3.0 The Walking Dead 6.15 “East” Paul Brian McCoy April 1, 2016 Reviews, TV, Zombies 101 So Carol decides to walk the earth like Kane from Kung Fu, trying not to murder people, but failing miserably.
4.5 The Walking Dead 6.13 “The Same Boat” Paul Brian McCoy March 16, 2016 Reviews, TV, Zombies 101 Instead of sacrificing her life, she ends up sacrificing more of her humanity to keep Maggie from doing the same.
3.8 The Walking Dead 6.10 “The Next World” & 6.11 “Knots Untie” Paul Brian McCoy March 4, 2016 Reviews, TV, Zombies 101 Apocalyptic politics apparently translates most clearly as the "walking up to the biggest inmate on the first day of incarceration and trying to kill them."
4.0 The Walking Dead 5.11 “The Distance” Paul Brian McCoy February 26, 2015 Reviews, TV, Zombies 101 We are moving into a new narrative landscape for The Walking Dead. But we're going to have to explore it with baby steps.
4.0 The Walking Dead 5.10 “Them” Paul Brian McCoy February 17, 2015 Reviews, TV, Zombies 101 Everything is transitory. Everything is always-already ending. This is at the heart of The Walking Dead. Always has been.
3.5 The Walking Dead 5.08 “Coda” Paul Brian McCoy December 3, 2014 Reviews, TV, Zombies 101 The creators of The Walking Dead have an ongoing thematic endgame that is being run.
2.5 The Walking Dead 5.05 “Self Help” Paul Brian McCoy November 11, 2014 Reviews, TV, Zombies 101 Director Ernest R. Dickerson does everything he can to make this episode of The Walking Dead work, but a weak script undermines the dramatic twist that I think just about everyone saw coming.
4.0 The Walking Dead 5.03 “Four Walls and a Roof” Paul Brian McCoy November 2, 2014 Reviews, TV, Zombies 101 And we all know what happens to the characters who try to maintain some sort of pre-apocalypse moral code...
