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True Blood returns for a sixth season of twisted sex, bloody gore and political shenanigans. So how will this show go on without the calming <snicker> hand of creator Alan Ball (who stepped down to focus on his new series, Banshee)?
Judging from the first episode, it’s business as usual.
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Well, we were promised a bloodbath! And since this is True Blood – the show that has yet to kill off a main character – we probably should have known that our favourites were safe. So what did ‘Save Yourself’ do right…and what didn’t work quite as well?
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It’s a race to the finish for True Blood: with only two episodes remaining, the death toll is really starting to ratchet-up.
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We’re hurtling towards the climax of S5 of True Blood and the show is desperately trying to pull its disparate storylines together. With only three episodes left, how’s that working out?
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Boy…is that ever a long episode of True Blood? Oh sure, the run time is no longer than usual, but it sure feels long. Thankfully several of the series’ more frustrating stories are wrapped up, which means the remaining S5 episodes should be able to focus on the meaty stuff.
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With its eighth episode, True Blood reaches the 2/3 mark for the season. Unlike last season, however, the vamp drama shows no signs of coalescing its many, many storylines into something cohesive as we continue to balance roughly a gillion plots and characters.
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