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The Walking Dead recap Season 4 episode 5: ‘Internment’

November 11, 2013 Lori Acken

Given everything that happened during last night’s claustrophobic, emotionally draining, completely nerve-jangling episode of The Walking Dead — aptly called ‘Internment’ — it seems kind of a shame to jump right to the end. But, really, how do you not? The Governor’s at the gate. In those few seconds, the tidy bit of episode assessment I was about to do about parents and children, hope for the future versus hope for the day and the notion of sacrifice suddenly took on a dozen more tentacles when the cameras went sidling off to the woods and the man lurking there turned his […]

The Walking Dead recap Season 4 episode 4: ‘Indifference’

November 4, 2013 Lori Acken

How you feel about “Indifference,” the latest episode of The Walking Dead, likely depends on what you believe makes a good leader, coupled with your idea of what drives the prison crew to solider on: the hope of a return to some sort of civilized and thriving society, or a day-to-day struggle to stay one step ahead of a horrible demise that will eventually catch up. If you have no hope for the former, how do you muster the will to take on the latter? At the heart of this tale are two leaders — one quietly but resolutely working […]

The Walking Dead Season 4 episode 3 recap: ‘Isolation’

October 27, 2013 Lori Acken

The prison is a complicated place these days. Just a few episodes back, the populace was divided neatly in two — Grimes gang and not‚ and only at night. Now people are isolated because they are sick … and sicker still. The young and still healthy are over here. The grown and still healthy are over there. Pods of people everywhere, kept from one another as best they can manage. It’s no longer about who is outsider and who is not. It’s about who is harboring a killer in his or her bloodstream. And if anyone is not. After three […]

The Walking Dead wins Spookiest Series in Channel Guide’s 2013 Viewers Voice Awards

October 22, 2013 Channel Guide Contributor

The Walking Dead wins the 2013 Viewers Voice Award for the “Spookiest Series,” in Channel Guide’s annual reader poll. Even if you put the series’ spot-on commentary about societal ills and human nature aside, Dead creator Robert Kirkman and special effects guru Greg Nicotero’s combined knack for making the living and the undead equally creepy makes this a shoo-in to feed our nightmares week after gloriously gut-wrenching (and gut-splattered) week. Spookiest Series — Winner: The Walking Dead The Walking Dead/AMC 25.8% American Horror Story: Asylum/FX 23.1% Bates Motel/A&E 19.3% True Blood/HBO 18.2% Falling Skies/TNT 13.6% Percentages may not total 100 […]

The Walking Dead wins Best Drama in Channel Guide’s 2013 Viewers Voice Awards

October 21, 2013 Channel Guide Contributor

The Walking Dead wins 2013 Viewers Voice Award for the “Best Drama,” in Channel Guide’s annual reader poll. AMC’s iconic zombie show has braaaaaains and brains to spare, never allowing the most ardent student of show creator Robert Kirkman’s comic book series that inspired it or the most avid viewer of the show to figure what’s going to happen next. Or who is going to die. Simply put, though we’ll never experience what the Grimes Crew endures, The Walking Dead’s ability to make us endlessly contemplate our own actions in the direst of circumstances is utterly unnerving — and completely […]

The Walking Dead Season 4 episode 2 recap: ‘Infected’

October 20, 2013 Lori Acken

After the mortifying revelation that something awful is in the air — or the water, or somewhere — in last week‘s Season 4 premiere of The Walking Dead, we open episode 2 in the dead of night, at the fence, where a flashlight-toting someone is feeding rats to the walkers through the chain link. Inside the prison, Karen and Tyreese are cuddling. Even with such a comely girl in his lap, Ty can’t keep his mind off of Zack’s horrific demise at the big box store the day before. Fingering the awesome ROCK-PAPER-SCISSORS bracelet on Karen’s wrist (get your very […]

The Walking Dead Season 4 Episode 1 recap: ‘30 Days Without An Accident’

October 13, 2013 Lori Acken

Fans of AMC’s The Walking Dead have been readying themselves for a whole new world at the prison ever since we watched the busload of Woodbury residents arrive at the end of Season 3. Some six months later, what a world it is — comparatively speaking, anyway. Solid steps back toward civilization. The Rick-tator (Andrew Lincoln) — brought to the brink by the brutality of his new reality and its effect on him and his family — is now Farmer Grimes with pens of ponies and piglets and thriving vegetable gardens. He’s also refusing to carry a gun, throwing one […]

Mythbusters Zombie Special premieres Oct. 17 on Discovery

October 9, 2013 Lori Acken

The Walking Dead fans, if Sunday’s Season 4 premiere has you wondering anew about stuff like the best weapon to clear a zombie horde, how to outrun the hungry buggers if you’re caught weapon-free, or whether the undead can really muster enough gumption to team up and take down a wall, MythBusters is here to ease your mind. The MythBusters Zombie Special premieres on Thursday, Oct. 17 at 10pm ET/PT on Discovery. In this highly entertaining hour, The Walking Dead’s own dearly departed (and re-departed) Merle Dixon, Michael Rooker, joins Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman to determine whether an ax or […]

The Walking Dead Season 4: Date, time, TV channel, preview and more!

October 7, 2013 StayTuned Staff

Ask Andrew Lincoln what four seasons of The Walking Dead can do to a man and he points to his beard. “Can you see my gray hair?” he laughs, stroking the salt-and-pepper patches that have taken residence on his once-boyish face. The British actor now wears every one of his 40 years, and it’s no wonder, given the incredible physical and emotional demands of playing Rick Grimes, the de facto leader of a group of ragged survivors in AMC’s gruesomely successful horror show. It helps then to have familiar faces to go through all that with, but this being a […]

The Walking Dead spinoff coming to AMC in 2015

September 16, 2013 StayTuned Staff

AMC has taken a shine to spinoffs, it seems. Fresh off last week’s news that Saul Goodman, the Breaking Bad character played by Bob Odenkirk, would be getting his own prequel series, the tony cabler announced today that The Walking Dead spinoff is a go. People were expecting, or at least speculating, on the Better Call Saul idea, but this one seems to have sprung up out of nowhere. Robert Kirkman, an executive producer who also writes the comic book series that serves as the basis for the series, will be involved, along with fellow Eps Gale Anne Hurd and […]