Reanimated Podcast

Fear the Walking Dead started to claw its way back from a handful of bad episodes in the post-John Dorie era with “The Holding,” only to sink to new lows with “In Dreams.” Do people legitimately enjoy episodes of television that lean this heavily on dream sequences?

Reanimated digs deep to find Grace. No not her, inner peace. This show tries our patience but Ruben Blades is a treasure.

"Things Left to Do" only managed to leave a bad taste in Reanimated's collective mouths.

Strong start to the second half of season 6! Lots of spoilers in this podcast recap, so caveat emptor

Negan goes through several hair iterations and some beard dye in the actual season ender for S10 of TWD prime. Additionally, Reanimated addresses our own rosey-by-comparison review of the previous episode “Diverged”, the question of the Walking Dead’s timeline that is raised in this season finale and the enjoyable presence of a very unexpected cast member in the episode. All that and more!

Carol and Daryl work out some of their issues in this exploration of their terrible, horrible, very bad no good days.

The extended season is going four for four so far with the addition of “Splinter” which puts Princess in the hot seat and actor Paola Lázaro brings the heat!

Episode 18 of this season is One More which more or less serves as a vehicle to highlight how great two regular cast members are (but who get nowhere near enough credit or time on screen). Seth Gilliam and Ross Marquand put up great performances here and get to play against Robert Patrick to great effect! Awesome episode, listen on for our spoiler-full recap.

Daryl and Carol have some long-overdue discussions in this episode of The Walking Dead and we see how Daryl was living not his best life out in the woods for a few years after Rick’s disappearance. Also we get a sneak peak into how Daryl courts women in the zombocalypse by throwing fish at their front door from 20 feet away. Pretty sweet honestly.

Exit Humanity blew our minds this week by making its two hour runtime feel like much, much longer! Its savings graces came in the form of the beautiful locations, occasionally good cinematography and music.

It’s been a few, but we’re back this week with a recap/review of Train to Busan Presents: Peninsula. We also briefly talk over Deadlocked, which we had recorded but in the grand tradition of our podcast, we lost the audio, adding to our lengthy absence. Listen on!

This cabin-in-the-woods style zombie creature feature owes a lot to other properties, but it's still a good enough time to be worth the watch.

Wow.

It was time to watch Zombi Child on Reanimated this week. The French film is definitely not a genre zombie movie. It plays around with voodoo zombies but most of the running time is spent on the malaise of teenage girls who can’t even at their prestigious boarding school.

Alone was on the menu for Reanimated this week and the gang talked about how the American zombie film measures up against the Korean #Alive, based on the same storyline. One of these was definitely better than the other! Listen on for our hot takes.

Reanimated wrapped up the abridged Season 6A from FTWD this week and I think we’re relatively happy with where the show has gone so far this season. That doesn’t stop us from gabbing about it, however. Join us!

In the Fear episode Alaska, Reanimated comes to the conclusion that we basically like Althea whenever she stops talking about journalism.

Why does Fear the Walking Dead feel like 100% a different universe from World Beyond? Could it be as simple as YA vs grown ups? A different writers room? Whatever it is, this show is better.

Reanimated got a little ranty on the podcast this week as they suffered through the poorly thought-out season one finale for the TWD spin-off. There were some glimmers and silver linings in the shape of the character Elton, and Felix has a lot of upside, but, despite the best efforts of the cast, the story is just not carrying the show.

After a glitch that cost us another irreplaceable episode of the the podcast, Reanimated rallied and recorded a make up this fine day with three recaps of World Beyond, summarizing much of the sordid details of the saga of Tony and Percy. Follow along gentle listeners!

The Madman Across the Water tried our patience at Reanimated last week on The World Beyond. The drip-drip approach to unveiling the dramatic tension between Elton and Hope is painfully slow and seems to underscore that the show has very little to say about these characters beyond their individual traumatic background flashbacks. At the same time, the overarching plot of walking from Nebraska to Ne...

Reanimated still has reservations about TWB. The Blaze of Gory was a lengthy distraction, but the Wrong End of the Telescope did at least play with some interesting cinematography. The characters are developing, but occasionally in a fashion that feels hamfisted. In a society that is traumatized this year, a show about kids dealing with trauma could be good, but will it be?

Jury’s still out on this show for Reanimated but first two episodes are out and we’re committed.

Perhaps there was no way for this finale to rise to the challenge of the extended delay and Reanimated’s own internal hype, but we couldn’t help but walk away from this one a little deflated. Sure, it wrapped up one big arc and replaced it with another and we appreciated that, but some notes just didn’t work as well as we would have hoped.