“The Walking Dead” will be ending with an expanded two-year eleventh season that will span 24 episodes, bringing the long-running AMC series to an end sometime in 2022.

The Final Season will begin on August 22, 2021, and AMC has shared a small handful of brand new images this week along with the official plot synopsis for the beginning of the end.

“Previously on The Walking Dead, our survivors confronted past demons and combated new threats, with friendships and relationships suffering from the mounting collateral damage that is the apocalypse. Alexandria is severely compromised, left a former shell of the home it once was from the carnage and devastation left behind by the Whisperers.

“Now all who live in Alexandria struggle to refortify it and feed its increasing number of residents, which include the survivors from the fall of the Kingdom and the burning of Hilltop; along with Maggie and her new group, the Wardens. Alexandria has more people than it can manage to feed and protect. Their situation is dire as tensions heat up over past events and self-preservation rises to the surface within the ravaged walls.

“They must secure more food while they attempt to restore Alexandria before it collapses like countless other communities they have come across throughout the years. But where and how? More haggard and hungrier than ever before, they must dig deeper to find the effort and strength to safeguard the lives of their children, even if it means losing their own.

“Meanwhile, unbeknownst to those at Alexandria, Eugene, Ezekiel, Yumiko, and Princess are still being held captive by mysterious soldiers who are members of a larger and unforthcoming group.”

The first batch of Season 11 episodes will include eight brand new episodes.

Additionally, we learned last year that a Daryl/Carol (starring Norman Reedus and Melissa McBride) spinoff series is in the works for 2023 premiere, alongside a “Tales of the Walking Dead” spinoff series, billed as “an episodic anthology with individual episodes or arcs of episodes focused on new or existing characters, backstories or other stand-alone experiences.”

Melissa McBride as Carol Peletier, Angel Theory as Kelly, Nadia Hilker as Magna – The Walking Dead _ Season 11 – Photo Credit: Josh Stringer/AMC

Josh McDermitt as Dr. Eugene Porter, Eleanor Matsuura as Yumiko, Khary Payton as Ezekiel, Paola Lázaro as Juanita ‘Princess’ Sanchez – The Walking Dead _ Season 11 – Photo Credit: Josh Stringer/AMC

Lauren Cohan as Maggie, Norman Reedus as Daryl Dixon, Jeffrey Dean Morgan as Negan, Seth Gilliam as Gabriel, Callan McAuliffe as Alden, Glenn Stanton as Frost, Marcus Lewis as Duncan- The Walking Dead _ Season 11 – Photo Credit: Josh Stringer/AMC