Don't Podcast Dead Inside

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Meaks and Margot talk about episode twelve of season two “Better Angels” and how this group continues to deal (or not) with death and losing its moral compass (?) if you had such feelings about Dale, which some of us did not. Lori continues to make no sense because she’s used as a prop to make Shane’s storyline clearer and UGHGHGHGGH. If you thought this show maybe would get better about guns, it doesn’t! It’s still weird and awkward and it tries to be touching with it, which we like because we love a scene where adults talk frankly to children about death, but it’s so so so complicated. Also, why didn’t anyone tell Randall they weren’t going to kill him? His poor little wrists.

Other topics and tangents include: Abraham Lincoln, Shane’s open mouth acting is disturbing, Office Space killing a printer like we kill walkers, adults will never keep your secrets children, and also that’s Daryl’s gun so everyone needs to stop giving it back to Carl!

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Meaks and Margot discuss episode eleven of season two “Judge Jury Executioner” and it takes them the whole recording to figure out that they are on opposite sides of this debate about killing Randall or not killing Randall. We do agree that Dale, for all his annoying nature, asks a worthwhile question about what kinds of people we want to be and what kind of civilization we are building. We finally find out what Andrea used to do and it’s infuriating because it makes no goddamn sense considering her casual relationship with the police and her inability to argue any point she’s made in two seasons. Ugh. But yay now we know. This is also a stellar episode for Carl and we love to see a kid get a compelling arc.

Other topics and tangents include other reasons to love Angela Kang, Andrea’s a straw-man liberal feminist still, Carl doing so many tasks like a good boy not actively disobeying and getting into trouble at every turn, three master manipulators in this episode with three very different tactics, figuring out how executions work, ominous mooing, and bye bye Legolas!

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Meaks and Margot discuss season two, episode ten, “18 Miles Out” as contrasting sister and brother storylines while we figure out what to do with Randall (and our souls) and how to convince someone this world is worth living in (you can’t!). In particular, we draw a contrast between Rick, who wants to take a knee before acting, and Shane, who has become an unhinged, act-violently-first kind of guy, and how all that reflects on the conversation that’s happening about suicide at the farm. We also get some more action in this episode which is done well, but you know we always want the drama. And of course, we gotta talk about gender essentialism in the apocalypse!

Other topics and tangents include kabbalah and the significance of the number 18, vulnerable men-talk, Rick doesn’t understand snow, being cavalier about infections, buddy cop zombies, praise for silent storytelling vignettes using locations, unionize the farm, and Kirkman says some stupid shit about pregnant people.

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Margot and Meaks discuss season two, episode nine, “Triggerfinger” where we digest this bonkers timeline, cause this is still the same day as “Pretty Much Dead Already” and whoa, does that mean it’s a crazy-ass day (and like Carol’s worst day, tbh). We can finally read Lori’s dumb decision from the last episode a little more clearly, but it’s still dumb! And we get the prolonged Shane and Lori scene we haven’t wanted but maybe needed to understand just how scary he’s become. On a larger level, we discuss how these impulse decisions in the moment are delightfully (and true-to-life) not thought out, which means they come with a lot of wonderful consequences — like what are they gonna do with this kid who got left behind?

Other topics and tangents include: Dale’s eyebrows (again), Maggie’s a horse girl through and through, Daryl and Carol blame themselves for everything, Lady Macbeth moments and white lies, Glenn is not ready to be in a war movie, Carl is cute wanting to be a big brother, and the best DADDY contest ever...

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Margot and Meaks discuss episode eight season two, “Nebraska,” and what it means to lose all hope in a single moment for the Greene’s as opposed to the gradual incline of apocalypse loss that the group has experienced. Margot is still scared of Shane, but we dive deeper into how he views himself as a savior of everyone around him and how terrifying that is. Meaks is in awe of how many one-sided conversations there are in this episode allowing for so much tension. And, how many ways can we try to make sense of Lori’s actions in this episode? Well, we have two theories, but ultimately they are flimsy AF cause she’s so inconsistent in this one...

Other topics and tangents include: Lori kinda sucks in this episode, The Americans’ babysitter fanfiction Margot wants, Melissa McBride is good at acting, catatonic states, is Carl growing cold, Rick and Glenn talk about their feelings in a manly way, will the gun always be the “good death,” T-Dog is still in this show, and Dave is actually Peter Pan.

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