The Walking Dead: Season 7, Episode 3 – The Cell
“Whatever he’s done to you, there’s more. There’s always more.” (SPOILER WARNING!) After last week’s side trip to the Kingdom, this week’s Walking Dead got back to Negan, but not to Rick and the gang....
View ArticleThe Walking Dead: Season 7, Episode 4 – Service
“Let me put this to you all as clearly as I can. I’m not in chare any more. Negan is.” (SPOILER WARNING!) It was Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner in The Walking Dead this week, as Negan took the...
View ArticleThe Walking Dead: Season 7, Episode 5 – Go Getters
“Everything just feels wrong.” (SPOILER WARNING!) Another week, another community menaced by the Saviors. In this week’s The Walking Dead, it was the turn of the Hilltop to be menaced by Negan’s...
View ArticleThe Walking Dead: Season 7, Episode 6 – Swear
“If it’s you or someone else, you choose you. You take what you can. You take out who you have to. And you get to keep going. Nobody’s in this together. Not any more.” (SPOILER WARNING!) A truly...
View ArticleThe Walking Dead: Season 7, episode 7 – Sing Me a Song
“You mowed down two of my men with a machine gun, I want something in return for that. Sing me a song.” (SPOILER WARNING!) Another week, another tense but leisurely look at one of the post-apocalyptic...
View ArticleThe Walking Dead: Season 7, Episode 8 – Hearts Still Beating
“Either your heart’s beating or it isn’t. Your loved ones’ hearts are beating or they aren’t.” (SPOILER WARNING!) And so, a generally low-key half-season has come to an equally low-key climax. OK, it’s...
View ArticleThe Walking Dead: Season 8, Episode 4 – Some Guy
“I ain’t no king! I ain’t nothing! I’m just some guy!” (SPOILER WARNING!) After several weeks of uninspiring episodes full of sound and fury signifying tedium, The Walking Dead made an unexpected (at...
View ArticleThe Walking Dead: Season 8, Episode 8 – How It’s Gotta Be
“If you care, you do something. You don’t just ‘hope’. It takes more than that.” (SPOILER WARNING!) And so, The Walking Dead’s largely uninspiring eight season has limped to a mid-season finale that...
View ArticleThe Walking Dead: Season 8, Episode 9 – Honor
“What you did then, how you stopped fighting… it was right. It still is.” (SPOILER WARNING!) Despite my dolorous post of my woes recently, life goes on. Well, in the sense that The Walking Dead has...
View ArticleThe Walking Dead: Season 8, Episode 10 – The Lost and the Plunderers
“You set this course, Rick. Who’s next?” (SPOILER WARNING!) Well, at the risk of contradicting my recent posts on The Walking Dead’s steady decline, this week’s ep surprised me by being a marked...
View ArticleThe Walking Dead: Season 8, Episode 11 – Dead or Alive or…
“… some kinda shit in between!” (SPOILER WARNING!) After last week’s unexpected blip of a genuinely good episode, this week The Walking Dead was back to “well, that was… ok I guess”. This was courtesy...
View ArticleThe Walking Dead: Season 8, Episode 12 – The Key
“The dead have brought out our best and worst, and the worst has been outpacing the best lately, but that won’t last forever.” (SPOILER WARNING!) Last week’s The Walking Dead was fairly average filler,...
View ArticleThe Walking Dead: Season 8, Episode 13 – Do Not Send Us Astray
“Winning just means we get tomorrow. Maybe one more night. Maybe one more morning. After that – no guarantees.” (SPOILER WARNING!) Negan may have taken a leave of absence from the All Out War in this...
View ArticleThe Walking Dead: Season 8, Episode 14 – Still Gotta Mean Something
“I found myself. Some version of myself, a better self. Still, it always feels like it could just be swept away again. But that doesn’t mean it will, and it doesn’t mean I couldn’t find myself again if...
View ArticleThe Walking Dead: Season 8, Episode 15 – Worth
“If they won’t end it, you have to. You have to give them a way out.” (SPOILER WARNING!) It’s the penultimate ep of this season of The Walking Dead, and for the first time in about two years there’s...
View ArticleThe Walking Dead: Season 8, Episode 16 – Wrath
“All this is just what was. There’s gotta be something after.” (SPOILER WARNING!) So finally, FINALLY, that’s a wrap on the All Out War, in a mostly satisfying and thoughtful season finale for The...
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