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True Blood: season 2, episode 12
Beyond Here Lies Nothin
September 13, 2009 - 10:09p.m.
Well, there you have it. Thirty minutes into season two's final episode, and the writers have brushed their hands of Maryann, following Michelle Forbes' strongest performance of the season. She seemed nearly pitiful in her delusion during the moments ...
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True Blood: season 2, episode 11
Frenzy
August 30, 2009 - 10:08p.m.
Alan Ball's back at his trusty typewriter this week, circling themes such as blind faith, not being oneself, and coming into existence through belief or imagined belief. He's taking this penultimate episode of the season to really look ...
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True Blood: season 2, episode 10
New World In My View
August 23, 2009 - 10:08p.m.
Tonight's breezy episode serves as an antidote to last week's ending, which saw heavy-hearted Godric kill himself on a rooftop, offering himself to what he perhaps hoped was a forgiving God (vampires can believe!). I was sad to ...
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True Blood: season 2, episode 9
"I Will Rise Up"
August 16, 2009 - 12:08a.m.
Emily is still in her antediluvian Lost World, where she's fighting off dinosaurs and battling for Wi-Fi, and she will be there until late tonight. So, as it appears, I will again be looking at True Blood with you ...
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True Blood: season 2, episode 8
"Timebomb"
August 9, 2009 - 11:08p.m.
Hey, True Blood fans. Emily's on vacation in a corner of our planet that doesn't have HBO and/or "the Internet" and/or, possibly, television, so I'm your guide for the week. - TV
I have to admit ...
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True Blood: season 2, episode 7
Release Me
August 2, 2009 - 10:08p.m.
Here's an idea: Let's take all of the intrigue we carefully breathed into last week's episode, or into the whole season for that matter, and just let the air go, one giant balloon fart at a time ...
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True Blood: season 2, episode 6
Hard-Hearted Hannah
July 26, 2009 - 10:07p.m.
True Blood's halftime show killed it. Michael Lehmann took another turn in the director's chair this week, producing another fast-paced whirl of an episode, leaping and bounding where others got stuck in pillow talk. Seriously, when the camera ...
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True Blood: season 2, episode 5
Never Let Me Go
July 19, 2009 - 10:07p.m.
Let's get it out of the way: Topping this week's True Blood themes are a) family/kin and b) ladies reaching for dick. Family first!
Bon Temps siblings Sookie "Easy Peasy" and Jason "Itty Bitty" Stackhouse are rising ...
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True Blood: season 2, episode 4
Shake And Fingerpop
July 12, 2009 - 09:07p.m.
I wasn't yelling at the quickly disappearing bellhop-telepath Barry this week when I cried out, "Wait!"--I was yelling at the show. Tonight's episode built up such momentum that by the end, I wasn't ready for the ...
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True Blood: season 2, episode 3
Scratches
June 28, 2009 - 09:06p.m.
Just in case you thought Bon Temps might be getting a little boring, the True Blood writers have decided to throw another dart at the mythology-inspiration dartboard. Let's see, we've already got a maenad, a shapeshifter, a telepath ...
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True Blood: season 2, episode 2
"Keep This Party Going"
June 21, 2009 - 09:06p.m.
Hallelujah, they've still got it. After what I thought was a slow season première, the second episode of True Blood delivers on the promise of the first season. It struck a nice balance between humor and suspense, gave ...
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True Blood: season 2, episode 1
"Nothing But The Blood"
June 14, 2009 - 09:06p.m.
Hello, folks. I'll be taking over True Blood coverage for Scott Tobias this season, which finds a newly wavy-haired Sookie right where we left her--screaming her head off alongside Tara.
They're staring at a dead body hanging out ...
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True Blood: season 1, episode 12
"You'll Be The Death Of Me"
November 24, 2008 - 12:11a.m.
“Cajun Dialect For Actors”? Really, True Blood? That’s the best you can do?
It’s kind of amazing that Rene, a.k.a. Drew Marshall, has been able to kill fang-bangers for so long with his Big Box Of ...
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True Blood: season 1, episode 11
"To Love Is To Bury"
November 16, 2008 - 11:11p.m.
First off, many thanks to Josh Modell for filling in on last week’s write-up and doing an excellent job. For what it’s worth, I found myself agreeing entirely with his review after catching up with the 10th episode ...
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True Blood: season 1, episode 10
I Don't Wanna Know
November 10, 2008 - 01:11a.m.
Hi there. I'll be filling in for Scotty T. on tonight's episode of True Blood, because he was afraid that its awesomeness might overwhelm him. (Actually, he's just on vacation.) But don't expect much difference in ... -
True Blood: season 1, episode 9
"Plaisir D'Amour"
November 2, 2008 - 11:11p.m.
Wow. Nine episodes into the season, and True Blood finally looks like a show I’d voluntarily watch. Not that it’s a flawless show by any means, but the addition of Lizzy Caplan’s Amy and Stephen Root’s ...
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True Blood: season 1, episode 8
"The Fourth Man In The Fire"
October 26, 2008 - 10:10p.m.
First, a mea culpa: Last week, there was an explosion of hateration in the comment section over my review of that night’s episode. I sensed it was coming for a while, given my general disappointment with True Blood so ...
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True Blood: season 1, episode 7
"Burning House Of Love"
October 19, 2008 - 10:10p.m.
Okay, so I don’t want to spend too much time on this episode, which missed the mark again for me. (For those keeping score, I’ve liked two out of seven episodes.) I really hate to rag on the ...
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True Blood: season 1, episode 6
"Cold Ground"
October 12, 2008 - 10:10p.m.
So here’s the problem with an uneven, closer-to-bad-than-good TV series like True Blood: When you get to an episode that’s supposed to have you choking back tears, it ends up leaving you cold. Alan Ball and company have ...
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True Blood: season 1, episode 5
"Sparks Fly Out"
October 5, 2008 - 09:10p.m.
Oh, True Blood. Why can’t I quit you? (Beyond professional obligation, that is.)
After last week’s low water mark, I’d begun to think that True Blood was circling the drain, but lo and behold, it comes right ...
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True Blood: season 1, episode 4
"Escape From Dragon House"
September 28, 2008 - 07:09p.m.
Okay, now that was bad.
A week after True Blood started showing a little life, along comes a subplot that takes a lame Viagra joke and stretches it to nearly half the episode. You could almost see Jay Leno offscreen ...
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True Blood: season 1, episode 3
"Mine"
September 21, 2008 - 08:09p.m.
Okay, so True Blood put forth perhaps the strongest of the three episodes so far—strengths magnified, weaknesses relatively muted, a couple of good twists, nice atmosphere (courtesy of guest director John Dahl, of Red Rock West and The Last ...
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True Blood: season 1, episode 2
"The First Taste"
September 14, 2008 - 10:09p.m.
One of these days, perhaps True Blood will wrangle all of its potentially awesome elements—the impact of synthetic blood on vampire culture and vampire blood on humans, the scope of Southern history from pre-Civil War to the present, thick ...
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True Blood: season 1, episode 1
"Strange Love"
September 7, 2008 - 06:09p.m.
Hello, and welcome to the True Blood blog. I should start by establishing a baseline here: I’m dubious of Alan Ball. To me, his Oscar-winning screenplay for American Beauty is the weakest element of that movie, a cheap assortment ...
