(Thanks to Alicia Lopez for her amazing article!) Our society likes to imagine the end of the world. Each year, dozens of dystopian, apocalyptic, and post-apocalyptic movies grace the big screen. Movies like Captive State (2019) and Extinction (2018), paint images of alien invasion and the destruction of the human race. I love a good…
First Aired February 23rd, 2020. After being trapped by Alpha (played by Samantha Morton) in a cave with her horde of walkers, Daryl (played by Norman Reedus) leads the group from their ledge to another cave using rocks to leapfrog over the walkers. Alpha believes they knew where to look for the horde because they…
Aaahh!!! Real Monsters Looks “Distinct” Aaahh!!! Real Monsters is a show that asks: what if the gross sections of Rugrats was made into an entire show? Though perhaps that’s not fair to Aaahh!!! Because, though the animation is rather choppy and awkward, it’s got some rather inventive things put into the monster designs. Though Monsters,…
Does Locke & Key Match Its Pedigree? Having not been familiar with the work of Joe Hill, I didn’t know what to expect with Locke & Key the show. Certainly, the intro, with its hyper obsession with keys, caught my interest, but cool ideas for shows an intro does not make. But I’m pleased to report…
Dracula Receives The Sherlock Treatment Apparently, Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss have found their niche in doing slick adaptations of classic literature, because here they go again with Dracula. And Dracula’s first episode blew me away. It’s so rare now to get a truly gothic and horrific take on vampires and to see gore like…
October Faction Is Not What It Should Be While the marketing for October Faction may have said it’s like The Umbrella Academy, they neglected to say that it’s like the worst parts of The Umbrella Academy. And, in fact, it’s this issue with the show that’s indicative of a problem I’m having with modern television,…
Undone Undoes Every Expectation Undone pulls off the truly difficult task of making a story about being unmoored in time comprehensive and uses it to deliver storytelling and mystery in a way that’s deeply satisfying for a person willing to binge it. But, sadly, for those who first watch it, that’s not the thing they are…
November 24th, 2019 A flashback shows Dante (played by Juan Javier Cardenas), a new Whisperer being told by Alpha (played by Samantha Morton) to infiltrate Alexandria. He is ‘rescued’ from walkers and brought into the community, painting graffiti about stopping the Whisperers to cause friction, poisoning the water and murdering Siddiq’s (played by Avi Nash)…
The Witcher Can Not Be A Coincidence Regardless of the source material and its adaptation here, The Witcher is so blatantly an attempt to imitate The Mandalorian for Netflix that I’m amazed no one is making a stink about it. Obviously, it has its own identity, but the show has such an abundance of similarities, both…
First Aired November 17th, 2019 Siddiq (played by Avi Nash) checks on sick patients, giving them all water that he doesn’t know has been tainted by Alpha (played by Samantha Morton) and dealing with hallucinations brought up by his PTSD. Carol (played by Melissa McBride) and Daryl (played by Norman Reedus) bring the captured Whisperer…
First Aired November 10th, 2019 Carol (played by Melissa McBride) goes out to find and destroy Alpha’s (played by Samantha Morton) horde and Daryl (played by Norman Reedus) tags along. Carol finds a spot where she thinks the Whisperers converge to send walkers to the communities and they stake it out. Negan (played by Jeffery…
First Aired November 3rd, 2019 Kelly (played by Angel Theory) is hunting in the woods, but her declining hearing leaves her vulnerable to approaching walkers; she barely fights them off and is left injured. Negan (played by Jeffrey Dean Morgan) has escaped into the woods as well and is met by Brandon (played by Blaine…
