Last night’s season 3 ender was a tension-filled hour with plot advancement, good character moments, and a death that was supposed to make us cry but didn’t. If we were the types to give letter grades to TV shows, we’d probably settle on a strong “B” for this...

We spent the first twenty minutes of this episode SUPREMELY pissed off, as we were expected to sit there and watch the de facto “hero” of this story struggle with a moral question that really shouldn’t have been a struggle at all: Should he hand over an ally, and someone who...

The severed heads weren’t enough. Sending people after Michonne to kill her wasn’t enough. Zombie gladiator games weren’t enough. Sexually assaulting Maggie wasn’t enough. EVERY SINGLE FORMER ALLY telling her that he was bad news and that she should get the hell away...

Ah, well. It was probably too good to be true. Last week’s well-regarded episode, which many have called the best Walking Dead episode since the pilot, was not the signal that the show had found a new energy and heart. Instead it was followed up by yet another talky, plotless hour that...

We argued about this episode. We suspect, going on twitter discussions and early reviews, that our argument was repeated on couches throughout the land last night. If you are someone who’s sick to death of all the freaking standing around and talking, and if you’re someone who...

This wasn’t necessarily a bad episode of The Walking Dead. A boring one, sure; but it seemed to us that, despite the show’s tendency to have the characters stand around and talk and talk and talk all the time, the central conversation of this episode needed to be had. Andrea...

To all those who begged us to take time off from Fashion Week to get a Walking Dead review up: you wouldn’t have liked what we had to say anyway. We found the midseason return to be a walk down a familiar road; one where the narrative wheels spin and Rick chews up the scenery. In other...

All right, Glen! Okay, maybe that’s not the right tone to strike when reviewing an episode as bleak and horrifying as this one, but his feral and triumphant one-on-one while cruelly locked in a room with a walker was exhilarating in a lot of ways, and it tied into something that’s...

If you’ve been reading our Walking Dead reviews for any length of time, then you know we’ve been a bit nervous about the depiction of Michonne. In the books, she’s such a memorable and starkly realized character who upends a ton of conventions in fiction as to how women...

We admit, when they put little LoriSophiaCarolePatriciaEverydeadfemalecharacter in Darryl’s arms and she quieted down almost immediately, we rolled our eyes a little at the obvious ploy to get ladyboners springing all over the viewership. We’re doing another one of our very...

“Can’t we have one good day?” Oh, Glenn. You’ll never risk the Fates by uttering a line like that again, will you? Especially since Maggie’s not likely to ever let you have sex with her again after what she just went through. Man, they’re really not fucking...

‘The Walking Dead’ stars Steven Yeun, Laurie Holden, Norman Reedus attend The Paley Center for Media Los Angeles 2012 Benefit.     [Photo Credit: Izumi Hasegawa/PR...

We settled into our seats with some satisfaction last night once it became clear that this episode wasn’t going to spend any time with Rick and Co. at the prison. That’s exactly what this story needed at exactly this moment: world-building. It’s actually what the...

We couldn’t help feeling last night that, even more so than last week’s season opener, this episode was written in direct response to fan and critic complaints regarding last season’s various plot strands, including a long, meandering slog through the woods to look for a...

Well! That was about as bracing as an axe to the shin, wasn’t it? Like a lot of people, we approached season 3 with some trepidation, partially because what’s coming up should be an epic and jaw-dropping story which could so easily go wrong if it’s not written well, and...

For the first time since last season, we realized at the commercial breaks that we’d been holding our breath and didn’t even know it. Welcome back, Walking Dead. We missed you. We’re not supposed to let perfect be the enemy of good (or so we’re told), so we’ll...

Question: Was the penultimate episode of this season an indication that the writers have figured out where they want to go and thus the episode itself was the best one since Season 1 or is this just the show’s tendency to save all the good parts for the last 5 minutes of an episode writ...

It says something about the direction and tone of this show that the one character arguing for the preservation of life and the rule of law is the most irritating of all the characters by far, and what should have been a gripping argument about goals and methods instead turned into a whiny...

Better late than never, but this’ll be a short one. There was a welcome sense of focus to this episode and that’s something the show’s needed since, well, forever, really. Unfortunately, the writers chose to focus on a bunch of characters they’ve already spent way too...

Now that’s a little more like it. Even though we’ve been complaining all season about the “stand around and talk about things” style of storytelling this season, when we say “that’s more like it,” we don’t actually mean the more action-oriented...

“Oh.” That was our voiced response when this episode opened at exactly the point the last one ended. It wasn’t a happy sound.  Considering our complaints about the first half of the season – that too much time was spent on that damn farm, standing around talking...