The Walking Dead, Season 3, Episode 7: “When the Dead Come Knocking” Written by Frank Renzulli Directed by Dan Sackheim Airs Sundays at 9pm ET on AMC Who will kill the Governor, and by what means? It’s a question that naturally arises while watching David Morrissey and his cronies make life hell for Glenn and …
Whether you own a TV or simply rely on the web, it should be clear by the barrage of advertising that holiday shopping season has once again fallen upon us. Maybe you’re one of those who stumbled out of your post Thanksgiving tryptophan-coma at 4am yesterday for some Walking Dead style survival drills at your …
The Walking Dead, Season 3, Episode 6: “Hounded” Written by Dan Attias Directed by Scott M. Gimple Airs Sundays at 9pm ET on AMC So…the ringing telephone. Let’s start there. Either: The scenes in which Rick Grimes picks up a ringing telephone and has an extended chat with his own guilt-riddled conscience are a clever …
In the eight or so months that elapsed between seasons two and three, our ensemble got stronger, leaner, and smarter. They figured out how to function together, how to keep from getting cornered, and how to act in rational self-interest.
The Walking Dead, Season 3, Episode 3: “Walk With Me” Written by Evan T. Reilly Directed by Guy Ferland Airs Sundays at 9pm ET on AMC Ricky D: Andrea and Michonne take the spotlight this week as their journey leads them (and us) in a completely new direction. Welcome to Woodbury! “Walk With Me” sets …
The Walking Dead, Season 3, Episode 2: “Sick” Written by Nichole Beattie Directed by Billy Gierhart Airs Sundays at 9pm ET on AMC Last week’s The Walking Dead season premiere saw Rick and co. finding a seemingly safe haven in a nearby prison. “Sick” begins from where “Seed” left us: The group has to find …
The Walking Dead, Season 3, Episode 1: “Seed” Written by Glen Mazzara Directed by Ernest Dickerson Airs Sundays at 9pm ET on AMC Simon Howell: Almost to a comical degree, the five-minute cold open to The Walking Dead‘s third season opener seems to say: “Yes, we did in fact get the memo.” Our not-so-merry band …
In about five weeks, one of our favourite shows and AMC’s biggest success (with 9 million viewers tuning in to see season two’s finale), will be returning for its third season. The show returns on October 14th, and will broadcast the first half (8 episodes) of its series in an initial run before returning in …
The Walking Dead, Season 2, Episode 13: “Beside the Dying Fire” Written by Robert Kirkman and Glen Mazzara Directed by Ernest Dickerson Airs Sundays at 10pm ET on AMC Credit where credit’s due. Where the first season of The Walking Dead sputtered out with a crap CGI explosion that was way beyond its means at …
The Walking Dead, Season 2, Episode 12: “Better Angels” Written by Glen Mazzara and Evan T. Reilly Directed by Guy Ferland Airs Sundays at 10pm ET on AMC That’s more like it. “Better Angels” is not only the best episode of The Walking Dead in recent memory, it’s likely the best episode of the entire …
The Walking Dead, Season 2, Episode 9: “18 Miles Out” Written by Glen Mazzara and Scott M. Gimple Directed by Ernest Dickerson Airs Sundays at 10pm ET on AMC Simon Howell: “Triggerfinger” was emphatically not good television, with its many illogical character beats and frustrating sense of arrested development, so it;s no surprise that “18 …
The Walking Dead, Season 2, Episode 9: “Triggerfinger” Written by David Leslie Johnson Directed by Bill Gierhart Airs Sundays at 10pm EST on AMC Especially given that we got a glimpse of some above-average writing and acting in last week’s shootout at Hershel’s bar of choice, “Triggerfinger” represents a pretty major stumble for the show. …
The Walking Dead, Season 2, Episode 8: “Nebraska” Written by Evan T. Reilly Directed by Clark Johnson Airs Sundays at 9pm ET on AMC “Nebraska” opens, as it should and as one might reasonably expect, immediately following the zombie massacre that satisfyingly capped off the first half of The Walking Dead‘s second season. Given the …
HBO has released the first 3 minutes of The Walking Dead‘s midseason premiere. It’s been two months since the last episode but we have recorded a bonus episode of our Walking Dead podcast, which includes a special review of 28 Days Later. We are scheduled to record a second bonus episode with a discussion of …
For the first time ever, we polled the entire SOS staff on their favorite TV of the last 12 months. We knew that, given the fact that our contributors are (principally) spread out across Canada, the US, and Britain, that the results might well be a mixed bag. What we didn’t necessarily expect was the …
The Walking Dead, Season 2, Episode 7: “Pretty Much Dead Already” Written by Scott M. Gimple Directed by Michelle MacLaren Airs Sundays at 9pm ET on AMC Simon Howell: “Pretty Much Dead Already,” directed by Breaking Bad producer Michelle MacLaren, opens with the scene that, frankly, I really wish last week had led off with: …
The Walking Dead, Season 2, Episode 6: “Secrets” Written by Angela Kang Directed by David Boyd Airs Sundays at 10pm ET on AMC Simon Howell: At what point does a show’s pacing shift from “deliberate” to plain old “slow”? The blandly, but aptly titled “Secrets” mostly works as a clearing-house for a whole set of …
The Walking Dead, Season 2, Episode 5: “Chupacabra” Written by David Johnson Directed by Guy Ferland Airs Sundays at 9pm ET on AMC Simon Howell: First, a word on the episode’s title. Thanks to a certain band of Welsh tricksters, I was always under the impression that the word “chupacabra” specifically denoted a mythical bat …
The Walking Dead Season 2, Episode 2: “Bloodletting” Written by Glen Mazzara Directed by Ernest Dickerson Airs Sundays at 9pm ET on AMC “Bloodletting” opens, somewhat surprisingly, on a pre-zombie-era flashback: Lori, complaining of her husband’s too-placid nature, receives the news of her husband’s shooting from Shane, who tries his darndest to take the blame. …
The Walking Dead, Season 2, Episode 3: “Save the Last One” Written by Scott M. Gimple Directed by Phil Abraham Airs Sundays at 9pm ET on AMC Simon Howell: Did the crew of The Walking Dead wise up and hire someone from the Breaking Bad editing team? That’s the question I couldn’t stop kicking around …
The Walking Dead, Season 2, Episode 1: “What Lies Ahead” Written by Ardeth Bev and Robert Kirkman Directed by Ernest Dickerson and Gwyneth Horder-Payton Airs Sundays 9pm ET on AMC After the over-the-top ending to Season One, in which The Walking Dead indulged in a 24-style countdown and a massive explosion it clearly didn’t have …
The showrunner of a television program is the person in charge of day-to-day operations. He or she is an executive producer who has final say over every element of the series, from writing and directing staff to cast to costumes to music. Some choose to delegate, handing over responsibility for particular aspects of the show …
Just when you thought the zombie crazy would die down, AMC gave the world a new reason to keep it alive and going strong with The Walking Dead series.We’ve watched some of our favorite characters from our favourite zombie films (Shaun of The Dead, Dawn of the Dead, 28 Days Later, Zombieland etc) survive …