The Kid Situation has come to a head. Do they kill him, or do they follow Dale’s lead and preserve their humanity by letting the kid live? This really shouldn’t be the ‘Walking Dead’ group’s biggest worry, though. Their alarming state of complacency is putting more lives in danger than a young guy who may or may not bring his buddies back to the farm.
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Over the weekend, I prepared a bracket of 64 TV characters that will vie for ultimate supremacy in our TV Madness tournament. Which characters will kill and move on, and which will be left lying in pools of their own blood? That’s for you to decide. Before we start killing people off, let’s take a look at the field of 64.
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The TV landscape is so inundated with shows about detectives, that simply being about a detective isn’t enough to capture an audience’s attention anymore. Any new series is therefore forced to put its own unique spin on the genre. Thus, we’ve had shows about detectives who write mystery novels, detectives with OCD, detectives who are also serial killers, time-traveling detectives, detectives who hunt fairy tale monsters, detectives who talk to the dead, detectives who talk to angels, psychic detectives, detectives who pretend to be psychic, detectives who used to pretend to be psychic, etc. and so forth and so on. This past Thursday, NBC premiered the new drama ‘Awake’, about a homicide detective who jumps back and forth between two separate, alternating realities, one in which his wife is alive but his son died, and another where the opposite happened. Can this detective show set itself apart from the pack?
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In March of last year, we held a Movie Madness tournament featuring a bracket of 64 film icons to identify cinema’s truest badass. In the end, Darth Vader kicked everyone else’s butt. Now that we know the baddest person in movies, let’s tackle the world of TV action stars to see who will win in that realm.
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Nothing that happens on Leap Day counts. Real life is for March. Just remember: Never half-ass two things. Whole-ass one thing. Enjoy your free day!
Bucking the trend of opening each ‘Walking Dead’ episode directly where the last one left off, ’18 Miles Out’ pulls a fast one by launching us right into the middle of an undead nightmare as Shane fends off famished Walkers from inside a school bus, Rick runs from a few more, and their new tied-up friend slinks along on the ground trying desperately to reach an abandoned knife.
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The bald-headed, fedora-wearing Observers have been one of the longstanding unresolved mysteries on ‘Fringe’. We know little bits and pieces about them (they exist outside of linear time, and appear during significant events in human history), but who are they, really? The promo ads for Friday’s episode promised answers to this question. Did it deliver, or was this just a big tease?
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Prepping for last night’s Oscar Live-Blog took up far too much of my time last week. Consequently, I once again let myself fall behind in TV viewing and recapping. That’s a problem, because my DVR is about to overload and start deleting the oldest programs unless I burn through some of these shows. In anticipation of tonight’s new episode, let’s take a quick look at last week’s ‘Alcatraz’, which gave us a storyline about a crazed poisoner.
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I don’t typically pay much attention to TV ratings. That’s something for network execs to stress about, not me. However, when shows that I like are on the so-called “bubble” for renewal, it’s worth checking in every once in a while to see how well or badly they’re doing. Unfortunately, ‘Fringe’ is doing very badly this season, even compared to last season, which wasn’t so hot to begin with. The situation looks pretty dire. Although Fox will let the show play out to the end of this current season, another renewal after that seems unlikely. Of course, I said that last year too, so who can predict what will really happen? In the meantime, Friday brought a new episode that both gave us a case-of-the-week and moved the ongoing storyline forward.
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This week’s episode of ‘The Walking Dead’ begins where we left off, but you wouldn’t be able to tell by the daylight. The last episode ended with Rick dispatching two real live humans with copious amounts of light streaming in through the bar windows, but at the start of this episode, right after the gunfire, darkness has descended on the town in mere seconds. Darkness comes fast in Zombieland, I guess.
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