After a very rocky season 7 in which I (a) seriously questioned my sanity and tolerance for torture-porn violence (damn near negligible) and (b) wondered if The Walking Dead had surrendered what was left of its once-philosophical soul to empty, ever-more murderous narratives, season 8’s trailer arrives with an Continue Reading
Fear the Walking Dead
Death Knows No Borders: Fear the Walking Dead returns 22 August (promo + poster)
So the zombie apocalypse huh? It starts off with everyone all united, working together to get out of the damned death-filled hellhole that L.A. has become, and everything’s fine – well as fine as the end of the world can be which let’s be honest is really not fine Continue Reading
Fear the Walking Dead: “The Good Man” (S1, E6 review)
*SPOILERS … AND ZOMBIES … AND DEATH ALL AROUND AHEAD* One of the most searing lesson from the near universally-well realised first season of Fear the Walking Dead aka When the World Went to Undead Sh*t has been how tenuous civilisation and all the ethics and conventions of upstanding, Continue Reading
Fear the Walking Dead: “Cobalt” (S1, E5 review)
* SPOILERS … AND AN ARENA OF ANXIOUS-TO-GET-OUT WALKERS AWAIT * Ah humanity, when the chips are down, you either cover yourself in glory, self-sacrificially stepping forward to make lives better for others in times horrifically extraordinary, or you look out for number 1, making sure you’re OK Continue Reading
Fear the Walking Dead: “Not Fade Away” (S1, E4 review)
*SPOILERS AHEAD … AND THE DEATH OF DEMOCRACY AND FREEDOM (FUN HUH?)* Early on in “Not Fade Away”, and perched on top of the roof his dad’s girlfriend’s house watching the undead world go by while he films it, Chris (Lorenzo James Henrie) ironically notes that their new military protectors Continue Reading
Fear the Walking Dead: “The Dog” (S1, E3 review)
*SPOILERS … AND DOG TARTAR ON THE MENU* I have long held to the idea, rather romantically I must admit, that being a dog in a movie or TV show is a pretty sweet deal. In pretty much every case I can think of, while humanity goes to the Continue Reading
Fear the Walking Dead: “So Close, Yet So Far” (S1, E2 review)
*SPOILERS AHEAD … AND SCHOOL LOOKING JUST THE WAY YOU FANTASISED IT MIGHT … THE WORLD THOUGH? NOT SO MUCH.* If ever an episode title aptly captured the storyline within, it’s this one. No matter how hard Travis (Cliff Curtis) and Madison (Kim Dickens) tried to bring their Continue Reading
Fear the Walking Dead: “Pilot” (S1, E1 review)
We are not a patient people any more. Too many words on the page? Not gonna read that. Song goes over three minutes. Off goes the radio. TV program doesn’t have three deaths, an epidemic, alien and zombies by the gigazillion in the first two minutes … well “Hello!” Continue Reading