The Walking Dead star Jeffrey Dean Morgan jokes about performing the delayed season 10 finale remotely. The tenth season of AMC’s zombie drama was filled with the usual array of in-story twists and turns, but the biggest shock of all came in real life when it was revealed that the season finale would not arrive on time thanks to the coronavirus.
AMC made the disappointing delay announcement with a few weeks left to go in the season, revealing that post-production had not been completed on the final episode due to the shutdown of a California studio responsible for special effects. Now, fans will have a long wait to find out what happened after the events of episode 15, the de facto season finale. Dangling plot threads include the fate of Eugene’s party as they journey to the meet-up with his mysterious radio friend Stephanie (after surviving their initial encounter with quirky new character Princess), as well as the fate of everyone holed up in the hospital as Beta and his horde arrive for what should be an epic battle. Of course, fans already got a taste of what the delayed final episode would’ve offered thanks to a trailer spoiling the (already expected) return of Lauren Cohan as Maggie.
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Plans are to release the postponed finale as a special later in 2020, but many fans understandably don’t want to wait that long. One fan actually suggested to Negan actor Morgan on Twitter that the final episode be presented online via some kind of read-through, and Morgan responded by jokingly proposing a full-on remote table read. See the tweet in the space below:
Hahahaha! Yes. I’ll get entire cast together on a Group FaceTime!
— Jeffrey Dean Morgan (@JDMorgan) April 10, 2020
Improvised presentations like the one proposed by the Walking Dead fan above have in fact become commonplace during quarantine, as TV shows scramble to get content up without being able to assemble normal productions. Of course, it’s one thing to stage a remote version of a talk show as folks like Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Kimmel and others have been doing for awhile now, and quite another to get together the entire cast of a scripted show for a read-through of an episode. The logistics of such a presentation would be nightmarish to deal with, not to mention the technical issues that would undoubtedly crop up.
Obviously, presenting an entire Walking Dead episode, with all its action and visual effects, as a sedate online table read would take away a lot of the story’s impact anyway. That being said, such a presentation would at least allow fans to find out what happens rather than be left hanging for months, and AMC could still air the real episode later and give fans the full effect. At the end of the day, it’s highly unlikely that The Walking Dead would go down the road of putting together such an online read, no matter how eager fans are to find out what happens next. But then again, a lot of unprecedented stuff has already happened thanks to coronavirus, so maybe it’s not entirely out of the question.
Source: Jeffrey Dean Morgan/Twitter
