With less than two weeks to go before The Walking Dead season 11 premiere on Sunday, Aug. 22, it looks like the “11 Weeks” project is ready to ramp up. Today AMC released a lengthy 90-second sneak peek at a scene from the season premiere, “Acheron.” The scene picks up with our survivors bumping shoulders in close quarters while Negan annoys everyone. Give it a look below! You know things are looking grim when erstwhile Savior leader Negan (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) is the only one talking sense. Here we find Negan, Maggie, Daryl, Gabriel, and several other survivors navigating an abandoned subway tunnel. When Negan hears some ominous mechanical groaning he very suddenly finds religion. “You know what that noise actually is? That is God telling us to turn around.” “Waterline mark. That means this tunnel floods on a regular basis…like when it rains.” Though Negan has sometimes felt vestigial to the plot since the conclusion of the All Out War arc in season 8, it seems as though season 11 is prepared to get him back to what he does best: surviving. It’s easy to condemn Negan’s old group the Saviors as a bunch of unsophisticated psychos led by a charismatic totalitarian. But as Negan’s water line observation reveals here – he’s just really good at this whole post-apocalypse thing. It’s only natural that people eager to survive would bend their will to him. You also might notice that there appears to be a bit of a leadership vacuum at the moment among the survivors. The Alexandria council was effective but it’s lost several members. Maggie is a natural leader but are the Alexandrians willing to recognize her as such after a lengthy absence? And Daryl? Well, he’s just Daryl. The Alexandria group is set to confront challenging times on The Walking Dead season 11. The synopsis for the first episode reads. Sounds like times are desperate. And they say that desperate times require desperate measures…like maybe installing a former dictator as leader? The Walking Dead season 11 premieres Sunday, August 22 at 9 p.m. ET on AMC.
