‘The Walking Dead’ 8.11 Recap: “It’s Gonna Be OK, All of It”
If the producers of ‘The Walking Dead’ are concerned about the show’s declining ratings this season, something tells me that an episode mostly focused on third-tier characters like Gabriel and Eugene...
View Article‘The Walking Dead’ 8.12 Recap: “Just Move On”
‘The Walking Dead’ is a big tease this week, promising one thing and failing to deliver on it. I suppose that’s pretty much just the way the show goes these days, isn’t it? At the Sanctuary, Negan...
View Article‘The Walking Dead’ 8.13 Recap: “It’s Time to Do Some Proper Slaughtering”
My heart sank when I sat down to watch ‘The Walking Dead’ this week and saw that my DVR had recorded a two-hour episode. Fortunately, it was just a ratings stunt and the last hour was actually an...
View Article‘The Walking Dead’ 8.14 Recap: “Everybody Turns”
Rick takes a major turn for the dark on ‘The Walking Dead’ this week. Is that supposed to be surprising? How many times do we have to go through this storyline? Trashtown In a flashback, we learn how...
View Article‘The Walking Dead’ 8.15 Recap: “Status Quo Has Been Re-Achieved”
Carl is back on ‘The Walking Dead’ already! That didn’t take long! He’s back momentarily, in a manner of speaking, anyway. Episode ‘Worth’ opens with Rick pondering the very lengthy letter Carl wrote...
View Article‘The Walking Dead’ 8.16 Recap: “It’s Not Over ‘Til He’s Dead”
‘The Walking Dead’ finally closed its disappointing eighth season with a big finale that exiting show-runner Scott Gimple promised would end the war with Negan in a way that will satisfy every fan who...
View Article‘Fear the Walking Dead’ 4.01 Recap: “That Is Some Ugly Mustard”
Welcome to the first episode of ‘Walking Morgan’, a new spinoff from ‘The Walking Dead’ that has virtually no association with the existing spinoff ‘Fear the Walking Dead’ despite misladingly putting...
View Article‘Fear the Walking Dead’ 4.02 Recap: “You Just Haven’t Been Tested Yet”
It turns out that ‘Fear the Walking Dead’ isn’t just going to be all about Morgan this year. For better or worse, the season’s second episode hardly shows him at all, instead catching us up with the...
View Article‘Fear the Walking Dead’ 4.03 Recap: “We’re All Breathing Here”
While I still have some reservations that this season is treading a little too closely to the type of storylines we’ve seen countless times on the original show, ‘Fear the Walking Dead’ does something...
View Article‘Fear the Walking Dead’ 4.04 Recap: “People Are Stubborn Creatures”
I realize that functioning technology may be harder to come by in the apocalypse, but you’d think self-proclaimed journalist Althea could scrounge up something better than a VHS camcorder. Even with...
View Article‘Fear the Walking Dead’ 4.05 Recap: “Soup Is the Blanket of Food”
This week’s episode of ‘Fear the Walking Dead’ features not a single one of the show’s original cast or characters, and hardly moves the plot forward at all. It’s also probably the best episode of the...
View Article‘Fear the Walking Dead’ 4.06 Recap: “People Don’t Change”
‘Fear the Walking Dead’ fills us in on the rest of (or at least more of) Naomi/Laura’s backstory this week, but it’s not quite as compelling as the prior episode, which looks like it may wind up being...
View Article‘Fear the Walking Dead’ 4.07 Recap: “You’re Holdin’ onto Something That’s Gone”
All the time-jumping from past to future on ‘Fear the Walking Dead’ this season is getting to be annoying, especially in this week’s episode. Somebody should tell the writers that they’re not doing...
View Article‘Fear the Walking Dead’ 4.08 Recap: “We’re Connected by This Single...
The mid-season finale of ‘Fear the Walking Dead’ spends a very long hour setting up and confirming something that most fans surely already picked up on a while ago. As such, it’s a rather disappointing...
View ArticleFear the Walking Dead 4.09 Recap: “God Knows If There’ll Be a Tomorrow”
Fear the Walking Dead is back from its mid-season hiatus, but this may be the first time in the entire Walking Dead franchise’s run when all eyes were really watching what Chris Hardwick would have to...
View ArticleBlu-ray Highlights: Week of August 19th, 2018 – $@%!#&
You thought you got all the Marvel superheroes you could take last week? One of the few who’s not (yet) part of the Avengers team follows right on their heels to both Blu-ray and Ultra HD. New Releases...
View ArticleFear the Walking Dead 4.10 Recap: “Should’ve Left Me Alone”
Fear the Walking Dead makes a play from its parent show’s handbook this week, following a big cliffhanger (that major storm brewing at the end of the last episode) with a small bottle episode focused...
View ArticleFear the Walking Dead 4.11 Recap: “History Is Built on Beer”
Based on comments on another forum I read, perhaps I’m in a minority for liking last week’s episode of Fear the Walking Dead. The other posters there really did not. I almost hesitate to say that I...
View ArticleFear the Walking Dead 4.12 Recap: “Sometimes You Can’t Help People”
I rather enjoyed the last couple episodes of Fear the Walking Dead, but I have to admit that the storm aftermath storyline is starting to feel pretty strained this week. We found out what happened to...
View ArticleFear the Walking Dead 4.13 Recap: “It’s Time to Stop Being Foolish”
After an episode without any of them, most of the original cast return to Fear the Walking Dead this week (those still alive, anyway). Though they’re still broken up into small groups, both the...
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