During the 2022 San Diego Comic-Con panel for "The Walking Dead," moderator Scott Gimple asked Greg Nicotero how his approach to directing changed throughout the show, and he said: "When I directed my first episode, which was Jeff DeMunn getting killed, that was the first hour of television I had ever directed. Spoiler. And I didn't tell anyone — except maybe Andy [Lincoln] — that I was literally scared ****less, I was terrified because I'd never done it before" (via Films That Rock).
Nicotero's first episode he directed was Season 2, Episode 11 ("Judge, Jury, Executioner"), and while he may have been nervous, the episode is highly rated among "The Walking Dead" fans, with 35% of the 11,000 IMDb users who voted giving it a 10/10 (via IMDb). One reviewer wrote that "Judge, Jury, Executioner" is one of the tightest, most exciting and most emotionally investable episode of Season 2 for me and one of all of the above for the show."
Since that first episode, Nicotero has gone on to direct 36 episodes of "The Walking Dead," including the series finale. Next up for Nicotero is directing and executive producing "The Walking Dead" film, and a film about the making of "Night Of The Living Dead."
