The Walking Dead

  *SPOILERS AHEAD … AND A LONE VERY SURPRISING ZOMBIE* Step right folks, step right up! It’s finale time for The Walking Dead season 7 which if you had listened to the unceasing torrent hype emanating from showrunner Scott Gimple, actors like Andrew Lincoln (Rick) and Michonne (Danai Gurira) and Continue Reading

  *SPOILERS AHEAD … AND FUN FAIR ZOMBIES AND BACKPACKS, OMINOUS DEATHLY BACKPACKS* Given that I’ve already made liberal use of the Dickensian idea of a tale of a two episodes, it seems only fair that I not repeat myself by riffing on the same thing, though goodness knows The Continue Reading

  *SPOILERS AHEAD … AND PEOPLE WHO ARE RATHER TOO INTIMATELY ENGAGED WITH THEIR GARBAGE* This is an apocalyptically Dickensian tales of two episodes. One, “New Best Friends”, played reasonably strongly to The Walking Dead‘s strengths, giving us an interesting character study of how far study of how far Father Continue Reading

  SPOILERS AHEAD … AD MORE OF NEGAN’S POINTLESS, NASTY POSTURING … OH, AND WATER ZOMBIES! This is the end, my friend, the friends and yet as we draw to a mid-season 7 close, you can’t help feeling that it’s just the beginning. You see, after being bullied, harassed and Continue Reading

  SPOILERS … AND WAY MORE SOCIOPATHIC POSTURING THAN IS GOOD FOR ANYONE FRANKLY Yes Carl (Chandler Riggs), there is a Sociopath. Granted that’s not as festive as the traditional “Yes Virginia there is a Santa Claus” but then the eight year old girl who was the subject of that Continue Reading

  *SPOILERS AHEAD … AND ALL TARA ALL THE TIME*   What isn’t lovely about a trip to the seaside? All that sun, surf, fresh, salty air, building sandcastles, swimming and … bobbing zombies … wait WHAT?! Yes folks even idyllic survivor communities by the seaside are going all Lord of the Continue Reading

  *SPOILERS AHEAD … AND WALKER PARTIES LIKE YOU’VE NEVER SEEN BEFORE WITH LOUD MUSIC, BONFIRES AND ROPED-UP GUARDS* Thank the Diseased Big Walker in the Sky, we have a reprieve from Negan’s swaggering blandness this week. Admittedly we get it still by proxy with Simon (Steven Ogg), The Walking Continue Reading

  *SPOILERS AHEAD … AND MORE VILLAINOUS QUIPS PER SQUARE METRE THAN A BOND VILLAIN CONVENTION*   Like a broken record played over and over and over again by a zombie instinctively remembering they once loved this thing called “moo-zik”, the producers of The Walking Dead endlessly regale us with Continue Reading

  *SPOILERS AHEAD … AS WELL AS RECOGNITION, MUCH OVERDUE AFTER LAST WEEK’S SHOCKING SEASON OPENER, THAT HUMANITY IS AS MUCH, IF NOT MORE, ABOUT THE GOOD AS THE BAD*   Thank god for The Kingdom! The new community encountered by Morgan (Lennie James) and Carol (Melissa McBride – to Continue Reading