This week’s episode of The Walking Dead is all about advantages. The advantage of alliances, the advantage of circumstances, and the advantage of wrong turns. At the Commonwealth, processing goes better for some than others, and Eugene nearly buckles under the pressure. In
After the character heavy final episodes of season 10 of The Walking Dead, season 11 is back to group mission storylines. The premiere drops us into a more horror movie like setting than we have seen in a while on the show. The Alexandria group must explore dangerous new avenues for
There is no greater commodity in the undead apocalypse than trust. You may think the answer is food, but the premiere episode of the new season makes a decent argument for both. With the supply of food at a wrecked Alexandria dwindling, the group must find new sources of meals.
THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS FOR EPISODE 1022, “HERE'S NEGAN.” In this week’s episode of The Walking Dead, we dive into the long-awaited Negan backstory about his life with Lucille. Though an odd choice for the season finale, it is actually one the better episodes of the series. This
In this week’s episode of The Walking Dead, Carol and Daryl decide to diverge on different paths at a literal fork in the road to match the metaphorical one they have been traveling for awhile now. The episode devolves into a day in the life/problem-solver episode, but does not advance the
The Walking Dead has always been about the various forms of trauma. How living through an apocalypse scars you, and how scars obtained prior to the apocalypse helps you survive it. In a Princess heavy episode, we are introduced to a new group that have a penchant for dressing up like
On this week’s episode of The Walking Dead, Gabriel and Aaron scavenge for food for Alexandria, and they test the limits of hope, survival, loyalty, and bluffing. As we open on a wildflower covered field, Gabriel and Aaron get down to some walker killing business. Flowers on this show
In one of the most cinematic episodes of The Walking Dead, Carol and Daryl spend the day together and pick at the scab of their friendship. We learn the origins of Dog, and we see what Daryl did in the years after Rick blew himself off of a bridge. Friendship can be difficult in even the best of
Have you ever considered the similarities between the landmark 1978 slasher Halloween and 1982’s First Blood? In both films, a man of few words arrives in a small town that treats him like the bogeyman, and when circumstances escalate to the point of murder, a specialist who’s highly familiar
Daemons of the Shadow Realm reveals the depths a certain hunter named Ivan has in Ep. 20 "The Hunted and the Hunter". It's very bloody and dark depths, but it does show that Ivan will likely be a major recurring villain in the story, and will play a major role in that story somehow. As well as
For better or for worse, the Cold War action-comedy lives! 35 years after the fall of the Soviet Union, John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein have meshed the longstanding Odd Couple road trip with Iron Curtain hijinks and modern action sensibilities for a surprisingly solid but conceptually
