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Nov 28 2011 11:35 AM ET

Who would you kill off on 'The Walking Dead'?

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Are you still decompressing from last night’s Walking Dead midseason finale? Have your breathing patterns returned to normal? Have the lambs stopped screaming, Clarice? I think we can all agree that, after a hit-or-miss second season, Dead managed to bring it all together for an exciting hour of television, complete with a final-moment twist that cast the season in a whole new light. (Spoilers ahead) Yes, adorable little Sophia turned out to be one of the zombies in the barn — meaning that the entire season-long Search for Sophia was all pointless, and thus perhaps, all of human life is pointless. Deep! The death of a major character can energize a high-stakes TV show like Dead. Since the show won’t be back until Feb. 12, we have to time to ask ourselves a big question: Who else should Dead kill off? READ FULL STORY »

Nov 27 2011 10:01 PM ET

'The Walking Dead' midseason finale: Ahhhhhh!!! (SPOILERS)

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Nobody really knew what to expect from the second season of The Walking Dead. The six-episode first season featured significant departures from the plotline of the original graphic novel. The off-season featured the significant departure of showrunner Frank Darabont — who directed the show’s cinematic premiere and wrote or co-wrote half of the first season. It didn’t help matters that Dead‘s network AMC spent most of 2011 caught in ugly contract negotiations with Mad Men‘s Matthew Weiner and Breaking Bad‘s Vince Gilligan, while also airing the controversially dull The Killing. But, after a slow start, Dead‘s new season picked up considerably in the last couple of weeks. And that was just a warm-up for tonight’s midseason finale. To put it mildly (SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER): READ FULL STORY »

Nov 7 2011 01:00 AM ET

Is 'The Walking Dead' moving too slowly?

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TV dramas used to be fast-paced. Every episode would introduce a new problem — a horrific unsolved crime, a patient with a mysterious illness, a falsely-accused defendant who can only be rescued by Perry Mason — and resolve that problem by the closing credits. That’s all changed in the last decade. A diverse array of brilliant series — thrillers like 24 and Lost, ensemble community-portrait epics like The Wire and Friday Night Lights, interior dramas like The Sopranos and Mad Men — have explored the narrative potential of season- and series-long storytelling.

But there’s a thin line between “ambitiously decompressed storytelling” and “aimless narrative stasis.” Take, for example, The Walking Dead, which has spent the first four episodes of its second season meandering through the forest, the characters searching for a Lost Girl and having lengthy conversations about their relationship to God. READ FULL STORY »

Nov 5 2011 10:00 AM ET

TV Leaderboard: 'Once Upon a Time' casts a spell on EW.com readers

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ABC’s Once Upon a Time series premiere debuted to the best numbers for a new network drama this season, and this week, with an episode that revealed the backstory for why the Evil Queen cast her curse, the show was also No. 1 with EW.com readers. The alphabet network is having a great week all around, with three of its shows in readers’ top five. Check out the complete rankings below:  READ FULL STORY »

Oct 30 2011 10:00 PM ET

'The Walking Dead': Holy geez, can you believe [SPOILER]?!?!

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The latest episode of The Walking Dead was a pretty quiet outing, focusing for the most part on whispered conversations between the apocalypse survivors about the pros and cons of trying to go on living in a dead world. So it was particularly shocking when the episode ended with a such a bang — a big, somewhat shocking twist that pushed the show further into Lord of the Flies territory. Here’s what went down [SPOILER ALERT!!!] READ FULL STORY »

Oct 29 2011 02:15 PM ET

TV Leaderboard: 'Community' scares its way to the top of EW.com reader rankings

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Since the start of the fall TV season, only two shows have been tops with EW.com readers: The Vampire Diaries and Breaking Bad. To that storied list we can now add NBC’s wily and weird Thursday night cult comedy Community, which tickled and (perhaps) terrified viewers with a Halloween anthology episode. Meanwhile, Once Upon a Time‘s series premiere landed just out of the top five. Check out the complete rankings below:  READ FULL STORY »

Oct 20 2011 01:18 PM ET

What is the creepiest TV show of all time?

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Rubber Man! The flukeman! The Man from Another Place! Television has a longstanding history of giving viewers the heebie-jeebies, whether it’s via a bald, nearly-silent observer who can seemingly read your mind, or a posse of desperate humans covered in guts so they can safely pass through a pack of zombies.

But what TV show has been the absolute best at slithering underneath our skin and haunting our slumber for days after it airs? Is it the newest addition to the horror show coterie, FX’s American Horror Story? Is is a short-lived-but-no-less-sinister mid-’90s show like American Gothic (with Gary Cole) or Millennium (with Lance Henriksen)? Is it the show that helped inspire The X-Files, the 1974 cult favorite Kolchak: The Night Stalker? Or is it a death match between the grandpappy of hair-raising television, The Twilight Zone, and its upstart cousin The Outer Limits? Vote in our poll below and then defend your choice in the comments! UPDATE: The poll is now closed, but let us know what you think of the results in the comments! READ FULL STORY »

Oct 17 2011 12:32 PM ET

'The Walking Dead': Did you love or loathe the season premiere?

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If you’re the kind of TV addict who’s interested in how TV shows are made and unmade, then the behind-the-scenes story of The Walking Dead is almost relentlessly fascinating. The zombie-apocalypse series is based on a great graphic-novel series, but last year’s six-episode first season featured massive plot departures from the comics — despite the fact that Dead co-creator and geek demi-god Robert Kirkman is prominently involved in the TV series. Dead is an unusually lavish production, featuring gloriously grotesque undead makeup — a testament to AMC’s ongoing willingness to push the visual aesthetics of television — but that lavish production appears to have resulted in the departure of showrunner Frank Darabont. In the modern TV landscape, the notion of such an ambitious show losing its showrunner is almost unthinkable — imagine if Lost had fired Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse, or if David Simon had handed off The Wire.

After almost a full year of off-season drama and debate, The Walking Dead finally returned last night for a thirteen-episode second season. Reviews have been mixed. READ FULL STORY »

Sep 2 2011 01:00 PM ET

Fall TV survival guide: How to navigate life with your newly jam-packed schedule

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Now that you’re armed with our Fall TV Preview double issue, it’s time to hit the ground running. And by hit the ground running, we of course mean settling in for a lot of television viewing from the comfort of your couch. Still, we realize this can all be pretty overwhelming. After all, for as much television as we consumed over the summer — from Big Brother to True Blood — the viewing schedule wasn’t nearly as jam-packed as it soon will be. (Plus, we even went outside from time to time!) With the premieres of all the new and returning programs just days away, now is the time to get ready. (If you’re far behind on a series, like say, The Good Wife or Community or The Vampire Diaries, you’d better start watching those DVDs to catch up riiiiight… NOW!) But, don’t fret, dear PopWatchers, we’re here to help. After all, you’ll need to outwit, outplay, and outlast all of life’s distractions so you don’t miss a moment of Survivor. Here now, a fall television survival guide:

Find a buddy: Why do we watch TV? To talk about it the next day, of course! Like in college when you’d take classes with a pal and take turns attending so you could exchange notes (which this writer totally never engaged in, just knew people who did), you’ll need a partner through the fall TV season. Shack up with your quirky pals to watch New Girl together or have weekly gatherings to discuss who your favorite contestant is on X Factor. Either way, you can’t do this alone. READ FULL STORY »

Jul 27 2011 05:12 PM ET

'The Walking Dead': Will you still watch now that Frank Darabont has walked away?

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Has The Walking Dead gone brain dead? Fans and critics are sweating the possibility now that Frank Darabont will no longer serve as showrunner of AMC’s hit adaptation of the Robert Kirkman zombie comic. Veteran TV scribe Glen Mazarra (Crash) will succeed Darabont as the drama’s major domo. Theories abound for Darabont’s abrupt departure, from frustration with the exhausting grind of making TV to budget concerns. Regardless, the news has made Walking Dead fandom rather uneasy. One entertainment blogger and fan – in an addendum to a recently posted essay ruminating on the drama’s long-term viability — said: “I think this adds some murkiness to the future and the direction of the show.” Wrote critic Alan Sepinwall of HitFix.com: “I’m a big believer in creative continuity on shows — though at least Robert Kirkman, who writes The Walking Dead comic, is still on staff — and at first glance this certainly doesn’t seem like great news for season 2. But there are too many unknown variables here to say for sure.”  READ FULL STORY »

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