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The Walking Dead: Season 5, Episode 15 – Try
“People die now, Deanna. They do. There’s times like this, when you can decide who and when – or it can be decided for you.” (SPOILER WARNING!) After last week’s high drama, this week’s ep of The...
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The Walking Dead: Season 5, Episode 16 – Conquer
“Rick just wants his family to live. He wants all of you to live. Who he is, is who you’re going to be. If you’re lucky.” (SPOILER WARNING!) So, I wasn’t quite accurate last week when I referred to...
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Fear the Walking Dead: Season 1, Episode 1 – Pilot
“She was eating them!” (SPOILER ALERT!) There’s a fundamental problem with prequels, which is that you know how they’re going to end. Along the way, you often have to contort your story to make it fit...
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Fear the Walking Dead: Season 1, Episode 2 – So Close, Yet So Far
“When civilisation ends, it ends fast.” (SPOILER WARNING!) Civilisation may be ending fast, but there was still fairly little plot advancement in this second ep of AMC’s cash cow spinoff Fear the...
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Fear the Walking Dead: Season 1, Episode 5 – Cobalt
“The game is changed. We return to the old rules.” (SPOILER WARNING!) “Things fall apart, the centre cannot hold”, as WB Yeats writes in his apocalyptic poem The Second Coming. In this penultimate ep...
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The Walking Dead: Season 6, Episode 1 – First Time Again
“I know this sounds insane, but this is an insane world. We have to come for them before they come for us – it’s that simple.” (SPOILER WARNING!) After six uneven weeks of its nascent spinoff, it comes...
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The Walking Dead: Season 6, Episode 2 – JSS
“How do you just live, when that’s the world?” (SPOILER WARNING!) After last week’s lesson about how ill-prepared they were to deal with the dead, this week’s Walking Dead saw the pampered Alexandrians...
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The Walking Dead: Season 6, Episode 3 – Thank You
“Have you ever had to kill people, because they’d already killed your friends and they were coming for you next? Have you ever done things that made you feel afraid of yourself afterward? Have you ever...
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The Walking Dead: Season 6, Episode 4 – Here’s Not Here
“You said you wanted everything I had. Every last bit. Well, here it is. Every. Last. Bit.” (SPOILER WARNING!) Walking Dead showrunner Scott Gimple sure knows how to ratchet up the tension. After last...
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The Walking Dead: Season 6, Episode 5 – Now
“This is what life looks like now. We have to see it. We have to fight it. If we don’t fight, we die.” (SPOILER WARNING!) After last week’s fascinating diversion into Morgan’s Jedi...
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The Walking Dead: Season 6, Episode 6 – Always Accountable
“If you have a roof over your head… if you have food, you have walls – you have choices. And without Walkers, and bullets, and shit hitting the fan, you’re accountable for them. You’re always...
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The Walking Dead: Season 6, Episode 7 – Heads Up
“Dying is simple. It all just stops, you’re dead. The people around you dying – that’s the hard part.” (SPOILER WARNING!) Ok, I’ll admit it – last week I missed that we’ve already got on to Day Two of...
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The Walking Dead: Season 6, Episode 9 – No Way Out
“No-one gets to clock out today. And hell – this is a story they’re going to tell.” (SPOILER WARNING!) As I caught up on the return of The Walking Dead after my usual sojourn to LA this year, it...
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The Walking Dead: Season 6, Episode 11 – Knots Untie
“Your world’s about to get a whole lot bigger.” (SPOILER WARNING!) I frequently bang on on this blog about how The Walking Dead tends to appropriate the tropes of both war movies and Westerns (outside...
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The Walking Dead: Season 6, Episode 12 – Not Tomorrow Yet
“We know exactly what this is. We don’t shy from it. We live. We have to kill them all.” (SPOILER WARNING!) There’s an old military maxim, coined in the 19th century, that no plan survives contact with...
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The Walking Dead: Season 6, Episode 14 – Twice As Far
“You wanna live, you take chances. That’s how it is.” (SPOILER WARNING!) After the tumultuous events of the last couple of weeks, this week’s Walking Dead was one of those “take a breather” eps so...
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The Walking Dead: Season 6, Episode 15 – East
“I’m not right. There is no right. There’s just the wrong that doesn’t pull you down.” (SPOILER WARNING!) Just one more ep to go of this season, and for the second week in a row the denizens of The...
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The Walking Dead: Season 6, Episode 16 – The Last Day on Earth
“What if it’s the last day on Earth for you? Or for someone you love?” (SPOILER WARNING!) Wow, that was good! Of late, Walking Dead season finales have tended to be rather low key; it’s been the...
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Fear the Walking Dead: Season 2, Episode 1 – Monster
“It’s mob rule on land. What makes you think it’s any different out here?” (SPOILER WARNING!) After a storming season finale for AMC’s ratings behemoth The Walking Dead, the long wait for resolution...
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The Walking Dead: Season 7, Episode 2 – The Well
“They needed someone to follow, so I acted the part. And I made it.” (SPOILER WARNING!) After last week’s gruelling exercise in emotional endurance, this week’s The Walking Dead was a change of pace,...
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