Trivia

In the series finale of The Walking Dead: World Beyond (2020), entitled "The Last Light (2021)", CDC Doctor Edwin Jenner's (role reprised by Noah Emmerich from the first season of The Walking Dead (2010)) Video Journal Log is being reviewed by a scientist at a French Laboratory. She is eventually murdered by some unknown assailant, and ends up as a reanimated corpse that is faster and stronger any Walker seen so far. Moreover, there is a phrase scrawled on the wall "Les Morts sont nest ici", which roughly translates as "The dead are born here".

The first well-known building Daryl's caravan passed by is known as the Panthéon. Its original purpose was a church, till the French Revolution when it was converted to a Mausoleum which would commemorate France's National Heroes.

One of the paintings found in the opening credit sequence is The Raft of the Medusa (1819) by French Romantic artist Théodore Géricault, depicting the survivors of a shipwreck adrift and starving on a raft. The reason for its significance is Géricault astonished viewers by painting, in harrowing detail, not an antique and noble subject but a current yet gruesome incident at the time.

French phrases mentioned:

• Fuyez - Run away
• Union de L'Espoir - Union of Hope
• Pouvoir des vivants - power of the living
• Dieu aime vous - God loves you
• Attention Affames ici - Watch out for the Hungry

This is the first The Walking Dead series in the franchise which is not primarily set in the United States.