In a better season “Hearts Still Beating” could have been an episode of The Walking Dead that played off better structuring and worthwhile main and subplots. As it stands, the need to have supersized episodes and a mandated half-season structure…
TV Review: AMC’s The Walking Dead 7×07, “Sing Me A Song”
Jeffrey Dean Morgan is not an intimidating presence. That’s the main takeaway I had while watching another 90-minute episode of The Walking Dead. This does not mean “Sing Me a Song” was a bad episode, as there was some proper…
TV Review: AMC’s The Walking Dead 7×06, “Swear”
From one standpoint, “Swear” is the sort of episode of The Walking Dead that I used to want more of. Given the show’s ensemble cast, it is useful to splinter off the characters into groups and develop them with some…
TV Review: AMC’s The Walking Dead 7×05, “Go Getters”
After torturing Daryl and continuing to see Rick suffer, “Go Getters” is a Walking Dead episode that felt a little bit lighter on its feet. It has an issue concerning its pacing and how much emotional resonance I should have…
TV Review: AMC’s The Walking Dead 7×04, “Service”
One of the taglines for this season of The Walking Dead is one of Negan’s quotes, “We’re just getting started.” It is kind of a shame that it really does feel that way, as “Service” is an episode designed to…
TV Review: AMC’s The Walking Dead 7×03, “The Cell”
For those that thought last week’s episode in the series about a group of survivors in the zombie apocalypse who have dealt with cannibals, tanks, fake beards and a room full of jars of decapitated heads went off the rails…
TV Review: AMC’s The Walking Dead 7×02, “The Well”
“The Well” is the kind of episode I want out of The Walking Dead. Now that we’re away from building up anticipation over hammy performances and learning whose death would be served up in an attempt to make a big…