The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon Season 3 (2025) Review
The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon Season 3 (2025) Review
Acorn Media International is delighted to announce The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon Season 3 and Seasons 1 – 3 Box Set will arrive on Blu-ray and DVD 8 December 2025, following its transmission on Sky Max, which starts tonight. All episodes will be available on digital from 6 December 2025.
Fan favourites Daryl Dixon (Norman Reedus – The Bikeriders, Blade II) and Carol Peletier (Melissa McBride – The Mist, The Happys) are back in The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon Season 3. The highly acclaimed third series has been described as ‘bigger, badder and better than ever’ as the determined duo embark on a perilous journey across a fractured Europe overrun with the undead, in search of a way back home.
Season three sees some newcomers join the cast including Óscar Jaenada (The Losers, Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides), Hugo Arbues (Past Lies) and Candela Saitta (Maxima) alongside British comedy favourite Stephen Merchant (The Office, Extras) in a show-stopping guest appearance.
We join Daryl and Carol amidst the devastating ruins of London, where they encounter Julian (Merchant), a reclusive survivor who believes he’s the last living man in England. When a desperate escape across the Channel ends in disaster, the pair end up shipwrecked on the Spanish coast and thrust into a volatile new world of survivors, zealots and hidden agendas.
As they navigate the sun-scorched landscapes and broken strongholds of post-apocalyptic Spain, they become entangled with a struggling community led by the principled Antonio (Eduardo Noriega – Open Your Eyes, The Last Stand) and fiercely independent Paz (Alexandra Masangkay – The Platform, Code Name: Emperor). Bound by loyalty, yet divided by conscience, Daryl and Carol must confront their own haunted pasts and decide whether to keep moving towards home or stay – in the hope that their displacement may finally have a purpose.
The third season of The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon offers up the same mix as with the previous two seasons, a smattering of zombies and a massive dose of soap-like character drama. The visuals – such as a London overgrown with foliage – are well-realised but as a whole, for a non-fan like me there was still an imbalance in the mix, it is again too reliant on dull human drama rather than providing a steady balance between action and drab dialogue scenes.
There is absolutely nothing wrong with the performances or indeed how the whole production has been put together, it’s the storyline, pedestrian pacing and the lack of action that leaves me wanting. For avid fans however Season 3 will give them more of the same and that is exactly what they have signed up for, so they will not be left wanting, nor any convincing to add this release to their collection.
Reviews for Season 3 have been mixed overall and whilst some see it as the best to date and a return to form for the franchise other critics have been less enthusiastic quibbling about the season’s pacing issues and feeling frustrated by idiotic character decisions which, in my opinion, are contrived and a lazy way at extending something that ran out of juice a long-time ago. I liked the train sequence and will again praise the film’s visuals, but until such point as the writers feel the need to up their game rather than coasting, I remain a non-fan and bemused by its popularity.
