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…   Read Story »

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…   Read Story »

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…   Read Story »

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,…   Read Story »

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…   Read Story »

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,…   Read Story »

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…   Read Story »

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…   Read Story »

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…   Read Story »

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…   Read Story »