Jim and A.Ron are back with more Walking Dead catch up, this time episode four of season one, “Vatos”. We discuss what is quite possibly the single worst scene in The Walking Dead history, troll dad parenting, Jim’s escape plan to China, the relative difficulty of killing Merle, Daryl’s effectiveness as Bad Cop, hilarious gang…
Read MoreJim and A.Ron with more Walking Dead catch up, this time episode three of season one, “Tell It To The Frogs”. Find out about the importance of good vibrations, keeping your fires low, eating Miss Piggy, fair and equitable divisions of labor, and more. And if you don’t like it, tell it to the frogs!…
Read MoreJim and A.Ron with more Walking Dead catch up, this time episode two of season one, “Guts”. We review tank escapes, the effectiveness of zombie climbers, how foley artists get to have all the fun, gore as comedy, why it’s a bad idea to parade your juicy, living, ass in front of a horde of…
Read MoreJim and A.Ron are back to cover season 1 of The Walking Dead starting with, of course, the series premiere – “Days Gone Bye”. We hit all the highs including the most vulnerable of garments, dehydration and british biking lessons. As always, if you like what we do, give us a shout out! You can…
Read MoreJim and A.Ron ponder a few questions looking backward to this past half season and looking forward to the next. Where do the survivors go next? Which was better so far, season one or season two? Can they make the zombies scarier? Then we process some listener feedback and talk comic spoilers in the spoiler…
Read MoreTurns out that the midseason finale went out with a bang. Several dozen, actually! Before we get into the recap, we consider an article from The Atlantic on five ways The Walking Dead can be improved. It’s pretty good, even if you think The Walking Dead is just fine as is. Then we break down…
Read MoreAn unequivocably excellent episode to cap the mid-season off. Now, of course the same things that drive me crazy about certain characters are still driving me crazy, but this episode went and took those “bugs” and made them “features”, to use programming parlance. What I mean by that is that negative character traits, which up…
Read MoreWelcome to this week’s episode of Watching Dead! Some say this was the best episode of the season, and some say one of the worst. What do Jim and A.Ron think? It might surprise you. We talk about chicken legs, advanced shooting classes, farmer’s ultimatums, the ridiculous, irresponsible way the “morning after” pills were depicted on…
Read MoreWell, this is the episode where this ridiculous show roped me into another season of watching. Unless they drop the ball really badly, like, say, crash two 737’s into each other over Herschel’s farm, I’m in. There was a lot of silly stuff, to be sure, and I think we should have been at this…
Read MoreHello fellow survivors! It’s time for your weekly review of the survival techniques of our favorite zombie-themed drama on AMC, The Walking Dead! Scenario 1: Dale finds out that Glenn boned Maggie. What the survivors did: Dale shamed and scolded Glenn for having the temerity to have about 45 seconds of one-sided pleasure. What was he…
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