THE WORLD BEYOND: “Death and the Dead” / “The Last Night” SPOILERS AHEAD … IT’S THE END, MY FRIEND, THE END … AND THE BEGINNING … The final two episodes EVER of World Beyond – unlike its stablemates, the show was only ever designed to be a limited series and Continue Reading
Fear the Walking Dead
Fear the Walking Dead: S7, E 5 & 6 review + World Beyond: S2, E 7 & 8 review
FEAR THE WALKING DEAD SPOILERS AHEAD FOR “TILL DEATH” AND “RECLAMATION” … You could be forgiven for thinking, and yes, that is still possible even in the midst of the apocalypse, that there’d be precious little humanity left in a landscape given over not only to the dead but also Continue Reading
World Beyond: “Quatervois” and “Who Are You?” (S2, E 5 & 6 review) / Fear the Walking Dead: “Cindy Hawkins” and “Breathe With Me” (S7, E 3 & 4 review)
THE WALKING DEAD: WORLD BEYOND SPOILERS AHEAD … SNEAKING AROUND, ESPIONAGE AND BLACKOUTS AT PRECISELY THE RIGHT, AND WRONG, MOMENTS … Operation take down the CRM is in full swing in Quatervois” and “Who Are You?” which sees a plan to bust-em-outta-twisted-utopia quickly morph into “taking down the man!” thanks Continue Reading
Fear the Walking Dead: “The Beacon” and “Six Hours” (S7, E 1 & 2 review) / World Beyond: “Exit Wounds” and “Family is a Four Letter Word” (S2, E 3 & 4 review)
FEAR THE WALKING DEAD SPOILERS AHEAD … IRRADIATED ZOMBIES, NARRATIVELY CONVENIENT RADIATION LEVELS AND UNNECESSARY NEGAN-NESS … Hands up those of you who, on top of a zombie apocalypse and a nuclease fallout-saturated landscape want another Negan-style Big Bad? Yes, yes I see you hardcore, rusted-on The Walking Dead watchers, Continue Reading
New zombies! Fear the Walking Dead (season 7) and World Beyond (season 2) SDCC 2021 reveals
You have to hand it to The Walking Dead franchise. If it wasn’t bad enough having the dead walking around you and wanting to chow down you at every opportunity, now survivors have to contend with an irradiated wasteland (Fear the Walking Dead) or being stuck between a destroyed home Continue Reading
Fear the Walking Dead: “The Beginning” (S6, E16 review) #SeasonFinale
SPOILERS AHEAD … AND A WHOLE LOT OF IRRADIATED EXISTENTIAL ANGST … Sooooo … what do you do when ten nuclear warheads are about to rain down at points unknown around you and you may have only minutes to find shelter or die in the attempt? Do you … (a) Continue Reading
Fear the Walking Dead: “Mother” / “USS Pennsylvania” (S6, E14 & E15 review)
SPOILERS AHEAD … CLOSE QUARTER WALKERS, KABOOM APLENTY AND SOCIOPATHIC MIND GAMES If you stop and think about it, and let’s be honest even if you don’t, the zombie-filled end of the world madness that is Fear the Walking Dead, really doesn’t need any more crazy stirring into its already Continue Reading
Fear the Walking Dead: “In Dreams” / “J.D.” (S6, E12 & E13 review)
SPOILERS AHEAD … AND DEATH, IMAGINED AND REAL WITH BATTLES TO COME … You could well argue that life in the zombie apocalypse is so weird and strange for all its grinding, violent realism, that there is no need to get caught in a surreal dream set in the same Continue Reading
Fear the Walking Dead: “Handle With Care” / “The Holding” (S6, E10 & E11 review)
SPOILERS AHEAD … STOLEN GUNS AND WACKO CULTISTS …SO BUSINESS AS USUAL THEN? It is a rare thing indeed for any TV show to excite you with its writing so much that you punch the air and almost leap out of the chair with the pleasure of watching a finely-honed Continue Reading
Fear the Walking Dead: “The Door” / “Things Left To Do” (S6, E8 & E9 review)
SPOILERS AHEAD … GOODBYES TO A FRIEND AND AN ENEMY AND THE MOST UNDEAD AUTO SERVICE YOU’VE EVER SEEN … One of the great hallmarks of Fear the Walking Dead from the very beginning has been its willingness to explore the horrific toll that something as cataclysmically devastating as the Continue Reading