Fear the Walking Dead

  SPOILERS AHEAD … AND HOPE AND DOOM BUT NOT IN EQUAL MEASURE The zombies may be thick on the ground in their very own apocalypse but not so much hope or any sense of optimism for the future. Most survivors, including the new villain of the piece Martha (Tonya Continue Reading

  SPOILERS AHEAD … AND SOME REASSURING AND CHILLING IDEAS ON WHAT CONSTITUTES STRENGTH AND WEAKNESS We are kings and queens of the fight-or-flight response, and for good reason; back in ye olde prehistoric days, hanging around for a fight you couldn’t win or staying in the path of some Continue Reading

  SPOILERS AHEAD … AND WAY TOO MUCH MORGAN FOR ONE EPISODE … “Morgan, it’s not me, it’s you – I think I should start seeing other characters.” That, dear readers, is my imagined opening gambit in a conversation with good old Morgan (Lennie James), a character who whinged about Continue Reading

  SPOILERS AHEAD … AS WELL AS SHISH KEBAB ZOMBIES, UNWANTED WINDOW GUESTS AND REGRET, LOTS OF REGRET When the world around you has gone to the undead dogs – frankly in a world where civilisation has fallen, the reanimated dead wander the earth and Lord of the Flies is Continue Reading

  SPOILERS AHEAD … AND ZOMBIES WHO ARE BLOWING IN THE WIND … THEY’RE BLOWING IN THE WIND MY FRIEND Things got more than a little Z Nation in the opening episode, “People Like Us”, of the second half of the fourth season of Fear the Walking Dead. The undead, Continue Reading

  SNAPSHOT The first half of season four began with one figure huddled around a campfire, and ended with nine. Characters who started their journeys in isolation collided with each other in unexpected ways and found themselves in one of the last places they ever expected to be…together. In the Continue Reading

  SPOILERS AHEAD … AND A GREAT BIG RATINGS-GRABBING DEATH! Saying goodbye to a character you come to know and love in a TV show in never an easy thing. It makes sense – we spend huge amounts of time with them, come to love their outlook on life and Continue Reading

  SPOILERS AHEAD … NEAR-DEATH, FALLING STADIUMS AND THE COSILY DELUSIONAL POWER OF SELF-BELIEF … Optimism is a powerful motivator. It propels people forward in a way that pays no heed to the facts on the ground and achieves great things when everything points to ignominious failure being the only Continue Reading

  SPOILERS AHEAD … AND MORE TRUTH TO THE AXIOM THAT YOU CAN’T GO BACK … UNLESS YOU’RE IN A BACKSTORY IN WHICH CASE YOU CAN … Regrets – we all have them. In our case though, in our cosy non-zombie apocalypse existence, regrets are nothing more than irritating callouses Continue Reading

SPOILERS AHEAD … AND LOVE IN A TIME OF APOCALYPSE … Forget your rom-coms with their “meet cutes”, their getting-to-know-you montages and their misunderstandings resolved at the airport. Or your romantic poets like Lord Byron and William Wordsworth. Your songs of fidelity, enrapturement and eternal devotion. Or your Harlequin romances Continue Reading