Yesterday, on NY Mag's Vulture Blog, it was reported that Alan Ball is planning on killing a character in the third season of True Blood. Vulture then offered a poll to readers of which character they would most like to... CONTINUE READING WHO SHOULD DIE ON TV?»
Posted on October 13, 2009 in Everyone's A Critic
(168 comments)
Tags: Death | Family Guy | Gossip Girl | Mad Men | True Blood
Someone has re-imagineered True Blood as a laff-track sitcom. Still terrible!... CONTINUE READING TRUE BLOOD: THE SITCOM»
Posted on September 22, 2009 in WebJunk
(9 comments)
Tags: Mash Ups | Sitcoms | True Blood
You know, now that it's over, I think I'm actually going to miss this show. It is terrible, yes, and completely coconuts, and the rules change from one episode to the next. But, it kind of grew on me, like... CONTINUE READING TRUE BLOOD: SEASON 2 FINALE»
Posted on September 14, 2009 in Soap Operas
(32 comments)
Tags: Alan Ball | Anna Paquin | Stephen Moyer | True Blood | Vampires
As you may have heard, True Blood's ratings this season have been through the roof. Like, 20% increases from one week to the next? That is nuts. America is LOVIN' IT. It kind of makes you wonder who's watching this... CONTINUE READING LINDSAY LOHAN IS AMERICA'S #1 TRUE BLOOD SUPERFAN, NATURALLY»
Posted on September 1, 2009 in Celebrity Gossip!
(26 comments)
Tags: Lindsay Lohan | True Blood | Vampires
Vampire Bill goes to see the Vampire Queen, who is played by Evan Rachel Wood. She is either a terrible actress, or a great actress who is using all of her talent to match the tone of this terrible show.... CONTINUE READING TRUE BLOOD: THIS SHOW WOULD BE OFF THE RAILS, IF IT'D HAD ANY IN THE FIRST PLACE»
Posted on August 31, 2009 in Hate-Watching
(35 comments)
Tags: Alan Ball | Anna Paquin | Stephen Moyer | True Blood | Vampires
At a certain point this season, I was momentarily won over by this show. I'm not afraid to admit that. It was just as ridiculous as always, but there was something endearing in how bad it was. You wanted to... CONTINUE READING TRUE BLOOD: STICK A FORK IN THIS, IT'S DUMB»
Posted on August 24, 2009 in Hate-Watching
(34 comments)
Tags: Alan Ball | Anna Paquin | Emmys | Stephen Moyer | True Blood | Vampires
CLIFFHANGER! At the end of last week's episode, Jason Stackhouse's former friend/rival from the Fellowship of the Sun, Duke? Brady? Troy? storms into the mid-century modern Dallas "hive" and reveals himself to be strapped with explosives and also fine jewelry.... CONTINUE READING TRUE BLOOD: POOR VAMPIRES, BOO HOO, SO SAD»
Posted on August 17, 2009 in Soap Operas
(40 comments)
Tags: Alan Ball | Anna Paquin | of Montreal | Stephen Moyer | True Blood | Vampires
At one point in last night's episode, Marianne uses her blood sugar sex magic to make Tara and Eggs (haha! Eggs!) devour a "hunter's souffle," that was made with Daphne's heart. Yuck, but OK. Then she makes Tara and Eggs... CONTINUE READING TRUE BLOOD: A BULL IN A DRESS WITH CLAWS»
Posted on August 10, 2009 in Soap Operas
(61 comments)
Tags: Alan Ball | Anna Paquin | Stephen Moyer | True Blood | Vampires
Sam is about to get MURDERED! He stumbled into the wrong bacchanalian field orgy. Marianne puts on her bull costume and asks for the ceremonial murderin' knife, which is handed to her on a platter, as is the custom, and... CONTINUE READING TRUE BLOOD: THE BLEEDS HAVE BEGUN, INDEED»
Posted on August 3, 2009 in Soap Operas
(40 comments)
Tags: Alan Ball | Anna Paquin | Stephen Moyer | True Blood | Vampires
It is a good thing that we finally figured out how to get ))>... CONTINUE READING TRUE BLOOD SEASON 3, MAYBE, BUT ENTOURAGE SEASON 7?»
Posted on July 31, 2009 in Bad Idea Jeans, Behind The Scenes
(11 comments)
Tags: Entourage | HBO | True Blood
There is a new lady vampire. Perfect. One thing that this show has been sorely lacking is an over-abundance of characters and too few plotlines. Vampire Eric called her to make her try and fuck Vampire Bill because Vampire Eric... CONTINUE READING TRUE BLOOD: SAME BLOOD, DIFFERENT DAY»
Posted on July 27, 2009 in Soap Operas
(25 comments)
Tags: Alan Ball | Anna Paquin | Eminem | Stephen Moyer | Tracy Morgan | True Blood | Vampires
Daphne is a baby deer! Her and Sam start making out because JUNGLE FEVER. (There are a lot of puppies and tiny little deer in the jungle, you need to look that up.) But then they get interrupted by Terry... CONTINUE READING TRUE BLOOD: IT'S ONLY A MATTER OF TIME BEFORE THIS SHOW HAS A SWAMP THING»
Posted on July 20, 2009 in Soap Operas
(37 comments)
Tags: Alan Ball | Anna Paquin | Stephen Moyer | True Blood | Vampires
OK, so two weeks ago Sookie got scratched by Pan's Labyrinth and Bill took her to Fangtasia, which I guess is also basically a Vampire Hospital. She got healed by Eric's blood, because Eric's blood is the best blood, or... CONTINUE READING TRUE BLOOD: WEREWOLF BAR MITZVAH, BASICALLY»
Posted on July 14, 2009 in Hate-Watching
(54 comments)
Tags: Alan Ball | Anna Paquin | Stephen Moyer | True Blood | Vamires
So look, my DVR didn't tape True Blood last night for some reason. So I haven't seen it. Was it good? NO SPOILERS! Just kidding. I ain't care. But, so, also, Billy Mays died? And that is just really sad.... CONTINUE READING TRUE BLOOD/BILLY MAYS OPEN THREAD»
Posted on June 29, 2009 in Comment Party!
(33 comments)
Tags: Billy May | Death | Infomercials | True Blood | Vampires
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
It's probably been official for awhile, but now it is extra official: America will gobble up any all kind of bullshit as long as you just put some vampires in it. We know this! But now we really know this!... CONTINUE READING AMERICA SAYS, "JUST FUCKING PUT SOME VAMPIRES IN IT"»
Posted on June 16, 2009 in What America Wants
(74 comments)
Tags: HBO | Idiocracy | Ted Leo | 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
(41 comments)
Tags: Alan Ball | Anna Paquin | Ben Gibbard | Stephen Moyer | True Blood | Vampires
Fake ad as viral marketing for True Blood, you guys: Wooooof. You know what my favorite thing about this is? It isn't the cheesiness, which to be fair, they actually nailed pretty well. The alcohol commercials this is parodying often... CONTINUE READING TRUE BLOOD'S VIRAL MARKETING ALMOST AS BAD AS TRUE BLOOD ITSELF»
Posted on June 11, 2009 in Viral Marketing
(16 comments)
Tags: True Blood | Vampires
The Hollywood Reporter has some interesting roundtable discussions with the Emmy-nominated showrunners Matthew Weiner (Mad Men), Shonda Rimes (Grey's Anatomy), Greg Daniels (The Office, Parks And Recreation), Alan Ball (True Blood) and Katie Jacobs (House, M.D.), and Jenji Kohan (Weeds)... CONTINUE READING MAD MEN CREATOR: "DEATH TO ALL SPOILERS"»
Posted on June 10, 2009 in Prime Time Soap Operas, Spoilers
(6 comments)
Tags: Alan Ball | Greg Daniels | Grey's Anatomy | House | Jenji Kohan | Katie Jacobs | Mad Men | Parks And Recreation | Shonda Rhimes | The Office | The Sopranos | True Blood | Weeds
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
Colbert Report writers Frank Lesser and Mike Brumm made this silly-funny parody of Twilight, True Blood, and the whole vampire craze: "That was an hour? It felt like a lifetime!" made me LOL. Narnia inside jokes are the best. Also... CONTINUE READING COLBERT WRITERS MAKE A TWILIGHT/TRUE BLOOD PARODY»
Posted on December 4, 2008 in Parodies
(6 comments)
Tags: Animal Collective | True Blood | Twilight | 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 | Kevin Smith | 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
(28 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
(48 comments)
Tags: Alan Ball | Anna Paquin | Sam Trammell | True Blood
Carrie Prejean turned the video camera off, put on some clothes, and stepped out of her house. It was a beautiful day outside. The air smelled like apples, and the late morning light hit the world in just such a...
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If you are a sassy and sarcastic young man in an American sitcom who represents the sitcom writer's desire that a nerdy Jewish teenager can somehow be the desirable romantic hero in this world, then eventually you will get a...
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I shouldn't even be here right now. I SHOULD BE GETTING INTO MY COSTUME! If I don't hurry, my facepaint won't be dry before I get to the MOONVIE theater, and everyone will be like "hahah, you look like you're...
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The Challenge: I had to go on a 3.5 hour bus tour of totally random TV and film locations in New York City. Alone, and wearing a specific ridiculous tshirt. And I had to find someone to take my picture...
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Uh. OK. Well, first let's address what this movie did well, like the disappointed parents we are (or at least that I am), recognizing that the negative feedback won't be useful or constructive if it isn't preceded by something positive....
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