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How bout them cantaloupes?

Who knew fruit (and a few deaths) would be the reason Ezekiel decided to fight the Saviors.

This back half of The Walking Dead Season 7 has all been about the various factions gearing up for battle and/or taking a side. And The Walking Dead Season 7 Episode 13 continued that trend.

There was never going to be an "if" the Kingdom joins in the fight but rather a matter of "when."

And despite Richard trying to get something started repeatedly, it always seemed obvious that Benjamin would die and be the catalyst to kick things off for Ezekiel.

Having the Saviors kill a kid, especially one that Ezekiel was rather close to, would be that crossing of a line that I’m not even sure Richard could have accomplished if he had been the one to be killed in the first place.

Granted, it was a ballsy...

Tonight’s episode of “The Walking Dead” was far from eventful until the very end.

This episode strictly followed Daryl, Abraham, and Sasha. At the beginning of the episode, the trio is still leading part of the walker herd twenty miles away from Alexandria. They are suddenly ambushed and shot at which separates Daryl from the other two. Was this an attack from the Wolves or the Saviors?

Daryl rides his bike into the woods and eventually comes across three other survivors. Two young women and a man. They’re convinced that Daryl is with a bad group of people that they are running from. Daryl makes his escape but realizes that when he grabbed the duffle containing his crossbow, he unknowingly took a cooler of insulin. The youngest girl is clearly diabetic and Daryl witnessed her passing out before running off with the bag. Being the good guy that he is,...

Syndromes and a Century: German Jr.’s Existentialist State of Things

Aleksey German Jr., son of famed Russian auteur Aleksey German, comes into his own prominence with his third feature Under Electric Clouds, which took home a cinematography award following its premiere at the 2015 Berlin Film Festival. Much like his father’s cinema, German announces similar interests in existentialist societal woes impervious to logical narrative format, and exchanges deliberations of the past (his previous title, Paper Soldier takes place in 1961) for the looming future of 2017 (a date that may dawn before the title premieres in certain international markets). With production delayed so German could put the finishing touches on his father’s posthumous masterpiece, Hard to Be a God, this indictment on the decaying cultural state of Russia tuned exactly one hundred years after the Russian Revolution is a critique as obscurely damning as it elusively oblique in tone. Some...

For a community trying to build a civilization, the people of Alexandria have always been myopic. Unable to truly look at the bigger picture or to focus on more than one thing at a time, they betray a nearsightedness that has cost them some of their own people while the wolves circled ever closer.

In the season finale of The Walking Dead, "Conquer," Rick (Andrew Lincoln) managed, once again, to convince people that his way is the best way. Also, Father Gabriel (Seth Gilliam) was the worst, yet again, and one of our main heroes was nearly killed. An old friend finally returned,...

We've heard a lot lately about the Obama family's love for Beyoncé (not to mention Republican Mike Huckabee's distaste for the friendship). But we'd not yet heard how it all began. A new memoir by President Obama's personal aide de camp, "bodyman" Reggie Love, details the then-Sen. Obama's first meeting with Beyoncé and Jay-z. It was Sept. 27, 2007, during the primary race for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination, and the "hip-hop royalty" duo sat down with Obama and Love in the restaurant of New York's Mandarin Oriental Hotel. As Love writes in Power Forward: My Presidential Education, Beyoncé was then...

We've heard a lot lately about the Obama family's love for Beyoncé (not to mention Republican Mike Huckabee's distaste for the friendship). But we'd not yet heard how it all began. A new memoir by President Obama's personal aide de camp, "bodyman" Reggie Love, details the then-Sen. Obama's first meeting with Beyoncé and Jay-z. It was Sept. 27, 2007, during the primary race for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination, and the "hip-hop royalty" duo sat down with Obama and Love in the restaurant of New York's Mandarin Oriental Hotel. As Love writes in Power Forward: My Presidential Education, Beyoncé was then...

"The Walking Dead" has never shied away from using humor to lighten its grim, zombie-riddled load, and no more was the show's signature biting wit on display this week than during the scene in which Gareth's gang comes storming into Father Gabriel's church, determined to take out the remaining members of Rick's crew. As Gareth blathers on about how he's hip to their plan - he saw Rick and a few more well-armed members of the group sneak off into the woods, presumably to confront the exiled Terminites - and he knows exactly who's hiding in the church, we see Eugene glance at a plaque hanging in Father Gabriel's office. "Stupidity is also a gift of God," it reads, "but one musn't misuse it."

It's not long after that moment that the stupidity of Gareth and his band of merry cannibals comes back to bite them, with Gareth in particular...

[Spoiler Alert: Read on only if you have already watched Sunday’s episode of The Walking Dead.] The man is persistent, give him that. Sgt. Abraham Ford wants to get to Washington, D.C. and is pretty insistent on recruiting Rick and Co. to join them. But, as we saw on Sunday’s “Strangers” episode of The Walking Dead, that persistence may have paid off as Judith kinda, sorta convinced daddy to sign on. However, there is now the whole Gareth situation to consider. After losing Terminus to zombies, Gareth and a few of his cannibalistic cohorts kidnapped Bob and feasted on his leg. How much is Abraham responsible for that since he and the others would...

You know characters are going to kick the bucket on a show called "The Walking Dead" -- it's just a matter of which characters and when. The Powers That Be like to claim "no one is safe" on Twd, but please. Certain people are definitely safe. (Cough*Daryl*Cough) But certain people are definitely expendable, too. There are currently about 16 regular cast members going into Season 5, not even counting new guys like Gareth at Terminus and Father Gabriel Stokes, who made a brief appearance in the Comic-Con trailer. So we won't cry too hard if they pare it down to a dirty dozen or fewer. We all have our favorites -- and honestly we're not wishing death on any of these guys -- but some storylines are more crucial to the series than others. On that note, here's a character ranking, from most expendable to least.

*Warning: Walking Dead comic...

17. Home Invasion

The true sense of urgency in “Claimed” is reserved for the scenes with Rick and the gang of would-be-rapists and murderers invading the house. Seith Mann does a stellar job sustaining the tension in these scenes, as Rick tiptoes from room to room in search of either a weapon or an escape route.

16. Living Dead Doll House

“Claimed” features some memorable moments shared between Carl and Michonne who confesses bits and pieces of her former life to Carl, such as the former existence of her then-three-year-old son, Andre Anthony. There’s plenty of tension to be found in the house-clearing scenes as well, most notably the images of a family, laid out post-execution style in a pristine child’s bedroom. It’s also worth noting that the painting Michonne finds in the house, is a portrait of Mary, who we later meet at Terminus.

15. Who Am I Pond...