And with that, our two weeks of Playoffs have given us our Voice season 23 Top 8 — the eight artists (two from each team) who will be moving into the live Semi-Finals next week. This season, the Playoffs looked a little different than years past. The biggest change, aside from not being live, is that it was completely up to coaches Blake Shelton, Kelly Clarkson, Chance the Rapper, and Niall Horan which two members of their teams moved forward.
Cue up the tunes! 'The Walking Dead' cast includes Michael James Shaw, Lauren Cohan, and Norman Reedus. Josh Stringer/AMC; Jace Downs/AMC (2) It's time to drop the needle, as we asked the cast of The Walking Dead to share the songs that best symbolize their characters on the show. Melissa McBride (Carol Peletier) Eli Ade/AMC Maybe "Crazy" — the Patsy Cline version, written by Willie Nelson.
Goodbyes are always hard to do, not just for fans who've grown attached to certain television characters over the years (some latch on more like barnacles than others), but also for the writers and producers who have to find some way to give those characters the "proper" sendoff—"proper" being highly subjective. Goodbyes can never fulfill every fan's wants and needs, not when you have as many fans as The Walking Dead hive, and not when the character the writers are sending off is Danai Gurira's Michonne.
The Walking Dead is squeezing every ounce of direct cause-and-effect storytelling out of the quarry plan this season, a sensible approach given the sheer scale of that undertaking. So far, it’s resulting in a season that has ping-ponged between the group at Alexandria and the others carrying out the safe zone-saving mission. As a result, “Thank You,” returns us to the plight of Rick, Glenn, Michonne, and the rest of their troupe, but it may very well indicate this is a group we might not see for another two episodes.
The Walking Dead has always stuck the landing. The show has had low points and dull periods; it has had whole episodes which flail across a tenuous foundation of unsteady survival tactics, poor characterization, and ambient gore; it spent a considerable part of its third season insisting that the show’s least interesting character was actually its most important character; and it has less believable geography than a Monopoly gameboard. But it has always stuck the landing.
It may be difficult to recall, years later, how innovative and positively shocking the first season of The Walking Dead was when it aired on AMC in October through December of 2010. The inaugural season accomplished many things, amongst them launching the careers of Jon Bernthal and Steven Yeun, reinvigorating that of Norman Reedus, and proving that Andrew Lincoln could play more than the world's creepiest sign twirler. In addition to bringing us some of our most beloved actors, not to mention characters, The Walking Dead introduced a new watermark for television violence, pushing the acceptable standards from the stylized, benign realm of CSI and 24 into full-on NC-17 territory.
It's a sunny October morning on slip 5 of New Jersey's Hoboken Ferry Terminal, and the crew of The Walking Dead: Dead City is battling a horde of invaders more frightening than any zombie. Two unsuspecting members of the camera department munching on breakfast burritos by the craft services table jump and scream as an intruder from the offending party advances on their position. "HOLY S---!" one of them yells, morsels of eggs and salsa spilling out of his mouth.
[SPOILER ALERT: Read on only if you have already watched Sunday's "The Big Scary U" episode of The Walking Dead.] A lot of big things happened on Sunday's "The Big Scary U" episode of The Walking Dead. Daryl and Rick started beating the crap out of each other. Eugene appeared to figure out that Dwight had turned spy. And Father Gabriel finally realized his ultimate purpose/mission of being there to get Dr.
A generation of moviegoers recognizes 2009's Avatar as a game changer: Hollywood's highest-grossing film of all time, and one that also made history by pushing performance-capture technology in bold new directions. But the only recollection that actress Bailey Bass, 19, has of the original is the memory of her six-year-old self in a theater. "When you're that young, it's hard to understand what's going on," she tells EW. It wasn't until she prepared to audition for the sequel, Avatar: The Way of Water, at the age of 12 that she understood the hype.
Avatar: The Way of Water is the top movie at the box office for the seventh week in a row, a feat that hasn't been achieved since ... the first Avatar in 2009. The blockbuster sequel now sits as the 11th highest grossing domestic film of all time with $620.6 million and will soon fly past 2012's The Avengers to enter the top 10. Among other big records The Way of Water is demolishing, it's also now the fourth highest grossing global movie of all time, behind James Cameron's Avatar, Avengers: Endgame, and overachiever Cameron's Titanic.