On the Twelfth Day of Christmas (give or take a day!), the Justified team gave me a whole murder of Crowes, and I couldn’t be happier about it. As much as I loved Season 4 (and I did!), I have to confess that I missed the misadventures of Malaprop Meister and general screwup Dewey Crowe,…
My reactions to the mid-season finale of The Walking Dead were all over the place (a bit like Season 4 so far, and episode 7, for which I couldn't even find a public-suitable reaction.) While I was watching, my heart was in my mouth and I was completely absorbed in the action, but during every…
Sometimes I find it difficult to understand the thought-processes of The Walking Dead's show-runners. The first five episodes of this season were tense and emotionally riveting, but the show just slammed on the brakes and brought everything to a screeching halt. I wanted to return to the prison, to see how the survivors of the…
Scott Porter is an excellent actor, so the subplot of his descent into hell on earth was fantastic, even if it was mostly shots of his face looking scared or sad or determined. (I still wonder why Herschel isn’t even taking the most basic precautions of wearing a facemask around all the sick coughing people,…
We can wait if you haven't watched this episode yet for some crazy reason… Spoiler-proofed now? Onward! Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me. Fool me three times, you’re probably a writer for The Walking Dead… Every time I like a female character on this show, the show has them…
We open with Maggie and Glenn sharing a longing look while burying flu victims, then move on to Dr. S and Herschel attending a now dead flu victim without wearing masks, which bothers me quite a lot. Hey, trained medical personnel, how about we use what we know about the spread of disease to reduce…
I have a confession to make: I’m not really a fan of zombie movies or the horror genre in general. So why, you may ask, do I love The Walking Dead? Well, it’s because sometimes, in the middle of all the gruesome special effects, the peeling skin and exposed intestines and general chaos and decay,…
Last night on The Walking Dead, we got to see how “30 days without an accident” can turn sour in thirty minutes. After the bloodbath at the end of last season (RIP Andrea, Merle, Carl’s innocence, and nearly everyone in Woodbury), Rick’s group rescued the few remaining Woodburians and brought them back to the prison.…
Justified has always shown us the similarities between Raylan Givens and Boyd Crowder, the marshal and the outlaw, each understanding of the other’s psyche in a way that no one else in their lives approaches. Last night’s season 4 finale “Ghosts” made the parallels even more explicit. Like Boyd earlier this season, Raylan set out…
Things I learned from “The Walking Dead” Season 3 finale: how to spell “anticlimactic” and that the inability to multitask may cost you your life in the Zombie Apocalypse. We open with an extreme closeup on the Governor’s remaining eye; he’s beating up Milton, blaming him for burning the zombies at the pit, because Merle…
