D-Season 7True Blood: “Thank You”Carrie Raisler8/24/14 10:58pmSaveEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkIt’s hard to tell exactly what True Blood’s legacy will be. Will it be remembered as the sort-of sexy, sort-of gory,…
C-Season 7True Blood: “Love Is To Die”Carrie Raisler8/17/14 10:20pmSaveEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkTrue Blood doesn’t have any story left to tell, not really. This final season has been largely plotless, relying mostly…
DSeason 7True Blood: “Almost Home”Carrie Raisler8/10/14 10:45pmSaveEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkHas a major character ever been treated with such disdain in the final season of a series as Tara has been treated by …
C-Season 7True Blood: “May Be The Last Time”Carrie Raisler8/03/14 10:28pmSaveEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkBill’s flashbacks have been a bit of a puzzler all season. They’re not particularly illuminating. They’re horribly…
BSeason 7True Blood: “Karma”Carrie Raisler7/27/14 10:24pmSaveEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkIt seems pretty appropriate that in True Blood’s final season, Sarah Newlin basically becomes God. She’s always been…
DSeason 7True Blood: “Lost Cause”Carrie Raisler7/20/14 10:03pmSaveEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkHere’s the thing about this episode of True Blood: it was terrible. Truly—and somewhat remarkably—awful. After last…
B+Season 7True Blood: “Death Is Not The End”Carrie Raisler7/13/14 10:13pmSaveEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkAfter season seven’s stagnant, almost insultingly banal beginning, this episode was like a breath of fresh air. True…
CSeason 7True Blood: “Fire In The Hole”Carrie Raisler7/06/14 10:41pmSaveEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkGood gravy, True Blood is terrible at killing people. This has the potential to be very unfortunate, because it appears…
C+Season 7True Blood: “I Found You”Carrie Raisler6/29/14 9:00pmSaveEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkIt’s a bad sign for last week’s season premiere when this episode was a marked improvement, yet was still kind of awful…
C-Season 7True Blood: “Jesus Gonna Be Here”Carrie Raisler6/22/14 9:00pmSaveEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalink“You’re a lost sheep, ain’t you?”
D-Season 6True Blood: “Radioactive”AV Club Staff8/18/13 10:15pmSaveEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkWhat in the fresh hell?
A-Season 6True Blood: “Life Matters”Carrie Raisler8/11/13 10:50pmSaveEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkIt seems so perfectly True Blood that one of the goriest, grossest episodes ever also featured a sweet, sincere…
BSeason 6True Blood: “Dead Meat”Carrie Raisler8/04/13 9:00pmSaveEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkTrue Blood is doing some interesting things this season—not entirely successfully, mind you—but interesting…
C+Season 6True Blood: “In The Evening”Carrie Raisler7/28/13 9:00pmSaveEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkLet’s talk about flashbacks. Flashbacks have become a staple of vampire-themed shows—a colorful way to capitalize on…
B+Season 6True Blood: “Don't You Feel Me?”Carrie Raisler7/21/13 10:00pmSaveEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkTrue Blood has an astonishing ability to consistently undercut its more interesting, entertaining stories with truly…
A-Season 6True Blood: “Fuck The Pain Away”Carrie Raisler7/14/13 9:00pmSaveEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkFinally! This is what I’ve been waiting for all season: An episode that takes all of this improved story work and world…
B-Season 6True Blood: “At Last”Carrie Raisler7/07/13 9:00pmSaveEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkOverall, True Blood is a much better show this season—better in story, and significantly better in structure—yet…
C+Season 6True Blood: “You're No Good”Carrie Raisler6/30/13 9:00pmSaveEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkWell, that was certainly an episode of television. True Blood does this at least a few times each season, these strange…
B-Season 6True Blood: “The Sun”Carrie Raisler6/23/13 9:00pmSaveEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkIt’s probably not a great sign for True Blood when this quieter, more staid second episode is much easier to take than…
C+Season 6True Blood: “Who Are You, Really?”Carrie Raisler6/16/13 9:00pmSaveEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkTrue Blood’s storytelling style has forced the show to back itself into this weird corner where season premieres and…
