Swamp Fang True Blood Season One Overview HBO, Sundays, 9 PM Creator and Executive Producer: Alan Ball They’re everywhere. Moonlight, Twilight, Blood Ties and True Blood — it seems as if, as Charlaine Harris’ Southern Vampire Mysteries series posits — vampires have actually come out of the coffin for real. 30 Days of Night cleaned up at the box office, and vampires rule in the Underworld series of movies. They’re threatening to send aging shows like Medium and Ghost Whisperer back to the cemetery. HBO’s series True Blood, based on Harris’ series about Louisiana vampires, debuted at a measly 1.44…
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Terra Nova: “The Runaway”
Coming Home Terra Nova Fox Network, Mondays, 8 PM “The Runaway” Written by Barbara Marshall Directed by Jon Cassar “What’s in the box that’s so important?” – Jim In my last review I was writing Terra Nova off as an artistic failure. Now, I think there’s hope. In what is, so far, the best episode of the season, we finally get some realistic dialogue, action and plotting. We even get some scary moments with dinosaurs, who continue to be the most elusive and believable characters on this show. This episode takes a cliched story and humanizes it, finally using the talents established…