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New trailer for True Blood season 6

June 11, 2013 The Spoilist 0

The world is changing and we have to change with it

Teaser trailer for season 2 of Aaron Sorkin’s The Newsroom

April 16, 2013 The Spoilist 0

Someone has switched the lights back on over on the Newsnight set

Boardwalk Empire S03E03: Bone For Tuna

October 2, 2012 Dave Coates 0

Death, boobs and thematic unity? Damn straight. It can only be Boardwalk Empire.

Boardwalk Empire S03E02: Spaghetti and Coffee

September 27, 2012 Dave Coates 0

After a competent, scene-setting and occasionally flat-footed premiere that (quite understandably) felt the need to rearrange itself narratively and substantially change the playing field, this episode started to break new ground for the show.

True Blood Finale S05E12: Save Yourself

August 29, 2012 Dave Coates 0

In a lot of ways the title of the True Blood season 5 finale is absolutely accurate. This has been an incredibly hit-and-miss season, full of charming little details and crushing disappointments and a substantial supply of who-gives-a-craps.

True Blood S05E10: Gone, Gone, Gone

August 15, 2012 Dave Coates 3

This week’s True Blood is subtitled ‘How to Say Goodbye to a Series Regular Without Killing Him/Her Off and Remaining True to the Relationships and Internal Logic of your Stupid Vampire Soap Opera’.

True Blood S05E09: Everybody Wants to Rule the World

August 12, 2012 Dave Coates 0

This week True Blood finally gets its sculpted ass in gear and wraps up some of its B-plots, presumably in preparation for the all-out clusterfart that this year’s finale is almost certainly going to be.

True Blood S05E08: Somebody That I Used To Know

July 30, 2012 Dave Coates 0

It’s like the grown-ups stormed back into the apartment where they cook True Blood and got a dramatic close-up and said ‘playtime’s over kids, this is how we make a TV show about vampires.’

True Blood S05E07: In The Beginning

July 24, 2012 Dave Coates 0

True Blood has gone so very far beyond the reaches of even its own half-hearted attempts at maintaining the rules of its own fictional universe, and is making some bloody odd decisions to boot. Incidentally I found a tumblr post that sums things up pretty good. Thisweek’s good: Sassy Sookie, Arlene’s Wedding Video, Sam Is A Dog; this week’s bad: just about everything else.

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True Blood S05E06: Hopeless

July 17, 2012 Dave Coates 0

Good news you guys, True Blood is totally in on the joke, this week at least. There was an unusual density of self-aware wtfery from characters and performers alike, plus the whole episode is called “Hopeless”. If TB is trolling here, then fair play, we all agreed to hop on board this fruity trainwreck, let’s keep on truckin. Good things this week: Lafayette, Eric/Alcide, RUSSELL; bad: Tara, werewolves, fairies, Iraq, oh my.