Reanimated Podcast

Episode 236: The Driver

While it’s not in the same horror league as “Dead Earth,” “The Driver” still manages to entertain once you get past the first act. Once the film settles down into a “Cargo” meets “Thelma and Louise”-style road trip movie, the Dacascoses do great work together. Taken together, these two are part of a cool continuum and Reanimated looks forward to more zombie fare from Wych Kaosayananda.

Episode 235: Dead Earth

Our first Thai zombie movie is a steamy slow burn for Reanimated this week. The pros of great attention to zombie survival details are diminished slightly by the choice of set, but the production turns around a fun zombie flick nonetheless.

Episode 234: ZOMBOAT! S1E4-6

Reanimated packs up ZOMBOAT! into the canalbarge and bids it bon voyage down river towards whatever fate lies in in or well before Milton Keynes.

Episode 233: ZOMBOAT! S1E1-3

Reanimated boards the ZOMBOAT! for some hilarious hi-jinks and the right kinds of fan service.

Episode 232: TWD S9 E15-16

The season ends with both a bang and then a whimper after Alpha strikes and the heroes are left picking up the pieces.

Episode 231: TWD S9E13-14

Chokepoint and Scars are two very enjoyable episodes that bring us closer to the nutso finale of the season. Strap in!

Episode 230: TWD S9E11-12

Ryan Hurst's Beta shows up in this episode and scares the bejeesus out of everybody.

Episode 229: TWD S98E9-10

Samantha Morton makes her debut as Alpha in this pair of episodes that plunge us further into the new big bad faction of the Walking Dead.

Episode 228: TWD S9E7-8

A solid outing from Season 9 lets us get to know the 'new guys' and takes us in for a closer look at the Whisperers.

Episode 227: TWD S9E5-6

The Walking Dead makes some big changes in these two episodes, setting the groundwork for some good story telling.

Episode 226: TWD S9E3-4

Season 9 continues as just the ticket to reinvigorate the flagging confidence after Fear the Walking Dead. Angela Kang is changing up the pacing of the meta season story arc and while it can seem accelerated, overall it’s still a good thing.

Episode 225: TWD S9E1-2

It’s good to be back in a well-made season of TWD, putting Fear S5 behind us and the endless war between Rick and the Saviors. But it’s not all rainbows and puppers for the gang. Join us on Reanimated as we delve into Season 9.

Episode 224: I Am Alone

Survivor Man meets Blair Witch meets zombies. This movie is based on a good recipe and does its darndest, but can quite make it work.

Episode 223: Zombieland: Double Tap

Episode 222: Little Monsters

A successful zombie comedy! Though it will not replace Shaun of the Dead in H.A.'s heart, it tickles Reanimated in almost all the right places.

Episode 221: FTWD S5:E16

Virginia and her cowboys remain a large unknown, but not in a cool, mysterious way. More in a "we haven't bothered to flesh them out yet" way. Next season is set up to be a long slog with the giant, bloated cast split up in separate camps. Morgan might be dead. I wish he was dead, but the show lacked the balls to finish him off and might swoop in.

Episode 220: FTWD S5:E13-15

Morgan and his group are now the most heavily armed pacifists since Switzerland.

Episode 219: FTWD S5:E11-12

Despite the addition of a couple of new characters with good performances and possibly interesting backstories, these two episodes are stinkers. The cast is definitely feeling bloated, the stakes are feeling too low and what drama there is is feeling manufactured. Only a handful of episodes remain to turn the season around.

Episode 218: FTWD S5:E9-10

A seriously disappointing start to the midseason with the showrunners doubling down on Al's camera fixation to help tell a ridiculous story of a guy who puts landmines all around his house, but never tells his family where they are. Also, Morgan and Grace are going to be a thing, but first we'll have to suffer through Morgan getting over his wife and child being dead since season 1 of TWD. Not to suggest that such a loss would be easy, ever, but Morgan has literally seen and been a part of the deaths of like 300 living people by this point on the story, so...

Episode 217: Dead Trigger

In truth, the less said about Dead Trigger, the direct to VOD Doplh Lundgren zombie flick, the better. However, Reanimated couldn’t leave well enough alone and waded in. Don’t be like us.

Episode 216: FTWD S5:E7-8

FTWD Season 5A wrapped up a week back and Reanimated is pretty ok with how things are working out. Sure the show still suffers from 500% too much walkie talkie and these last two episodes also tended to allow blubbery dialog to take priority over a nuclear meltdown, but hey, at least they’re going to totally deal with the radioactive threat without pulling any punches! … Oh… wait, mm hmm, ok, I’m being told that they seem to be totally downplaying elements of the radioactive threat including Alicia drinking radioactive zombie blood and Morgan’s tainted stick. Whatever!

Episode 215: FTWD S5:E5-6

Al finds her soulmate, and maybe learns to stop filming everything (cross your fingers). Then the gang decides to build an airplane, because you know, they can!

Episode 214: FTWD S5E3-4

Reanimated says Bah Humbug to some over the top elements in these two episodes but we're still here for FTWD.

Episode 213: FTWD S5E1-2

FTWD launches this season with a new mission, some determined heroes, big set pieces and still some characters determined to make poor decisions.

Episode 212: The Dead Don’t Die

Episode 211: Zombie (1979)

Episode 210: Planet Terror

Planet Terror

Episode 209: Daylight’s End

Sigh. It's got some fun bits.

Episode 208: Black Summer S1E7-8

Reanimated finished up the first season of Black Summer hoping that more will be coming down the pike.

Episode 207: Black Summer S1E5-6 + bonus Battle of Winterfell discussion!

We passed the halfway mark in Black Summer on this podcast, with episodes Diner and The Heist which were pretty darn strong. Reanimated also chatted about the battle for Winterfell in “The Long Night” episode of Game of Thrones which aired a week ago, so as always watch out for spoilers.One of the best articles we read on the topic of the battle of Winterfell was this one from Wired magazine of all unlikely sources: https://www.wired.com/story/game-of-thrones-winterfell-battle-tactical-analysis/

Episode 206: Black Summer S1E3-4

Black Summer continues with some Lord of the Flies action and an episode that makes me tired just watching it. Hats off to Lance. But right after saluting him, we'd slap him in his dumb face for making so many zombie survival mistakes. But then we'd shake his hand and he'd be very confused.

Episode 205: Black Summer S1E1-2

Reanimted devoured the first two episodes of Black Summer in this edition of the podcast.

Episode 204: Outpost

Reanimated took a questionable break from all the great zombie content coming out right now to look at Outpost. Look we're not perfect. And neither was Outpost.

Episode 203: Rampant

Reanimated is becoming well-versed in Joseon at this point, heading to 17th Century Korea for Rampant in this episode.

Episode 202: The Passage S1:E4-10

Reanimated recaps 7 episodes of The Passage, putting a stake through the sweet spot of Season 1 of the adapted series from Justin Cronin's novels.

Episode 201: Anna and the Apocalypse

T’was the season!
Reanimated is tapping its toes and humming along after reviewing Anna and the Apocalypse.
NEWS!
Casting news at FTWD!
https://comicbook.com/thewalkingdead/2019/03/07/fear-the-walking-dead-adds-series-regular-new-character-once-upon-a-time-karen-david/
Look where you’re going! Or just look at the floor.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/tel-aviv-trials-zombie-traffic-lights-to-save-smartphone-users-from-themselves/
Josh Gad, Lupita Nyongo, zombies and adorable children in Little Monsters!
http://launch.theaureview.com/watch/film/sxsw-film-review-little-monsters-australia-2019-proves-an-instant-classic-of-the-zombie-comedy-genre/

Episode 200: Kingdom S1E5-6 Hot Dog!

Episode 198: Kingdom S1E1-2

Episode 197: The Passage S1E3 - That Never Should Have Happened to You

Episode 196: The Passage S1E1-2

Episode 195: TWD S8E14-16 done!

Episode 194: TWD S8E11-13

Episode 193: TWD S8E7-10

Episode 192: TWD S8E5-6

Six episodes into Season 8, the days seem shorter, the nights, colder. Oh it's winter. But still, there's something off.

Episode 191: TWD S8E3-4

Episode 190: TWD S8E1-2

This is our penance. We must recap Season 8 of The Walking Dead so that we might never have to watch it again. We do this so others don't have to.

Episode 189: The Night Eats the World

Episode 188: Night of the Comet (1984)

Episode 187: Overlord

Episode 186: Mayhem

Episode 185: It Stains the Sands Red

Episode 184: Patient Zero

Episode 183: FTWD S4:E16 ... I lose myself

Episode 182: FTWD S4:E15 I Lose People...

It has some frustrating parts but the penultimate episode for Fear the Walking Dead also managed to get some laughs.

Episode 181: FTWD S4:E13-14

Episode 180: FTWD S4:E9-12

Episode 179: Freakish S1:E5-10

Episode 178: Freakish S1:E1-4

Episode 177: The Cured (2017)

Episode 176: FTWD S4E7-8 - mid season finale

Episode 175: FTWD S4E5-6

Continuing to hammer our way through the pre-mid-season of Fear the Walking Dead, Reanimated gets through a couple of winners with "Laura" and "Just in Case."

Episode 174: FTWD S4E3-4

Shame about the heavy use of flashbacks in these episodes and HA manages to avoid all the spoilers about Nick somehow.

Episode 173: FTWD S4E1-2

Episode 172: Ravenous

Episode 171: Cargo

Episode 170: Mom and Dad

What a disturbing and yet frothy film. Mom and Dad isn't much of a horror film, but it's got most of the required bits, Reanimated thoroughly enjoyed this one.

Episode 169: TWD S7E13-16

Episode 168: TWD S7E11-12

Episode 167: TWD S7E9-10

Episode 166: TWD S7E7-8

Episode 165: TWD S7E5-6

Episode 164: The Walking Dead Season 7 Episodes: 3-4

Episode 163: The Walking Dead Season 7 Episodes 1-2

Episode 162: Contracted

Episode 161: Pandemic

Episode 160: Day of the Dead: Bloodlines

Episode 159: Rise of the Zombie

Episode 158: Death Valley - the entire series

Episode 157: What We Become

Episode 156: Viral

Come for the podcast, stay for the ear worms.

Episode 155: FTWD S3 finale

Reanimated wraps up the last 2+ hours of FTWD. There are some issues, but overall the strongest total season of the show.

Episode 154: FTWD S3

"This Land is Your Land" is a brutal episode of FTWD. We take a look at the way it played out. It was pretty good, definitely left a mark but managed to feature a stupidly long crawl through an air vent that defied belief.

Episode 153: FTWD S3

Episode 152: FTWD S3

Lots of relationships are put through stress in Episode 12 of Season 3 of FTWD. Walker comes out looking pretty jerky. It's not an action-packed episode but there's a lot of good dialog and character development.

Episode 151: FTWD S3

It's been a long doldrums of summer, but we're back with coverage of FTWD!

Episode 150: Here Alone

This one really had an impact on our brave team of recappers. Babies, man. Babies.

Episode 149: Resident Evil Retribution

This is a short recap/review of Resident Evil: Retribution. Short because it's pretty lousy and we mostly talked about GoT and the recent deaths of two men in the zombie movie and TV business.

Episode 148: FTWD S3: mid season finale

The finale of Fear the Walking Dead had its share of weak spots, but overall we've been treated to a superior run of episodes from the Walking Dead spin-off.

Episode 147: FTWD S3

Reanimated was split on Red Dirt - some of us are sick and tired of a truly played out trope of cowboys vs. indians, while others applauded the plot's focus and character development, despite some poor decisions being made. It's zombie-lite but Red Dirt continues season three's attempt to turn the show around for the diminishing audience.

Episode 146: FTWD S3

We attempt to keep pace with the complex quilt of narrative in this episode of Fear The Walking Dead, but it's some tough going.

Episode 145: FTWD S3

Reanimated went back to remedial Spanish classes for the most recent episode of FTWD entitled "100." The show packs a lot of good stuff into a tight little story arc in this one and it's good to be reunited with our favorite Central American hitman/torturer. We also had a chuckle at the expense of the gushiest articles about FTWD courtesy Forbes.

Episode 144: FTWD S3

Lots of interesting developments back at Broke Jaw in episode 3 this week on Reanimated. Meanwhile, things aren't looking good for Strand with his frenemy Dante.

Episode 143: FTWD S3

We jump fresh from the end of our recap of season 6 of TWD into the new season of FTWD. Watch out for all the spoilers, because it's basically just a big bucket of spoilers, but hey we gotta cope somehow. Listen along to join in the group therapy.

Episode 142: TWD S6 Finale

Thank the maker, it's over. It's finally over. Now we can look forward to Fear the Walking Dead Season 3. I can't wait to see what sort of fun adventures Travis gets up to, as well as the rest of the gang, but mostly Travis - he's the best.

Episode 141: TWD S6

Alicia Witt heads up a crack team of saviors and then we're treated to a parallel tale of the two biggest chickens in Alexandria in these two fun episodes.

Episode 140: TWD S6

We get to start growing the world with a visit to Hilltop and then go on a crazy murder spree at the Satellite Station in these two episodes of The Walking Dead this time on Reanimated.

Episode 139: TWD S6

On Reanimated 139 we recapped the mid season premiere of S6, No Way Out, as well as the feel-good The Next World. One good thing about No Way Out - we basically never spend another second of this show or storyline thinking about Pete, Jessie, Ron or Sam, Alexandria's doomed family. A lot of people liked The Next World, but we pan it for being too floofy.

Episode 138: TWD S6

Glenn's miraculous survival is undermined by dull conversations with angsty teenager Enid, the walls fall down and nothing is looking good for Alexandria.

Episode 137: TWD S6

Alexandria deals with being surrounded by walkers and unlikely romances are kindled this time around on TWD.

Episode 136: TWD S6

Who put Nicholas in charge of getting everyone home safe? RIP