TV review: True Blood, season five

This reviewer is talking out of his arse. He clearly has no respect for the genre and is as ignorant as any fool that thinks he can write a review could possibly be. The episode begins with Sookie clearing up mass body parts off her kitchen floor; ordinary much? I think not. It has Eric and his vampire sister having raw sex in a warehouse while Bill looks on, incestual and outrageous? Definitely. Jason gets one of the funniest ever declarations of intent i have ever laughed out loud at in any programme ever, "I am a proud, gay, vampire American" from the man whose wife he slept with, which has to be the best twist in the tale, when other programmes would have made him a hetero evil bible basher intent on revenge, but this was way funnier; the whole idea is to be OTT and outrageous and funny and push every boundary, with every supernatural thing in it you can bring, much in the same vein as Supernatural, Buffy, Angel, Warehouse 13, Sanctuary, and so on but with more sex, more fun, more attitude, more gay action, more black representation, more beautiful bodies, less clear definition between good and evil, and more escapism from the mess that is our world today. And for the reviewers-tragically​ deficient-informatio​n, a brujo is a voodoo priest. As for twists and cliffhangers at the end, when Tara, hater of vampires becomes the evillest vamp of them all? Not to mention good girl Sookie becoming murderous, swearing, and independent from all her previous admirers? Perfect, and about time too. 

"I'm surprised season four's absurd "witches vs vampires" storyline didn't frustrate more of the devout fans"

Ummm the devout fans read the Sookie Stackhouse books, which originally featured the aforementioned "frustrating" storyline...

How hard is it to do some research? Isn't that what journalism's all about?

This is a very bizar review. Dan Owen obviously doesn't know a lot about the show, the books and he obviously doesn't like supernatural stuff.

As for "Showrunner Alan Ball is trapped in a creative bubble, refusing to make the necessary changes to rescue True Blood - perhaps because he's only paying attention to the ratings."

Hmm. Firstly, being concerned about the ratings. Well, uh, yeah. If lots of people watch = going well. And he apppears to be sticking fairly closely to the books (although I've so far only read book 1 - opinion may change later), with basically some additions and a few minor changes.

If they had stuck to the books it would had been a different story. Please watch the TV as a late night trill but enjoy the books as a separate thing altogether.

Let's face it, women have so little to enjoy on TV now days apart from the run of the mill 'bread and circuses' stuff, we need the 4 good guys in this, and I don't count Jason, dumb don't do it for us adults, its a nice break from filling the dishwasher. However, ladies, read the books. Much better, I know the storylines would'ent make good TV, the USA could'ent handle most of the stuff in it, much too un pc, but the biggest thing they have got wrong is Sookie.

The actress, god bless her skinny little heart, is not the Sookie in the books. Ladies, read the books. Guy's, I know reading is a bit much for most of you, especially one handed.

Thanks MSN. I take it that it's a slow news day if you've got nothing better to do than just trash a show. It's this kind of moronic and baseless journalism that makes television showrunners like Kurt Sutter call you people c*ntbloggers instead of journalists. Mind you, you are representative of NBC (the competition) so it's presumably a good idea to undermine HBO shows by quoting a couple of those other nobody c*ntbloggers.