Two Dead Chicks | A Walking Dead Podcast

Melissa and Kia put in their time, recapping season 1-9 of AMC's The Walking Dead and they were rewarded with a spin-off about the only people that mattered in the end: Rick Grimes and Michonne. Listen as they discuss all things The Ones Who Live and Richonne. Welcome! You're in the good place.

TOWL 1.06 | The Last Time 04/02/2024

TOWL 1.05 | Become 03/26/2024

TOWL 1.04 | What We 03/19/2024

TOWL 1.03 | Bye 03/12/2024

TOWL 1.02 | Gone 03/05/2024

TOWL 1.01 | Years 02/27/2024

10.13 | What We Become (Richonne Reunion Is Coming!!!) 03/24/2020

Finale | Grateful 10/01/2019

Bonus | Convention All Stars 09/30/2019

Bonus | Season 9 Wrap Up 09/27/2019

9.16 | The Storm 04/02/2019

9.15 | The Calm Before 03/26/2019

9.14 | Scars [with Tai Gooden] 03/19/2019

9.14 | Scars [with Tai Gooden] OK. Where do we begin with this long-awaited episode of The Walking Dead? Our friend helps us break this down. What started as excitement to see our main woman, Michonne (Danai Gurira), step into the spotlight turned to horror over what we were watching. The kids? Eff them kids. Yes, they deserved to die and we hope they burn in hell! No, we were more than a little disgusted to see Michonne brutalized again. Tussling with the Governor's men? Check. Savage fight with the actual Governor? Check. Beat up by a MMA fighter disguised as a trash lady? Check. Knocked out by a demon child while pregnant? Check. Branded while pregnant? Check. Beaten with a wooden board while pregnant? Check. Had to kill a bunch of Children of the Corn to rescue her daughter who was abducted by a close friend from before the world ended? Check. Had her heavily pregnant belly slashed by a 6-year-old? Check. While he was at it, why didn't he just cut RJ out for good measure? And we're still confused about the actual point of this. Was this supposed to explain why Maggie and Tara have an attitude with Michonne? Or why Michonne don't want no new friends? We get it. Sometimes, in the zombie apocalypse, you meet people and they try to eat you. No wait-- you meet people and they try to take half of your stuff and make you slaves. No, that's not it. Here we go: you meet people and they kill you and carve a "W" in your head. See where we're going? This ain't new. Not sure why we needed to see Michonne kill some kids? By the way, thanks for all the help, Daryl. And Judith, go to your room! On the plus side, Danai was phenomenal. As if there was any doubt. We saw RJ and he's the perfect kid. And Jocelyn, if nothing else, gave us the perfect tagline for these Richonne movies: Go Find Your Man. Be sure to check out Tai's work at , and ! Subscribe to get the newest episodes: | | | | search "Two Dead Chicks" wherever you get your podcasts! Support: Recommend or favorite us using Overcast, Pocket Casts or the podcast app of your choice! Tell your friends! Tweet/post using our hashtag: #TDCPod Socials: | | | Special thanks to Eden Burning for providing our music, “Glitter Girl.” Check them out at /episode/index/show/twodeadchicks/id/9058247

9.13 | Chokepoint 03/12/2019

9.12 | Guardians 03/05/2019

9.11 | Bounty [with Lise from Take Off Your Cool podcast] 02/26/2019

9.10 | Omega 02/19/2019

9.09 | Adaptation 02/12/2019

9.08 | Evolution 11/27/2018

9.08 | Evolution The Walking Dead's mid-season finale brought some serious old school horror vibes to the official introduction of The Whisperers. Heard of them? Don't know how you could have missed it since everyone from the executive producers on down have teased this intro since San Diego Comic Con. We get it. Kia is joined by TWD super(ish) fans, Keyan and Kenneth, to discuss what worked and what didn't. What didn't? Whatever is going on with the rest of the groups against Michonne. It's tired. We've spent enough time with this character over close to a decade to know that whatever she went through to bring her to this way of thinking had to be a BFD and was not entered into lightly. And yet, here we have the likes of Tara getting an attitude? Tara, who just only recently found a purpose on this show after showing up in season 4? Tara, who went around for 2 seasons shouting to anyone who would listen that Dwight needed to die instead of looking at the bigger picture and then punked out when she got the chance? Tara, who's biggest story line last year was getting shot by an arrow. GTFOH. Also, as far as terrorist groups go, this Whisperer deal seems terribly impractical. What's the recruitment technique to get a person to wear walker skin masks and immediately make yourself a target for an arrow in the head? What are the benefits? Do the walkers have a secret timeshare that you can take advantage of? There's too much fine print. Just let us join the Kingdom proper and get cobbler. Although…maybe not the Kingdom, because Carol was shedding too many tears over some screws and nails. It's not looking great over there. What did work? The last 5-6 minutes were legit spooky, with the surprise death of our lord and savior Paul, Daryl returning to his walker autopsy roots and that creepy whispering at the end. Zoinks! The less we say about useless Gabriel and Negan, the better. We've extended the deadline to to our virtual baby shower/fundraiser for RJ Grimes! All money donated goes to benefit , a UK charity close to Andy's heart. It's ending on 11/28/18; tell your friends! Subscribe to get the newest episodes: | | | | search "Two Dead Chicks" wherever you get your podcasts! Support: Recommend or favorite us using Overcast, Pocket Casts or the podcast app of your choice! Tell your friends! Tweet/post using our hashtag: #TDCPod Socials: | | | Special thanks to Eden Burning for providing our music, “Glitter Girl.” Check them out at /episode/index/show/twodeadchicks/id/7701314

9.07 | Stradivarius 11/20/2018

9.07 | Stradivarius Welcome to Michael Cudlitz' directorial debut on The Walking Dead and the episode was a little all over the place. I guess we were supposed to forget that Michonne was the target of an assassination attempt just one episode ago and wonder why she's still being so hard. Don't worry Michonne; we remember. We get a little subtle confirmation that Yumiko and Magna are a couple, we find out a little (or a lot) about what makes Luke tick and we find out that Connie has super vibration senses and can tell when a herd is coming. However, these new people are still exhausting, if for nothing else, the fact that we have to remember all of these names. Surely we can lose a couple of them in the mid-season finale next week. Names we won't have to remember? Daryl's dog's, because his name is Dog. That is the most on brand thing ever. Daryl decided to take up residence in the woods after his search for Rick's body didn't come up with any results, but Carol wants him to leave his hermit life and travel back to Hilltop to stay with Henry so he can keep a balanced perspective in life. Almost immediately, Daryl scoffs at the idea, but a well placed scolding from Henry gets him to change his mind. Question: who is out there tying up Dog? We know it wasn't Daryl. Hmm. Lastly, it seems the communities aren't as isolated as they seemed last week. While leadership from all three are not in official contact with each other, reluctant President Paul Rovia -- who has taken over since Maggie decided she wanted to leave go be with Georgie's group -- and Aaron have secret meetings to try to keep the lines of communication open. They also are training in extreme parkour or whatever, and no, that is not a euphemism. Subscribe to get the newest episodes: | | | | search "Two Dead Chicks" wherever you get your podcasts! Support: Recommend or favorite us using Overcast, Pocket Casts or the podcast app of your choice! Tell your friends! Tweet/post using our hashtag: #TDCPod Socials: | | | Special thanks to Eden Burning for providing our music, “Glitter Girl.” Check them out at /episode/index/show/twodeadchicks/id/7628402

9.06 | Who Are You Now? 11/13/2018

9.06 | Who Are You Now? Like Michonne, we can find beacons of light shining through this post-Rick Grimes version of The Walking Dead, but man oh man, we sure felt his absence. Kicking off six (6) whole, entire, full years after Rick's presumed death, we find our remaining mains in much different spaces emotionally than when we left them: Daryl walked into the abyss of his man pain, Carol has embraced the change her love for Ezekiel and Henry has brought into her life and Michonne? Well, she's still having a hard time grappling with life without her love. Every time we wanted to go, "Six years? Still?" Danai Gurira's breathtaking display of pain, unrest and sadness shut us up. But it's not all bad. She still has her Judith, who is now 10 years old and a handful. Whether she's a pointless addition to a hunting trip, bringing in stray survivors or constantly reminding Michonne of the world that she and Rick fought for, this little one is going to be a big player here. But also…if the old Judith wanted to make a guest appearance, we would not be mad. Things we're also not mad at: RICK MFing GRIMES, JR. The King Is Here! The Prophecy Has Been Fulfilled. What is this water on our faces?! Rick has to see his new son in these movies. There can be no other outcome. While Rick may have wanted to bring the communities together post-All Out War, the exact opposite has happened without his guidance. The communities don't keep in contact with each other -- do they even know Maggie ghosted Hilltop? -- and they've become rigid and distrustful of strangers. What happened in the past 6 years to turn them that way? Who hurt y'all? Literally, who hurt Michonne because we saw that scar on her back and it's time to SQUARE UP! Don't forget to to our virtual baby shower/fundraiser for RJ Grimes! All money donated goes to benefit , a UK charity close to Andy's heart. It's ending on 11/18/18 so jump on it! Subscribe to get the newest episodes: | | | | search "Two Dead Chicks" wherever you get your podcasts! Support: Recommend or favorite us using Overcast, Pocket Casts or the podcast app of your choice! Tell your friends! Tweet/post using our hashtag: #TDCPod Socials: | | | Special thanks to Eden Burning for providing our music, “Glitter Girl.” Check them out at /episode/index/show/twodeadchicks/id/7545035

9.05 | What Comes After 11/06/2018

9.04 | The Obliged [with Ashley Jordan] 10/30/2018

9.03 | Warning Signs 10/23/2018

9.03 | Warning Signs When The Walking Dead gives us the goods, they give us the damn goods! Just moments into the episode we’re talking about building the future which is code for making a Richonne baby. With the flick of a pencil, our ovaries exploded. And honestly, we think a lot of Grimes babies are gonna be born about 9 months from now… 'cause didn’t we all just get pregnant from that? Naturally the actual process of building said future was cut from the episode, but we were treated to a Grimes Family Fun Day montage complete with Rick crawling across the floor with a very excited Judith and basically, we could watch a whole episode of just this forever. Did anything else even happen on this episode? Oh right, right, right, right… Daryl is looking to pair up with Maggie which means shenanigans are afoot. Why is it that when anyone is just dying to make a bad decision, they somehow end up with Daryl? Accident? We think not. The Trash Queen is up to her old tricks because why wouldn’t she be? She asks Gabe to join her and leave this place together forever, but this preacher man ain’t here for it. He maintains his loyalty to Rick which earns him a whack to the head. There’s so much betrayal happening right now and we’re awfully afraid one of these dummies is about to get our leading man killed. Speaking of getting killed, Justin and Arat did just that and as it turns out, the ladies of Oceanside were the ones behind it. On one hand, they kind of had it coming. On the other, this is the result of a much larger problem. We need that charter right away so we can get these folks on the same page and prevent anymore revenge killings. But also, we need that baby. Y’all better get to building, 'cause as AMC keeps rudely reminding us…Rick only has two episodes left. RIP our hopes and dreams. We’re fine. Subscribe to get the newest episodes: | | | | search "Two Dead Chicks" wherever you get your podcasts! Support: Recommend or favorite us using Overcast, Pocket Casts or the podcast app of your choice! Tell your friends! Tweet/post using our hashtag: #TDCPod Socials: | | | Special thanks to Eden Burning for providing our music, “Glitter Girl.” Check them out at /episode/index/show/twodeadchicks/id/7283378

9.02 | The Bridge 10/16/2018

9.01 | A New Beginning 10/09/2018

Bonus | How's it going, RossBae? [with Ross Marquand] 08/07/2018

Bonus | The Many Ways We Love Richonne [with Erin Qualey, Ashley Jordan and Bim Adewunmi] 07/12/2018

Bonus | The Many Ways We Love Richonne [with Erin Qualey, Ashley Jordan and Bim Adewunmi] Happy mid-The Walking Dead hiatus! It’s been three months since we saw the last episode of season 8 and it will be another three months until season 9 starts. San Diego Comic Con is next week, and along with that comes a trailer and premiere date for season 9. Also, it’s 7/12. Also, it’s our two year anniversary! So what better way to celebrate than to talk about the love that keeps us going: the love between Rick Grimes and Michonne. Let’s say it all together now: Richonne! We sat down to speak with (), (Richonne writer) and ( senior culture writer, co-host of the podcast) about all manner of things, including how Richonne's relationship helped both parties move from a place of hurt to a place of healing, the real world effects that this fictional interracial couple has on representation of black women in the medium and the intimacy and desire that these two characters (by way of two amazing actors) bring to the screen. But these conversations will take you everywhere; we may start with intimacy, but we may end up shading Michonne’s wig or talking about flicking Kirkman on his forehead (we say “we,” but we really mean Bim, though we completely co-sign). We loved having these kick-ass women on for these intelligent, hilarious and meaningful conversations. We also reveal the winning moment of our our #ChampionsOfRichonne bracket and, along with that, the person who won our crazy huge Champions of Richonne prize pack. Did you guess right? We talked about a lot of things this episode; here are the links if you’re interested in reading more: "" - , "" - Bim Adewunmi, from and ' "" Bim's Fan Fiction Corner: ("," "") | ("," "") | | | | ("") | ("") Subscribe to get the newest episodes: | | | | search "Two Dead Chicks" wherever you get your podcasts! Support: Recommend or favorite us using Overcast, Pocket Casts or the podcast app of your choice! Tell your friends! Tweet/post using our hashtag: #TDCPod Socials: | | | | Special thanks to Eden Burning for providing our music, “Glitter Girl.” Check them out at /episode/index/show/twodeadchicks/id/6801454

Bonus | Season 8 Wrap Up [with TDCPod Extreme Fan winner Noetta H.] 04/24/2018

8.16 | Wrath 04/17/2018

8.16 | Wrath After being in battle for approximately 84 years, "All Out War" ended in the most anticlimactic season finale in the history of The Walking Dead. Eugene helped save the day with his bullet sabotage even if we aren’t entirely sure that’s how guns work. Can we all agree this isn’t enough to allow him back into the fold? Because he was definitely ready to bust a cap in everybody’s ass yesterday. Also, it’s a good thing Aaron formerly known as BAE flopped around in the mud so the ladies of Oceanside could show up for literally less than 30 seconds. The Saviors surrendered in record time and were back gardening with our people on what we think may have been the same day. Morgan made a quick and quiet exit to Fear The Walking Dead the very second "All Out War" was over. But not before dropping by to visit Jadis aka Anne and send her off to join Rick and the group, and then taking over her trash heap. We still aren’t entirely sure why Morgan had to go, but we’re glad we got to see Lennie James grace our television screens this long. Last week, we lost the wrong villain. This week, we lost the wrong D. Daryl took it upon himself to banish Dwight because??? Because he feels threatened by Dwight’s blow up muscles? Because he stole his crossbow? Because Dwight looked better in his vest than he did? All signs point to YES. Daryl couldn’t linger long though because Maggie sent up the Bat Signal of Bull. Cloaked in darkness and revenge, Maggie has seemingly turned her rage on two of the people closest to her: Rick and Michonne. Nevermind the fact that she’s literally sitting in a room with the actual reason Glenn is dead. Listen, we understand where Maggie is coming from and we definitely don’t think Rick did right by her on his quest to honor Carl’s fever dream wishes. But next time she goes all Godfather on us, we need her to remember Daryl’s part in all of this. As promised, Negan will live to monologue another day (after that whole throat wound heals, of course). We had a few seconds of elation when we realized Rick actually slit his throat, but our happiness was short lived when he told Siddiq to save him. So glad we wasted two and a half years on this trash ending! Subscribe to get the newest episodes: | | | | wherever you get your podcasts Support: Recommend or favorite us using Overcast, Pocket Casts or the podcast app of your choice! Tell your friends! Tweet/post using our hashtag: #TDCPod Socials: | | | Special thanks to Eden Burning for providing our music, “Glitter Girl.” Check them out at /episode/index/show/twodeadchicks/id/6490322

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