Blu-ray Highlights: Week of November 29th, 2015 – You Know I’m No Good
Welcome back, everybody! As we return from the long holiday weekend, I wish I had more exciting news to bring you about the first new Blu-ray releases of December. Unfortunately, this is an especially...
View Article‘The Walking Dead’ 6.08 Recap: “Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You”
It’s the mid-season finale of ‘The Walking Dead’, and although this episode gives us a lot of Walker action and even offs a member of the Alexandria community, I can’t think of a more ineffective...
View Article‘The Walking Dead’ 6.09 Recap: “Bite, Chew, Swallow, Repeat”
I recall not being that excited about this year’s mid-season finale of ‘The Walking Dead’. In fact, I didn’t even realize until this past weekend that it was time for the show to come back. As I...
View Article‘The Walking Dead’ 6.10 Recap: “That’s Why I Was Out Here”
After an episode filled with violence and loss, ‘The Walking Dead’ takes a breather this week and presents one of the more lighthearted entries in the series… well, at least as lighthearted as a show...
View Article‘The Walking Dead’ 6.11 Recap: “Your World’s About to Get a Whole Lot Bigger”
I’m a big fan of episodes of ‘The Walking Dead’ that expand the show’s universe as we know it. We all remember how things got much more interesting when the Governor and his people first came into the...
View ArticleWeekend Roundtable: Have You Ever Met a Celebrity?
Celebrities may seem so unapproachable when you see them all glammed up in their fancy dresses and tuxedos on the Oscar red carpet, but they’re ultimately real people and have lives to live like any of...
View Article‘The Walking Dead’ 6.12 Recap: “We’re Gonna Have to Fight”
Rick and the gang return to Alexandria this week and plan how to best deal with Negan and his group of Saviors. While a lot of this episode of ‘The Walking Dead’ is setup for next week, we still get a...
View Article‘The Walking Dead’ 6.13 Recap: “We Are All Negan”
This week’s entry of ‘The Walking Dead’ focuses on what happens with Carol and Maggie after they’re taken hostage by a handful of Negan’s Saviors. Despite an opportunity to give actors Melissa McBride...
View Article‘The Walking Dead’ 6.14 Recap: “I Ain’t Takin’ No Tracks”
A few seasons back, when our heroes on ‘The Walking Dead’ were still hanging out at the prison, many episodes were criticized because not much would happen in them during the first two-thirds, only to...
View ArticleWeekend Roundtable: Lamest Character Death Ret-cons
The character death ret-con, in which a fan-favorite character is traumatically killed off, only for the story’s writers to miraculously bring him or her back later through an unbelievable plot...
View Article‘The Walking Dead’ 6.15 Recap: “She’s a Force of Nature”
It’s the penultimate episode of Season 6, and it looks like all the pieces are in place for at least some of our ‘Walking Dead’ heroes to finally come face-to-face with the much-talked-about but not...
View Article‘The Walking Dead’ 6.16 Recap: “Let’s Meet the Man”
We’re all familiar with the phrase “Jump the Shark” (or the more recent “Nuke the Fridge”) when it comes to TV shows and movie series that have outstayed their welcome and have an event occur so...
View ArticleWeekend Roundtable: Worst TV Cliffhangers
The season finale cliffhanger has been a time-honored TV tradition ever since ‘Dallas’ left viewers guessing “Who Shot J.R.?” over three decades ago. Nevertheless, when ‘The Walking Dead’ ended its...
View Article‘Fear the Walking Dead’ 2.01 Recap: “If This Is the End of the World, It’s...
The first, short season of AMC’s zombie spinoff ‘Fear the Walking Dead’ didn’t exactly knock my socks off, but the show got somewhat better over the course of its six episodes. For its second season,...
View Article‘Fear the Walking Dead’ 2.02 Recap: “It’s No Safer on Sea Than on Land”
For better or worse (and it may be a bit of both), I suspect that this week’s episode of ‘Fear the Walking Dead’ may set the course for how the rest of the season will go. The episode itself is pretty...
View Article‘Fear the Walking Dead’ 2.03 Recap: “This Is the Worst It’s Gonna Be”
With ‘Game of Thrones’ back to its regular timeslot on Sunday nights, ‘Fear the Walking Dead’ is no longer a Day 1 viewing priority for me. I suspect that the two shows have a lot of viewer overlap and...
View Article‘Fear the Walking Dead’ 2.04 Recap: “We All Have a Function”
‘Fear the Walking Dead’ pulls a ‘Captain Phillips’ this week when our characters get hijacked at sea. For a story set on a boat, I suppose that was inevitable and it’s for the best to get it out of the...
View Article‘Fear the Walking Dead’ 2.05 Recap: “We Think You Could Be Happy Here”
For a minute there, I thought ‘Fear the Walking Dead’ might go a whole episode without showing any zombies. I’m not sure if that would be a disappointment or a refreshing break from formula....
View Article‘Fear the Walking Dead’ 2.06 Recap: “This World Was Never Good Enough for You”
One of the problems ‘Fear the Walking Dead’ has had this season (admittedly, among many) is the lack of a clear villain to rally the show’s heroes against. For a moment, it looked like the pirate...
View Article‘Fear the Walking Dead’ 2.07 Recap: “These People Are Not Our Friends”
Although this second season of ‘Fear the Walking Dead’ is planned to run 15 episodes in all, the season has been split into two short halves, the first of which ended with Episode 7. I hesitate to call...
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