Reanimated Podcast

Herd is a novel approach to a zombie film, and that's not something you can say too often in the genre. Definitely watch the film before listening to this episode as there are some good plot mechanics that it would be a shame to spoil.

Reanimated heads to the Balkans during the '90s for some vampire action with David Morrisey looking like if the Governor had gone through an emo phase.

Reanimated digs one more up from the catacombs with The Signal from 2007 - a film with three writers/directors each taking an act and leading the audience through some pretty crazy times in the city of Terminus. Come and check it out with us!

One more from the vault, this one of Dead Snow, the 2009 Norwegian film. Check it out!

Happy holidays! Enjoy this blast from the past of Anna and the Apocalypse!

This week, the gang holed up in the Hollywood Hills and ate chicken wings with Cugine in "As We Know It."

After mainlining the anime, Reanimated returned to Akira Tendo's existential quarter-life crisis layered in with some zombie apocalypse and friendship drama with the live-action film that dropped on Netflix last summer. It hews quite closely to the anime with only some, though significant, deviations.

We cross Zom 100 off our bucket list but only for a short while before we then go watch the movie coming up next week!

In this episode our hosts talked up the upcoming zomedy "As We Know It", a planned Aussie film to star Daisy Ridley and our general disappointment with the run of Zom 100 that we talked about this week. Come have a gander!

Reanimated headed to Japan in this episode to take in the sights and sounds of the first three episodes of the anime version of Zom 100: Bucket List of the Dead.

We put the first season of Daryl Dixon to bed and tried to come to terms with the name of next season's "The Book of Carol"? Let's see how it all shakes out.

Some sacrificial moves and an odd set of choices in this episode leave us scratching our heads a little, but Daryl Dixon continues to impress. Have a gander!

We continue to follow Daryl's European vacation as he treks through France in the third episode of the Norman Reedus spin-off.

The second episode of Daryl Dixon offered up one of the best zombocalypse sequences in years with some chaos on the Paris Metro. What a treat! Come hang with Stuart and H.A. Conrad as they chat about "Allouette" on Reanimated.

Reanimated disembarked on a beach near Marseille to enjoy the first episode of Daryl Dixon this week. It's fun to see him out of context and interacting with an all new cast on location in France. This episode had it all - nun combat, audio diaries and drinking water from questionable sources. Can't wait for more!

We finished up the first season of Dead City this week on the podcast and while we look forward to the second season, the first felt like we were rehashing some old conversations for a lot of it.

Despite some pretty laughable elements, these two episodes throw Reanimated some good plot curves that keep us engaged with Dead City's middle episodes.

In this episode of the TWD spin-off, Reanimated had some beef with seemingly gormless New Yorkers who are so easily persuaded to go on a suicide mission for the sake of a kid they have never met. We also had a round up of some promising projects - so have a listen!

Dead City is feeling a little confusing as it tries to raise the specter of Negan's past while it also maintains all the character redemption arc of the past several seasons of the show. It's still more than worth the price of admission, however. Come check it out with us!

It was finally time to head across the Hudson this week on the podcast, as we got to watch the first episode of the latest Walking Dead spinoff - Dead City. There's a lot here to unpack -- exposition, time jumps, the regression of emotional baggage and more!

We wrapped up the first season of Silo with a lot of praise and reverence for the cast and some questions about some of the changes to the story from the original. Either way, sign us up! Great first season. Next week, back to our beloved zombies.

More Silo this week and we ramp up to the dramatic conclusion of the first season. Watching Jules desperately trying to outmaneuver the hidden leaders of the Silo continues to be good times! Come check it out with us.

For our Father's Day episode, Reanimated honors affable dad Paul Billings as "The Janitor's Boy" and "The Relic" really serve to drive home that if there's any kind of celebratory festival in the Silo, it's probably to cover up some nefarious business. Also, Common, dude. What a series of performances from this guy, holy crap.

Officials are dropping like flies in the Silo. Will Jules' questions unburied dangerous truths? Or just get everyone killed!? I don't know! Also this "!?" is called an interrobang. Just think that's cool.

There might not be any zombies in this bunker, but there's plenty of existential dread and dystopia, so Reanimated can get down with that. Come watch Silo with us!

We bid adieu to the First Street house for now as the first season of Mayfair Witches comes to a close.

More witchy business this week on the show - always up for a little Chris Coy villain action!

In this episode we took a stroll down to the forest for a hearty session of night wailing.

The podcast takes a witchy turn this week as Reanimated looks into its cauldron at The Mayfair Witches on AMC. We try to remember everything we know about the books that we loved so much.

Reanimated went to the movies for this episode and took in the Robert Kirkman-penned Renfield! What a hoot! Between the physical performances from Nicholas Hoult and Awkwafina, the pure comedic genius of Ben Schwartz and sheer presence of Shohreh Aghdashloo and Nicolas Cage, there was something for everyone. Also, there were gouts of blood.

The French film The Trip was an actual trip in this episode of Reanimated. We had so many questions but ultimately none of them mattered as much as this film being able to keep us entertained, which it did! against all odds.

Class warfare, environmentalism, corporate greed and parenting were all on the docket this week on the podcast with the Canadian film Brain Freeze. Come with us as we navigate the back nine in the dead of winter.

H.A. Conrad emerged from her covid cocoon to record this episode of the podcast wherein we took a look at the cult film Re-Animator (no relation). It's pretty fun, except for the part that Conrad had to fast forward.

Hey reanimators - some of us are chugging Heineken in front of a Vermeer painting while asking people to alsjeblieft, so it's time for a trip down memory lane on the pod! We offer you a recording from ancient times, May 25, 2013, in which two fresh-faced podcasters discussed Max Brooks' World War Z and the upcoming Brad Pitt film. Simpler times.

That's all she wrote for the first season of The Last of Us season 1. Reanimated breaks down the final two episodes in this podcast, with discussion on Joel's 'I've done all the sidequests' endgame prowess and how that translates into television and then a rousing discussion on the morality of how those last 15 minutes of the finale unfold.

Reanimated finally gets caught up on our backlog with Kin and Left Behind this week, showing off two very different reunions and a fun time at the mall.

We're a few weeks late and Stuart's mic is borked but we're back for more The Last of Us. We really reveled in talking through episodes 4 and 5 after a couple of viewings.

This one has blown up big time. Nick Offerman and Murray Bartlett put on a showcase of terrific acting skills as the show veers away from the game's plot.

We're back this episode for more reveling in The Last of Us. Not only did this episode have a stellar cold open set in Jakarta, it brought us face to face with the clickers with great effect. We also said goodbye to one of our core cast with a very tender (you might even say it was a tendril) moment.

We brought in Kyle this week to help us process the wonder that is The Last of Us. The show seems to be a powerhouse based on its first episode. Have a listen and watch it with us!

This one has been on our list since the earliest days of Reanimated and it was great to visit Havana, albeit in the middle of a zombie apocalypse. This film puts a wacky cast together with a lot of jokes, political satire about Cuba and zombies and honestly lands in some new territory, so that made it a lot of fun to watch. There was also a bunch of new trailers that dropped last week so we dug into Renfield, Blood, Evil Dead: Rise and some other tidbits.

We sank our teeth into the final episode of the season in this episode. Sure we have our little gripes here and there but overall, this show really works on a lot of levels. Looking forward to a second season!

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.