‘True Blood’ 5.05 Recap: “I’m Thinking Maybe This Was a Not-So-Great Idea”
It occurs to me that one of the reasons I’ve been underwhelmed by the current season of ‘True Blood’ is that the show has largely been missing the humorous elements that used to make it so much fun. I...
View Article‘True Blood’ 5.06 Recap: “I Love a Good Execution”
I happened to notice in the credits that series creator Alan Ball wrote this week’s episode of ‘True Blood’, his first of the current season. One would presume that means that something important must...
View Article‘True Blood’ 5.07 Recap: “The Whole World’s Upside Down”
In retrospect, it should have been clear some time ago that the plot twist in this week’s episode of ‘True Blood’ is where the season would be going. Unfortunately, that doesn’t make it any less cheesy...
View Article‘True Blood’ 5.08 Recap: “Lilith Wants Me to Eat a Baby”
Allow me to thank our readers for setting me straight about last week’s episode of ‘True Blood’. I had misinterpreted a plot point that readers Aaron and Nicholas saw right through. Even if I’d had any...
View Article‘True Blood’ 5.09 Recap: “Keep America Human”
I’ve written before about how the writers of ‘True Blood’ often have a frustrating disregard for narrative structure or crafting storylines that will play out over season-long story arcs. That trend...
View Article‘True Blood’ 5.10 Recap: “Vampire Crisis – Night 3″
The current season of ‘True Blood’ presents an interesting conundrum for me. One the one hand, I feel that the season is overall much more consistent and better than the last couple. It has a decent...
View Article‘True Blood’ 5.11 Recap: “We Own the Day”
As ‘True Blood’ barrels toward its season finale, the impending war between vampires and humans appears to be coming to a head. Is this really a time when we need to bring out more of the damned...
View Article‘True Blood’ 5.12 Recap: “Us or Them”
‘True Blood’ brought its fifth season to a close this past Sunday, a fact that most fans probably approached with some trepidation. Unfortunately, the show has a history of botching its premieres and...
View ArticleBlu-ray Highlights: Week of May 19th, 2013 – Consult Your Physician Immediately
This week’s Blu-ray releases feature a curious convergence of coming and going. A former action icon returns from retirement while an A-List filmmaker calls his career quits. New Releases As we posted...
View Article‘True Blood’ 6.01 Recap: “Kill and Ask Questions Later”
Now that ‘Game of Thrones’ has finished its season for the year, HBO fills that programming void on Sunday nights with its next biggest original series. ‘True Blood’ has returned for its sixth season....
View Article‘True Blood’ 6.02 Recap: “It’s Time for Humans to Bite Back”
Oh, ‘True Blood’, why must you disappoint me so? One of the few things I said that I liked about last week’s season premiere, and you have to go and completely undo that right off the bat in this...
View Article‘True Blood’ 6.03 Recap: “I Play by a Different Set of Rules”
Perhaps the most frustrating thing about ‘True Blood’ is that the show has a habit of taking characters we at one time or other actually like and sympathize with, and turning them into completely...
View Article‘True Blood’ 6.04 Recap: “So Much Courage, So Little Experience”
Among other issues, the current season of ‘True Blood’ seems very confused about who the “Big Bad” villain of the year is supposed to be. Is it Warlow? Is it Governor Burrell? Is it Lilith (again)? Is...
View Article‘True Blood’ 6.05 Recap: “You Humans Love Pain, Don’t You?”
Another week goes by, and I’m still not certain who the “Big Bad” ultimate villain for Season 6 of ‘True Blood’ is supposed to be. We have another new candidate this week. Made clear in this episode is...
View Article‘True Blood’ 6.06 Recap: “They Call Me a Danger Whore”
‘True Blood’ promised us a major character death, and this is all we get? Not that I have anything against Terry Bellefleur. He was an endearing, albeit minor supporting character who’d been around...
View Article‘True Blood’ 6.07 Recap: “How Deep Do You Wanna Go?”
I think most of us were in agreement that Terry doesn’t really count as a “major character death” on ‘True Blood’, despite what the show’s advertising and promotion may have promised us. This week’s...
View Article‘True Blood’ 6.08 Recap: “Don’t Drink the Blood”
I’ve been complaining for a while now that this season of ‘True Blood’ has done a lousy job of identifying which of its many antagonist characters is supposed to be the ultimate villain. As things have...
View Article‘True Blood’ 6.09 Recap: “I Really Don’t See What Was the Point of That”
Even when it’s good (and while this season hasn’t been the greatest, it’s generally been an improvement over the last couple), ‘True Blood’ can be an endlessly frustrating show. We’re six seasons in...
View Article‘True Blood’ 6.10 Recap: “Forever’s a Rare Thing in This World”
True to form, ‘True Blood’ ended its sixth season with another anticlimactic, underwhelming finale episode, as it has so many times before. Sometimes it feels like the writers have never watched any...
View ArticleBlu-ray Highlights: Week of June 1st, 2014 – Stay Gold, Ponyboy
In this week’s new Blu-ray releases, 1950s greasers fight for your dollar against a bevy of undead challengers, including zombies, vampires, a Frankensteinian cyborg and even a resurrected holy man....
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