The Walking Dead: 30 Days Without An Accident - Review (S4 Ep01)

Like American Horror Story, The The Walking Dead is back! After last year's season, we all had high hopes for the new one. Now that the the premiere has aired, I think it's safe to say that four is gonna be a great season. 

In the beginning of the episode we see Rick busy tending to the prison's crops. Rick acts strangely towards to the walkers and you immediately notice that he is different. Carl comes down to Rick and they both walk to a pig's sty where they look at a sickly pig. Hershel approaches Rick and tells him that the "counsel" wants him to take his gun with him when going outside and Rick agrees reluctantly, again showing Rick has changed a lot. 

Later that day when Rick is outside the prison, he comes across a woman who begs for help and says that her husband urgently needs food. Rick hands her some food and they start to speak about the camp. Rick says that before they can come to the prison they have to answer three questions. The Woman agrees and starts to lead Rick to her and her husband's camp. When they finally get there, the woman tries to kill Rick but fails. She then decides to take her own life instead... Rick looks at the husband's severed head, covered with a dirty cloth, and leaves without disturbing the couple.

At the same time, Daryl and his team (consisting of Glenn, Michonne, Tyresse, and two other disposable characters) make a run to for supplies. They go to a huge store and at first, everything is fine but little do they know that the store's roof was immensely weakened by a military chopper and that it's also infested with walkers. Before they can get away, walkers start dropping through the roof. They take them all out but in the posses lose Zach, Beth's boyfriend.

The episode ended with a scene of a young man falling down and coming back to life as a walker, without ever being bitten...

I really loved this episode. It was great to see how the main characters have changed over the past seasons. Especially Rick who seems to be tired of all the violence and killing. All he wants is to raise his kids and help other people. To me, Rick's new attitude towards the walkers and his gun, is his way of not accepting his reality, he wants to live a happy, normal life. But, by meeting the woman in the woods and going through what happened he realizes that what he wants, he will never truly have. He will never escape the horror that the world has become and he will never be safe, no-one will. This fits in perfectly with the overall theme of the episode, even if there are "30 Days Without An Accident" the chances are that there will be one soon...

What happened to Daryl and his crew also fits perfectly with the theme. They started to get too cocky, they thought they had everything under control but as we saw, they didn't. Anything can go wrong at any time, with anyone.

I don't know if I'm the only one who thinks this, but it really seems like Glen's time is up. After he was almost killed in the store, spoke about what it means to be alive with Maggie and the fact that he only appeared once in the "this season on" trailer I would not be surprised if he dies in the next few episodes.

And now I have to speak about something we all knew was coming, yes, the zombie virus is evolving! It had to happen sometime. I don't think that there has ever been a movie or a series in which we see the zombie virus evolve so that it can spread though other mediums. To see how the characters will react, is going to be awesome. I'm also looking forward to seeing how exactly it spreads and if the pig had anything to do with it.

For the next episode I hope we see a lot of blood and violence (which is a given) but also to see them explore the future of the series and where they want to go, once the prison is uninhabitable. 

All in all, this was a great episode and a great start to a new season. Tell me, what did you guys think? 

Rating: 8.5/10

Sleepy Hollow S1, Ep4 - The Lesser Key of Solomon - Review

Sleepy Hollow is a retelling of the classic story "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow." In this version the story takes place in the present. The series stars Tom Mison as Ichabod Crane who wakes up in modern day New York to find the Headless Horseman is also present in the city. Together with Lt. Abbie Mills (played by Nicole Beharie) and his deceased wife Katrina Crane (played by Katia Winter) they try and stop the Horseman (Death) from bringing back to life the other Three Horsemen of The Apocalypse...

Season 1 Episode 3: For The Triumph of Evil..., Recap:

• Abbie dreams of the Sandman who is busy exacting revenge on everyone who did not help Jennifer (Abbie's sister) when they had the chanceto do so.
• Before the Sandman can get Abbie, she and Ichabod then decide to enter the dream world to try and defeat Rokaronti.
• Abbie admits that she could've and should've helped her sister and by doing so, she wards away Rokaronti.
• Abbie decides to visit her sister but finds that Jennifer has escaped the Asylum.

Read the full review here!

Sleepy Hollow Season 1 Episode 4: The Lesser Key of Solomon - Summary

This week's episode began with Abbie exiting the asylum and telling Ichabod her sister escaped.After Abbs and Ich (yeah, that's what I'm gonna call them from now on because keping on saying, "Abbie and Ichabod", deal with it) speak with one of Jenni's previous foster parents, they find out that Jenni used to visit a cabin up in the woods numerous times when she was younger.

Abbs and Ich decide to go to the cabin and find Jenni but also that it was Sherrif Corbin's Cabin. After Jenni and Abbs have a quarrel Jenni explains that Crobin believed her and that he knew all along about the legend of Sleepy Hollow and what might happen. 

Jenni then proceeds to take out a big wooden box that Corbin asked her to protect. Inside they find a old sextant and a piece of cloth that Ich remembers seeing during the Boston Tea Party. Ich then realizes that the sextant actually projects and old map of sleepy hollow.

Before they can properly look at the projection, they are ambushed by gunfire. After two of the men escape with the sextant, Jenni, Abbs and Ich interrogate another one of them who didn't get away. Ich finds out they are Hessian soldiers (German soldiers who had been laying dormant while they wait for the return of the Horsemen.) They then fin out that the map was showing the location of the Lesser Key of Solomon, a old mythological book that can open a gate for 72 demons who can reign terror down on earth. The Hessian's final words, before he takes a cyanide pill, are, "Moloch shall rise."
They later find out that Moloch is a demon and the one who summoned the Horseman in the first place and is trapping Ich's wife.

They all quickly go to a Church that the map pointed out and find the other two Hessians have already opened the gate but before the souls escape they burn the book and kill both of the men, foiling yet another of Moloch's plans...


Sleepy Hollow Season 1 Episode 4: The Lesser Key of Solomon - Review

Whew, that was a mouthful! So in this week's episode featured The Lesser Key of Solomon. While the ever changing story arcs of Sleepy Hollow does keep the show interesting, it does feel as though they are blazing through them while not showing enough of Death. The last time we saw him was in Episode 2?! Seriously, where is the Headless Horseman? Is he chilling in Sleepy Hollow somewhere? Is he busy plotting his next attack? Because I sure would love to know.

Other then Death's absence from yet another episode I really think they shouldn't have rushed through this story arc in one single episode, I understand that season one was only commissioned for 5 or 6 episodes but then they should have waited and kept this for season 2. It's almost starting to feel like American Horror Story Season 1 where the show has all these different plots and characters that you end up not really caring about any of them.

We were seriously bombarded with new information this episode, from Corbin's involvement with Jenni to more back story for Inc and Abbs to all the Hessian bullshit and finding out that Moloch is the puppeteer causing all these problems. While I think it's awesome that the show has a lush and interesting plot I really think they should SLOW IT DOWN!

I don't know about you guys but I didn't even think that the whole Lesser Key of Solomon and Hessian story was that interesting. The demons were cool but they didn't even get through the gate. The whole episode built up to the scene with exposition, but it was a huge anti-climax which ended in less than five minutes.

I really hope that they will return to the Horsemen's story in the final two episodes while also exploring Moloch's plan since I genuinely find both of then very interesting.

One of my favorite things about the show is it's character design so I'm very excited to see Moloch's full from.

All in all I was not impressed with this episode, I'm definitely going to continue watching the show I just really hope they take everything a bit slower...

Rating: 6/10

Sleepy Hollow Season 1: Episode 3 Review

Sleepy hollow is a TV show which has recently aired on Fox and while I didn't review the first two episodes I think it's still early enough in the series to to do so (also early enough for you to catch up if you're are not yet watching!)

Sleepy Hollow is a retelling of the classic story "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow." In this version the story takes place in the present. The series stars Tom Mison as Ichabod Crane who wakes up in modern day New York to find the Headless Horseman is also present in the city. Together with Lt. Abbie Mills (played by Nicole Beharie) and his deceased wife Katrina Crane (played by Katia Winter) they try and stop the Horseman (Death) from bringing back to life the other Three Horsemen of The Apocalypse...

Season 1 Episode 2: Blood Moon, Recap:

• Ichabod and Abbie stopped Serilda of Abadon from being completely revived
• Abie had a vision of Sherrif Crobin who tells her to not be afraid of 49
• We see Abbie's sister beefin' it up in her cell and we also learn that she doesn't like to take her meds...

Season 1 Episode 3: For The Triumph of Evil...

Episode 3 started with Abbie's very creepy dream sequence where we are introduced to the awesome Sandman (or as he's referred to in the show, Rokaronti.) In te show Rokaronti is a dream-demon who punishes people who idly stand by when they could be helping others, just like Abbie let everyone believe her sister was crazy by not telling the truth. After Abbie finds out that the demon will come for her, she and Ichabod go into Rokartonti's dream world where she destroys him by finally admitting that she should have helped her sister and told the truth. After Abbie and Ichabod wake up, Abbie decides to go visit her sister only to find that she escaped the asylum...

I think that this was a really great episode. With each week I find myself liking the show more and more. I loved that they are exploring all these different types of myths and not just staying with the Horsemen story arch. That being said, I feel as though this episode was too disjointed from the previous ones, there was absolutely no mention of the Horsemen or Katrina. I understand that the purpose of this episode was to better explain Abbie and Jennifer's relationship and history but I still think they could have tied it in with the rest of the series in a much better way.

But again I have to say that seeing Jennifer and Abbie's story was really interesting and by using the Sandman they did a fantastic job at keeping with the theme and atmosphere of the series. Hopefully we will find out what exactly the demon was planning to do to Abbie and her sis those four days in the woods, since it wasn't explored in the episode. 

Something that I'm really glad about is that the new Sheriff is letting Ichabod and Abbie do their work even if he doesn't exactly believe it's real. Lastly I just wanna say that I think they did a fantastic job with Rokaronti's character model, he kinda looks like a cross between Pyramid Head and the Pale Man from Pan's Labyrinth...

dem' moobs

Anyway I think that this series has a lot of potential and is getting better and better with each episode!  Tell me, what did you think of the episode and are you guys enjoying the show so far? 

Rating 8/10