The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live Reviews Are All Blowing Our Minds

Originally, we shared everyone’s skepticism that a new spinoff could do anything to breathe new life into The Walking Dead, a franchise that has long felt like one of its signature foes: a withering zombie that simply shambled forward and tried to remember when it used to be alive.

But everything these critics have been saying about the new spinoff has awakened something we thought long (ahem) dead: our passion for this long-running franchise and its colorful characters.

If your own passion has similarly been reignited, then you have time to catch up on the first episode of The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Lived right now before catching weekly episodes on AMC (9 p.m. EST/PST) or stream them each week via AMC+.