Posts Tagged‘tv reviews’

True Blood: “Hard Hearted Hannah”

Orgy Porky True Blood HBO, Sundays, 9 PM “Hard Hearted Hannah” Written by Brian Buckner Directed by Michael Lehmann “I don’t like drums. They only lead to cults and hippies.” —Sam By the end of this episode of True Blood, I needed some of Terry Bellefleur’s (Todd Lowe, Gilmore Girls) post-traumatic stress counseling. I could definitely have used a big ball of warm, yellow comfort. Most episodes of this show end with someone screaming; the big difference this time was that I was screaming along with Sam Merlotte. “Complacency” is definitely not a word in Alan Ball’s vocabulary. There’s never…

True Blood: “Never Let Me Go”

The Incredible Shrinking Vampire True Blood HBO, Sundays, 9 PM “Never Let Me Go” Written by Nancy Oliver Directed by John Dahl “Wherever I am, there will always be women.” —Eric Let me get this straight: Vampire Bill, the heir to over two hundred years of vampire-as-seducer tradition, the direct literary descendant of Lord Byron himself, is in bed with a willing blonde and wants to cuddle? Cuddle? Count Dracula, not to mention Lord Ruthven, would turn over in his coffin. When did vampires start readingCosmo? Last season, Bill was a charming relic of the antebellum South, with courtly manners…