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
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Tags: Alan Ball | Anna Paquin | Kevin Smith | True Blood | Vampires
lindsay: hey, I made a video for videogum. lindsay: can you check it out and tell me what you think? lindsay: (link to this): gabe: you're going to have to barf to make up for how I just barfed. lindsay:... CONTINUE READING SOMEBODY GOT YOUR-GIRLFRIEND ROLL'D»
Posted on November 13, 2008 in ,
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Tags: Freaky Girl | Rick Roll | Vampire Weekend | 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
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Tags: Alan Ball | Anna Paquin | The Decemberists | True Blood | Vampires | Werewolves
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
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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
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Tags: Alan Ball | Anna Paquin | True Blood | Vampires
If you're a 14-year-old girl (and Videogum readers are primarily 14-year-old girls), then you already know that a new Twilight trailer was put on-line last night and you've already watched it 12 times and called all five of your T-Mobile... CONTINUE READING WHY YOU MIGHT NOT CARE ABOUT TWILIGHT»
Posted on October 10, 2008 in , ,
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Tags: Coachella | Kristen Stewart | Robert Pattinson | Stephanie Meyer | Twilight | 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
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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 ,
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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
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Tags: Coachella | 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
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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
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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
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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
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Tags: Buffy | Kristen Stewart | Robert Pattinson | Twilight | Vampires | Werewolves