Well, that was something I didn’t see coming. This fourth Mark Wahlberg/Peter Berg collaboration seemed to be promising a straightforward action flick, freed up from dedications to dramatizing real-li...
*Note: I have some thoughts on the Fear the Walking Dead season premiere following this review. Remember when people used to die on The Walking Dead? I’m not talking about random Saviors or folks from...
So we all remembered Tobin, right? This week’s episode of The Walking Dead decided to bring back Carol’s sorta-ex-boyfriend in a big way. “Do Not Send Us Astray” has fun with its big battle segment, b...
I used to wonder now and again if The Walking Dead was going to really go for it on a given week, and provide a completely random death of a substantial character to spice things up. It used to happen...
In case you haven’t noticed, The Walking Dead is a profoundly nihilistic show. For whatever reason, the writers like to throw in reminders of this all the time, and sometimes they really make sure eve...
Why put Carl in charge? I guess he did his best, but this was a question that I kept thinking about during the overlong and underwhelming mid-season finale of The Walking Dead. “How It’s Gotta Be” fel...
There’s a particular shot of a walker in this week’s Walking Dead that summarizes the episode to the point that makes me wonder if another thousand words are necessary. While spending time in the wood...
It’s hard to say whether or not I liked “Monsters” any more or less than the season eight premiere of The Walking Dead, but it at least seemed a bit more focused than last week’s episode. We’re still ...
In the years leading up to Negan and beyond, The Walking Dead has been a real mixed bag. For every step in the right direction, there always seems to be strange choices from the writers that manage to...