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 »

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.…   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 »

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…   Read Story »

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…   Read Story »