The other half of the TV shows presented at SDCC.
- Arrow
- The Expanse
- The Flash
- Fear of the Walking Dead
- Gotham
- Legends of Tomorrow
- The Man in the High Castle
- The Originals
- Sherlock
- The Walking Dead
- Vikings
2016-07-26 Update: Now includes The Expanse
The other half of the TV shows presented at SDCC.
2016-07-26 Update: Now includes The Expanse
The short first season ends, and people aren’t very good as the world falls down around them.
With a little less zombie walker mayhem than on the parent show, Fear the Walking Dead turns to torture to increase its quotient of disturbing and gruesome.
How do people feel about “Cobalt”?
The reality is not that Teh Government is manipulating things in a Grand Conspiracy. It’s that government agencies behave in often unsavory and conspiratorial ways in order to control situations and genuine threats they only imperfectly understand.
A week has passed since the previous episode, and the characters (un)settle into life in a (un) safe zone. Someone signals from without, and Nick’s addiction creates problems within.
Fear the Walking Dead returns with a frequently frightening episode that matches, at least, what I was expecting. We’re seeing the sort of thing the survivors went through while Rick slept through the apocalypse, that led them to live together. It’s just happening with less interesting characters. Overall, this week’s episode improves on its predecessors.
The second episode of Fear the Walking Dead picks up the slow pace a little, as characters begin to realize the end actually is nigh. The show created an impressive sense of creeping menace and suspense, but I still don’t especially care about any of these characters.
The best I can say is they’re more interesting than anyone on the MTV VMAs.
Anyone else?
The Walking Dead skipped the end of the world. Rather than show the rise of the zombies—that’s been done to death—it brought us into the already wasted-land through the eyes of Rick Grimes, who slept through the apocalypse. The spin-off shambles back to those early days, when the world began to end. Can it sustain this premise, by going into a level of detail that would have been beyond the classic zombie films?
The Walking Dead returns. The acting remains strong, the episode is intense, and the outlook is bleak. We even get a past cast reunion, of sorts. However, I doubt I’ll continue watching.
The Walking Dead reaches its midseason hiatus, with a predictably dark pause. Here’s the place to discuss the showdown in Atlanta, and the passing of yet another series regular.
We’re counting down on the season….