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The Walking Dead Season 11 Episode 4 Review: Rendition

This The Walking Dead review contains spoilers. The Walking Dead Season 11 Episode 4 Has anyone on The Walking Dead been through as much as Daryl Dixon? He’s been tortured several times at this point, including the most insidious torture method ever devised by Negan. He’s been injured in pretty much every possible way someone can be injured. His motorcycles have long since stopped running. His friends won’t let him retreat into the woods like the smelly hermit he longs to be. The only love affair he’s had on the show has ended in ambivalent tragedy. To be fair, he’s…
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The Walking Dead Season 11: Leah Twist Explained

This The Walking Dead feature contains spoilers. One of the issues with the collection of bonus bottle episodes rolled out at the end of Season 10 of The Walking Dead is that they were constructed in such a way that they didn’t especially matter to the overall narrative. Sure, they were fun. They had some great character moments to help explain just how our survivors ended up the people they are, and what sort of adventures they might have been up to in between seasons, but they haven’t exactly carried a lot of narrative weight this far in season 11.…
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Fear the Walking Dead Season 7 Trailer Teases a Villainous Strand

The trailer for Fear the Walking Dead Season 7 has arrived, further teasing bleak imagery in the wake of Season 6’s monumental mushroom cloud climax, which effectively upgraded the spinoff’s uniquely upgraded dilemma to a nuclear zombie apocalypse. However, a prominent narrative being promoted is the apparent transformation of series-OG character Victor Strand (Colman Domingo) into a villain, one who has become fixated on making life even more difficult than it already is in this world for Morgan Jones (Lennie James).    Indeed, the official trailer shows how the series could be effectively renamed “Fear the Walking Dead or How…
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Could a Walking Dead Negan Sequel Happen?

If there’s a clear theme permeating the early, Alexandria-focused episodes of The Walking Dead’s extended eleventh and final season, it’s that Negan seems to be a dead man walking. While proving useful since he was freed from years of incarceration, his survival seemingly hinges on sticking with a group whose leadership still carries traumatic memories of his many sins, notably the night he—with a cruel comedic flair—brutally bludgeoned their loved ones to death with a barbed-wire baseball bat. However, Jeffrey Dean Morgan seems intent on continuing to play the character beyond the show’s endpoint, despite his diminishing chances. Morgan has…
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The Walking Dead is Basically Little House on the Prairie Now

You’d be forgiven for not knowing what’s going on with The Walking Dead at the moment.  Once TV’s most-watched series, AMC’s long-running zombie drama is…still one of TV’s most-watched series but significantly less so than it was at its peak. The show, based on Robert Kirkman and Charlie Adlard’s 198-issue comic of the same name, still receives plenty of active fans and bemused weekly onlookers. Here at Den of Geek we’re a bit of both.  We know people are still watching The Walking Dead, now three episodes into its 24-episode final season. And yet, it’s hard to shake the feeling…
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The Walking Dead Season 11 Episode 3 Review: Hunted

This The Walking Dead review contains spoilers. The Walking Dead Season 11 Episode 3 “Hunted” opens in a flurry of action. Blades and arrows come flying in out of the darkness. Most of Maggie’s companions stumble and fall, as do their hunters. Some get back up and scramble away towards safety, or in pursuit of someone. Most don’t. At least, not until they presumably turn into walkers and join the omnipresent background noise of the undead. As far as cold openings go, this one runs hot, and while it burns itself out quickly, it’s a perfect set-up for the following…
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Could The Walking Dead: World Beyond Jadis Casting Set Up the Rick Grimes Movies?

Anne a.k.a. Jadis (Polly McIntosh) has come a long way on The Walking Dead. First introduced as a quite literal garbage person in The Walking Dead season 7, Jadis received the honor of being the character that brought Rick Grimes (Andrew Lincoln) to safety so that he could live another day…and get his own spinoff movie franchise. Now the character is on to big things once again. AMC announced today that actress Polly McIntosh will return to the franchise and reprise her role as Jadis in The Walking Dead: World Beyond season 2. They also released a new trailer with…
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The Walking Dead Season 11 Episode 2 Review: Acheron Part 2

This The Walking Dead review contains spoilers. The Walking Dead Season 11 Episode 2 So far in season 11 of The Walking Dead, the biggest weapon in the arsenal of the survivors hasn’t been a gun, but the brain. Specifically, the power of observation. Princess used it to good effect to nearly get the group out of Commonwealth processing prison, and now Yumiko is taking the information Princess and others have gathered on the people around them, churns it through her lawyer-trained mind, and comes up with a line of patter so effective it makes Ezekiel’s summation of lead guard…
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The Walking Dead: Who Is Stephanie?

This Walking Dead article contains spoilers. One of The Walking Dead‘s central mysteries for the last year has revolved around the voice on the other side of Eugene’s radio. Throughout season 10, Eugene talked to a woman named Stephanie (Margot Bingham) from a settlement in Charleston, West Virginia (as revealed in the episode “Morning Star”). After getting to know each other and earning Stephanie’s trust, Eugene decides to lead a group of Alexandrians to Stephanie’s settlement. On the surface, it’s a diplomatic mission meant to hopefully to establish an alliance to help protect Alexandria (and maybe even establish trading for…
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The Walking Dead Set Photo Leak Reveals Mercer in Iconic Red Armor

The Walking Dead season 11 will introduce the biggest status quo shift in the show’s history, bringing the massive Commonwealth city-state from the comics to life. Already, trailers have teased parts of this post-apocalyptic city, including a dark subway with ominous messages scribbled on its walls, and there’s plenty more to be revealed if the show follows the comic book source material. The Commonwealth setting will also usher in quite a few new characters to the show, including military officer Mercer (Michael James Shaw), who commands the faction’s defense forces as well as protects the settlement’s leadership. If the comic…
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Fear the Walking Dead Season 6 Episode 14 Review: Mother

This Fear the Walking Dead review contains spoilers.  Fear the Walking Dead Season 6 Episode 14 After being sidelined for most of the season, Fear the Walking Dead finally throws one of its best characters into the fray. I’m talking about Alicia, of course, who hasn’t gotten nearly enough screen time lately. So it’s interesting (and refreshing) that “Mother” should lean so heavily into what it means to be Madison Clark’s daughter. The episode continues season 6’s trend of unexpected reunions, and this one certainly doesn’t disappoint. But more on that chance encounter in a bit. In the meantime, let’s talk about Teddy Maddox…
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Fear the Walking Dead Season 6 Episode 13 Review: J.D.

This Fear the Walking Dead review contains spoilers.  Fear the Walking Dead Season 6 Episode 13 I don’t know about any of you, but I avoid all spoilers so I can go into every episode of Fear the Walking Dead (or any show, for that matter) with a fresh and open mind. This allows more room for genuine, unfiltered reactions to plot twists and character deaths. Like when Fear killed off John Dorie earlier this season in the “The Door.” This heartbreaking episode was all the more tragic because John died feeling like he didn’t make enough of a difference. We know…
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Fear the Walking Dead Season 6 Episode 12 Review: In Dreams

This Fear the Walking Dead review contains spoilers.  Fear the Walking Dead Season 6 Episode 12 I’m just going to throw this out there: the second half of Fear the Walking Dead’s sixth season hasn’t been kind to moms. First, Virginia is killed off in “Things Left to Do” shortly after revealing to Dakota that she’s actually her mother, not her sister. And then, “In Dreams” spends most of its runtime selling the downbeat notion that Grace dies in labor. Instead, it’s her daughter Athena that doesn’t survive childbirth. Definitely not the best episode to air on Mother’s Day. (I realize this is…
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Fear the Walking Dead Reveals Morgan and Grace’s Future Daughter

Morgan has had to walk a very hard path in Fear the Walking Dead season 6. Left for dead by Virginia and later hunted by an axe-wielding murderer, the veteran hero of the zombie apocalypse had to find a reason to live. It wasn’t easy. His friends taken and scattered, lead poisoning slowly killing him, and all hope for building a better world gone, it truly seemed like this would be the end of the line for Morgan. But everyone loves a good redemption story. The first half of season 6 was all about Morgan and his friends finding the…
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Fear the Walking Dead Season 6 Episode 11 Review: The Holding

This Fear the Walking Dead review contains spoilers.  Fear the Walking Dead Season 6 Episode 11 After months of careful buildup that began back in season 5, Fear the Walking Dead finally brings the mysterious THE END IS THE BEGINNING doomsday cult into focus. Penned by Channing Powell (who has multiple The Walking Dead writing credits to her name), “The Holding” answers a lot of questions about this mysterious group. By the end, Alicia will even meet the cult’s enigmatic leader, Teddy. But before that fateful encounter, Teddy’s underground paradise will go up in flames, as demanded by a myriad of Walking…
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Fear the Walking Dead Season 6 Episode 10 Review: Handle with Care

This Fear the Walking Dead review contains spoilers.  Fear the Walking Dead Season 6 Episode 10 If there’s been one, consistent failing of Fear the Walking Dead’s sixth season, it’s that the show’s original cast of characters have been sidelined in favor of newer arrivals like Morgan, John, Al, June, et al. While these new characters have featured in some of the show’s best episodes to date, that doesn’t mean Fear stalwarts like Alicia, Strand, and Daniel have no good stories left to tell. Indeed, what works so well about this week’s “Handle with Care” is that it puts everyone’s favorite barber…
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Could The Walking Dead Series Finale Bring Back Rick Grimes?

Few moments in the history of The Walking Dead will be as big as the return of Rick Grimes. Ever since he was transported away to parts unknown by the Civic Republic in season 9, fans have counted down the days until Rick’s upcoming Walking Dead movie, the first in a planned trilogy of films starring everyone’s favorite post-apocalyptic sheriff. For some fans, Rick’s return is the main reason to keep up with The Walking Dead universe of shows, which have slowly been teasing out details regarding where he might’ve disappeared to. While this long-awaited movie still hasn’t started filming…
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Fear the Walking Dead Season 6 Episode 9 Review

This Fear the Walking Dead review contains spoilers.  Fear the Walking Dead Season 6 Episode 9 If there’s one thing Fear the Walking Dead understands about existing in a zombie apocalypse, it’s that living is hard. Every week, our grizzled cast of characters must contend with the inevitable attrition within their ranks. As we learned last week with poor John Dorie, it’s not a matter of if you’ll die, but when you’ll die. Sometimes our hapless survivors see death coming, but more often than not it’s an ugly surprise, meted out by the living. That brings us to “Things Left to Do”…
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Fear the Walking Dead: Big Virginia Moment Explained

This Fear the Walking Dead article contains spoilers. The twisting and turning second half of Fear the Walking Dead season 6 continues with “Things Left to Do,” which says goodbye to yet another main cast member, although few viewers will likely mourn her. Virginia, one of the series’ most uniquely deranged big bads, has breathed her final breath at the hands of June, whose husband, John Dorie, was murdered by Dakota (Virginia’s daughter, not sister) last week. Needless to say, “Things Left to Do” is the most consequential episode of the season thus far, and Virginia’s death will no doubt…
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