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