walking dead recap

Eat a big burlap sack of zombie dongs, Walking Dead

Don’t let the headline lead you astray — we actually enjoyed this week’s installment of The Walking Dead, just as Glenn and Maggie enjoyed each other’s unwashed bodies in the prison’s newly anointed Sex Tower. But the show did something absolutely unforgivable last night, with a plot twist that drove the thumbscrews through my heart.…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Nov 5

We visited Rick Grimes’ Bizarro World on The Walking Dead

Last week’s episode of The Walking Dead saw team leader Rick Grimes rely on some particularly extreme measures. And Sunday’s episode,”Walk With Me,” focused solely on the adventures of Andrea and her taciturn samurai traveling companion, Michonne. But the women aren’t alone on their journey across post-apocalyptic Georgia. No, they made some tremendously dangerous new…

Television Cyriaque Lamar Oct 30

Uh, did The Walking Dead just deliver its best episode yet?

Cheese and crackers, Walking Dead, do you know how to kick off a season. Tonight’s installment of T-Dog Mystery Theater (presented by Shop Rite’s Can Can Sale) — “Sick” — introduced us to some new friends and saw alpha male Rick Grimes deal with some hilariously ineffectual maximum security peacocking. We’re finally getting a sense…

Television Cyriaque Lamar Oct 21

The Walking Dead went on summer vacation, came back tanned and handsome

Last season, the survivors of The Walking Dead were haunted by two types of groans. First, there were the groans of the undead. These vocal burbles and cadaverous farts traveled far on those Georgia night breezes, bedeviling hero Rick Grimes as he attempted to zzz the Zzz’s of the Innocent upon his lumpy Pillow of…

Television Cyriaque Lamar Oct 14

On the season finale of The Walking Dead, the honeymoon’s over

Holy crap, tonight’s season finale of The Walking Dead,”Beside the Dying Fire,” was an absolute demolition derby, and — as the show embarks on a new chaotic chapter — some your favorite (?) survivors may have been put out to pasture. Spoilers way on, obviously. Let’s be honest, the six-episode opening season of The Walking…

Television Cyriaque Lamar Mar 18

On The Walking Dead, everyone wraps up their problems with a neat, bloody bow

Boy howdy, has this show adopted a slash-and-burn policy. For the penultimate episode of The Walking Dead’s second season, we saw a frightful moment between brawling frenemies Rick and Shane, and things took a turn for the Romero extremely quickly. It’s the end of the season, so spoilers way on. We can break last night’s…

Television Cyriaque Lamar Mar 12

On The Walking Dead, tragedy inadvertently makes for great comedy

Last week, The Walking Dead delivered a tense, streamlined episode that artfully showcased the psychological hurdles the survivors must endure. This week — with the episode “Judge, Jury, Executioner” — the show served up a bunch of quasi-entertaining scenes of people arguing and capped them off with one of the most accidentally funny closers ever…

Television Cyriaque Lamar Mar 4

The Walking Dead delivers that sweet, addictive zombie anarchy

If Hershel’s farm was making you stir crazy, last night’s episode of The Walking Dead, “Triggerfinger,” should’ve been a welcome field trip. This episode gave us that slam-bang infusion of morally fuzzy, post-apocalyptic decision-making we crave. Also, Lori had her Lady Macbeth moment, and Hershel and Rick need a homespun webisode spin-off, Zombie Dads, in…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Feb 20

On The Walking Dead, nobody’s feeling particularly friendly

The Walking Dead is back, and it’s ready to deal with the fallout from Hershel’s big secret. How will our gang of can-do survivors pick up the pieces? What’s Lori’s new hilarious nickname? And why the hell is this episode named “Nebraska?” Spoilers! As you may remember, the first half of The Walking Dead’s second…

Television Cyriaque Lamar Feb 13

The mid-season finale of The Walking Dead was a Tears For Fears song (with zombies)

Well, that was cathartic. After an entire half-season of meandering around the barnyard, The Walking Dead closed out with a few dozen bangs…and a few euphemistic bangs deferred. By the time the episode ended, we saw that everyone wants to rule the world. Or at least those hectares Hershel’s farm sits on. Spoilers! As I…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Nov 28

On The Walking Dead, nobody can mind their own damn business

Tonight’s episode of The Walking Dead — “Secrets” — revved up everything from zero to crazy. The show tabled the interminable forest wandering to put almost every single character on a collision course with one another. It wasn’t perfect, but it was a step up from zombie Walden we’ve been treated to lately. Let’s break…

Television Cyriaque Lamar Nov 20

On The Walking Dead, everyone wants to be the sheriff of Zombietown

After several pokey episodes of the gang squabbling with each other, The Walking Dead regained some focus by swinging the narrative to everyone’s favorite grizzled survivalist, Darryl Dixon. And while a lot of the action centered on the Crossbow Kid’s very bad day, TWD also roiled up a leadership struggle between the show’s fellows. Who’s…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Nov 14

On The Walking Dead, Shane rings the dinner bell

Tonight’s episode of The Walking Dead — “Save The Last One” — saw Shane chased by the student-body-eaters of a local high school, Andrea and Daryl go on a soul-searching walkabout, and Lori crib her dialogue from The Road. Mischief Night spoilers on! After a minor lull in full-tilt undead horror last week, “Save The…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Oct 30

On The Walking Dead, everybody walks around everywhere

After last week’s chilling opening sequence with a zombie-clogged highway, The Walking Dead literally went off the beaten path for their own summer-stockalypse production of Into The Woods. Spoilers. https://gizmodo.com/on-the-season-premiere-of-the-walking-dead-the-survivo-5850328 Rick and Carl meet Hershel the homespun veterinarian, new guy Otis and Shane cruise on over to the local high school, and everyone else looks…

Television Cyriaque Lamar Oct 24

On the season premiere of The Walking Dead, the survivors screw up a pit stop

The last time we saw the plucky survivors of The Walking Dead — way back in December 2010 — they were trapped in Atlanta’s Center of Disease Control by a very depressed scientist, shatter-proof glass, and an invisible force field of melodrama. And now that the show’s back on the air, the gang’s flipped 2010…

Television Cyriaque Lamar Oct 16

The Walking Dead season finale goes out with a bang

On the season finale of The Walking Dead — “TS-19” — the survivors become acclimated to their new home, but something’s not entirely right in this would-be paradise. Spoiler a-go-go! PRO: The episode opens with a flashback of Shane trying to extricate a comatose Rick from the hospital. It’s a total shitshow — the military…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Dec 6

The Walking Dead deviates from the comic book…big time

Sunday’s The Walking Dead — “Wildfire” — added a major twist to the survivors’ saga that we have yet to see in the comics. Spoilers way on. PRO: The episode immediately launches into the aftermath of last week’s monster mash. The episode opens with Rick telling Morgan to stay the heck out of Atlanta and…

Television Cyriaque Lamar Nov 29

The Walking Dead teaches us that we still need manners when the zombies come

Tonight’s episode of The Walking Dead, “Vatos,” taught us that appearances can be deceiving, always cauterize your wounds, and only say significant things when the zombies rise. You don’t want your last words to be embarrassing. PRO: “Vatos” opens with some nice character development with Amy and Andrea. They remember their deceased parents and fish…

Television Cyriaque Lamar Nov 21

The Walking Dead teaches us that racism will survive the zombie apocalypse

Tonight’s episode of The Walking Dead, “Guts,” wasn’t as pensive at the season premiere, but it offered up an enjoyable, panicked escape from Atlanta. We also learned that being a crazy white supremacist is an old habit that dies hard. NOTE: For this recap, I’ve assumed the Pro/Con format of my colleague Meredith’s ridiculously entertaining…

Television Cyriaque Lamar Nov 8

The Walking Dead is ravenously good horror television

The Frank Darabont-directed series premiere of Robert Kirkman’s The Walking Dead debuted tonight on AMC. This opening episode was a solid addition to the undead canon, and the show makes an excellent case for adapting serialized comics for television. Note: Given that this is a recap, it contains spoilers. As we noted in our spoiler-free…

Television Cyriaque Lamar Nov 1

Eat a big burlap sack of zombie dongs, Walking Dead

We visited Rick Grimes’ Bizarro World on The Walking Dead

Uh, did The Walking Dead just deliver its best episode yet?

The Walking Dead went on summer vacation, came back tanned and handsome

On the season finale of The Walking Dead, the honeymoon’s over

On The Walking Dead, everyone wraps up their problems with a neat, bloody bow

On The Walking Dead, tragedy inadvertently makes for great comedy

The Walking Dead delivers that sweet, addictive zombie anarchy

On The Walking Dead, nobody’s feeling particularly friendly

The mid-season finale of The Walking Dead was a Tears For Fears song (with zombies)

On The Walking Dead, nobody can mind their own damn business

On The Walking Dead, everyone wants to be the sheriff of Zombietown

On The Walking Dead, Shane rings the dinner bell

On The Walking Dead, everybody walks around everywhere

On the season premiere of The Walking Dead, the survivors screw up a pit stop

The Walking Dead season finale goes out with a bang

The Walking Dead deviates from the comic book…big time

The Walking Dead teaches us that we still need manners when the zombies come

The Walking Dead teaches us that racism will survive the zombie apocalypse

The Walking Dead is ravenously good horror television

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