Reanimated Podcast

More vampires and their draaama this week as Louis' and Lestat's romance turns into something unsavory and Claudia scratches out her own personality somewhere in the middle. The show continues to do a great job, both in Dubai and New Orleans. 

We rise up out of our coffins for two more episodes of Interview with the Vampire this week. The differences between the original novel and this show are myriad but there's no denying the strength of this show, this cast and the updates that they've woven in. Have a listen with us!

Turns out our hosts were both big Anne Rice fans in their tenderer youths, no surprise there, so it's with no small amount of nostalgia that Reanimated is taking a look at the AMC series Interview with a Vampire. So far so good! The show clearly updates the original 1976 novel in some great ways. 

This one had us feeling some emotions. Through all the ups and downs, we'd stuck with this show for 12 years, and it had stayed around and ended on a fairly high note. We'll see how the walking dead universe maintains next year, but there's plenty of meat left on the zombie genre for now. 

We doubled up on seconds of Thanksgiving dinner and TWD episodes this week with the season marching like a herd of walkers toward its inevitable conclusion while we hapless audience members are carried along. Lots of fun in these two episodes, as well as some questions about Mercer's planning abilities and critiques of the lengthy closeups of Daryl's facial scar. Join us!

Here's a well put together episode with some great moments between characters who really needed to have a little dialog together, all placed against some fresh backdrops of scenarios we haven't seen in this show yet. Check it out!

This week on podcast we celebrate the news of the release date for The Last of Us on Jan. 15. Hurray! We also talk about What's Been Lost, directed by Aisha Tyler, a solid episode. Any episode with Melissa McBride and Josh Hamilton bouncing off each other is a good one.  Check it out with us!

Variant finally reintroduces the climby, doorknob-friendly, rock-wielding zombies that the show featured in season one, back before they were having discussions about continuity or "what can our zombies even do?" So to close that loop, they're bringing them back. OK, we can get behind that. Our commonwealth friends are in hot water and our B-plot wagoneers take a trip to renaissance town. It's a fun episode featuring some great lines of dialog and emotionally charged moments - also zombie killing. Basically it's peak Walking Dead. 

Happy Founder's Day! Let's all celebrate Governor Milton and Sebastian and their glorious leadership of the Commonwealth. You'd think with a name like Common Wealth, they might be a little less cringey with their monocle-wearing elitism, but hey at least they have gladiatorial combat.

It's starting to sink in that these are the final eight episodes of The Walking Dead prime show. This installment brings Hornsby some fresh, terrible wounds, which is nice. Josh Hamilton continues to delight and surprise us with his turn as a fiendish all around bad guy. We also talk about how vampires and witches seem to be having a bit of a moment and that's cool.

Reanimated goes hunting for some uber vamps with Day Shift on Netflix. This was a fun movie, with great action and world building, but left us wishing there was more character development for some of the supporting cast. Would watch more Dave Franco and Jamie Foxx buddy cop movies. 

We close out Tales of the Walking Dead with two more genre-bending episodes this week on the show - Davon and La Doña which take us into some Tales from the Crypt territory. Ms. Conrad spills the beans about the PPP easter egg prime show crossover and the amount of story hooks for the main show or another anthology really just keeps piling up. Have a listen!

Samantha Morton delivers once again as Alpha in "Dee" on Tales, but a few things don't add up in "Amy/Dr Everett" - Reanimated has questions.

After being so crestfallen over Fear the Walking Dead (we don't like quitting things) and not loving The World Beyond, it's been a huge rush to start getting into Tales of the Walking Dead! Also props to COVID-Conrad for pushing through for the episode.     

We check out Malnazidos a.k.a. Valley of the Dead this week on the podcast for some Spanish Civil War zombies. This is a fun movie - lots of jokes, lots of zombies, what more can you ask for? Perhaps a scruffy-looking nerfherder to lead the ensemble named Jan (pronounced Han)? This movie has that too! 

I know! I know! I said we'd have a fresh episode this week. Well COVID done made a liar outta me. HOWEVER, I can't lie when I say that it's been fun to trot these ole samples out of storage. This week it's Day of the Dead from 1985, so salute the Bub in your life, crack open a cold one with the helo crew and pull up a chair to the pig guts buffet.   Also, check out Peter Clines' Ex-Heroes

As we navigate some busy times for day jobs, here's another gem from the library - enjoy 1978's Dawn of the Dead!

We pulled another golden oldy out of the archives this week with an encore presentation of Reanimated's original episode on 28 Days Later. 

Because even RSS feeds have limits, here's a rare chance to hear a couple of baby podcasters recording their first episode. Enjoy our coverage of the one that brought modern zombies to life back in 1968, Night of the Living Dead!

We sat down and hammered out the rest of the season of Resident Evil on the show this week. Still mystified by the low reviews, absolutely astounded by the quality of the performance logged by Lance Reddick. Hot damn! However, it's got its problems -- at least one snoozer episode and the resolution of the 2022 storyline leaves too much untold. However, it's a fun show. Check it out.