I didn't realize it until this episode, but there's been a stealth arc about Tara and hospital lady/Gemma that sort of mirrors the storyline about Jax and John Teller/Clay. Both of the younger characters are at a crossroads with older characters urging them down one path or another. Now all the seemingly random…
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Those walkers are WHITE and deserve RESPECT!
I'm irritated that they resolved the hat situation by having Maggie offer to wash it for him. Is it a rule on this show that the men can't ever be shown doing domestic labor?
If that's true for Herschel's farm, then it has to be true for the neighboring farms. Yet it seems that all of Herschel's neighbors have been turned into zombies. Again, why didn't this happen to Herschel and his folks?
Shane is neither evil nor a fascist. He's primitive.
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@avclub-d7f43e1fb2d4977c86163d9b0cb07814:disqus : Maybe Otis found Sophia immediately after she was bitten, but before she turned. He comes across her getting attacked by some zombies in the swamp (perhaps she slipped into the muck and got stuck), kills the zombies, then takes Sophia back to the farm. They do their…
"David Ayer, best known for The Fast And The Furious and Training Day…"
I voted for Carnivale too. There's a LOT more to pick apart and criticize in this series than the comedies. It's one of those frustrating, fascinating shows that was sometimes brilliant, sometimes ridiculously pretentious, and sometimes just bizarre. I've been wanting the TV Club to cover it for a long time.
2) Blood splatter is dangerous if you get it in a wound. Think of the zombie virus like you would HIV or something—there has to be some sort of intake of fluids. Though given how rough these people live, I'd be constantly checking myself for scrapes and cuts that might make me vulnerable to splatter.
Thank you! This is precisely why I read the comment threads.
The Walking Dead comic, in particular, has incredibly retrograde notions about women, who are depicted as largely passive creatures seeking male protection and domesticity in the scary zombie apocalypse. Which is a theme that could be potentially interesting if handled in a thoughtful, nuanced way, but, nope—it's…
Which only brings up another oversight: why would they drive? It wastes gas and puts more wear and tear on the vehicles.
I can understand the show wanting to avoid controversy, but 1) it's a cable show, not ABC 2) the majority of Americans are consistently in favor of keeping abortion in the early stages of pregnancy legal 3) I feel safe in assuming that TWD's demographic is not dominated by very religious folks/anti-choicers
Agreed. I could watch Shane bully these stupid assholes forever. He's like a proxy for TWD's frustrated audience.
Really? There was some forward momentum, but I thought it was a stinker. Not worse than any of the other episodes, but besides a few story revelations that were smushed together in one episode, the story still feels leaden and the characters still feel underdeveloped. The series is still treading water.
That last paragraph nicely summarizes the problem I have with most books and movies about Marilyn Monroe. The impulse tends to be towards a warts-and-all attempt to make "Marilyn Monroe" more relatable by focusing on Norma Jean's childhood, drug problems, etc. They miss the fact that the unresolved tension between…
And Patton Oswalt, never flitting, still is standing, still is standing
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And his eyes have all the seeming of a demon's that is dreaming,
And the lamp-light o'er him streaming throws his shadow on the floor…
That's the thing that puzzles/intrigues me about the show. But I can see them stretching out the material in the novel over 2, maybe even 3 seasons, max. There is also a lot of stuff that's hinted at/dispatched quickly in the book, but which could be turned into quite a few TV episodes, e.g. Alfred and Enid's…