‘The Walking Dead’ 7.10 Recap: “This Has Got to Stop”
Whether intentionally or not, this season of ‘The Walking Dead’ has really tested the limits of how ridiculous an episode or storyline can get without lapsing into outright parody. This week comes...
View Article‘The Walking Dead’ 7.11 Recap: “Look at You, Dr. Smartypants”
Rather than air a repeat or skip a week, the AMC network followed through with a new episode of ‘The Walking Dead’ on Sunday opposite the Oscars. Expecting ratings to be down, the episode focuses on...
View Article‘The Walking Dead’ 7.12 Recap: “It Was a Great Plan”
From its sickeningly dark start, this season of ‘The Walking Dead’ has had some wild tonal swings. This week turns comedic as Rick and Michonne take a day off to have a date at the county fair. Rick is...
View Article‘The Walking Dead’ 7.13 Recap: “You Have to Kill”
I swear, ‘The Walking Dead’ this week has the lamest pre-credits opening teaser scene in the show’s entire run. It’s just Ezekiel and some of his men wordlessly placing a melon into a box and putting...
View Article‘The Walking Dead’ 7.14 Recap: “It’s a Long Life, and Then It Isn’t”
‘The Walking Dead’ goes Rickless this week as we check in to see what’s been going on at the Hilltop. The answer: Not much. In a lengthy wordless montage, we open with Maggie training Hilltopians...
View Article‘The Walking Dead’ 7.15 Recap: “You Got Some Beach Ball-Sized Lady Nuts on You”
We’re one week before the season finale of ‘The Walking Dead’. Doesn’t now seem like a great time to revisit the worst episode of the season? No, I didn’t think so either. We’ve spent a lot of time...
View Article‘The Walking Dead’ 7.16 Recap: “The Jig Is Up”
In what may be a relief to fans, Sunday’s finale of ‘The Walking Dead’ is perhaps the best episode of the season. Unfortunately, with this season, that’s not a very high bar to clear. The episode still...
View Article‘Fear the Walking Dead’ 3.01 & 3.02 Recap: “You’re Pointless”
Why did I let myself get roped into watching ‘Fear the Walking Dead’ again? I was pretty much done with the show after the last season, but I forgot to delete it from my DVR’s series recording list....
View ArticleBlu-ray Highlights: Week of August 20th, 2017 – Wham Bam Shang-a-Lang
With one of the biggest blockbusters of the year hitting Blu-ray and UHD this week, you’ll have to forgive other studios for stepping out of the way. If Marvel’s new space epic isn’t your thing, we...
View Article‘Fear the Walking Dead’ Season 3 Finale Recap: “What a Perverse Family You Have”
I’m as surprised as anyone that I watched the entire third season of ‘Fear the Walking Dead’. I was ready to give up on the series after last season, but I stuck around for curiosity’s sake. Little by...
View Article‘The Walking Dead’ 8.01 Recap: “You Know What’s Gonna Happen”
Season 8 of ‘The Walking Dead’ arrives with a lot riding on it. The premiere is both the show’s milestone 100th episode and, perhaps more importantly, it’s the first episode back after a particularly...
View Article‘The Walking Dead’ 8.02 Recap: “There It Is, Our Certain Victory”
The quick, one-sentence recap of this week’s episode of ‘The Walking Dead’: Shootin’, shootin’, shootin’, shootin’, shootin’, more shootin’, everybody’s sad. The longer version: The show’s producers...
View Article‘The Walking Dead’ 8.03 Recap: “I Did Not Eat Those Pancakes!”
If last week’s episode of ‘The Walking Dead’ was all shootin’, shootin’, shootin’, this week’s is all talkin’, talkin’, talkin’. It’s a total snooze and one of the worst episodes this show has had...
View Article‘The Walking Dead’ 8.04 Recap: “I Ain’t No King”
Something like several dozen characters get killed off on ‘The Walking Dead’ this week. How many of them are named characters you’ll recognize? Just one, and it’s not even a person. Is that too much of...
View Article‘The Walking Dead’ 8.05 Recap: “Let’s Make Today the Best Today It Can Be”
After needlessly dragging out the answer for nearly a month, ‘The Walking Dead’ finally fills us in on what happened to Negan after the attack on the Sanctuary. The answer: Not much, really. This...
View Article‘The Walking Dead’ 8.06 Recap: “Threats and Dreams… Dreams and Threats”
What happens on ‘The Walking Dead’ this week? Seriously, I’m asking. I know it’s supposed to be my job to tell you, but I’m not sure anything actually does happen in this episode. The episode is very...
View Article‘The Walking Dead’ 8.07 Recap: “We Done?”
Oh good, a Eugene-focused episode. That’s just what ‘The Walking Dead’ needs to turn around a disappointing season. (That’s sarcasm, in case you didn’t catch it.) Eugene was once an amusing, colorful...
View Article‘The Walking Dead’ 8.08 Recap: “You Ever Shut the Hell Up?”
This year’s mid-season finale of ‘The Walking Dead’ will likely be a make-or-break point for a lot of viewers who’ve been disenchanted with the show’s downturn in quality. Can one episode convince them...
View Article‘The Walking Dead’ 8.09 Recap: “I Know It Can Be Better”
‘The Walking Dead’ was off the air for the past two months and, frankly, I bet that a lot of its viewers were grateful for the break. I know I was. This season has been underwhelming, to put it mildly....
View Article‘The Walking Dead’ 8.10 Recap: “Standard Message and Delivery”
‘The Walking Dead’ aired a new episode against the Oscars this week. I opted to watch the Oscars live and delayed ‘The Walking Dead’ another day. As I feared, the show spent an hour catching viewers up...
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