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 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 […]
The Walking Dead Recap: Knots Untie
By Guest Contributor The Lady Cocotte On last week’s The Walking Dead, Jesus rudely interrupted Rick and Michonne’s post-coital snuggling. What kind of damage will he inflict tonight? He wanders around Rick’s house, touching stuff. He takes a moment to ponder some art and Carl points a gun at his head. “What the hell are […]
The Walking Dead Recap: The Next World
By Contributing Writer, Lady Cocotte In my household, Sunday means one thing: a new episode of The Walking Dead! After last week’s rip roaring mid-season premiere I’m dying to see where they take us tonight. We start off at Rick’s house. Rick is getting suited up. Judith is playing. Michonne, in a towel and robe, […]