Twist Ending True Blood HBO 9/10c PM, Sundays “Beautifully Broken” Written by Raelle Tucker Directed by Scott Winant “It makes me feel disturbingly human.” —Eric No matter how far vampires get from the human natures they were born with, some things appear to be hardwired into the primate psyche. One of those things is hierarchy and dominance. Tonight we got a glimpse of the more overt expression of this drive among vampires, as we meet the King of Mississippi, Russell Edgington (Denis O’Hare, The Good Wife). He might more accurately be called the Queen of Mississippi; despite his haut ton riding attire and impeccably…
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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…