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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…   Read Story »
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…   Read Story »
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,…   Read Story »
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…   Read Story »
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…   Read Story »
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…   Read Story »
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…   Read Story »
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…   Read Story »
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…   Read Story »
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…   Read Story »