2/6/12
The Re-Animator
The Walking Dead gets a brain transplant in the form of new showrunner Glen Mazzara.
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So, this is what war looks like on this show.
The Walking Dead Recap: Make War, Not Talking About War
Merle finally became a somewhat complex character.
The Walking Dead Recap: Overdone
Is it possible to medically diagnose a television show with schizophrenia?
The Walking Dead Recap: Chat Room
Last night's episode gestured, if only briefly, at something complicated.
The Walking Dead Recap: The Weak Shall Inherit the Earth
For much of this season, The Walking Dead has dragged its feet, but last night's episode was very good.
The Walking Dead Recap: Old Friends
While last night's episode literally revisited much of the same territory we've seen before, there were signs of life.
The Walking Dead Recap: Brotherly Shove
Merle and Daryl are like Smothers Brothers with crossbows and knife hands.
The Walking Dead Recap: Don’t Tread on Me
One might say there’s no room for nuance in a show about zombies, but that’s exactly why you need it most.
The Walking Dead Recap: When Smoke (and Glass) Gets in Your Eyes
What was even up with that whole rescue operation?
The Walking Dead Recap: A Change of Scenery
This show works best when the plot encompasses as much territory and characters as possible, and this episode excelled at that.
The Walking Dead Recap: Dead Air
There was a magic telephone.
The Walking Dead Recap: Rick Rolls
We're not feeling as creeped-out by the Governor as we probably should.
The Walking Dead Recap: Things No Child Should Have to Bear
One of our favorite things about last night’s episode was that the zombies felt scary again.
The Walking Dead Recap: Arms Race
Do we want to go back to our regular gang after actually being engaged by this new set of characters?
The Walking Dead Recap: Footloose
There’s such an assembly line feeling to this show sometimes.
The Walking Dead Recap: Enjoy the Silence
Glenn Mazzara and his writing staff have been paying attention to their audience.
The Walking Dead Recap: Action at Last
Good-bye forever, dumb farm.
The Walking Dead Recap: Farewell, Old Frenemy
Another very, very, very tedious week, but at least there's a big death.
The Walking Dead Recap: Skip and Dale
The Dale stuff was interesting. Everything else? Less so.
The Walking Dead Recap: Driving in Cars With Maybe Zombies
And having the same conversations over and over.
The Walking Dead Recap: Love Don’t Cost a Zombie
Half good, half bad.
The Walking Dead Recap: Lurching On
"Bury the ones we love and burn the rest."
The Walking Dead Recap: Finder’s Fee
“The truth is, what else I got to do?”
The Walking Dead Recap: Barnful of Zombies
Everything’s food for something else.
The Walking Dead Recap: Sophia’s Choice
"Sophia only matters to the degree that she doesn’t drag the rest of us down.”
The Walking Dead Recap: Zombies and Water Don’t Mix
A brief moment of zombie fishing mercifully interrupts a whole lot of pontificating.
The Walking Dead Recap: A Close Shave
Going for a buzz cut is just one of the choices talked about this week.
The Walking Dead Recap: A Doc Who Tends to Your Sons and Pets
A new homestead tends to Carl, while Grimes makes a nonsensical stand.
The Walking Dead Recap: Less Talking, More Undead-ing, Please
There are moments of genuine tension, as long as the characters shut their mouths.
The Walking Dead Recap: A Bang That’s a Whimper
Seriously, that ticking coundown clock is so MacGruber.
The Walking Dead Recap: Signs of Hope
Thanks, Ernest Dickerson!
The Walking Dead Recap: Zombie Logic
How long can you go on a zombie series without killing off any humans?
The Walking Dead Recap: The Hand-Off
On the one hand, the episode disappoints again. On the other ...
The Walking Dead Recap: Zombies 1, Humans 0
This week, the zombies win, thanks to one spectacularly disgusting, fluid-splattering dissection — and some less-than-human dialogue.
The Walking Dead Recap: Less Thriller, More Killer
But the hope is that this could be the first zombie story in a long while with both serious brains and “Braiiiiinns!”
Step 1: Start with an anti-hero.
He'd enjoy some alone time at the Trump Hotel.
BYO sound effects.
All of the zombie deaths, plus the weapons that did them in.
Spoiler alert for last night's episode.
"THAT STUPID F—ING ARM."
"It’s gonna be weird!"
This would be its intro.
The Walking Dead gets a brain transplant in the form of new showrunner Glen Mazzara.
The show is on the verge of a big idea that can transcend ritual zombie-bashing.
After the money fights with Mad Men, Breaking Bad, and The Walking Dead, which matters more: story, or the bottom line?