For the second time in a single season, The Walking Dead has jumped forward in time, established a new state of affairs, and hoped fans would go along for the ride. The first time it pulled this stunt, in the season premiere, it was refreshing and sharp. The second time? Less so.

Given the events of last night’s episode of The Walking Dead, which we’ll at least go a few sentences before spoiling, longtime featured players Norman Reedus and Melissa McBride (Daryl and Carol) have suddenly found themselves significantly more valuable to AMC’s zombie franchise than they had been in the past.…

[Spoilers follow for last night’s episode of The Walking Dead.]

[The following post contains spoilers for the most recent episode of The Walking Dead. Please don’t read any further unless you’re willing to hear about the ignoble way the show sent off its central protagonist.]

As a longtime viewer of this series, someone who’s been watching since the premiere of the very first episode back on October 31, 2010—nearly eight years ago to the day—allow me to state a clear, unequivocal analysis of the final episode for ex-sheriff Rick Grimes: Screw you, Walking Dead.

When we talk about the current glut of cable, streaming, and network television options—often summarized with the John Landgraf-penned nickname “Peak TV”—it’s usually from the perspective of consumers and curators. It can, after all, be bewildering, frustrating, and sometimes just plain exhausting to deal with the…

Even though The Walking Dead has shuffled and slurred and growled a long way from its heyday as must-see Sunday TV, the news that series star Andrew Lincoln would be hanging up his cowboy hat and holstering his Colt Python near the mid-point of season nine still came as a shock. Rick Grimes is the axis upon which…

Of all the ways The Walking Dead could have executed this particular narrative leap, it’s fair to say this probably wasn’t the tactic anyone was hoping for.

“Warning Signs” accomplished what precious few episodes of The Walking Dead have done since about roughly mid-way through season four: It got me excited about what’s going to happen next. For the past several years, The Walking Dead has been, at least for me, a put it on while cleaning the house kind of show. The…

In the first scene of “The Bridge,” Rick Grimes rhapsodizes about the brightness of the future with his quintessential corniness. “We’re not fighting to survive,” Rick tells some unseen figure (though, of course, we know exactly who he’s talking to). His face is half-shadowed, a clear allusion to the dark past he’s…

The Walking Dead aired its ninth season premiere this weekend, with the aging series’ attempts at forging a new path under incoming showrunner Angela Kang being relatively well received—at least, by those who actually saw it. That’s a number that’s dropping faster than a side character’s chances of survival after a…

There were no giant zombie battles. There was no mustache-twirling villainy. (Well, almost none.) And there was a distinct lack of endless conversations about the meaning of life. Instead, what the ninth season premiere of The Walking Dead gave us was a new society, new tensions, and a promising start.

As reported by The Hollywood Reporter and confirmed by the official Walking Dead comic Twitter account, actor Scott Wilson has died following a battle with cancer. Wilson played Hershel on AMC’s hit adaptation of of Robert Kirkman’s comic, and the news of his death came just hours after new showrunner Angela Kang…

In news that seems like a perfect metaphor for a zombie show, AMC has teased that it’s working on a plan to keep The Walking Dead going—in one form or another—forever. That comes from Bloomberg, which says AMC is talking with “several large media companies” about plans to keep The Walking Dead brand alive for “another…

It first hit me during A Quiet Place, as John Krasinski and Emily Blunt’s fictional kids quietly played a board game by firelight on a reclaimed wood table, a vertical garden growing out of planters on the wall. I had noticed earlier how nicely Krasinski stayed dressed in the film’s post-apocalypse, in unfussy but…

With new games of all sizes filling real and digital shelves every week, it can be near impossible for anyone to keep up. So during the first week of every month, we’ll be here to help with a curated selection of new, notable games we think should be on everyone’s radar for the month ahead.

After eight years of shooting zombies, shooting people, and finding ever-new ways of shouting “Cahrull!”, Andrew Lincoln is finally getting ready to leave The Walking Dead. But while there’s already been a lot of talk about how the loss of its acting anchor is likely to affect the long-running AMC series, we’ve all…

Welcome to Development Hell, the fiery pit into which we fling recent developments in casting, distribution, and everything else that’s new and mildly interesting in the Boschian phantasmagoria of the entertainment industry.

Welcome back to Trailer Happy Hour, where not all trailers are created equal. But even if not every promo or teaser—especially for TV—has the clout to make it at Comic-Con’s big Hall H, we still love them all, and pledge to gather them together in one safe place for you to conveniently devour. (That metaphor got away…

AMC’s struggles to figure out what to do with its various Chris Hardwick-branded properties took another little step forward today, with Deadline reporting that Yvette Nicole Brown—who previously agreed to step in to handle Hardwick’s upcoming Comic-Con duties in the wake of implied allegations of abuse made in a Medium post