I hope you like children’s music, because you’re going to hear a lot of it in this episode. Specifically, the bulk of the episode is set to the happy little tune Easy Street by a band called Collapsible Hearts C […]

The seventh season premiere of The Walking Dead was hard to watch. No matter how you actually felt about it, it was a slog. Downbeat, emotional, violent, nihilistic… it was every complaint every critic has e […]

If a character dies in a season premiere, and no one cares, does it make a sound? More importantly, does it make a dent in the hardened heart of a longtime viewer of the show who was turned off by the previous […]

It’s strange how coincidences can happen. Earlier this week, prior to watching the eighth season premiere of The Walking Dead, I watched an episode of BoJack Horseman. I’m quite a fan of “the sad horse sho […]

Two episodes in, The Walking Dead’s eighth season has been nothing but action. There have been little fits and starts, and pauses for breath, but for the most part, two episodes in, we’ve seen a whole lot of […]

The Walking Dead spends a lot of time arguing about the place of humanity in the post-apocalyptic world. Not the place of human beings as a species, but the place of human beings as a concept. The old rules […]

What makes a king? Is it pulling a sword from a stone, the right bloodline, a lifetime of practice and breeding, or is it just a guy who acts like a king to the point where everyone else around him believes he’s a […]

Negan has been the show’s longest-running villain, and there’s a reason for that. Negan is one of the more popular characters from the comic book continuity, he’s played by one of the better actors on the show, […]

8.6 The King, The Widow, And Rick

The eighth season of The Walking Deadseems to have an obsession with surprises. It seems that every two episodes, some Savior is about to get away from whoever of the […]

The Walking Dead is a show with a lot of interesting characters who speak in interesting ways. Negan is probably the most obvious one; he spins long sentences and crams in strange, infantile profanity. Rick has […]

There’s rarely a reason for a television show to go longer than its typical running time. If it’s a show like Game Of Thrones, who are making miniature movies and trying to cram a significant amount of material […]

The Bad

This week’s episode of The Walking Dead was far from perfect. For instance, I’m still unsure why it was chopped up into sections labeled for various characters. Why open to the word MICHONNE and then do […]

One of the things I find hardest about The Walking Dead is remembering just who some of these people are. I’m always playing a little game with myself. Is this person talking someone I’m supposed to remember? Is i […]

unday night’s episode of The Walking Dead did something that no episode has done in this show in a very, very long time: It made me feel.

Admittedly, I have mixed emotions, but at least I didn’t walk away from th […]