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True Blood: “Bad Blood”

First Kill True Blood HBO 8/9c PM, Tuesdays “Bad Blood” Written by Brian Buckner Directed by Daniel Minahan “This kind of moral anarchy cannot be allowed.” —The Magister Leave it to Alan Ball to make a vampire the voice of family values. In the Season Three opener for True Blood, the return to reason we might have expected after the chaos wrought by a maenad in last season’s climax is completely derailed. But whereas last year’s events were largely the work of supernatural forces, this year the driving forces behind the bubbling chaos in Bon Temps are all too human. “I hate…

True Blood: “Beyond Here Lies Nothin'”

Not With a Bang, But a Whimper True Blood HBO, Sundays, 9 PM “Beyond Here Lies Nothin’” Written by Alexander Woo Directed by Michael Cuesta Well, I certainly never expected anything like that to happen here! —Lady at Merlotte’s Bar Yes, and she ought to know—that lady sitting at the bar talking to Sam in the last 20 minutes of this season finale was none other than Charlaine Harris herself, author of the Sookie Stackhouse novels on which True Blood is based. Since the major storyline of this season—Maryann the Maenad—was vastly expanded from a minor subplot in one of…