While it’s obviously impossible to make any grand assumptions at this point about where Lauren Cohan’s career is going next, fans would definitely welcome her back into The Walking Dead fold as Maggie.
But without the other series to rely on anymore, the time is right for Maggie to return.
Her Season 9 exit was telegraphed by the same time jump that took Andrew Lincoln’s Rick Grimes out of the picture, as well as by Cohan’s starring role in ABC’s short-lived genre-blender Whiskey Cavalier.