Today over at MSN TV, my old review of TRUE BLOOD's fifth season premiere has been reproduced in an abridged format. So if you somehow couldn't manage to read 1,100 words about "Turn! Turn! Turn" three months ago when it aired on HBO, you can hopefully manage the 500 words for its UK debut on FX.
"True Blood has been bad longer than it was ever good. Season one's excellent Southern Gothic murder-mystery seems like a lifetime ago, as the show's since morphed into a gory supernatural soap that hates its human characters and doesn't know what to do with the paranormal ones. In this uneven premiere, it performed its annual trick of rescinding plot-threads dangling from the previous year, putting others on a back burner, and inching the remainder forward only slightly." Continue reading...
