The Walking Dead spoilers ahoy—be warned!

Fans who were paying attention to the Season Two finale of The Walking Dead would have noted—amidst the zombified chaos—the appearance of a mysterious cloaked figure with two zombie slaves and a katana blade, who arrived from the woods to rescue Andrea from a zombie attack.  Readers of the original graphic novel recognized the character, and the most recent issue of Entertainment Weekly now has details on the character’s development in the upcoming season three.

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When the wildly uneven second season of The Walking Dead came to a close last March, one of the surprise reveals was that of Michonne, a character from the graphic novel who wields a katana blade and two zombie slaves.  It was a brief preview into the weirdness that’s in store for season three, and, now that AMC has begun production on the third season, we’ve also got a behind the scenes video with new footage, as well as a casting call for two new characters.

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There have been a number of surprise reveals in the past three episodes of AMC’s zombie drama The Walking Dead—fair warning: there will be spoilers after the jump—but the one that may draw the largest amount of applause from fans of the original comic book series that the show is based upon came on Sunday night (read our review of the episode, “Beside the Dying Fire,” here), with the introduction of a fan-favorite character from the graphic novel.

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Well, Dead-heads, the wildly uneven sophomore season of The Walking Dead has finally come to an end, closing out a troubled 13-episode stretch that began with marked inconsistency and lazy writing, but ended with a series of final episodes that featured increasingly improved writing, structure and suspense.  So, did the season finale continue that trend of increasing excellence, or did the momentum that Season Two has been building fall apart under the pressure?  Find out below with our review for “Beside the Dying Fire.”

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The Walking Dead continues to slowly but surely improve itself, as the penultimate episode of Season Two continues the hot streak that has defined the sophomore season’s back end.  As our group of survivors mourns the shocking death that befell a primary character in the last episode, yet another main character must face death in the bleak “Better Angels.”

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The second season of The Walking Dead heads into its endgame with yet another strong episode that features the first truly unpredictable and shocking moment of the season (because, let’s face it, we all saw that supposedly shocking  “Sophia moment” coming a mile away last year).  TWD has been upping its game over the last few episodes, and “Judge, Jury and Executioner” is no exception.

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Ok, just in case the headline wasn’t clear enough, let’s make this clear now: SPOILER ALERT!, the death of a major character in The Walking Dead TV series has been accidentally announced by AMC when the network unveiled the special features to the upcoming Walking Dead Season Two box set.   Be warned, the information is after the jump.

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The second season of The Walking Dead continues, with—get this—the fairly uneven and inconsistent zombie apocalypse program actually airing its third solid-to-good episode in a row.  That’s got to be some kind of record for the show, and the second half of TWD is shaping up to be a fairly consistently entertaining program, unlike Season One and the first half of Season Two.

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The recently-resumed second season of The Walking Dead continues, picking up right where last week’s solid episode, “Nebraska,” left off, and dives head-first into the classic “the monsters are really us” theme that runs through so much of zombie cinema and storytelling.

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