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
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Tags: Alan Ball | Anna Paquin | Stephen Moyer | True Blood
I've given up on this show. That doesn't mean that I'm going to stop watching, or that I won't still rile up the vampire-loving teenage girl contingent each week with some unacceptable proposition, such as "the characters on this show... CONTINUE READING TRUE BLOOD IS BASICALLY JUST A SIDEKICK COMMERCIAL AT THIS POINT»
Posted on October 20, 2008 in Free Advertising
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Tags: Alan Ball | True Blood | Vampires
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
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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
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Tags: Alan Ball | Anna Paquin | Nelsan Ellis | True Blood | Vampires
It's been a few weeks since this year's crop of new shows started, and the question on everyone's mind is HOW ARE THEY DOING IN TERMS OF FACEBOOK? Admittedly, that is not a question on anyone's mind. You could have... CONTINUE READING WHICH NEW TV SHOW IS THE MOST POPULAR BASED ON A RIDICULOUS SCALE OF MEASUREMENT?»
Posted on September 29, 2008 in What America Wants
(5 comments)
Tags: 90210 | Facebook | Fringe | Gary Unmarried | True Blood | Worst Week
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
(29 comments)
Tags: Alan Ball | Anna Paquin | Homophobia | Homosexuality | True Blood | Vampires
We all get that True Blood is supposed to be some sort of thinly (not so thinly) coded metaphor. In general, vampires represent "the Other," and in this show they seem particularly tied to the homosexual community. Between the Fred... CONTINUE READING CAN THE TRUE BLOOD METAPHOR GET ANY MORE FUCKED UP?»
Posted on September 22, 2008 in Everyone's A Critic
(21 comments)
Tags: Alan Ball | Stephen Moyer | True Blood
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
(18 comments)
Tags: Alan Ball | Anna Paquin | The Decemberists | True Blood
Did you guys watch the premiere of True Blood last night? It's the new gay-metaphor-meets-cautionary-tale-about-energy-drinks project from Alan Ball, who is best known for writing American Beauty and also creating Six Feet Under. The basic storyline is that vampires have... CONTINUE READING TRUE BLOOD: IS THIS GOING TO BE AS BAD AS SIX FEET UNDER?»
Posted on September 8, 2008 in Everyone's A Critic
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Tags: True Blood
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