*SPOILERS AHEAD … AND AN ORGIASTIC CELEBRATION OF VIOLENCE SUCH AS YOU”VE NEVER SEEN … AND THE WORST STAND-UP COMEDY EVER* Ever since Fonzie gunned his motorcycle and sent himself flying over a shark full of tanks in a scene generally recognised as the narrative nadir of Happy Continue Reading
The Walking Dead
Expanding bloody worlds: The Walking Dead season 7 changes everything (featurette)
The great defining moment from the final episode of season 6 was Negan (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) standing in pouring rain in the middle of the night readying his barbed-wire baseball Lucille to rain down bloody death on one of Rick’s (Andrew Lincoln) crew. We didn’t see who died but Continue Reading
The Walking Dead: “Start to Finish” (S6, E8 review)
*SPOILERS … AND BROKEN WALLS, ILL-TIMED FIGHTS AND THE LATEST IN ZOMBIE-INSPIRED FASHION AHEAD.* One of the things that The Walking Dead has always done exceptionally well is weave deep, thoughtful ruminations on the nature of humanity and how it reshapes itself in the face of great threats into its Continue Reading
The Walking Dead: “Heads Up” (S6, E7 review)
* SPOILERS AHEAD … AND THE ALL-NEW CRAZE “DUMPSTERCISE”, THE BIGGEST FITNESS CRAZE AMONG THE UNDEAD OF THE APOCALYPSE * So the big news of the quietly-paced by still dramatic penultimate episode of the first half of season 6 (penned by Channing Powell) was, as had been rumoured whether Continue Reading
The Walking Dead: “Always Accountable” (S6, E6 review)
* SPOILERS, CHARRED BIKES AND THE WEIRDEST PICK-UP LINE EVER AHEAD * “Always Accountable” saw The Walking Dead back out beyond the walls where the deer, the antelope and the walkers roam – though likely not together given the former would find themselves on the menu of the Continue Reading
The Walking Dead: “Now” (S6, E5 review)
* SPOILERS … AND A RATHER NASTY DOSE OF REALITY LIE AHEAD * Life, especially life in the apocalypse, doesn’t really play fair does it? There you are, all happy and content, playing happy families behind tall, strong walls, making like life is as it’s always been when, Continue Reading
The Walking Dead: “Here’s Not Here” (S6, E4 review)
* SPOILERS, AND THE PATH TO SELF-ENLIGHTENMENT LIE AHEAD * “Here’s Not Here” was a remarkable episode in many ways. It wasn’t simply that it followed last week’s action-packed, high-adrenaline episode “Thank You” in which – SPOILER! – Glenn died/did not die/got way too close to a dumpster for Continue Reading
The Walking Dead: “Thank You” (S6, E3 review)
* SPOILERS AHEAD … AS WELL AS MORE ZOMBIES THAN YOU SHELTER ON A DUMPSTER FROM * If there’s one thing we’ve learned in six seasons of The Walking Dead, and most particularly in last week’s gory attack on Alexandria, it’s that death and the apocalypse go together like inseparable Continue Reading
The Walking Dead: “JSS” (S6, E2 review)
* SPOILERS … AND WAR AND PEACE AND CASSEROLES AHEAD * “JSS” was the episode where all the blinders came off for pretty much everyone. The good people of Alexandria, those left behind anyway while Rick (Andrew Lincoln) led the more capable fighting members off to steer the zombie Continue Reading
The Walking Dead: “First Time Again” (S6, E1 review)
* SPOILERS … AND A MOTHER LOAD OF WALKERS ALL WALKING YOR WAY AHEAD * “One must either take an interest in the human situation or else parade before the void.” (Jean Rostand) No prizes for guessing which side of the equation the walkers, and there are an Continue Reading