No one can deny the inherent difficulty of making a television show centered on the zombie apocalypse, but The Walking Dead handles it with such aplomb. Granted, one could argue there is the source material to consistently fall back on, but successfully transitioning a printed work into a live-action visual medium is a heavy task… Continue reading The Walking Dead – Episode 5.2 “Strangers”
Xanax, anyone? The Walking Dead has gotten so much stronger in the last year. Season 4 was perhaps the best season to date, and its finale “A” stands as one of the series’ strongest episodes. It comes as no surprise, then, “No Sanctuary” serves as an extension of Season 4’s finale. We pick up where we… Continue reading The Walking Dead – Episode 5.1 “No Sanctuary”
Are producers desperate or something? They have to be feeding the Utopians material at this point, right? Because there is NO way Amanda strolled into Utopia Day 1 fancying when she would FINALLY try out her secret oligarchy fantasy. I’m also pretty sure the Utopians haven't the slightest clue when it comes to government systems, with… Continue reading Utopia – Week 3, B
If there is one show I’m most skeptical of, Utopia is it. Two reasons why I’m skeptical: casting and concept. Casting, for obvious reasons, is never as random or arbitrary as its made out to be. But this is more of a snark on the reality genre than Utopia. In short: Producers want drama and conflict. In this… Continue reading Utopia – Preliminaries
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