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If you miss the old water cooler conversations about the latest twists and turns on your favourite television series, then check out these individual episode reviews for a variety of network shows, both old and new.

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The Walking Dead 3.09: The Suicide King

A lot of noise has been made about Glen Mazzara’s oncoming departure as executive producer of The Walking Dead. “Have the bigwigs at AMC lost their feeble little minds?” fans everywhere are

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The Walking Dead 3.08: Made to Suffer

Oh, it’s another 9/11 allegory! I got an inkling when Milton revealed his ignorance of walker outbreaks in “When the Dead Come Knocking”, demonstrating an all too familiar level

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The Walking Dead 3.07: When the Dead Come Knocking

After starting the year with an untypically intense batch of episodes, The Walking Dead seemed to have gone back to old meandering habits in the last two weeks. However

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The Walking Dead 3.06: Hounded

All right, I guess Lori really did bite the dust in “Killer Within”. At least that’d be the obvious implication of Rick answering her phone calls from the afterlife. I kept expecting

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The Walking Dead 3.05: Say the Word

Aha! I knew we hadn’t seen the last of Mrs Grimes. It’s just not like The Walking Dead to have a main character exit the narrative off screen. Now her body has disappeared, presumably

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The Walking Dead 3.04: Killer Within

Is that a personality I see developing in T-Dog? Nope, it’s just another one of those pre-mortem bursts of heroism so common on The Walking Dead. Dale got

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The Walking Dead: Cold Storage

In light of last year’s Torn Apart, I found myself somewhat less than enthused at the prospect of another Internet spin-off of AMC’s The Walking Dead. The biggest problem

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The Walking Dead 3.03: Walk with Me

Half a year has passed since the producers of The Walking Dead introduced Michonne, the sword-carrying bad-ass with the two pet walkers, yet we still don’t know

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The Walking Dead 3.02: Sick

Whenever I hear people complain that jails don’t make adequate punishment because they serve three meals a day and provide colour television (do you know how hard it would be to find black-and-white sets?)

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The Walking Dead 3.01: Seed

Rick and his followers are back, and, without Shane and Dale constantly pulling them in opposite directions, they seem to be functioning like a well-oiled machine, storming ghoul-infested

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