The Walking Dead, S08E03: “Monsters”
“Monsters” Foolishly Indulges the Show’s Worst Impulse: Letting Its Characters Talk, A Lot
“Monsters” Foolishly Indulges the Show’s Worst Impulse: Letting Its Characters Talk, A Lot
“The Damned” Is a Struggle Between What The Walking Dead Is and What It Wants to Be
Shocking Basically Nobody, The First Episode of The Walking Dead‘s 8th Season is Really Bad
Apparently This is “The First Day of the Rest of Your Life”. I Am Utterly, Incontinently Terrified by That Notion I can’t do a typical write-up for this episode, recounting the plot and remarking on its significance, trying to parse out some thematic relevance in proceedings or discussing how the characters move from A …
“Something They Need” Ignores its Audience’s Needs, Suffers Wildly For its Rampant Stupidity Let’s get the obvious out of the way: there’s no way for this to be a satisfying episode of television on any terms, least of all those set by The Walking Dead. When we left off last week, Sasha had entered the Saviours’ compound on …
“The Other Side” Cannot Get Here Fast Enough, As In I Hope We All Die Before Another Episode of this Shit Opening on a dialogue-free montage at the Hilltop sanctuary, we see Maggie, Sasha, Daryl and Jesus silently living out their lives: training the people of Hilltop in how to fight, tending to the …
“Bury Me Here” Isn’t As Dead On Arrival As it First Appears Over a dusty guitar overture, we’re shown a brief montage of the denizens of The Kingdom, shot from the perspective of the rear of a truck. They solemnly appear and, one by one, each enact a small part in placing and securing …
“Say Yes” Says The Walking Dead… And I Almost Did, ‘Cause I’m A Sucker A dim light shines through yonder trees, a breach of risen morning upon a secluded forest, casting the dim world into an incandescent blaze of warmth and clarity. Does this striking opening shot signify a new dawn for The Walking Dead? If …