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Margot and Meaks return for Season Two, episode one “What Lies Ahead” and ooo boy are there feelings about Sophia going missing, bad plans, and finally seeing Andrea’s true and golden character. We unpack feelings around motherhood and missing children, while also trying to pay our respects to the art of cutting up walkers so that we know for sure they didn’t eat our friends. But you know what we...

Margot and Meaks talk about the season finale of season one, “TS-19.” We focus a lot on the choice that the writers finally force the characters to make. We also discuss the show’s shitty categorization of suicide as “opting out” and what that means for the treatment of future storylines. We unpack the sacrificial lamb of Jacqui and how they could do her so wrong. And of course, we talk about how...

Margot and Meaks discuss season one, episode five of The Walking Dead   “Wildfire.” We pick apart the different approaches to the treatment of the dead we knew vs. the dead we don’t and also the distinction between dead and walker. We get kind of philosophical about burial rites in general and judge how other people are dealing with it or not. Other tangents include:  Jessica Mitford and Caitlin D...

Meaks and Margot talk about season one, episode four of The Walking Dead   “Vatos.” We discuss the politics of being a good guy or bad guy and how the show attempts to complicate that but yah know, it’s really clunky in this one. We also talk about worlds built on grief and the terror of digging holes. Please don’t dig holes for your own safety. And please, for the love of god, do not quote Faulkn...

Margot and Meaks talk about season one, episode three “Tell it to the Frogs.” This is our first episode with Carol and Daryl and WE. ARE. HERE. FOR. IT. We deep dive into T-Dog’s lack of interiority while we examine one of the big problems of the early seasons of TWD (spoiler: it’s racism). We discuss domestic abuse and how useless cops are, especially in situations in which they feel de-powered a...

Meaks and Margot talk about season one, episode two of The Walking Dead , “Guts.” We spend a lot of time talking about racism (and costume choices) as we unpack Asian and Black stereotypes and what we think The Walking Dead is trying to do with its discussions around race, even if it’s clunky as fuck. Other topics and tangents: sexy scares in an apocalypse, a really muddy Andrea, weapons, walker d...

Our first episode! Meaks and Margot talk about what made them fall in love with The Walking Dead and, in Margot’s case, what made her stop watching and why we’re committed to this re-watch. Tangents and other topics we hit on are: fan fiction, horror, playwriting, copaganda, gender politics, nurses stowing matches in highly-oxygenated environments, the sexiness of Andrew Lincoln and Jon Bernthal,...