Vampire Eric ate that redneck. He screamed a lot and he ate him. For us, this is a gruesome scary murder, down in the Saw basement, but for Vampire Eric it is a snack, right? What's with all the screaming?... CONTINUE READING TRUE BLOOD: VAMPIRES BE SHOPPIN'!»
Posted on June 22, 2009 in Hate-Watching
(37 comments)
Tags: Alan Ball |
Anna Paquin |
Stephen Moyer |
True Blood |
Vampires
Oh wow. I'm not sure how they managed to pull it off, but the second season of True Blood looks like it's going to be EVEN WORSE than the first season, and the first season was VERY, VERY BAD. The... CONTINUE READING TRUE BLOOD: WELCOME BACK TO THE WORST SHOW ON TELEVISION»
Posted on June 15, 2009 in Hate-Watching
(38 comments)
Tags: Alan Ball |
Anna Paquin |
Stephen Moyer |
True Blood |
Vampires
Here's a special preview clip from the upcoming second season of True Blood (June 14 on HBO), you guys: Man, I forgot about those accents. Did they somehow get worse? I think they got worse. This clip is bringing back... CONTINUE READING TRUE BLOOD SEASON 2: NOW WITH WORSE ACCENTS!»
Posted on April 21, 2009 in Hate-Watching, Wait For It...
(17 comments)
Tags: Alan Ball |
Anna Paquin |
Stephen Moyer |
True Blood |
Vampires
What happened? Not what happened on the show because of all the exciting mysteries, but literally what happened? That was obviously not a season finale. Was it because of the Writers Strike? Because that ended a billion years ago. Get... CONTINUE READING TRUE BLOOD: WOW, WHAT A TERRIBLE SEASON FINALE»
Posted on November 24, 2008 in Hate-Watching
(17 comments)
Tags: Alan Ball |
Anna Paquin |
True Blood |
Vampires
I love the trailers that they're showing at the end of every episode now because the critical reaction to this show is so overwhelmingly negative that they're forced to use glowing comments from message board users to hype the show.... CONTINUE READING TRUE BLOOD: LIKE LOOKING IN A MIRROR, IF YOU COULD, BUT YOU CAN'T, BECAUSE YOU'RE A VAMPIRE»
Posted on November 17, 2008 in Hate-Watching
(13 comments)
Tags: Alan Ball |
Anna Paquin |
True Blood |
Vampires
Well, you have. Obviously you have. If you have watched one episode of True Blood, you have seen terrible. But last night was something special. So Vampire Bill went to Vampire Court or whatever, and that was hilarious because Vampire... CONTINUE READING TRUE BLOOD: YOU AIN'T SEEN TERRIBLE YET!»
Posted on November 10, 2008 in Hate-Watching
(22 comments)
Tags: Alan Ball |
Anna Paquin |
The Decemberists |
True Blood |
Vampires |
Werewolves
I will give this show one thing: it never ceases to surprise me with its dedication and inventiveness towards being terrible. Each week, just when I think True Blood is resting on its rotten laurels, coasting by on pre-established structures... CONTINUE READING TRUE BLOOD: SAM MERLOTTE'S CHARACTER IS NOW THE MOST RIDICULOUS»
Posted on November 3, 2008 in Hate-Watching
(38 comments)
Tags: Alan Ball |
Anna Paquin |
Sam Trammell |
True Blood
Oh, True Blood. Like many shows, each week usually ends with some kind of dramatic cliff-hanger, and like many shows, that dramatic cliff-hanger is quickly, unceremoniously, and anti-climactically resolved within the first five minutes of the next episode. It's a... CONTINUE READING TRUE BLOOD: WORST. DEUS EX MACHINA. EVER.»
Posted on October 27, 2008 in Hate-Watching
(31 comments)
Tags: Alan Ball |
Anna Paquin |
Stephen Moyer |
True Blood
Here is one of the main problems that you run into when you build a movie or TV show around mythical creatures: who cares? Let me put that another way. Lots of people enjoy movies and TV shows about mythical... CONTINUE READING TRUE BLOOD: VAMPIRES DON'T HAVE REFLECTIONS, EMOTIONAL CORES»
Posted on October 13, 2008 in Hate-Watching
(21 comments)
Tags: Alan Ball |
Anna Paquin |
True Blood |
Vampires
Now that we've gotten through the laborious first few episodes that were required to establish the True Blood universe, we're finally settling into some punchy narrative. The jury is still out on this show, in the way that sometimes a... CONTINUE READING TRUE BLOOD: FREE LAFAYETTE»
Posted on October 6, 2008 in Soap Operas
(8 comments)
Tags: Alan Ball |
Anna Paquin |
Nelsan Ellis |
True Blood |
Vampires
There was quite a bit of discussion last week over my argument that the True Blood vampire-homosexual metaphor was both outrageous and mildly offensive. Almost everyone uniformly agreed that I was ridiculous and stupid and the worst and that I... CONTINUE READING TRUE BLOOD: I WILL EXPECT MY APOLOGY IN WRITING»
Posted on September 29, 2008 in Everyone's A Critic, Hate-Watching
(28 comments)
Tags: Alan Ball |
Anna Paquin |
Homophobia |
Homosexuality |
True Blood |
Vampires
I still don't quite know what to make of the whole True Blood thing. On the one hand, its heavy handed yet somehow also very thin metaphor of Vampire as Other became truly unbearable this week not only in the... CONTINUE READING WHO HAS THE WORST ACCENT ON TRUE BLOOD?»
Posted on September 15, 2008 in Everyone's A Critic, Soap Operas
(17 comments)
Tags: Alan Ball |
Anna Paquin |
The Decemberists |
True Blood
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WHAT was THAT? Going into Transformers 2 this weekend, I had every expectation that it was going to be loud, stupid, and very very long. But for the first 30 minutes or so, I was on board. Sure, it was...
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The little boy asked his mother if she would take him downtown where they were filming a scene for Cameron Diaz's new movie, The Cougar Trap, and she told him that she would if he finished his homework, and wouldn't...
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