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Eclipsing even last summer's BBQ bacchanal involving an ancient spirit, the new season feels like one big undead sex party-a kinky alternate lifestyle where vampires and monsters do the nasty (and other violent acts) in roadhouses, backrooms, backwoods and the occasional antebellum mansion.
Jun 23, 2011
100
Every line, every reaction is perfectly pitched, every shift from humor to menace to seduction perfectly played.
Aug 1, 2011
100
True Blood works best when its freak flag flies--as long as its core characters are along for the ride.
Jun 6, 2012
100
A densely packed, well-paced gothic horror soap with surprisingly funny twists placed at the worst.
Jun 8, 2012
100
They've added a new element that makes it something I can finally (I'm sorry) sink my teeth into. They've added politics as blood sport.
91
True Blood is, if anything, faster, sleeker, more vicious, more fun that it already was. Yum-yum.
90
Graphically sexy and scary, and often wildly funny, True Blood, from Six Feet Under’s Alan Ball, turns Charlaine Harris’ rollicking mystery novels into a broadly entertaining, deliciously twisted slice of modern Southern Gothic.
90
After watching five episodes, I can say True Blood stands out as one of the strongest new series in an uncertain fall.
88
Part mystery, part fantasy, part comedy, and all wildly imaginative exaggeration, Blood proves that there's still vibrant life--or death--left in the "star-crossed lovers" paradigm.
