Well, now…

Didn't Sharon Osborne give up on him because she found him too much of an arsehole?

Did Nick hunting for drugs tip the girl off as to where the pills are kept? So he saved them, then he doomed them. Standard TWD 'redshirt encounter of the week'. But nicely done, for all that.

Damn right.

They're both right.

I would appreciate it if trailers stopped using that awful fade-in/fade-out way of cutting from scene to scene.

You talking about from the show, or the kid who lived next door to me when I was growing up? Cos the kid who lived next door was 'Jamie'.

Like the end of Society taking place in a craft shop.

Just listened for the first time in a while. I'm still struck that, from the opening, I wouldn't guess the ending. It starts off warm and yearning and assured, all gets a bit chilly after the second chorus before getting anxious and panicked at the end.

I'd possibly defend that, in the sense that in '87 Prince was showing just what one could do as a 'shiny pop star' and making pretty much everyone else look like a bumbling slouch.

I'm fine with cliffhangers. What I see a lot of umbrage for here is the sheer bad faith of it all.

It seems to me you perhaps confuse 'paying attention' with 'slavishly defending in a condescending fashion'.

Bad Job, Internet. I'm not angry, I'm just disappointed.

Ah, I see.

Spider-Man Vs Man-Spider.

"But Rick took no time going from Man on Top of the World to rattled and
broken. OK, did the RV take too long to travel or didn't it? Because
that process was what broke him. And that was the whole point. That
was the intent."

I think he's one of the most interesting film critics out there, but if you want more mic-dropping, I'd recommend Sex and the City 2, Entourage, Bride Wars, Marley and Me, and any of the Transformers and Pirates of the Caribbean ones.

A zombie apocalypse show opens up all sorts of potential narrative and social explorations. I think TWD is walking (…) ever smaller circles around its worldview (basically, that people are itching at the chance to start being brutal to each other).

"There's a difference between comically deconstructing something, and just standing around laughing at roadkill":

I'd like to have seen something like POV at first, then cut to an angle from the front side, only Negan really discernable, then the camera starts moving round to behind Negan and, as it does, the victim is revealed before the camera goes behind Negan as he brings the bat down.