I hate hiatuses. There is no reason for my deep hatred towards them, other than the fact that they cut in half most of my favourite shows and give me way to much time to develop theories (one crazier than the other) about what might happen next, only to have them disproved at a later date. Hiatus is hell for most of us, especially when storylines aren’t nicely tied up with a purple ribbon to keep us happy. As you can see from this article, I’m not the only one to feel this way. One show that entered its Hellatus recently is The Walking Dead, the hit show that put AMC on the map for people who otherwise would’ve ignored the channel. In case you’re unfamiliar with this show, you’d better catch up fast, it’s brilliant, albeit a little slow paced. Unlike most shows that love to end on a pretty cliffhanger note each time they take a break, I felt that The Walking Dead wrapped up quite nicely. The second season is twice as long as the first, there are still quite a lot of loose ends to tie before the grand finale, but hopefully we’ll have everything served [...]
The Walking Dead and the three month hellatus.
The Walking Dead – Chupacabra
Last year The Walking Dead had only 6 episode to show for a whole season and it wrapped most of its storylines quickly, despite the seemingly slow pace of the show. With 13 episodes this season they seem to take their sweet time to provide us with much needed information, but is that really a bad thing? Having a sense of suspense seems like the thing the creators and actors aim for, we might live in the century of speed, it doesn’t mean it’s the best thing to have happened to us. But back to the show. I apologise for the absence of reviews and recaps for the last two episodes – Save the Last One and Cherokee Rose – here’s a short briefing on what happened in them: The merry band of misfits reaches the Hershel farm and meet a man so affable I keep expecting him to turn evil (Hershel himself) they are helped with Carl, but since he can’t survive without a lot of medical equipment that isn’t available, Otis – the man who shot Carl and Shane go off on a search for them at the local high-school. Then Shane turns completely evil and shoots Otis [...]
The Walking Dead – Bloodletting
As you should know already, the hit AMC show The Walking Dead had its second season premiere last week and it sure started with a bang – a herd of walkers, a missing Sophia and it ended with Carl being shot. Way to keep us all wired since the very start! The second episode had a much slower pace than the first, but it still managed to pack enough action into it to keep us happy for another week. Let’s see what happened, in short: Sophia is still missing and while everyone is becoming despondent the least likely character to offer a pep talk – Daryl Dixon(Norman Reedus) – manages to make them focus with one of the best lines of the episode – We’re going to locate that little girl. And she’s going to be just fine. Am I the only zen one around here? Well, Daryl, Zen is not a word I would’ve associated with you, but hey, as long as you keep that rat pack moving forward I am behind you 100%. Perhaps you could Feng Shui Dale’s RV? Back to more serious business – Carl was shot and despite Rick’s desperate attempts to help him, there [...]
The Walking Dead – The best and the worst
Well, as you might have realized from my last recap of the show, the finale came this Sunday, a little too soon for my liking, but what are you gonna do? Begging the producers, actors and zombies to stop their everyday life and start filming? Hm…I wonder if that would work? I am sure I can summon up those 5-6 million viewers they had going each week and organized something. Until that cunning plan comes to fruition let’s see the best and the worse of this series that really had the world on fire. Keep in mind that those five million viewers are only the ones that got to see the show as it aired. There are several thousand or million people that used less orthodox methods of viewing – streaming, download, such and such. The point is, it went places. And now let’s see the best and the worse the show had to offer. The Best. The zombies! Oh my God! They had some of the best zombies I have ever seen. The make-up artists have become my heroes. I worship at their shrine. The little girl in the very first episode was done flawlessly, keeping an air of [...]
The Walking Dead – TS-19
I am sure I am not the only one shocked at how fast time flew by and we got to the last episode of The Walking Dead. They have only made and aired 6 episodes and still this show has a great following. I am sure it’s due in part to the fact that is based on a comic book and in part due to the great acting we got to witness. Now that I made a nice eulogy for the first season of this show, let’s get down to business. Last night we were treated to the finale. In case you forgot, last week we left off at the doors of the CDC (Center for Disease Control). Rick made a desperate plea to Jenner (the one lonely, slightly deranged scientist that was still left in the building) and he opened the door for them. It runs pretty smooth at first, with Jenner making a deal with them – a blood sample against a safe place to stay. Now, in case you haven’t seen the episode yet pay attention to what he says. “Once that door closes it can’t be opened again.” Ok, so maybe he didn’t use these exact [...]
The Walking Dead – Wildfire
Another week brought a new great episode from the AMC. I mentioned before this series just seems unable to go wrong. There were some odd things in this episode, I’ll nitpick at them later, but first things first. This week’s episode starts with Rick trying in vain to reach Morgan (in case you forgot who he is – the guy that nearly bashed Rick’s head in with a bat during the Pilot). Rick seems to be aware of the futility of the act judging by his behaviour when trying to raise Morgan on the radio. Most of his despair probably stems from the previous nights events – all the campers that were bitten and killed by walkers. I can understand that. It was pretty much the first time he, and us had a chance to see the walkers in action and not just as dead masses running around looking creepy. Back at the camp Andrea is going a little crazy with grief over her younger sister’s death. She pulls a gun on our hero who backs away from her and doesn’t pursue the issue of having to “re-kill” Amy or she’ll rise as a walker. Daryl is the voice of [...]
