You actually give these writers credit for being current or even smart? It takes these people a while.
Falling are Negan, Rick, Darryl, the King, etc. Rick is taking a back seat and Darryl seems lost. Negan is going to get tortured by ...
Rising up are Maggie, the travelling circus, the garbage woman, the new helicopter group will be led by a woman. It is what it is.
Take FTWD. It is is going to be one angry skinny white woman kicking some ass. They even started modelling her after the black widow. The last episode it looked like she was going to sleep with him, the next moment she kills him.
Things are going to get interesting.