By The Lady Cocotte Sometimes The Walking Dead gives us intimate episodes that take place on a single stage. At other times, like tonight, the family is dispersed across the Virginia landscape. There is only one safe haven: the Hilltop. But, to make it there alive, they’ll have to avoid Saviors and walkers along the […]
The Walking Dead: The Lost and the Plunderers
By The Lady Cocotte I’m curious to see how The Walking Dead numbers stack up against the Oscars. Season 8’s ratings haven’t been stellar but I can’t be the only one who chose Rick and Michonne over the Hollywood gala. Right? Last week was intense. Carl is gone. Rick and Michonne’s world will never be […]
The Walking Dead: Honor
By The Lady Cocotte First my vacation interrupted RuPaul’s Drag Race and now it’s getting in the way of The Walking Dead Season 8 mid-season premiere. The beach is great and all but this is getting ridiculous! I’ve been waiting 11 long weeks for tonight and here I am, hamstrung. So, instead of my usual […]
The Walking Dead: How It’s Gotta Be
By The Lady Cocotte Grab your hankies, grab your support animals, grab your vino. You’re going to need them all. The Walking Dead mid-season finale is upon us and it promises to be rough. The Alexandria, Hilltop and Kingdom alliance has been waging war on Negan for what feels like centuries. There have been some […]
The Walking Dead: Time For After
By The Lady Cocotte We’re one episode away from The Walking Dead mid-season finale and things aren’t looking good for the allies. The Scavengers have locked Rick in a shipping container. The Hilltop is full of prisoners. King Ezekiel is a broken man. And some of Rick’s closest friends no longer believe in his plan. […]
The Walking Dead: The King, The Widow and Rick
By The Lady Cocotte After taking a week off to deal with a cold that just won’t die (is this how the zombie apocalypse starts?), I’m back to recap this week’s episode of The Walking Dead. Rick, Michonne, Carol and Maggie use their own version of the Pony Express to share news of their wins […]
The Walking Dead: Some Guy
By The Lady Cocotte Things were going so well for The Walking Dead allies. They’d brought war right to Negan’s doorstep. They’d cleared scores of his outposts. They’d even taken numerous Savior captives. And they did it, as King Ezekiel loudly proclaimed, without losing a single soldier. But endless winning isn’t sustainable. First Aaron lost […]
The Walking Dead: Monsters
By The Lady Cocotte The zombie apocalypse is rough. Add in an unrelenting war and you get Season 8 of The Walking Dead. The allies have made it clear that they’re after Negan and are willing to take out anyone who supports him. But he’s the only one who has to die. They’re not monsters, […]
The Walking Dead: The Damned
By The Lady Cocotte Welcome back to another episode of The Walking Dead. The allied communities of Alexandria, the Hillside and the Kingdom, fed up with living under Negan’s thumb, have declared all out war. In last week’s season premiere, they launched the opening salvo by bringing the fight right to Negan’s doorstep. They offered […]
The Walking Dead Season 8 Premiere: Mercy
By The Lady Cocotte I’ll let you in on a little secret: Christmas is no longer the most wonderful time of the year. These days, that honor goes to the end of October. Why, you ask? Because it brings us The Walking Dead season premiere! That’s right. My friends are back, and this time they’re […]
The Walking Dead: The First Day of the Rest of Your Life
By The Lady Cocotte I can’t believe it’s come to this. The season finale of The Walking Dead? How can that be? It feels like only yesterday that I was counting down to Valentine’s Day so I could see my favorite zombie killers again. A lot happened this season. We started off with a cowering, […]
The Walking Dead: Something They Need
By The Lady Cocotte I can’t believe we’re one week away from The Walking Dead season finale. The first half dragged a bit but since the break it’s been non-stop action. The pace makes sense. They’re under a time crunch. You never know when someone like Negan will kill again so Rick has to get […]
The Walking Dead: The Other Side
By The Lady Cocotte My adrenaline is already pumping because I know it’s time for The Walking Dead. As we near the season finale, and the inevitable showdown with Negan, things are getting crazy. Rick is quietly building his army (with a side of romantic interludes with Michonne). Daryl escaped the Saviors and he’s primed […]
The Walking Dead: Bury Me Here
By The Lady Cocotte I’m a little under the weather but nothing is keeping me from tonight’s episode of The Walking Dead. Carol is coming back! And I don’t mean the I want to be alone Carol. Real Carol. Kick ass Carol. It’s been hard to watch her walk away from her true self but […]
The Walking Dead: Say Yes
By The Lady Cocotte The weekend sure sped by but at least we get a new episode of The Walking Dead to prepare us for the week ahead. The tension keeps building as Rick builds an army to fight Negan. Last week we got to see Eugene’s life at the Sanctuary but tonight we return […]
The Walking Dead: Hostiles and Calamities
By The Lady Cocotte I know I’ve been a little absent in The Walking Dead comment section lately. Life got hectic. Not in the “zombies want to eat you” kind of way but busy nonetheless. I get the whole do your job, put food on your table dynamic but dang! It’s not fun. I want […]
The Walking Dead: New Best Friends
By The Lady Cocotte The Alexandrians are building an army on The Walking Dead. It’s going to take a lot to confront Negan and the first thing on their list is warriors. Despite Gregory’s insistence that Hilltop not get involved, loyalty has shifted to Maggie and the gentle “sorghum farmers” pledge to follow her to […]
The Walking Dead: Rock In The Road
By The Lady Cocotte After a long winter break, the mid-season premiere of The Walking Dead is really here! The first half of the season was undeniably rough. The Alexandrians lost everything: their friends, their power and their will to fight. But tonight is when they turn all of that around and start kicking some […]
Catch Up Before Sunday’s Mid-Season Premiere of The Walking Dead
By The Lady Cocotte For some people, Valentine’s Day is all about flowers and chocolate. Me? I just want zombies. Well, I’m a lucky girl because it’s finally time for The Walking Dead mid-season premiere! To celebrate, AMC is running a marathon to get you prepped for Sunday. Or you can just reread the “best […]
The Walking Dead: Hearts Still Beating
By The Lady Cocotte No matter how much I pretend it’s not the mid-season finale of The Walking Dead, I can’t avoid it any longer. It’s really here. This whole season has been about surviving Negan. Some people will do anything to avoid his anger, others want to fight him, but they’re all his prisoners […]
The Walking Dead: Sing Me A Song
By The Lady Cocotte Things are ramping up in Alexandria as we near the mid-season finale of The Walking Dead (TWD-minus one week). Tara came home without Heath to find out her girlfriend (Dr Denise) and best friend (Glenn) were murdered by the Saviors. The Alexandrians must toe-the-line in order to keep Negan from killing […]
The Walking Dead: Swear
By The Lady Cocotte There’s been so much going on in The Walking Dead universe this season that I completely forgot we have some people unaccounted for. Last season, after the Alexandrians took out the Savior bunker (and thought they’d taken care of their Negan problem), Tara and Heath left on a scavenger mission. […]
The Walking Dead: Go Getters
By The Lady Cocotte Get your red-handled machete and katana sword ready, it’s time for another episode of The Walking Dead! Our group of resolute walker killers have become a little fractured this season. While Carol and Morgan are living the high life in the Kingdom (or, in Carol’s case, there but not there), […]
The Walking Dead: Service
By The Lady Cocotte It’s certainly been an emotional season of The Walking Dead so far. Last week we got to experience a little taste of life at the Savior’s sanctuary. Dwight was seemingly enjoying life as a big shot but we eventually discovered it was all a facade. Negan stole his wife and continually […]
The Walking Dead: The Cell
By The Lady Cocotte After a traumatic season premiere of the Walking Dead, last week was a breath of fresh air. We followed Carol and Morgan to the Kingdom and were introduced to King Ezekiel and his pet tiger Shiva. It felt good to smile again. And hope. Hope felt good. Well, tonight we […]
The Walking Dead Recap: The Well
By The Lady Cocotte I know a lot of you were seriously traumatized after last week’s The Walking Dead. It was a rough one. Probably the most brutal episode we’ve seen. Rick and his crew were broken, literally and figuratively. Those of us along for the ride were collateral damage. But there’s always hope. Hope […]
The Walking Dead: The Day Will Come When You Won’t Be
By The Lady Cocotte It felt like an eternity but it’s finally time for The Walking Dead season 7 premiere! The last we saw the Alexandrians, they had been captured by the Saviors, forced to kneel in front of Negan (that’s kind of his thing) and been informed they now worked for him. To […]
The Walking Dead Premiere You’ve All Been Waiting For Is Tonight!
It’s finally time for season seven of The Walking Dead! All of you, um, dead heads?, are dying to know who is going to die. That makes it a very good time to read back through the recaps from last season for clues and to refresh your memory. We haven’t had an episode since April! […]
The Walking Dead recap: Last Day on Earth
By Contributing Writer, The Lady Cocotte This is it. Now matter how much I’ve tried to pretend it’s not true, tonight really is the season finale of The Walking Dead. When Rick decided to start butchering Saviors, Maggie warned him it was going to cost something. Tonight is when they start paying, in blood. […]
The Walking Dead Recap: East
By Contributing Writer, The Lady Cocotte Easter Sunday seems like a fitting time for a new episode of The Walking Dead (what with all the resurrection and everything). Last week Carol left Tobin (and all of Alexandria, really) a Dear John letter as she fled town. Before her escape is noticed, it seems like […]
The Walking Dead Recap: Twice As Far
By Contributing Writer, Lady Cocotte As we near the season finale of The Walking Dead, tension is ramping up. The Alexandrians survived their attack on the Saviors. Carol and Maggie fought their way back home. Things have gone back to normal. People are back to their daily grind. Olivia open the supply shed. Father Gabriel […]
The Walking Dead Recap: The Same Boat
By Contributing Writer Lady Cocotte Last week The Walking Dead ended on quite a cliffhanger. The Alexandrians’ victory party over the Saviors was rudely interrupted when they found out that a) they didn’t get ALL of the Saviors and b) those remaining Saviors had taken Maggie and Carol hostage. Big oops. Tonight we backtrack to […]
The Walking Dead Recap: Not Tomorrow Yet
By Contributing Writer Lady Cocotte Desperate housewife Carol has made a reappearance on The Walking Dead. Blissfully unaware of Rick and Maggie’s promise to kill Negan and the Saviors, she shops for food items no one else wants (water chestnuts, beets, etc). She collects acorns in the forest and tut tuts the walker blood on […]