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TV: True Blood

True Blood 4.09: “Let’s Get Out of Here”

September 30, 2011
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Note: The following review contains spoilers for all aired episodes of True Blood, including the most recent, “Let’s Get Out of Here.” All in all, “Let’s Get Out of Here” is a mostly solid episode of True Blood with an extremely moving performance by Nelsan Ellis and such an extremely suspenseful cliffhanger, I’m honestly not sure [...]

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True Blood 4.08: “Spellbound”

August 15, 2011
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Note: The following review contains spoilers for all aired episodes of True Blood, including the most recent, “Spellbound.” It seems that a great deal of people seem to have been extremely pleased with last night’s episode of True Blood, and I completely agree that there is some great material here. The episode-ending battle is as [...]

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True Blood 4.07: “Cold Grey Light of Dawn”

August 14, 2011
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Note: The following review contains spoilers for all aired episodes of True Blood, including the most recent, “Cold Grey Light of Dawn.” I haven’t had the time this week that I would have liked to write my review for the latest episode of True Blood, but since the new one is airing tonight, I want [...]

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True Blood 4.06: “I Wish I Was the Moon”

August 1, 2011
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Note: The following review contains spoilers for all aired episodes of True Blood, including the most recent, “I Wish I Was the Moon.” Last night’s True Blood was one of those transitional episodes of the series that has a number of absolutely fantastic moments but which overall comes across as a bit anticlimactic, given the events [...]

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True Blood 4.05: “Me and the Devil”

July 25, 2011
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Note: The following review contains spoilers for all aired episodes of True Blood, including the most recent, “Me and the Devil.” After last week’s very good but not stupendous True Blood episode, last night’s truly knocked my socks off, following in the series’ tradition that as a season starts to near its halfway point (can you [...]

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True Blood 4.04: “I’m Alive and On Fire”

July 24, 2011
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Note: The following review contains spoilers for all aired episodes of True Blood, including the most recent, “I’m Alive and On Fire.” In a show that is full of dark and disturbing, I found this to be one of the more dark and disturbing True Bloods in a long time, not to say that it [...]

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True Blood 4.03: “If You Love Me, Why Am I Dyin’?”

July 11, 2011
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Note: The following review contains spoilers for all aired episodes of True Blood, including the most recent, “If You Love Me, Why Am I Dyin’?” Episodes like this one remind me all over again why I love True Blood so much (as if I needed reminding). It brought the hilarious self-referential humor (I’d like to [...]

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True Blood 4.02: “You Smell Like Dinner”

July 9, 2011
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Note: The following review contains spoilers for all aired episodes of True Blood, including the most recent, “You Smell Like Dinner.” I very much enjoyed True Blood‘s season premiere, but as has become a habit for the series, the second episode completely blows it out of the water. “She’s Not There” laid the groundwork, set [...]

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True Blood 4.01: “She’s Not There”

July 7, 2011
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Note: The following review contains spoilers for all aired episodes of True Blood, including the most recent, “She’s Not There.” What I love most about True Blood‘s fourth season premiere, “She’s Not There,” is how uncompromisingly itself it is. Over the course of the hour, it swings from fantastical faerie magic to dark, supernatural drama [...]

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True Blood 3.12: “Evil Is Going On”

September 14, 2010
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Note: The following review contains spoilers for all aired episodes of True Blood, including the most recent, “Evil Is Going On.” True Blood season finales always seem to polarize fans, with roughly half extolling its brilliance while the other half bemoans its failure to live up to their expectations.  I’m in the former camp for [...]

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