BEYOND The Walking Dead Universe we go (again), as we discuss the pilot of Amazon Prime's Fallout! The most notable takeaways are how the Fallout universe was on the verge of becoming The Jetsons until the nukes went off and it's evident by way of the most informationally dense first 15 minutes we've ever consumed in a television series. We're extr…

It's been a week since The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live's season(/series?) finale dropped: we took our time to isolate the full spectrum of our impressions on the conclusion to Rick & Michonne's fraught journey. Even if you had issues with Richonne's #TWDfamily reunion with RJ & Judith Grimes, the people have spoken in the form of chart-topping …

We always say The Walking Dead Universe allows you to be the person you were meant to be. This episode spotlights what The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live has been trying to show us the entire time: The Walking Dead Universe allows couples to Become what they were meant to be, too, in all their unique forms. Jadis had her day and - with the help of…

⚠️This is SIDE A of our double-sided podcast collaboration with The Ones Who Live - a TWD Podcast. To flip over to SIDE B, tap one (or both) of the following links: YouTube: https://youtu.be/j6CfeDaSeAk Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/1772vUlEf5ooGVPGZuvxQ8?si=fH4KyfNSTR-5qX30dDWT-w Save for Sherrandy, this episode might be more than just…

"Is it still him?" We dive a little deeper to answer that question as Michonne beats Rick Grimes' kill-count record, setting alarm bells across the panel. Maybe Jadis/Warrant Officer Anne Stokes was right, though: Maybe Richonne can do anything? 📰FULL Episode Highlights and all embedded content available here: https://blog.squawkingdead.com/2024/03…

We jump into this episode right where Michonne left us on The Walking Dead 10x13, What We Become. She cuts a bloody path to Rick Grimes, just shy of killing him. But is it still him? And was it a good move for him to bring her back to the Civic Republic (Military)? 📰FULL Episode Highlights and all embedded content available here: https://blog.squaw…

It's late in coming (because of all the wonderful content we've been able to get you this week), but chock full of insights and funny, our full episode breakdown of The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live is finally here! All in all, we focus more on each character's intentions, real or imagined (on our part). More than anything else, we drew many line…

We teased a little of this in our featurette: we're reacting to The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live advanced screening and Q&A at the Kaufmann Theater hosted by the 92nd Street Y moderated by Dalton Ross featuring Andrew Lincoln, Danai Gurira, and Scott M. Gimple. 📰FULL Episode Highlights and all embedded content available here: https://blog.squawk…

We've waited for this moment for the better part of 6 YEARS: about as long as the actual time jump that occurred The Walking Dead episode 9x05. The premiere doesn't waste time answering a myriad of questions we've all had throughout the years and rewards hardcore #TWDUniverse fans multiple times over. BUT WE WANT TO KNOW WHAT YOU THINK! 📰FULL Episo…

Originally Recorded 2023.05.02 With the Series Finale of Fear The Walking Dead months behind us, it's kind of serendipitous that we never got around to actually releasing our 7 favorite moments from the show (representing the first 7 seasons, prior to Season 8). The intention was the same - highlighting our favorite moments of FearTWD amidst the fi…

I used to say that Fear The Walking Dead was a completely different show than The Walking Dead, but that's not accurate. Though the characters and setting are different (and there's no source material to draw upon), it's still about balancing pragmatism with Tikkun Olam (fixing/building a better world). As we say goodbye to the series that has brou…

Just before our livestream discussing the series finale of Fear The Walking Dead, Sherrandy arranged a surprise guest for us! From Camera Operator to Director of Photography to full-blown Director on The Walking Dead to suddenly becoming Executive Producer/Director on Fear The Walking Dead, Michael Satrazemis not only took the time to bring us back…

Second Chances, Make it Mean Something, and Something Good Out of Something Bad. Every prior episode's theme is carried over into the next episode and, in this one, the only words that seem to remain present in my mind are Troy Otto's at the end of episode 7, Anton, what are you even fighting for? Perhaps the truth really does lie somewhere in betw…

Everything gets a return -- Every character in this episode is connected and violently confronted by the same trauma that's plagued them from the beginning of their arduous journey; but it takes the next generation - who crystalizes any possible hope for the future - to finally push them over that seemingly insurmountable hump. 📰FULL Episode Highli…

From Assistant Editor - both prior to joining Fear The Walking Dead and on the first few seasons - to quickly establishing himself as Editor, maintaining that position for the past several years, then finally directing his first episode (8x09, Sanctuary): we discuss Phil McLaughlin's journey, vantage points (as both editor and director) in the edit…

Fear The Walking Dead pushes the envelope, continuing the theme of second chances from the previous episode, by giving us yet another long awaited - yet unanticipated - reunion between Madison Clark and Charlie. An expression we haven't used in a while, with respect to Fear The Walking Dead, bears repeating: you may not get what you want, but you'l…

The reunion between Madison Clark and Victor Strand -- whoops, I mean Anton -- didn't go as smoothly as most of us would've hoped. Victor fulfilled Alicia Clark's wishes the only way he knew how: by burying his past and himself for the last 7+ years. But what will Madison do as a result of Troy Otto exhuming all her skeletons? 📰FULL Episode Highlig…

Surrprise! We LIVESTREAMED all #TWDUniverse news coming out of #NYCC! Bridget was on site while Dave reported on what was happening and received your reactions. This is a condensed version of that livestream for your audible enjoyment. 📰FULL Episode Highlights and all embedded content available here:https://blog.squawkingdead.com/2023/10/twd-new-yo…

If home is where the heart is, what happens when your heart is torn in two? There's breaking the cycle (of melodrama) and completing a long broken circle in the Dixon line. Where Daryl Dixon goes from here is anyone's guess! 📰FULL Episode Highlights and all embedded content available here: https://blog.squawkingdead.com/2023/10/coming-home-season-o…

Enter into a covenant with us by following us or subscribing to our content as we witness a whole new dimension of Daryl Dixon that had us "shooketh". Quinn is gross... maybe. RIP Azlan: you were endearing... definitely. And, wuh oh, that walker is the most dangerous variant we've seen in #twduniverse... 📰FULL Episode Highlights and all embedded co…

We continue to gain forward momentum as we take an uncharted voyage into Daryl Dixon's psyche while Isabelle prepares to, yet again, martyr herself to protect both her little messiah, Laurent, and her unflinching protector. 📰FULL Episode Highlights and all embedded content available here: https://blog.squawkingdead.com/2023/10/la-dame-de-fer-1x04-w…

As things start to pick up, the dots are starting to connect more: Isabelle's past threatens everyone's future; Laurent is coming into his perceived role in the Zombie Apocalypse; Sylvie might not be the bad-ass we thought she might be; Stéphane Codron finds his man; Genet's and Pouvoir Des Vivants might be trying to END walkers(?); and all their j…

The second installment of TWD: Daryl Dixon rolls on with some emotional development: assessing the value of "hope", sure, but mostly the weight/cost of promises broken. RJ Gaines from Giddings, Texas - the Lonestar State - is the MVP of this episode, followed by Mork & Mindy, with all the ways the latter is deeply intertwined with this particular e…

TWD Universe continues it's season of spin-offs with the long-awaited The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon, which has already pleasantly surprised skeptics and is already heartily filling the vacuum that was left behind since the flagship series had its finale almost a year ago. We can already tell that Daryl Dixon's journey through France will be one to …

Originally Recorded: 2023.05.27 Ethan McDowell & Robert Hayes played two members of The Reapers on The Walking Dead: Ira Washington & Paul Wells, respectively. Along with telling us stories from their time on set of #TWD, they offered up perspective on their characters' storylines and even had the opportunity to take us to space (current projects).…

Originally Recorded: 2023.05.27 Rachael & Sherrandy sit down with the ladies from (more than just) Fear The Walking Dead! We find out things like Mo Collins' porn name and, for someone who was on a horse a lot, Colby Minifie only had 45 minutes of horse training! So let's get a little philosophical (fart)? 🎭 Mo Collins https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0…

Originally Recorded 2023.07.23 "We are home" …if it's where the heart is, are we really? Our experience has altered our sense of what home really means. Was it ever a home to begin with? Meanwhile, our antagonists are setting the stage for war. 📰FULL Episode Highlights and all embedded content available here: https://blog.squawkingdead.com/2023/08/…

Even though our discussion on The Walking Dead: Dead City's Season finale, Doma Smo, will be delayed by two weeks, you can still listen to the original livestreamed recording, right now, by heading to the following playlist (containing both PART A, the disrupted livestream, and PART B, the remaining conversation): https://www.youtube.com/playlist?l…

We jumped on-stream, live, to aggregate the news coming out of San Diego Comic Con, as it pertains to The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live (AKA #RICHONNE / Summit / Rick & Michonne), The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon, and sneak peeks into the remaining episodes of Fear The Walking Dead. 📰FULL Episode Highlights and all embedded content available here: T…

"I'm doing the right thing." Clinical narcissism isn't self obsession; it's the reliance we have on an image we've constructed of ourselves that we show the world and believe in. It's what we all do, to varying degrees, to get by. What can happens when someone shows us our own self-image is false? 📰FULL Episode Highlights and all embedded content a…

neGAAAAN! You & Maggie have lossa `splainin to do! The Croat finally encounters his buraz, Negan, and it doesn't go quite the way everyone thinks! Maggie spots Ginny and chooses to stay and fight with she and The Tribespeople over ditching them for Hershel. 📰FULL Episode Highlights and all embedded content available here: https://blog.squawkingdead…

Santa's going to have a tough time figuring out, relatively speaking of course, who's been naughty or nice! As more of The Croat's origin is revealed amidst Marshall Pearlie Armstrong cracking, Maggie Rhee might slowly be breaking bad while Negan is doing his darndest not to ... Negan. 📰FULL Episode Highlights and all embedded content available her…

GREAT QUESTION! Is it merely a matter of old habits dying hard or an instinct that's always there, waiting in the wings, to find an avenue? How far does one have to go to protect someone before it incurs a cost? 📰FULL Episode Highlights and all embedded content available here: https://blog.squawkingdead.com/2023/07/whos-there-1x02-walking-dead-dead…

Under the guise of a livestream, we surprised our co-host, Rachael, with a special early birthday tribute (from #TWDFamily). With special appearances by Colby Minifie & Jenna Elfman. ⭐ RATE US: RateThisPodcast.com/SQUAWKINGDEAD 🙏 SUPPORT US: Ko-fi.com/SQUAWKINGDEAD or Patreon.com/SQUAWKINGDEAD 🏃‍♂️ FOLLOW US (+more): SQUAWKINGDEAD.com --- Send in a…

Who is the good/bad guy? Far from being friends, Maggie Rhee & Negan bind their fates - by way of mutually assured destruction - in order to rescue Hershel Rhee from the clutches of The Croat, whilst Marshall Pearlie Armstrong of The New Babylon Federation wreak Tranquilitas Ordinis along the way. 📰FULL Episode Highlights and all embedded content a…

What this episode does well is gather all of the narrative breadcrumbs that were dropped in previous episodes and, along with the repeating theme of parents losing children losing parents, brings them all full circle to an unexpectedly powerful crescendo. Morgan Jones, we're not losing you: we're taking you with us, no matter how far you sojourn. Y…

This episode takes a scenic route to get to what was ultimately a heart-rendering, beautifully-filmed episode. Grace Mukherjee/Karen David will be missed, Baby Mo/Zoey Merchant is killing it, and the show may reveal how many layers of Morgan Jones we can peel back before he starts seeing red. 📰FULL Episode Highlights and all embedded content availa…

This episode is supremely satisfying in ways we couldn't expect. Fear The Walking Dead raises The Walking Dead in order to construct one of Season 8's best episodes, thus far, by taking Morgan Jones' family back to where The Walking Dead UNIVERSE (and his own personal tragedy) started. 📰FULL Episode Highlights and all embedded content available her…

Originally Recorded: 2023.04.03 Including your own submissions: Rachael, Sherrandy, and Bridget discuss the TOP 7 Saddest Moments on #FearTWD! 📰FULL Episode Highlights and all embedded content available here: https://blog.squawkingdead.com/2023/07/fear-walking-dead-top-7-saddest-moments.html 🛑STOP LISTENING and immediately stream the 🎬UNEDITED vers…

PADRE is a LIE! …or is it? The show not only finally reunites Daniel Salazar with both June Dorie & Madison Clark, but takes a peek behind Oz's curtain on PADRE's nouveau raison d'être - and I get the feeling some of you might think the means might justify the ends. 📰FULL Episode Highlights and all embedded content available here: https://blog.squa…

We've gone through the one-way mirror and peered through the other side of where #JuneDorie is, right now, and - not gonna lie - it's dark in here. #FearTheWalkingDead is taking a potential gamble with some subplots revealed in this episode and we are eager to see how this is going to play out. 📰FULL Episode Highlights and all embedded content avai…

The Drab 4 reunite, under duress, to discuss #FearTheWalkingDead's #SeasonPremiere of it's 8th and final season. It is definitely not roses in SDHQ, as hosts are split about how enjoyable this episode of #FTWD actually was. With so much pressure for #IanGoldberg & #AndrewChambliss to stick the landing, is it any wonder why tensions are riding high?…

Originally Recorded: 2023.03.31 Including your submissions: Rachael, Sherrandy, and Bridget discuss the TOP 5 Most Beloved Characters on #FearTWD! 📰FULL Episode Highlights and all embedded content available here: https://blog.squawkingdead.com/2023/05/fear-walking-dead-top-5-favorite.html 🤣 As a goofy companion to this episode, stream the parts tha…

Originally Recorded 2022.12.05 Including your submissions (which MAJORLY overlapped with many of theirs): Rachael, Sherrandy, and Bridget discuss the TOP 5 WORST Characters of The Walking Dead! 📰FULL Episode Highlights and all embedded content available here: https://blog.squawkingdead.com/2023/04/the-walking-deads-top-5-worst-characters.html 🛑STOP…

Originally Recorded: 2022.12.05 Including your submissions (which overlapped with many of theirs): Rachael, Sherrandy, and Bridget discuss their TOP 5 favorite episodes of The Walking Dead! 📰FULL Episode Highlights and all embedded content available here: https://blog.squawkingdead.com/2023/04/the-walking-deads-top-5-best-episodes.html 🛑STOP LISTEN…

Missed our last podcast, where we broke the news coming out of 2023's Wonder Con Panels (both The Walking Dead: Dead City and, more specifically, Fear The Walking Dead's 8th Season)? We jump back into the saddle - all 4 of us, this time - with a livestreamed audience to break down Fear The Walking Dead's Season 8 teaser trailer that was dropped dur…

Since there's no livestream to watch these panels, we're aggregating the news coming out of both the #TWDDeadCity & #FearTWD (Season 8 / The Final Season) panels! A big thanks to those who participated in the 3-hour-long livestream and to the amazing journalists and superfans who made this podcast possible! 📰 MAIN NEWS/CLIPS CONTRIBUTIONS PROVIDED …

Our FULL BREAKDOWN of The Last of Us' inaugural SEASON FINALE: Maybe it isn't as much about whether the world is worth saving but how far one is willing to go to preserve a beautiful soul that deserves a chance at living... even if it means lying. Considering this recording was a Livestream, there's no unedited episode recording available; however,…

Originally Recorded: 2022/11/20 Captain Bell is a former Drill Instructor, current Bad-Ass Mo-Fo, and (as a background actor on The Walking Dead) will live on as a former member of The Saviors who died a hero in The Whisperers War as a member of The Hilltop. As a close #TWDFamily member, beloved by many a fan, he speaks about his love for The Walki…

…He Shall Provide, because #EllieWilliams managed to take down Teacher-turned-Preacher-turned-Kindling, David, all on her own. `Nuff said, right? Well, you know us… Considering this recording was a Livestream, there's no unedited episode recording available; however, consider following either our Patreon or Ko-fi accounts so you don't miss out on f…