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 (7 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 , (26 comments)
Tags: Alan Ball |
Anna Paquin |
Homophobia |
Homosexuality |
True Blood |
Vampires
lindsay: So there's a trailer for the HBO vampire show TrueBlood... lindsay: Which serves as the ultimate and final proof that nothing involving vampires can ever be good. gabe: aw gabe: you just insulted our teenage girl readership gabe: (all... CONTINUE READING FRIDAY FIGHT: ARE VAMPIRES STUPID AND BORING?»
Posted on August 15, 2008 in (19 comments)
Tags: TrueBlood |
Vampires
There's a new trailer out for Twilight, the highly anticipated teenage-vampire love story that's coming out in December. I remain as disinterested as I was after watching the first trailer, but that's only because I don't care about poorly made... CONTINUE READING WHAT WILL BE THE NEXT TEENAGE VAMPIRE?»
Posted on July 18, 2008 in (4 comments)
Tags: Twilight |
Vampires
Last night's MTV Movie Awards featured an exclusive clip from the upcoming teenage AIDS drama, Twilight. If you are 12 years old, prepare to get crazy excited: I continue to be eluded by what it is that makes vampires so... CONTINUE READING TWILIGHT WRITES ITS NAME ON ITS JEANS IN BLOOD»
Posted on June 2, 2008 in (5 comments)
Tags: Teenagers |
Twilight |
Vampires |
Vests
I'm still waiting to figure out if the teen-vampire phenomenon represents a collective fear of AIDS or a collective fear of Mexicans. And this teaser trailer is not providing very many answers: OK, I guess I get it. Teenage girls... CONTINUE READING TWILIGHT TRAILER PROVIDES MORE QUESTIONS THAN ANSWERS»
Posted on May 6, 2008 in (3 comments)
Tags: Kristen Stewart |
Robert Pattinson |
Twilight |
Vampires
There is a highly-anticipated movie coming out called Twilight. All the blogs are talking about how exciting it is that Twilight is on its way. There's going to be a Twilight trailer at the beginning of Speed Racer as an... CONTINUE READING TWILIGHT: GETTING TO THE BOTTOM OF THIS TEENAGE VAMPIRE BUSINESS»
Posted on May 2, 2008 (9 comments)
Tags: Buffy |
Kristen Stewart |
Robert Pattinson |
Twilight |
Vampires |
Werewolves