Season 3 of Fear the Walking Dead ended in a way that gave the new showrunners plenty of room to make changes. The Season 4 premiere wastes no time showing some of those changes by introducing us to some new characters in a new location.
Is anybody there? I don’t think so, but let’s do this anyway. I used to put some reaction threads for TWD but nobody on the ODeck seems to be watching, so I reckon I can just put some collected thoughts of the episodes for those interested and in case people want to discuss the show.
The back half of this season of Fear the Walking Dead hasn’t really inspired me to write about individual episodes but I’ll still do a write-up of Season 3.2 if for no other reason than it does set up some potential crossover points with the original show.
Phrases like “it’s so bad it’s good” and “jumping the shark” are inadequate to describe the exquisite stupidity of last night’s finale to The Walking Dead. Even beginning with that sentence in some way has already faded the possibility of adequately conveying the pinnacle of stupidity the show reached with one moment…
Another week, another Walking Dead. Meh. Here we go.
A decent episode of The Walking Dead last night, “The Other Side”, featuring some more nice one-on-one character scenes, particularly between Gregory and Simon and Sasha and Rosita.
Easily the best episode of the season so far, “Bury Me Here”, last night’s new episode of The Walking Dead, worked by effectively summoning ghosts of the show’s past and bringing the relationship between the Kingdom and the Saviours down from corny heights into the realm of something more like real human reaction.…
Last night’s new Walking Dead, “Say Yes”, was another welcome respite from the Negan plot in which the show reverted to playing what might be called one of its greatest hits; a few people figuring out how to fight zombies and get supplies in clever ways in response to zombie threats that manifest in continually…
There were some nice moments in last night’s new Walking Dead that reminded me of the show it used to be. Sadly, these moments were drowned out by one incredibly unwieldy plot point after another.
I had so much trouble focusing on last night’s new Walking Dead. The first half was so airless, I couldn’t believe I was only halfway through, it felt like I’d been force feeding it to myself all night. Things picked up a bit in the second half but the show’s come to a point where Xena and Hercules need to show up so…
Andrew Lincoln, ruiner of post-apocalyptic towns up and down the ol’ US of A, has once again decided to comment on fan upset at the state of the show following last night’s midseason finale. In a much less antagonistic commentary compared to his view on fan outrage at last season’s finale the actor told The Wire that…
Was last night’s mid-season finale of The Walking Dead a metaphor for original sin? Was it another string of improbable things for Negan to keep smiling about? It was both! It was also mildly entertaining and contained the hope of next year holding the Battle of the Five Communities.
It must be so lonely being Negan on The Walking Dead. No-one’s even good at pretending to like him and no matter what happens he can’t die. Maybe that’s why he always has that increasingly strained, phoney enthusiasm. He’s like a vampire whose supernatural power is the invisible plot shield. Once again, The Walking…
What I like about Tara on The Walking Dead is that she doesn’t quite seem to be on the same show as everyone else. There’s a Jeff Goldblum-ish quality to Alanna Masterson’s performance that makes her reactions seem natural in ways subtly different from everyone else. Last night’s new episode, focusing on her…
For me, the highlight of last night’s new episode of The Walking Dead was Xander Berkeley as Gregory, the leader of Hilltop. But overall, it was a relatively decent episode and puts some more irons in the fire of people who really, really want to kill Negan.
The story of the world’s luckiest villain continued in last night’s new episode of The Walking Dead. The episode relies on many improbable turns of events but is mostly dragged down by Jeffrey Dean Morgan’s shit eating grin. Still, it’s not hard to empathise now with the heroes having to deal with a despicable leader…
Tonight in The Walking Darryl, we get to meet the Negan Headquarters (Nquarters?). Will we get to see this hansome fella’s backstory? Because that would be nice. Probably not nice, but entertaining. Probably more dreadful than entertaining. Let’s discuss!
The Walking Dead, AMCs cash cow of a franchise, was met with a lot of criticism over the summer as the showrunners decided to end the previous season on a cliffhanger as to the death of a “major” character to be revealed at the start of season 7, later revealed to have been the two characters many guessed it would be…
So. Anyone want to try and argue that The Walking Dead isn’t getting campy now? Last night’s new episode, “The Well”, took a drastic shift in tone from the premiere episode of this season to focus on Carol and Morgan and their introduction to a settlement called The Kingdom and its extravagant ruler, King Ezekiel. It…
Welcome to the happy Negan hour! Today in the merry world of The Walking Dead, we react to our band of misfits staring deeply into shit while Lizzi’s cancer ghost monologues. Will Coral or the goat stay inside for once? Doubtful! Will Carol do something batshit? For sure!