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Do you like getting punched in the stomach over and over again? Yes? Well have I got a Walking Dead episode for you! This was a Walking Dead episode that people are going to talk about for a long time. Years from now, we’ll look back on it as one of the most memorable episodes in the series’ history. A lot of people may observe that it showed the emotional depth the show is capable of, and I’ll do that too in moment. It was […]
For a particularly creepy opening, Daryl and Beth come busting out of the bushes on a dark, ominous night where zombies are not far behind them. They stumble upon an old, abandoned piece of crap car and shut themselves in the trunk as the zombies shamble all around them and thunder rumbles on in the distance. They somehow wait it out all night with Daryl training his crossbow at the sliver of light while he holds the trunk shut with a towel. Good grief. This […]
A new season of Walking Dead begins with a perfect blend of emotion and action. It’s Carl’s Big Adventure, and Michonne does some soul searching. Two separate storylines this week showed us some of the aftermath of the battle at the prison. Luckily they didn’t try to show us every single character, giving us a nice tight focus on Carl and his dad, and Michonne. Carl has sort of grown up in front of all of us (as has actor Chandler Riggs). In light of […]
On Walking Dead this week: medical horror, dueling crises, and Full Metal Carl. I don’t really understand why, but the scenes of medical procedures and general grossness this week were a lot harder for me to watch than a zillion zombies getting their heads smashed in. I genuinely had to look away during the intubation scenes, especially Glen’s. All that coughing up blood and phlegm and disgusting crap just this me on a whole other level of squick. Hershel tries to leaven the hopeless situation […]
This week’s Walking Dead left the prison behind for a pair of road trips, giving us a dynamic and strangely sad episode. The episode begins with an unsettling sequence cutting between Rick preparing for a run to find food and Carol having a talk with young Lizzie, all set to a throbbing score. Lizzie has a weird philosophy, that it’s better to be something terrible than nothing at all, comparing dying and turning into a zombie to growing up and becoming an adult. Carol instills […]
Imagine being stuck in a prison with a bunch of sick people for an hour. That was how this week’s Walking Dead felt. This plague/hemorrhagic fever going through the prison population is a terrible thing. Unfortunately it’s not a very exciting thing. For the most part this episode was a return to those flaccid days at the farm, when we’d get entire episodes of people standing around talking. There was a lot of talking this week. I’d love to go back and clock the screen […]
Finally we have the return of my favorite Immortalizer, Takeshi Yamada. Tonight he goes up against the challenger, Gary Robbins. Tonight’s theme is “Heaven and Hell”, which should provide for an interesting contest. Robbins is a Hollywood taxidermist that provides his pieces for television and film, to name a few. His experience is broad and impressive. This will be a challenge for Yamada. Robbins personal goal is to be ranked number one in the country. He plans on using mice as humans. They will be […]
On the season one finale, the Venice Beach Freakshow brings us a “Freakshow Festival”. Todd waxes on the idea of ‘normal’ and has the notion for a festival, a freakshow family reunion of sorts. He sees it as becoming the biggest event in sideshow history. That’s a big boast, right there. Todd looks at the word ‘normal’ as being a derogatory term, instead of the word ‘freak’. For the festival, he envisions the entire cast coming together for a march that conveys that, yes, they […]
On the Walking Dead season finale, people die. Lots and lots of people. I wanted to be really excited about this episode, but in the end, it feels like Walking Dead has been spinning its wheels for two months. The Woodbury vs. Prison war just goes on and on and on, pointlessly. How many times have they attacked each other now? I’ve literally lost count. Eight times? Ten? To begin, the Gov is torturing Andrea. And Milton. Milton gets it worse, for some reason. Back […]
Immortalizer Dave Houser is against the challenger Erich Carter. Carter has been a taxidermist for over forty years and he’s won rewards as well as made pieces for celebrities. Houser and his pink Mohawk are put to the test as we get the theme, “First Love”. Houser proclaims himself to be edgy and controversial. Carter sees taxidermy as the animal’s death as the beginning of a new life. As far as the theme, Carter is envisioning three birds: a male, a female and a baby. […]
