The Walking Dead

[freshinthehouse]

Disagree with the first statement ... ninety percent of tv today is garbage, and I generally watch sports or movies for that reason. Very few sitcoms are funny or can make a decent joke without it being sexual or rude, and police drama is primarily about desensitizing death, with people standing around making jokes about someone's dead body. It's predictable, low-class and boring, but that's just me. I'd take a show like St. Elsewhere, Brooklyn Bridge, Northern Exposure, Twin Peaks, M.A.S.H., Cheers, China Beach, WKRP In Cincinnati, The Wonder Years, (I could go on-and-on), over the stuff today in a flash. To each his own.

I would agree that most TV is trash (especially on the networks), but the peaks of great TV have never been higher right now.  Over the last 15 years we've series like The Sopranos, Breaking Bad, The Wire, Deadwood, etc.  Cable TV has allowed true auteurs to have free reign over very well-produced serialized dramas, which as far as I know has never happened in the history of TV (Twin Peaks would be an exception to the rule).  I love episodic TV as much as the next guy, but you just don't get as connected to the story as you do in a serial.  And the stigma if acting on TV is now gone, so the world's best actors are now showing up in TV.  These are golden times to have DV-R.

[freshinthehouse]

Anyone know how long I'll have to wait to see the new episodes of Walking Dead on netflix?  I has no cable right now.

[BigAlTheFuture]

Anyone know how long I'll have to wait to see the new episodes of Walking Dead on netflix?  I has no cable right now.

Probably a good 6 months.

[Smokeeye123]

Very excited to be out of the governor arc! Anyone read the comics? Mini spoilers, we should be meeting abraham And the hunters soon

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Im half way thru the new ep
I come back at the end with my
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*sippin*

[Tnerb02]

It wasn't a bad episode but it was definitely a filler episode. Hopefully the pace picks up.

[Bahku]

The kid had actually become almost bearable to me in the last couple of episodes, now he's just taken on Andrea's "Can she get any more moronic?" mantle, and the thankless little creep needs to go.

[Bahku]

It wasn't a bad episode but it was definitely a filler episode. Hopefully the pace picks up.

Looks like it will pick up a bit, but we've only learned the fate of three so far, so more catch-up filler episodes to come, too. Without spoiler, I liked how this ended, in a different manner than how most episodes do.

[Celtics4ever]

Looks like it will pick up a bit, but we've only learned the fate of three so far, so more catch-up filler episodes to come, too. Without spoiler, I liked how this ended, in a different manner than how most episodes do.

I think next week will be filler with the other cast, too.   It just makes sense.

[Roy H.]

I don't mind the slower paced episodes from time to time.  Robert Kirkman (creator of the series) has basically said the Walking Dead is Carl's story (even moreso than Rick's) and I think this episode was an attempt to show the particular struggles of Carl.  He's going through the struggle between boy (chocolate pudding) and man (breaking away from his father) that all teenagers go through, but he's doing it during a time when he's also lost his mother, all of his friends, and his entire way of life.

I dig the concept.  I just don't particularly like the actor portraying Carl, and I don't like how the character has been written to date.  So, when you take a largely unlikeable character, and try to rehabilitate him by building an episode around him, it can make for a rough episode.

[Mr October]

I am just catching the newest episode now. Oh man, Carl is the worst. He really needs to go.

If the series is about to be built around his journey, the writers and directors need to stop creating soap opera stories and acting situations for him. His moments are so cliche.

"Hey dad, remember Shane?" ....gimme a break. Groan....

[BigAlTheFuture]

Carl is an annoying brat. Overall, I thought episode was okay. Liked the Michonne flashbacks. Hope they tell us more of her story as the season moves along.

[slamtheking]

Carl is an annoying brat. Overall, I thought episode was okay. Liked the Michonne flashbacks. Hope they tell us more of her story as the season moves along.

agreed.

liked the flashback with Michonne.  thought for sure she was going to make the governor one of her walkers.  would have been such poetic justice

Is it wrong I kept hoping that Carl was going to be bitten?   took only a few minutes to make me really hate his character this week.