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  *SPOILERS … BRIGHT RED LIGHTS AND MORAL CONUNDRUMS AHEAD*   Sinners or saints? It was THE big question looming large over The Walking Dead this week in “Not Tomorrow Yet” when everyone was forced to confront whether they weren’t getting a little morally questionable and relativistic in their old Continue Reading

  SNAPSHOT “Season one left off with Madison, Travis and their extended family taking temporary shelter in Strand’s gated estate overlooking the Pacific Ocean. As civil unrest continues to grow and the dead take over Los Angeles, the group prepares to escape to Abigail, Strand’s large yacht moored offshore.” There Continue Reading

  *SPOILERS AHEAD … AND COWARDLY MEN WITH KNIVES … AND COWS* It was a case of worlds getting a whole lot bigger in “Knots Untie”. While on the surface a warm and fuzzy wonderful thing to have happen to anyone, in an apocalyptic world where brute survival rules and Continue Reading

  In general, I am not a fan of ads. Even if they are artistic triumphs, and the great ones often are, I’m not especially enamoured of giving air to brands that simply want to sell more product. The exceptions are the Christmas ads from various stores – c’mon it’s Continue Reading

  There’s a better than even chance that the first thing you think of when someone, say like me, says The Walking Dead, is not The Benny Hill Show. And fair enough too – one show is all about trying to avoid either becoming undead chow or grist for sociopathic Continue Reading

  Why are we here? What makes us, us? and why didn’t we didn’t think of inventing the wheels that make puling along suitcases so much easier these days? All very good questions, and all pondered to one degree or another by Stephen Colbert and Kermit in an segment on The Continue Reading

  *SPOILERS AHEAD … AND A LAKE FULL OF GROCERIES … YEAH DON’T ASK* The Walking Dead is a lot of things my friends – dramatic, touching, sad, scary, occasionally happy, doom-laden and portentous – but tonight it was also instructive in the ways of apocalypse etiquette. Yes etiquette, in Continue Reading

  No one likes to admit it outright but sometimes life can be pretty disappointing. You stack up your dreams and barely-whispered expectations in the hope they will lead somewhere special and when they don’t, you either have a choice to give up entirely or cobble together a rough approximation of Continue Reading

  Let’s hear it for the new neverending Golden Age of Television! While it does make keeping up with everything a challenge of neat Herculean proportions, it’s not a bad #firstworldproblem to have since it has effectively ended the reign of reality TV – yes, it’s still there but no longer Continue Reading