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The Walking Dead 10.03 Recap: “Peanut Butter, Meet Jelly”

Josh Zyber — Wed, 23 Oct 2019 12:00:32 +0000

Ah crap, annoying Henry is back on The Walking Dead this week. Even beheading the twerp isn’t enough to make him shut his damn, whiny mouth. To be fair to the show, Henry’s appearance is part of a dream/hallucination sequence. It’s not like somebody stitched his zombie head back onto his body to keep him...

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Zombieland: Double Tap Review – Not Quite Tapped Out Yet

Deirdre Crimmins — Fri, 18 Oct 2019 12:00:48 +0000

Ten years and sixteen days after the first Zombieland was released, we finally get to see what those crazy living humans have been up to all these years. Zombieland: Double Tap is a fun enough visit with familiar characters, though not nearly as much fun as the first film. Picking up essentially ten years after...

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The Walking Dead 10.02 Recap: “Oh, You’re Different”

Josh Zyber — Tue, 15 Oct 2019 12:00:59 +0000

We didn’t see much of the villainous Whisperers in the The Walking Dead Season 10 premiere, save for a quick appearance at the end. The second episode takes the opposite approach and is (almost) entirely Whisperer focused. We already got some backstory for Alpha (Samantha Morton) last season. At the time, I worried that it...

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The Walking Dead 10.01 Recap: “Something of Grave Importance Is About to Happen”

Josh Zyber — Tue, 08 Oct 2019 12:00:43 +0000

As a fan who still watches both Walking Dead shows, I feel like I needed more of a break between them this year. Jumping straight into Season 10 of the flagship series puts me at real risk of burnout. I suspect I’m not alone in this. The premiere episode opens uncharacteristically with a fancy VFX...

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Fear the Walking Dead 5.15 Recap: “Each One of Us Holds the Key”

Josh Zyber — Tue, 24 Sep 2019 12:00:30 +0000

For its penultimate episode of the season, Fear the Walking Dead once again switches to shooting almost the entire hour in crappy SD video. This is a really gimmicky and frustrating affectation that I hope the show discontinues when next season comes around. To justify the device, we open with Virginia and her group (still...

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Fear the Walking Dead 5.14 Recap: “Spaghetti Ain’t Simple and It’s Usually Messy”

Josh Zyber — Tue, 17 Sep 2019 15:00:12 +0000

Fear the Walking Dead gives us a few more details about the mysterious new antagonist group introduced last week, some of which may actually cause more confusion. The show also finds time for a musical number, if you can believe it. Not yet aware of what transpired at Tanktown, Morgan and Althea are out on...

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Fear the Walking Dead 5.13 Recap: “Together, We Can Get from Yesterday to Tomorrow”

Josh Zyber — Tue, 10 Sep 2019 12:00:30 +0000

Viewers who’ve felt that Fear the Walking Dead has lacked a compelling villain this season may be pleasantly surprised this week. Following several obvious filler entries, it’s nice to have a fairly eventful episode again. As if in response to complaints that Logan (Matt Frewer) is an underdeveloped antagonist, episode Leave What You Don’t opens...

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Fear the Walking Dead 5.12 Recap: “Seems God Needs New Batteries”

Josh Zyber — Wed, 04 Sep 2019 12:00:18 +0000

Fear the Walking Dead finds religion this week in an episode heavy with themes of faith and purpose. Surprisingly, it’s not the worst episode of the season. Of course, it’s also certainly not the best. The primary setting this week is a Jewish synagogue still actively maintained by Rabbi Jacob Kessner (Peter Jacobson from House...

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Fear the Walking Dead 5.11 Recap: “There’s No Shortage of Fish-Frying for Us”

Josh Zyber — Tue, 27 Aug 2019 12:00:00 +0000

It’s a good thing I take detailed notes before writing my TV recaps, because most of what happened in this week’s very uneventful episode of Fear the Walking Dead has already fled my mind by the next day after watching it. Are you as fascinated by the trees scrawled with inspirational graffiti as Alicia has...

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Fear the Walking Dead 5.10 Recap: “We’re Not Doing Careful”

Josh Zyber — Tue, 20 Aug 2019 12:00:20 +0000

Fear the Walking Dead does what I have to assume is intended as an extended Dawn of the Dead riff this week. More importantly, the show returns to regular high-definition (albeit dull and colorless) photography. The episode starts with a man named Chuck radioing Channel 4 and asking for help. Specifically, he wants someone to...

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One Man’s Trash: Zoombies 2

Adam Tyner — Wed, 14 Aug 2019 16:00:23 +0000

Well, this isn’t a zoo, and these critters aren’t exactly undead. But goshdarnit, “zoombies” is too clever a pun to sleep on, so we’ll roll with it. If you’re desperate to steal an elephant, why go through all the hassle of schlepping through the African bush? Just head to a wildlife refuge and swipe one....

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Fear the Walking Dead 5.09 Recap: “This Was By Far the Ugliest Mustard I’ve Ever Seen”

Josh Zyber — Tue, 13 Aug 2019 12:00:38 +0000

The mid-season hiatus for Fear the Walking Dead was so short this year that I barely even noticed the show was gone. It’s back this week to kick off a new storyline, and to frustrate viewers with an annoying stylistic tic. Frankly, I already find it annoying the way the show will lapse into near-black-and-white...

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