#melissa mcbride

[entertainmentweekly]

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She’s Back!

Daryl and Carol are reuniting on ‘The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon — The Book of Carol’ and the story will connect back to the characters’ first meeting. Dive into their next chapter in our latest cover story

🎥: AMC Networks, Post Production Studio Khimaira

[reedusmcbridedaily]

Carol and Daryl cover of Entertainment Weekly

[9lives2mics]

It is utterly baffling that a showrunner of a show as big as this one has the bandwidth to continue saying tone deaf comments that do nothing but alienate the audience.

We're less than two weeks away from the premiere. Making comments that prove that you have no intention to research the characters you're still writing for is a wild choice.

This is embarrassing.

Melissa McBride and Norman Reedus deserve better. And so do we.

[thebookofcarol]

this moment between Norman and Zabel 🥴😑🤨

Norman is literally telling him the whole narrative/storyline the showrunner is trying to sell is nonsense. they really want us to believe Daryl Dixon, the man who doesn't trust or love easily, will forget the people he has killed for and fought alongside with who have showed him unconditional love, for a nun and a kid who have constantly guilt tripped him into helping them and he met like 2 weeks ago...

he has done everything in his power to get the heck away from them and back to his home, Carol! RIGHT. so excuse me, i don't care what happens next, i know the real Daryl, Norman does too, and he's having none of it.

Norman was extra vocal about his dislike for the Leah storyline. maybe it's time for the showrunners to start listening to those who have been playing these characters for ages. and this next part sounds very much like a very defensive and apologetic answer by Norman once again:

at least Melissa sounds like she is getting exactly the resolution she wanted for Carol:

i am a bit apprehensive when it comes to Daryl's storyline, but i'm all in for what Melissa is about to deliver to this show and a character she knows so well and loves so much.

[my-mt-heart]

Putting the "ew" in EW

There are a lot of things wrong with the article, but let's start with the glaringly obvious...

Instead of letting Daryl's and Carol's connection speak for itself and letting fans get excited to see the connection as they've understood it for over a decade, Dalton Ross tries to project his own POV onto us, overemphasizing a platonic friendship as if it's the only right answer and ignoring the core of Caryl's fanbase, who are well within reason to want payoff to a romantic love story between Caryl that was earned time and time again in the flagship show. If his goal was to define the relationship for us once and for all, he completely fails. All he's really doing is exposing himself as yet another deeply insecure and toxic middle-aged white man who can't fathom a middle-aged woman with gray hair as a romantic partner for the middle-aged male protagonist. It's ignorant at best and at worst, it's aiding an effort to hurt Melissa's viewership (worth noting that Dalton Ross is one of Gimple's connections). But sadly, his spin is not even the worst problem...

This has to be one of the most ridiculous exchanges between a showrunner and a lead actor that I've ever read, but to cut to the chase, if the former is so disconnected from Daryl that he doesn't know the first thing about how this character forms attachments with others or why it takes him so long and what that says about his relationship with Carol, he shouldn't be the showrunner. That's been clear since S1 and in every interview he does, so at this point, AMC is shooting themselves in the foot the longer they keep him on or even just let him open his mouth.

In case I haven't made myself perfectly clear a million times, I am here for the Daryl I connected with when he became the most loyal and loving man to Carol and his family in the flagship show. I am here for The Book of Carol because I want to watch Carol rise above her trauma as she's risen above so many challenges in her life and I want to watch her finally claim a love she didn't think she was worthy of before, which is true love/romantic love/soulmate love with Daryl (look, I can overemphasize too). I want to watch Melissa McBride, who has also had to rise above so many challenges as a woman in the industry, give one powerful performance after another after another. I want her to get all the praise from fans and critics that she deserves and I want her to have more creative control since she's the one who really knows how to do Carol's story justice. Imagine if all we had to analyze was her own words...

I am so fucking tired of other EPs trying to turn the beautiful things she has to say and the beautiful things she brings to her show into a footnote because they always have to be so overt in their misogyny, ageism, arrogance, and stupidity first. I am fucking tired of feeling unwelcome to a show being marketed as #TWDCARYL when I am both a Carol and a Daryl fan who also ships them together. The perpetual mess doesn't speak to Melissa's value or to her fans' priorities. I will continue to direct my blame at the other EPs, and I need AMC to start doing the same. Stop giving David Zabel, Greg Nicotero, and Scott Gimple a platform. Stop giving into their need to promote themselves. Stop losing viewers over them. Let's get a showrunner who understands Carol's and Daryl's characters as well as their relationship, and here's a new idea, let's get journalists/reviewers who don't try to shove their own insecurities down our throats to cover the aspects of the show that we actually connect with. Believe it or not, those of us who are loudly complaining do want to be here.

[mcbride]

MELISSA MCBRIDE is back as CAROL PELETIER TWD: DARYL DIXON - THE BOOK OF CAROL

[mymanreedus]

2011 🥾 2023

[dixonsstinkysock]

THESE PHOTOS HELLO???

[carylspookie]

the way he's holding her, the smile on mel's face, the relaxed posture and body language - oh I am SO unwell 😫

[entertainmentweekly]

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They Ride Again

 “Real friends are so important.” Go inside Norman Reedus and Melissa McBride’s long, winding Walking Dead road that leads to ‘The Book of Carol’ in our latest cover story. 

🎥: AMC Networks, Post Production Studio Khimaira

[reedusmcbridedaily]

Norman Reedus and Melissa McBride in TWD: Daryl Dixon - The Return teaser

[emeryhiro]

She's only been back for 3 minutes and she's already Everything

[fyeahsmokinhot]

🤝

[my-mt-heart]

More McReedus at the 2024 Tribeca Film Festival

[mcbride]

MELISSA MCBRIDE as CAROL PELETIER THE WALKING DEAD 9.11 ▶ Bounty [request by @idkwthgoitmww]