SPOILERS AHEAD … AND BEER, ZOMBIE LANDSIDES AND SOME KISSING RATHER THAN KILLING BY THE RIVERSIDE … What do you value more – your loved ones or your vocation, the thing that drives you to get out of bed in the morning and go charging into the day? If Hallmark Continue Reading
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Fear the Walking Dead: “Skidmark” (S5, E4 review)
SPOILERS AHEAD … AND CLEVER CATS, BURNT-OUT PLANES AND INTERESTING NEW FRIENDSHIPS … You gave got to love Daniel (Rubén Blades). A consummate survivor who has survived the very worst that the zombie apocalypse, and Victor Strand (Colman Domingo) for that matter, can throw at him, Daniel is the kind Continue Reading
Fear the Walking Dead: “Humbug’s Gulch” (S5, E3 review)
SPOILERS AHEAD … AND ZOMBIE BOWELS WOOHOO! I MEAN, WHO DOESN’T LOVE ZOMBIE BOWELS? If there is one thing that The Walking Dead has always struggled with, it’s the humanity that should be sitting at the very heart of its storytelling. Sure, Dale (Jeffrey DeMunn) used to bleat on, reasonably Continue Reading
Fear the Walking Dead: “The Hurt That Will Happen” (S5, E2 review)
SPOILERS AHEAD … RADIOACTIVE ZOMBIES, FRIENDLY CATS AND THE SOUND OF GOOD INTENTIONS COMING UP HARD AGAINST HARD REALITY … Continuing the season 5 theme of doing good even when everyone else is doing bad, or at best, being protectively ambivalent, “The Hurt That Will Happen” celebrated the idea that, Continue Reading
Fear the Walking Dead: “Here to Help” (S5, E1 review)
SPOILERS AHEAD … AND KIDS WITHOUT PARENTS … ZOMBIES WITHOUT SOULS AND SOME SECOND-HAND IDEALS LOOKING WORSE FOR WEAR … There’s a great yawning chasm between ideals and execution at the best of times – you know, when there’s running water, bedding and fresh episodes of Grace and Frankie – Continue Reading
Cameras … zombies … action! Season 5 of Fear the Walking Dead is almost here!
SNAPSHOT Heading into season 5 of Fear the Walking Dead, the group’s mission is clear: locate survivors and help make what’s left of the world a slightly better place. With dogged determination, Morgan Jones leads the group with a philosophy rooted in benevolence, community and hope. Each character believes that Continue Reading
Zombies! Fear the Walking Dead S5 trailer and The Dead Don’t Die
Zombies aren’t dead! Well, OK yes they are technically but as robustly-rambling leading lights of the pop culture zeitgeist, they are alive and kicking. Take the fact that not only does Fear the Walking Dead have a fifth season coming up on 2 June at 9/8c this year on AMC Continue Reading
Fear the Walking Dead: “… I Lose Myself” (S4, E16 review)
SPOILERS AHEAD … KEGGERS AS A WAY TO PERSONAL SALVATION … Hands up if you know the best way to avoid dying and becoming a member of the ravenous undead in the zombie apocalypse? Don’t get caught in the middle of a zombie herd approaching from both ends of Continue Reading
Fear the Walking Dead: “I Lose People … ” (S4, E15 review)
SPOILERS AHEAD … AND HEROIC ACTS AND SWARMS O’ ZOMBIES … There are a couple of things, among many, that you’re unlikely to hear in the midst of the zombie apocalypse. One is “Everything is Awesome!”, the theme for 2014’s The Lego Movie by Tegan and Sara (feat, Lonely Continue Reading
Fear the Walking Dead: “MM54” (S4, E14 review)
SPOILERS AHEAD … AND LOTS OF HELPING … WELL, WANTING TO, ANYWAY … “Bad shit happens when you try to help people.” Not exactly the sort of sentiment you’re likely to see splashed across a Hallmark card any time soon, but one voiced in the latest episode of Fear Continue Reading