The Walking Dead

  • Why The Walking Dead Is Not As Cynical As You Are

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    or The Gospel According to The Walking Dead [NOTE: Some series and season 5 spoilers follow.] It seems as if The Walking Dead brings out the most cynical side of us. It shouldn’t surprise me that a show about the post-apocalyptic world of zombie infestation would tread regularly into the hopelessness of nihilism. This was particularly true…

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  • Why TV Needs Father Gabriel

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    Warning: mild spoilers of The Walking Dead follow. The Walking Dead. I haven’t read the comics, though I should have by now. I’m a geek, I used to be a comic geek at that, and I love the show, so this is totally in my wheelhouse. Maybe I love the suspense of watching the show as it comes on: of waiting until…

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  • I hear them: Lizzie and the talking dead

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    Lizzie claimed she could hear them speaking. They called to her. They conversed. They wanted to play tag. The frightening psychological undercurrent of “The Grove” on The Walking Dead, which I spoke to last week, still lingers with me. I was reminded again as I read this humorous reflection on the zombie church by John…

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  • Teaching Mixed Messages: love, violence, and more Walking Dead

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    The Michigan Militia It was the late 90’s and several militia groups, most famously the “Michigan Militia” had bloomed in the thumb-area of Michigan, just down the road from my college. The populist rage that would a decade later birth the Birthers and the Tea Party was a post-Waco response to a perceived lack of…

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  • Who Survives: the morbid morality of The Walking Dead

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    [Warning: While I am not recapping the most recent episode, there are some spoilers from “The Grove” and from earlier episodes in Season 4. I’ll leave the recaps for EW and The Daily Beast. The subject however, remains difficult and not suitable for all readers.] Last night’s episode of The Walking Dead, “The Grove” is…

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