The Walking Dead: Dead City Season 2 Episode 3 - Release date, time, streaming details, and more

Episode 3 of The Walking Dead: Dead City Season 2, titled “Why Did the Mainlanders Cross the River?”, arrives on Sunday, May 18, 2025, at 9 p.m. ET/PT (Monday, May 19 at 6:30 a.m. IST). You can catch it live on AMC or stream it via AMC+, as well as through several live-TV services in the U.S.

Globally, platforms like Stan (Australia), TVNZ+ (New Zealand), and Sky Max/Now TV (U.K.) will carry the series. In this chapter, Maggie and Negan’s daring mission to free Hershel heats up and as you’ll see, even the city that never sleeps has surprises in store.

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Release date & time of The Walking Dead: Dead City Season 2 Episode 3

U.S. Premiere: Sunday, May 18, 2025, at 9 p.m. ET/PT on AMC and AMC+
India Premiere: Monday, May 19, 2025, at 6:30 a.m. IST (India Standard Time)

How to Watch The Walking Dead: Dead City Season 2

AMC+: Episodes drop simultaneously at 9 p.m. ET. AMC+ offers ad-supported plans for $6.99/month and ad-free plans for $9.99/month or $7.99/month billed annually.
Live TV Services: Sling TV, YouTube TV, DirecTV Stream, Hulu + Live TV and Philo (most affordable at $28/month) all include AMC .
International:
Australia: Stan streams new episodes one day after the U.S. premiere.
New Zealand: TVNZ+ offers free streaming with account creation.
United Kingdom: Sky Max and Now TV Entertainment are slated to begin airing episodes in June 2025.
VPN Access: For regions without official access, services like ExpressVPN can unlock AMC+ and other platforms abroad.

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The Walking Dead: Dead City Season 2 Episode 3 Preview

In “Why Did the Mainlanders Cross the River?”; Maggie (Lauren Cohan) and Negan (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) press deeper into Manhattan’s chaotic streets to rescue Hershel from The Crawler’s arena.

Expect tense confrontations as they navigate flooded subway tunnels, crumbling skyscrapers, and walker-filled parklands. According to early production stills, their fragile alliance will be tested by external threats and by each other’s decisions.

Cast and Crew Insights from The Walking Dead: Dead City Season 2

“It’s the geography. [New York City] makes things different…It makes the nature of survival different. So it was really, really rich with possibility,”

—Scott M. Gimple, Chief Content Officer, on why Season 2 returns to Manhattan

“I know what I want to happen, and I know what would be interesting to happen. It’s not as if I traded Negan in and everything’s hunky dory…you hope the thing you do will give you peace and relief, and it doesn’t always do that,”

—Lauren Cohan, on Maggie’s complex choices this season.

These quotes underscore the season’s themes of uncertainty and survival in an urban jungle.

The Walking Dead: Dead City Season 2 spans eight episodes, airing weekly through June:

May 4 – “Power Equals Power”
May 11 – “Another Sh*t Lesson”
May 18 – “Why Did the Mainlanders Cross the River?”
May 25 – “Feisty Friendly”
June 1 – “The Bird Always Knows”
June 8 – “Bridge Partners Are Hard to Come By These Days”
June 15 – “Novi Dan, Novi Poćetak”
June 22 – “If History Were a Conflagration”

With each episode, expect the stakes to rise as Maggie and Negan confront new factions vying for Manhattan’s remains. Whether you’re team Maggie or still eyeing Negan’s bat, The Walking Dead: Dead City Episode 3 promises a mix of action, strategy, and the moral dilemmas that define this spinoff.

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Edited by Sezal Srivastava

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