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EeeeeeeeeEEEEEEEEEYYYEEEEEAAAAAARRRRGGGGGHHHHHHH…!!!!!!!

This is not cool, AMC. Not cool at all.

A little while ago my beating heart be stilled when I read that the first soundtrack album of AMC’s megakewl series The Walking Dead is set to be released on March 19th!

I know, right? Happy-dance time. Because there has been a massive demand for a soundtrack CD from this show for ages. It’s at least more than a year overdue.

What have we wanted all this time? Nothing less than The Walking Dead‘s orchestral score. A bona-fide album of all the major pieces that Bear McCreary has composed for this show. EVERY bit of the music that has been most-desired on a quality album, going back to Season 1.

So are we getting that on March 19th?

LIKE HELL WE ARE!!

Lemme put it this way: I don’t possibly see how The Walking Dead: AMC Original Soundtrack ...

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It’s currently taking me about 20 hours to watch a new episode of AMC’s The Walking Dead after it premieres on cable. That’s out of voluntary choice however, because I’m a good boyfriend. See, m’lady Kristen is a huge fan of this show too… but since we’re over an hour away from each other and she doesn’t get regular cable (note to self: get Roku as soon as possible) we just wait ’til our schedules can jibe the next day, then we sync my DVR and her Internet streaming and voila: we get to see one of our favorite shows together after all!

But I gotta tell y’all: with it being more than two months since the crazy events of “Made to Suffer”, those 20 hours between last night and early this evening were torture to wait through…

“The Suicide King” picked up right where “Made to Suffer” ended: ...

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Massive spoilers in this video, ‘cuz it covers everything from the start of the first season on up to the third year’s mid-season finale.

If you’re caught up on The Walking Dead, you still won’t be ready for the abundawundawesomeness of Jonathan Wong‘s video. He’s masterfully edited together clips from The Walking Dead and set it to Adele’s hit song “Skyfall”, the theme from the latest James Bond movie.

If you only watch one YouTube video this week, watch this one. If you only watch ten, watch this one ten times!

AMC oughtta hire Jonathan, this vid is so dang cool!!...

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JEEBUS CRIPES CRISPIES WITH MILK AND ONIONS!!

Andrea?! What the hell are you doing still hanging around Woodbury?!?

The last episode of AMC’s The Walking Dead until Season 3 resumes in February was beyond mortal hyperbole. It aired yesterday evening but at the moment I’m still unable to catch it until either Monday mornings or evenings (‘cuz that’s how I’m currently able to “watch” it with Kristen). So just after 6 tonight we cued up together and I cranked up the DVR.

Good. Lord.

The very first moments of “Made to Suffer” finally brought to TV a character from the comic series that fans have been demanding almost since this show began: Tyreese! And I don’t think it was at all coincidence that we got a fleeting glimpse of a certain other character in this episode: Tyreese is no doubt going to become the lieutenant and force of accountability ...

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Last night’s The Walking Dead on AMC brought back the intensity after the past couple of weeks’ relative calm (which was needed, after what happened to Lori). This series is consistently demonstrating why many consider it to be the finest show on television right now.

But that’s not the point of this post. Instead I have to remark that what you’re about to see is either gross negligence or brilliant marketing.

At the end of the next-to-last act of this week’s episode “When the Dead Come Knocking” we find Rick and his team trapped in a cabin, nearly surrounded by ravenous walkers. To escape they have to throw a freshly-killed dude out the front door as a distraction. Rick and company flee through the back door while the walkers start munching.

That’s the setup. That’s all you need to know.

So watch the final few seconds of that act, ...

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And that’s sayin’ something about this show…

Congratulations producers of The Walking Dead: you finally brought television its most gruesome and disturbing birth scene since Robin’s delivery in V: The Final Battle all the way back in 1984:

Yeah. It was sicker than that even.

“Killer Within” raised the stakes. Dropped jaws. And most of all, broke our hearts.

Due to peculiar circumstances at the moment I’m not catching The Walking Dead until the day after it airs (well I could if I wanted to, but I’m an honorable boyfriend who can only experience this story together with his girlfriend 🙂 and when Facebook and Twitter went berzerk about this episode last night, well… it was a long 20 hours to wait. But that was a hella thing to be patient for. I’m gonna be numb all night after watching that.

Anyone else wanna argue that The Walking Dead...

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Does this guy have the most gruesome man-cave ever, or what?

“Walk With Me”, last night’s episode of AMC’s smash series The Walking Dead, at long last brought us the much-anticipated appearance of The Governor: a character voted a few years ago as one of the greatest villains in comic book history.

Okay, so David Morrisey doesn’t resemble his graphic novel incarnation that much. But nonetheless Morrisey’s Governor has finally brought this show something that’s been a long time coming: a true breathing nemesis. For two seasons we’ve watched Rick and his group – unseen this week but presumably still holding their ground at the prison – fight off the walkers and not much else. But here comes The Governor. Mindless walkers and rogue survivors have been one thing. The head of a whole town and his very own well-munitioned army is gonna quite another.

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…and it would be “Sick” even if that wasn’t the episode title.

This week’s episode focused solely on Rick’s group at the prison, and picked right up from the end of last week: with Hershel’s severed leg bleeding-out and the Rick’s posse finding a small group of still-living inmates.

That was plenty enough to launch a solid hour of some of the most intense and gruesome television I’ve ever witnessed. We got a lot in “Sick”: an idea of how long it’s been since the outbreak began (almost an entire year), some notion of how fast the infection works (given what happened to Hershel), and most of all how far Rick will go to keep the group safe. Can’t say that I blame him: my girlfriend remarked that Tomas is “Shane 2.0”.

Two bits of highlighted action in this episode: obviously one is the prisoners forgetting everything that Rick and ...

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It aired last night on AMC and due to some crazy circumstance Kristen and I are only now reeling from the shock of it.

And if “Seed”, the season premiere episode of The Walking Dead is any indication, we are in for a hella scary ride rife with high-tension drama, and thankfully bereft of last season’s lingering too much around Hershel’s farm. The production values also seem much higher ‘cuz this episode cost an arm and a leg.

(Did you see what I just did?! Did you see that?? Haaah that’s all I got…)

Okay, so how long has it been since the events of Season 2? Because Lori’s little bun in the oven is looking like a full-baked poundcake. I’m guessing that the producers are allowing much bigger spans of time to elapse so as to accommodate the imminent growth spurt of Chandler Riggs (the young actor playing ...

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