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The Morning After: Faerie Tale

HBO’s True Blood returned last night with a season four premiere that expanded further on the show’s sexy-magic Southern gothic world: a little witchcraft, a little more vampire politics and a visit with Sookie to a Faerie world/prison that looked a bit like the world’s cheesiest gallery opening party. True Blood lost me after its [...]

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+Uncategorized | 619 days ago

True Blood Watch: Fractured Fairy Tales

By James Poniewozik

A little heads-up for the morning and the rest of the day: There was a hell of a lot of TV Sunday night—the VMAs, Rubicon, Mad Men, the season finales of HBO’s Hung, True Blood and Entourage—and I’ll have to get to what I can, when I can, especially since I need to get up [...]

+Uncategorized | 682 days ago

Ah-ooooooo! Werewolves of Louisiana

By James Poniewozik

As I mentioned before, I’m not enough of a True Blood cultist to do a weekly review, but one thing I have enjoyed about season 3 so far is the show’s depiction of werewolves and werewolf culture: namely, how it’s depicted this breed of shape-shifter as lustily and unapologetically animal. In the above clip, Alan [...]

+702 days ago

Not Really News Dept.: A Fourth Season for True Blood

By James Poniewozik

Having gotten the formality of the third-season premiere out of the way, HBO officially picked up its biggest hit, True Blood, for a fourth season. It’s interesting to see where HBO has gone since the days—way back in 2008—of True Blood’s premiere. The writers’ strike had just ended, The Sopranos was gone, shows like Tell [...]

+Uncategorized | 703 days ago

The Morning After: Gypsies, Vamps and Thieves

By James Poniewozik

When I visited the set of Community last summer, creator Dan Harmon had recently gotten the unwelcome new that his show was going to be slotted against The CW’s Vampire Diaries. For some reason, this sent him into a riff about an idea for his new show a drama about Italian mobster vampires: “Madonn’, I’m [...]

+Music | 706 days ago

Snoop to Sookie: I Want to Do Bad Things With You

By James Poniewozik

One thing I’ve always loved about Snoop Dogg is his determination not to take himself too seriously, without making a joke of himself. Here, Snoop declares his love for Miss Sookie Stackhouse in the way that only he can, offering to be the gin and juice to her True Blood. Oh, and just for the [...]

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TV Weekend: Thrice Bitten

By James Poniewozik

The second season of HBO’s True Blood ended on a cliffhanger, as vampire Bill asked mortal-or-mostly-mortal (I think) Sookie (a.k.a. “Suh-key”) for her hand in marriage, then disappeared after she asked for a minute alone to think. The first three episodes of True Blood’s season 3 arrived a while back, with the entirely reasonable request [...]

+Television | 869 days ago

HBO Adds to Stable With Milch, Mann Horse Drama

By James Poniewozik

David Milch is back in business with HBO, this time writing Luck, a drama pilot, to be directed by Michael Mann, about horse racing. There’s no guarantee that the pilot will become a series—since making Deadwood and John from Cincinnati, Milch made the HBO cop pilot Last of the Ninth, which never made it to [...]

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