Alan Ball launched "True Blood" as a romantic horror show, laced with caustic wit and social satire (vampires were finally "coming out" of their coffins around the world, demanding equal rights). H...
One way to tell the season of "True Blood" is almost over: only half the scenes in this week's episode felt like tiresome dead ends, compared to the usual 75-80%. "Sunset" was all about setting up ...
Here's something different: an unusually focused hour of "True Blood" that connected the dots between (almost) all of its various storylines.
No Ifrit. No hate group. No wolf pack. While the result was s...
If last week's cliffhanger was a bit ambiguous -- did Bill's suggestion to blow up all the Tru Blood factories signal a genuine shift to the dark side, or did he have something bigger up his sleeve? -- this week seeme...
"True Blood" has already passed the point of no return to salvage this season. We're stuck with the storylines we've got, and most of them are lemons. But at least now that we're heading into the final four ...
We're halfway through "True Blood" season five, and we get the first episode written by series creator Alan Ball. It's an action-packed hour with a shocking cliffhanger, and yet it's also emblematic of every...
Still rivals for Sookie's heart, the vampire hero and bad boy teamed up to take out Nan Flanagan (Jessica Tuck) whose selfish choices as a member of the Vampire Authority escalated the havoc wreaked by season four's b...
Joe Manganiello is back as Alcide when HBO's "True Blood" returns on Sunday, June 10.
The quick and obligatory prelude, which is the same as the prelude that came before the Worst of 2011 Firewall & Iceberg Podcast: I watch lots of TV that's bad, but doesn't especially upset me, because it has...
I bailed on "American Horror Story" a half-dozen or so episodes into the first season. Just not for me. But my professional curiosity - coupled with a lack of original viewing options last night - led me t...
