Welcome to Terminus

Welcome back Rick! Didn't see it coming, Rick taking a nice chunk of Joe's neck off.  With that said, last night's season finale was INSANE! The days of working in the garden at the ol' prison are over. The opening scene with Rick covered in blood, just confirmed the fact that we were going to be in for a wild ride. It seems like the walkers are the last of the groups problems. The end of season 4 left us wondering how the group is going to handle a new enemy...the humans. But as Rick said, "They're going to feel pretty stupid when they find out, they're screwing with the wrong people."
I hate Terminus...It just sounds like no good can come from it. First the creepy lady serving slabs of meat (no idea what body parts it came from), the weird room with all the candles lit, and the pile of remains. I believe there was a ribcage or two or three in there. One of the biggest question marks that I thought we might see in the finale is simply, where is Beth? Do the cannibals have her, is she in one of the other containers? Too many questions, and its a long wait until October. What were your thought's on the season finale last night?

‘Mad Men’ Was Filming At LAX During Shooting

“Mad Men” was in the process of filming an episode at Los Angeles International Airport Friday morning when a deadly shooting incident occurred at the travel hub, according to tweets from a production staffer.

Plenty of other bizzers were caught up in the shooting drama and the traffic snarl that ensued around 9:30 a.m. PT as the airport was evacuated while law enforcement hunted for the shooter.

Dustin Woods, a key grip on the AMC’s “Mad Men,” tweeted that the series was filming in American Airlines’ Terminal 4 at LAX, one terminal away from where shots were fired at approximately 9:20 a.m. PT.

Woods tweeted to TV Guide’s Michael Schneider that the show on which he was in production was “Mad Men,” noting that it was the program’s first day back lensing.

AMC declined to comment.

Source:  news talk florida

Could You Let Her Go...

This week's episode of the Walking Dead had almost a quietness about it, yet what a turn of events. How could Rick let Carol go? Was he in the right to do that? In a way, Rick saved her life. She would surely have faced her death or fight for her life had she returned with Rick. Would it have ended up a camp divided? 

I'll be interested to see what the aftermath is going to be when everyone finds out what Carol did, and Rick's decision to leave her behind. I think the biggest obstacle Rick will face is Daryl. Through the seasons, we have seen Daryl have an especially soft spot for Carol. many hoped maybe the two would take on a more intimate role with one another. 

I think what Rick did was harsh, but he knew his audience. By that I mean I don't think he would have been able to let her go if he didn't feel she could protect herself. Carol is by far one of the most changed characters since the show first aired. When we first meet Carol, she's this quiet, meek woman, who's scared like everyone else. Then we get a glimpse of her real life, an abusive husband - both verbally and physically. We see how she just stands by this pitiful excuse of a man. Suffice to say, he gets killed, and not before an ass beating he severely had coming. That's one person I did not miss. But then she losses Sophia, her daughter. After Sophia, we start to see a subtle change in Carol...but not until season 4 do we see a 180 from the fragile scared woman in those beginning episodes. The Carol we know today is hard, almost reminds me of Shane in a way. Is that why Rick could let her go so easily? What are your thoughts?

‘Breaking Bad’ Final Episode Illegally Downloaded 500,000 Times in 12 Hours

Pirates swarmed over the series finale of AMC’s “Breaking Bad”: Internet users worldwide downloaded more than 500,000 copies of the episode within 12 hours of the first illegal copy showing up.
That makes it the most pirated episode of “Breaking Bad” on record, according to piracy news site TorrentFreak. The final episode, documenting the final hours of antihero Walter White, aired Sunday night on AMC in the U.S.

The illegal downloads occurred mainly in countries where the show was available on TV or through other legal means, according to TorrentFreak’s analysis of nearly 14,000 users. About 18% of the “Breaking Bad” episodes pirates were in Australia, followed by 14.5% in the States and 9.3% in the U.K., where the final eight episodes of the show have been available on Netflix the day after U.S. air.

At the peak of the “Breaking Bad” pirate activity, more than 85,000 people worldwide were sharing a single copy of the final ep via a public BitTorrent tracker, according to TorrentFreak. Still, HBO’s “Game of Thrones” retains the record for the largest BitTorrent swarm ever recorded with more than 170,000 people sharing a single copy at once.

Source: Variety

‘Breaking Bad’ Sets Another Ratings Record Heading into Finale

It draws 6.6 million, more than double last year

Despite facing the Emmy Awards on Sunday — during which it picked up the prize for best drama — AMC’s “Breaking Bad” hit another ratings high with 6.6 million viewers.

Nielsen said it also said the show set a record in adults 18-49 with 4.3 million viewers, or roughly a 3.4 rating in the demo.

The previous high in total viewers for “Breaking Bad” came the previous week, with 6.4 million — or about twice the audience it was drawing in the summer of 2012.

The “Breaking Bad” series finale is set for this Sunday.

Source: Variety

Mad Men’s Final Season Will Air in Two Parts

Following Breaking Bad's lead, Mad Men's final season will air in two parts, AMC announced today. The first seven episodes will air this spring, and the second seven episodes will air in the spring of 2015; AMC is dubbing these halves "The Beginning" and "The End of an Era." Why wouldn't AMC just call this two shortened seasons? Money reasons, probably: Often contracts for the cast and crew are negotiated on a season-to-season basis. Calling it one season makes it cheaper to produce, and splitting it into parts makes it more lucrative to air.

Two other things to note: First, this is only one more episode of MM than one might have expected. We knew the coming season would be the show's last, and all previous seasons have been thirteen episodes. (Not so Breaking Bad, whose first season was only seven episodes.) And second, this means the final half-seasons of Breaking Bad and Mad Men won't be competing against each other for Emmys. More Don Draper to go around!

Source: Vulture

‘The Walking Dead’ Becomes Basis for College Class

UC Irvine turns hit series into online course

The zombie craze in popular culture has infected higher education.

University of California, Irvine, has announced an online course based on “The Walking Dead.” The university is partnering with AMC, home of the zombie-themed hit series since it premiered in 2010, and Instructure, a provider of online academics, to create the online course.

Students will view scholarly subjects such as social science, public health, mathematics and physics through the lens of a hypothetical zombie apocalypse, using examples from the one portrayed in the series.

The eight-week course will be free and open to the public around the world, and it will be hosted through Instructure’s Canvas Network program. UC Irvine has tapped professors Zuzanna Bic, Joanne Christopherson, Michael Dennin and Sarah Eichhorn, spanning a variety of disciplines, to teach.

The massive open online course, or MOOC, is being developed through UCI Extension with no public funds used.

While UC Irvine is the first university to partner with AMC in such a way, it’s not the first to latch onto the undead phenomenon. Michigan State U. offers a popular “Surviving the Coming Zombie Apocalypse: Disasters, Catastrophes and Human Behavior” course, and Columbia College Chicago has a “Zombies in Popular Media” class.

“The Walking Dead” is wildly popular among the college age group and was the No. 1 entertainment show on television in the key 18-49 demographic last season.

The first class is scheduled for Oct. 14, the day after the show’s season-four premiere, and it will run on Mondays through Dec. 2, with provisions to prevent show spoilers for international students.

Source: Variety