The Walking Dead

  “They want to go where Walkers won’t eat their brains.” One of the appealing things about Cheers, which ran for 11 years from 1982-1993 and centred on a group of regulars at a Boston bar, was that everybody knew your name. You belonged, and had to a place to rest Continue Reading

  * THERE ARE SPOILERS AHEAD … and NOT A LOT OF HOPE * Hope in the midst of a zombie apocalypse, much like the faces, arms, legs and bodies of the undead themselves when hit by a fire truck’s water cannon – something which actually happened in “Self Help”, Continue Reading

  * SPOILERS AHEAD … and ROTTERS and THE CREEPIEST CARNIVAL RIDE EVER * Another episode of The Walking Dead, another group of deluded individuals thinking they are are rightly re-forming society in their own image, the last bastions of humanity in a barbarically murderous world (at least that’s what Continue Reading

  Ask Rick (Andrew Lincoln), Daryl (Norman Reedus), Michonne (Danai Gurira), Maggie (Lauren Cohen) or even scared-of-his-own-quivering shadow Father Gabriel (Seth Gilliam) – being stuck in the middle of a zombie apocalypse is hungry business! Why even the zombies themselves can’t get enough to eat what with the remaining human Continue Reading

  There isn’t much to laugh about in the deadly serious world of The Walking Dead. After all, a mysterious virus has long since turned the vast majority of the world’s population into slavering, flesh-craving undead beings, left those people who remain alive fighting day by day, inch by inch Continue Reading

  If you are of sound mind and memory, you will recall that Rick (Andrew Lincoln), Daryl (Norman Reedus) and many of the others, save for Carol, Tyreese and baby Judith who were yet to arrive at the “sanctuary” of Terminus, finished up season 4 locked tight inside a rail Continue Reading

  You may well be thinking to yourself “Did we not just finish season 4, and isn’t season 5 an agonisingly long seven months in the far off wilds of October when we could well be up to your necks in the chomping undead for real?” You would be right Continue Reading

  The explosive finale of season 4 of The Walking Dead, enigmatically titled “A”, was many things – tense, deceitful, cruel, vindictive, hopeful, suspicious, but above all, an excellent lesson in relativity. Or to put it another way, no matter how great you think your own sins are, a factor which Continue Reading

  For a series set in the zombie apocalypse, where survival must be fought for inch by inch, second by second, and there isn’t a whole lot of time for philosophical reflection – unless you’re Tara (Alanna Masterson) entering a dark walker-filled rail tunnel with Glenn (Steven Yeun), in which Continue Reading