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The Walking Dead: Consumed
This week's episode was a return to what has made this show almost unwatchable.The problem is the continual obsession with people changing during the apocalypse and the endless discussion about how...
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The Walking Dead: Crossed
SPOILER ALERTThis was mostly a solid episode because it went back to the action and forward momentum that has made The Walking Dead a much improved series this season. Except for a few deviations into...
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The Walking Dead: Coda
I'm all for shocks and having a show surprise me, but if you look at the actual narrative arcs that this episode completed, it isn't so cheery. Just when this series kinda finds it's footing,...
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The Walking Dead: What Happened and What’s Going On
SPOILER ALERTThe Walking Dead reminds me of a friend who is generally enjoyable, has a few special talents but likes to sing, even though they have an awful voice and everyone has told them they suck....
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The Walking Dead: Them
SPOILER ALERT This episode was the epitome of what is wrong with The Walking Dead as a TV show. This was self-indulgent and ineffective storytelling at its worst.The problem remains how the show...
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The Walking Dead: The Distance
Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more...Let's start with the deplorable applesauce scene. So lemme get this straight. They wrote a scene where Rick and Aaron are left alone in a cabin;...
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The Walking Dead: Remember
SPOILER ALERTThe whole purpose of the episode is to show how Rick & Co. have "been out there too long" and that they might have a hard time readjusting to "normal" society: a community led by a...
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The Walking Dead: Forget
SPOILER ALERT There was a lot of stuff going on in this episode. Most of it was run-of-the-mill, TWD-style blunt storytelling, like Sasha's mental breakdown. I mean, her being blatantly upset and...
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The Walking Dead: Try
SPOILERT ALERT Not a terrible set-up episode given that the season finale is next week. The drama was a little mixed because some storylines are more interesting than others, so let's hop through them...
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The Walking Dead – S05E16
SPOILERS ALERTSo we come to an end of another season with Rick Grimes & Co. It was a pretty good season finale. There were a few bumps, but overall it was an effective pivot to next season.One...
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Fear the Walking Dead – Pilot
It's been a while since we had a fix of The Walking Dead. Last we saw Rick & Gang, they were in the Alexandria Safe Zone, where Rick had killed Porchdick, and Morgan had finally showed up after...
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Fear the Walking Dead: The Dog
I felt like this episode did a few things well. For starters, it continued to play on the fact that the audience knows more about the situation than the characters. When we see Madison and kids...
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Fear the Walking Dead – Not Fade Away
I'm getting concerned about Fear. As the show moves out of its novelty phase (watching society die), we are headed to the same place where TWD exists (zombie apocalypse), yet I'm not sure there are...
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Fear the Walking Dead: Cobalt
By now, it's pretty fair to say that Fear is a flawed show, but that was to be expected given that it comes from the same team as TWD. So, each episode is a jumble of pretty solid attributes and "Wha?...
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Fear the Walking Dead: The Good Man
This was a pretty solid ending for Fear's first season and it was nice to see the series end on a high-note after some uneven episodes.This was the expected "Shit hits the fan" episode where the...
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The Walking Dead – First Time Again
Did you know that if you are riding a motorcycle with a herd of zombies 30 feet behind you, the zombies will leave you alone if anything rustles on either side of the path? Seriously, all you have to...
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The Walking Dead – JSS
That was a pretty intense hour of TV! During last week's premiere, I halfway wondered, "Where are those dudes with Ws on their foreheads?" But the premiere was so focused on the action with Rick and...
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The Walking Dead – Thank You
Whoa! This Season 6 is off to a crazy start... I'm really starting to wonder what has changed with TWD this season because we're off to a stronger sustained stretch of goodness than the series has had...
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The Walking Dead – Here’s Not Here
I have mixed feelings about this episode. On one hand, I've been pleading via blogging (PvB?) for The Walking Dead to take more chances with its storytelling because the show is so very linear and so...
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The Walking Dead: Always Accountable
Ugh! They're doing it again. "They," the creative team at The Walking Dead are telling slow-paced stories with little interest that feel like filler between major events. And "again" means that...
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