Robert Kirkman, creator of The Walking Dead and Invincible comic book series, announced a new development deal with Fox International Channels (FIC). With record breaking ratings for the season three midseason premiere of The Walking Dead ((12.3 million viewers to be exact), Fox International Channels wants Kirkman to bring exorcism to television. The international distributor …
Early last month, in one of the more economically-depressed cities in my home state, a 19-year-old man confronted a teenager about a $20 debt supposedly owed by the younger teen’s father. The 19-year-old forced the teen to strip naked and then whipped him with a belt. We know this because one of the 19-year-old’s accomplices …
The Walking Dead, Season 3, Episode 12: “Clear” Written by Scott M. Gimple Directed by Tricia Brock Airs Sundays at 9pm ET on AMC “Clear” breaches new dramatic heights for The Walking Dead Season 3. This is a very strong episode, and stands with the best yet. For only the second time in the show’s …
AMC is currently rerunning the first and second seasons of The Walking Dead in black and white each Thursday night. For a fanbase that is growing tired of the channel over marketing the show and trying to ring every possible ounce of viewership it can I’m sure many are turned off by this “gimmick”. Of …
The Walking Dead, Season 3, Episode 11: “I Ain’t a Judas” Written by Angela Kang Directed by Gregory Nicotero Airs Sundays at 9pm ET on AMC Tonight’s “I Ain’t a Judas” is The Walking Dead at its best, even if it was a very Andrea-centric episode. With only five episodes left in the third season, “I …
The Walking Dead, Season 3, Episode 10: “Home” Written by Nichole Beattie Directed by Seith Mann Airs Sundays at 9pm ET on AMC The midseason premiere of AMC’s third season of The Walking Dead left many people worried. While the third season has been, by and large, a vast improvement over Season two, last week’s “The …
19. Veep Viewers had high expectations for this comedy from the mind of Armando Iannucci, creator of The Thick of It, and set in the dysfunctional offices of the Vice President of the United States and, happily, Veep delivered. Julia Louis-Dreyfus was fantastic as the VP, Selina Meyer, bringing out different elements in Iannucci’s comedy …
The Walking Dead, Season 3, Episode 8: “Made To Suffer” Written by Robert Kirkman Directed by Bill Gierhart Airs Sundays at 9pm ET on AMC With The Walking Dead taking a mid season break, there was no surprise that “Made to Suffer” would be busy in plot. But I never guessed it would have been …
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 …
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 11: “Judge, Jury and Executioner” Written by Angela Kang Directed by Greg Nicotero Airs Sundays at 10pm ET on AMC Parts of “Judge, Jury, and Executioner” hum along better than most Walking Deads in recent memory, but a few things are still amiss. Credit where credit’s due, though: Dale …
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 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 …
The Roman Empire was brutal, repressive, tyrannical, corrupt, morally bankrupt… Well, nothing’s perfect, right? After all, the Empire’s collapse after 700 years didn’t bring freedom or reformation, but the Dark Ages – disease, ignorance, witch trials, book burnings, illiteracy, and all that other bad stuff which made the Dark Ages so damned dark. It’s like …
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. …
TV is full of shows set in their own universes, worlds different from our own (sometimes slightly, sometimes drastically) that open up new avenues for storytellers to explore. It can be a lot of fun to ponder what it would be like to live in a particular universe, to explore that different world, but would …
