It’s hard to tell exactly what True Blood’s legacy will be. Will it be remembered as the sort-of sexy, sort-of gory,…
True Blood doesn’t have any story left to tell, not really. This final season has been largely plotless, relying…
Has a major character ever been treated with such disdain in the final season of a series as Tara has been treated…
Bill’s flashbacks have been a bit of a puzzler all season. They’re not particularly illuminating. They’re horribly…
It seems pretty appropriate that in True Blood’s final season, Sarah Newlin basically becomes God. She’s always been…
Here’s the thing about this episode of True Blood: it was terrible. Truly—and somewhat remarkably—awful. After last…
After season seven’s stagnant, almost insultingly banal beginning, this episode was like a breath of fresh air. True…
Good gravy, True Blood is terrible at killing people. This has the potential to be very unfortunate, because it…
It’s a bad sign for last week’s season premiere when this episode was a marked improvement, yet was still kind of…
“You’re a lost sheep, ain’t you?”
What in the fresh hell?
It seems so perfectly True Blood that one of the goriest, grossest episodes ever also featured a sweet, sincere…
True Blood is doing some interesting things this season—not entirely successfully, mind you—but interesting…
Let’s talk about flashbacks. Flashbacks have become a staple of vampire-themed shows—a colorful way to capitalize on…
True Blood has an astonishing ability to consistently undercut its more interesting, entertaining stories with truly…
Finally! This is what I’ve been waiting for all season: An episode that takes all of this improved story work and…
Overall, True Blood is a much better show this season—better in story, and significantly better in structure—yet…
Well, that was certainly an episode of television. True Blood does this at least a few times each season, these…
It’s probably not a great sign for True Blood when this quieter, more staid second episode is much easier to take…
True Blood’s storytelling style has forced the show to back itself into this weird corner where season premieres and…