends a rescue mission. Rather than thank them, Daryl decides to murder and torture the rescuers. Well, the local Militia are patrolling the streets as if they were a German occupying force during the Second World War, so Daryl is meant to be the equivalent of the Resistance. He organises an attack on Quinn's nightclub, rather than just be civilised and make a deal.
Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon (2023) [Season 1, Episode 5]
Deux Amours
Shown 8th October 2023
Daryl Dixon (Norman Reedus - Blade 2 ) and the boy Laurent continue on their route north.
Daryl has flashbacks to how he got to France. After he left the Commonwealth, he rode north-west as far as Maine. Presumably he avoided Manhattan, as featured in Dead City . Anyhow, in Maine he joins some hunters who are live-capturing zombies for a mysterious group. The financiers are loading the zombies onto a ship bound for France, and are experimenting on them to make Fast Zombies.
He has a chat with Carol ( Melissa McBride ), via long-range radio transmitter. She tells him that someone came back, although the transmission cuts out before he can get details. Presumably this is a reference to Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live , but we will probably hear more in Season 2.
In the main timeframe, Isabelle ( Clémence Poésy ) has the option of a good life with Quinn (Adam Nagaitis - Gunpowder Milkshake ). However, she is ungrateful and untrustworthy. When she realises how well-connected he is with Genet ( Anne Charrier ), she decides to play along and gather some intelligence.
Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon (2023) [Season 1, Episode 6]
Coming Home
Shown 15 Oct 23
Daryl Dixon (Norman Reedus - Blade 2 ) and Quinn (Adam Nagaitis - Gunpowder Milkshake ) are forced to fight together in the arena. Not necessarily against each other, but as a team against the zombies. It turns out that if you get bitten by a fast zombie, you become a fast zombie.
Once the loose plot threads are tied up, the team return to their main storyline of getting the boy to the Nest - AKA Mont St Michel. Daryl makes himself useful teaching the French to use bolt-action rifles, so presumably they have spent the last dozen years without being able to use firearms properly. He has a moment with Isabelle ( Clémence Poésy ) that seems reminiscent of Witness, with her status as a nun being the equivalent of an Amish woman. Of course, this is for TV so she does not go topless.
We discover that Daryl's grandfather is buried nearby, after dying heroically on D-Day in 1944. This is incredibly convenient, since it is linked into one of the story's themes. Laurent needs a father figure, and poor old Quinn is unfairly ruled out for the role. Daryl complains that his father grew up without a dad, and passed this fatherless childhood on to Merl and Daryl. Will Daryl abandon Laurent in his time of need?
The final scene is a clip with Carol ( Melissa McBride ), tracking Daryl's path back in America. This is a setup for Season 2 ...
