Enough With the Whiny Vampires Already
How much more can an exhausted pop culture take, after the Twilight phenom and its never-ending cavalcade of Walmart-ready tchotkes?
How much more can an exhausted pop culture take, after the Twilight phenom and its never-ending cavalcade of Walmart-ready tchotkes?
AP | LISA A. FLAM | Posted 10.29.2009 | Style
NEW YORK — So, you admire the fashions of popular TV characters. Do you want to dress just like them? This fall, you can if you favor the slim ...
Greg Archer | Posted 10.26.2009 | Entertainment
Vampire shows, vampire films -- they're all around. The nation loves them and the love affair doesn't show any signs of fading.
Maggie Van Ostrand | Posted 10.23.2009 | Living
Where once the King of Halloween confection was Candy Corn -- selling 8.3 billion kernels a year -- planners of today's Halloween parties lobby their new faves: the latest in gross and disgusting party food.
Warren Holstein | Posted 09.30.2009 | Comedy
We don't care if this isn't our grandfather's instant coffee, it reminds us of our grandfather (who was last spotted hollering about health care at a town hall meeting due to a combination of dementia and Glenn Beck).
Mr. Skin | Posted 09.22.2009 | Style
Explosions and mechanical mayhem have supplanted plot and character at the movies and thus, the simple art of storytelling has moved into living rooms. Where plots develop and characters grow, sex happens.
Mark Blankenship | Posted 11.13.2009 | Entertainment
Seasons can't go on forever, and "Beyond Here Lies' Nothin'" sends True Blood out in style.
Tom Alderman | Posted 11.10.2009 | Entertainment
If fiction often reflects a nation's culture, why, oh-why-oh, do we have so many vampires, in so many places, sucking up so many entertainment dollars with such blazing success today?
Mike Ragogna | Posted 10.23.2009 | Entertainment
With the release of stereo and mono box sets, individual album reissues, and their own edition of Rock Band, The Beatles finally have stepped into the 21st century in a major way.
Susie Bright | Posted 10.19.2009 | Entertainment
eBtween the pandemonium over Twilight and True Blood, there's been renewed interest in why horror and sex have made a comeback in each other's arms.
Mark Blankenship | Posted 09.30.2009 | Entertainment
I can forgive my favorite shows when they have a bad episode or two. And I'll definitely have to forgive True Blood for this week's installment, "Frenzy." It's pretty much a disaster.
Huffington Post | Katy Hall | Posted 09.27.2009 | Entertainment
Evan Rachel Wood joins the cast of 'True Blood' Sunday as 1,100-year-old vampire Queen Sophie-Anne. Who will she get naked with? E! has the story. O...
Broadcasting & Cable | Posted 09.25.2009 | Media
Vampire series True Blood on Sunday night captured HBO's largest audience outside of The Sopranos in more than five years....
Huffington Post | Katy Hall | Posted 09.24.2009 | Entertainment
In the new issue of Nylon, Anna Paquin dishes about onscreen sex scenes with her 'True Blood' costar and real-life fiance, Stephen Moyer. You can re...
Mark Blankenship | Posted 09.16.2009 | Entertainment
What can I say? I wasn't feeling it tonight. "I Will Rise Up" has a few Sucker Punches, but it mostly functions as a placeholder.
Mark Blankenship | Posted 09.09.2009 | Entertainment
Iximng ti pu. See what I did there? I took the phrase "mixing it up," and I mixed it up. That's because True Blood episode 2.8, "Timebomb," mixes up the meaning of two central metaphors. (I know, right? I'm so clever!)
people.com | Stephen M. Silverman | Posted 09.05.2009 | Entertainment
It's true love for True Blood couple Anna Paquin and Stephen Moyer. The two are engaged to be married, reps for both actors on the HBO vampire series ...
Mike Alvear | Posted 09.03.2009 | Entertainment
There's a rash of plunging necklines across the country as women (and men) try to bait the dark eroticism they see in Alexander Skarsgard, the vampire Eric Northman on HBO's True Blood.
Mark Blankenship | Posted 09.02.2009 | Entertainment
Are you serious, True Blood? Are you really going to spring Godric on me in the last moment of Episode 7 ("Release Me") and then cut to the credits? D
Huffington Post | Posted 08.27.2009 | Green
True Blood co-stars Anna Paquin and Stephen Moyer took a break from their steamy on-and-off screen romance to cool off with two-month-old Magellanic p...
Mark Blankenship | Posted 08.26.2009 | Entertainment
There are so many sucker-punchy scenes in this installment that I could get carpal tunnel syndrome writing about them all.
Mark Blankenship | Posted 08.20.2009 | Entertainment
Welcome to Sucker Punch, the only blog post that ranks the gaudiest moments on this week's episode of True Blood.
Ed Martin | Posted 08.17.2009 | Entertainment
There may be some whoppers, but as I scan the lists of nominees in each category it occurs to me that there are few (if any) nominees this year that do not deserve to be included.
AP | DAVID BAUDER | Posted 08.14.2009 | Media
NEW YORK — Much to its relief, HBO has finally discovered that there's life after "The Sopranos" and "Sex and the City." The pay cable network,...
New York Times | BILL CARTER | Posted 08.13.2009 | Media
The slump at HBO is apparently over. In "True Blood," the pay cable giant has its first hit since "Rome," and the numbers indicate it may be the bigg...
Mark Morford | Posted 10.30.2009 | Entertainment