True Blood -4×6- I Wish I Was The Moon

 How is it that Tara, who was so terrified just the night before is now strolling around at night, showing her girlfriend around like they're at Disney World? I can almost see her doing it during the day, but shouldn't she have then been like, "Um, we gotta get the hell outta here before nightfall. Big scary vampires wanna kill me." She knows Eric is in town and not missing, and she knew Pam would be pissed too. So...why is she just hanging out at night? Why not at least be inside Lafayette's house, where vamps couldn't enter? 


Jessica and Jason were the best part of the show.

I've over sweet, memory-less Eric. Ready for him to turn back into his bad-ass self now.

I think the actor who plays Sam did a great job being Tommy. Tommy is a dick, but at the same time, he fired Sookie, so I can't hate him completely. I also liked that he seem genuinely hurt by what Maxine said. Interesting that his shift to Sam wasn't deliberate.

Alcide, grow some balls. That is all.


Bill is a douche, but I knew he wouldn't kill Eric.

I did kind of like Andy getting a date. It was kind of cute. If only he weren't an addict, he might actually be a good prospect for Holly.

I actually felt bad for Arlene despite myself. She may think she has a devil baby, but it's clear she loves him. She was frantic when she thought Mikey was still in the house.

Thundercats Season 1 Ep 1&2 The Sword Of Omens

Very interesting. It's a bit of an overhaul, and I'm betting that it'll cause friction amongst the fandom. What's your poison: an elite group crash-landing on Third Earth (where did that name come from?), led by an all-powerful man-child . . . or a kingdom of humanoid cats (don't call 'em furries, don't call 'em furries, don't . . .) that have been on Third Earth for generations? Well, if I can roll with Transformers: Prime (CGI robots, five Autobots total) and G.I. Joe: Renegades (Cobra as a powerful concern, a bunch of "Joes" hunted by the government), I think I can deal with the new status quo.

So far, it's hitting most of the notes. Lion-O as a teen that's interested in the obscure stuff called "technology"? Check. Villain voiced by Clancy Brown? If I'm not wrong about that . . . check. Anime'd-up Snarf that's cute anddoesn't say anything beyond what an Earth cat would? Check. I do have to ask . . . was Tigra an asshole back in the day? I only remember bits and pieces, including the time he got strung out on drugs, but I was probably too busy thinking Snarf was annoying. And I'm betting Panthro is out there, so that's something to look forward to.

True Blood -4×5- Me and The Devil

Loved tonight's episode! My favorite scene was hands down the Jessica, Hoyt and Jason dream! That was so well written and played out. Loved the return of Lettie Mae and the Reverend. She actually got him to marry her? Wow! That whole cleansing the house was quite hilarious.

Tommy killing his parents was also very well played out. I was just as worried as Sam when Andy went to open the back of the Van. Tommy thinks really well on his feet. That gator was a big shock. Loved him actually being torn up that he accidentally killed that no count mother of his. It showed he can still be redeemable and isn't a pure sociopath. I was really surprised that Sam didn't hesitate to help him, but I guess that's just second nature to him.

Love, love, love Tara. I don't care! She's the only real character left on this show. She's the real human reaction to the crazy situations that this town provides. This show needs that and her on it. She spoke the truth to Sookie. She couldn't even deny it. Why does that make her annoying? I'll never understand that train of thought.

I was indifferent to the whole Eric and Sookie kiss. I'm just ready for them to do it, so that we can move on already. It's getting too Twilight-ish for me. I just have never cared about Sookie and her merry troop of men and who she'll end up with.

We now see Antonia has every right to hate vampires. Even while burning at the stake she sent thousands of vampires to their death. Wow. So, we're to assume those were the vampires day walkers carrying out their orders that burned her at the stake in the sunlight. I can't wait to see their full evolution.

Bill and Pam make for a great dynamic on screen together. Loved their scenes together. I think that was Antonia that Bill was speaking to and not Marnie. I don't think Marnie was being glamoured.

Reel Review : Captain America

Plot :  After being deemed unfit for military service, Steve Rogers volunteers for a top secret research project that turns him into Captain America, a superhero dedicated to defending America's ideals.

True Blood -4×4- I’m Alive And On Fire

Thank God Uncle Daddy Felton is dead. I just don't think I could have delt with both Joe-Lee and Felton at the same time.

Jason is FREE! Yay! Damn that seemed like forever, even though it was only a couple of days. I did feel bad for the young girl though. Crystal is such a bitch I have no doubt she going to be severely punished for setting him free. There better not be any cubs to draw him back to Hot-Shot.Just a feeling that Jessica feeding him her blood might have unintended consequences.


Hah, Bill just fucked his greatxhowever-many granddaughter! And you thought incest was just for Hotshot!


Marnie/Creeper witch is a bad bitch! Pam had that coming. Poor Pam my ass. You act arrogant towards a witch that took on your maker of a thousand years and don't expect for her to turn on you? Foolish! She had it coming. I'm glad that Tara didn't flinch or flake out when Pam was ordering them around. Good for Lafayette for finding his balls for a minute, but quickly hiding behind Tara when he got scared again! Lol.


Sam and Luna. I still don't know how I feel about these two an it better pick up soon before I don't care.


I'm loving Eric this season. It has nothing to do with the Eric/Sookie thing either. I just love the dichotomy of seeing a vampire realize his imperfections and what he's lost in all of the centuries that he had forgotten about being human. To imagine seeing light for the first time in a thousand years was very well played.

Reel Review : Horrible Bosses

Plot: Three friends conspire to murder their awful bosses when they realize they are standing in the way of their happiness.

Reel Review: Harry Potter & The Deathly Hallows Part 2

Plot: The final chapter begins as Harry, Ron, and Hermione continue their quest of finding and destroying the Dark Lord's three remaining Horcruxes, the magical items responsible for his immortality. But as the mystical Deathly Hallows are uncovered, and Voldemort finds out about their mission, the biggest battle begins and life as they know it will never be the same again

Emmy Nominations 2011

The 2011 Emmy Nominations were announced earlier this morning and as usual the Academy rights some wrongs ( Friday Night Lights finally scoring a best drama nomination), but some remain out in the cold ( Community, Cougartown). The full list of nominees are below.

OUTSTANDING DRAMA
Boardwalk Empire
Dexter
Friday Night Lights
Game of Thrones
The Good Wife
Mad Men

OUTSTANDING ACTRESS IN A DRAMA
Kathy Bates, Harry’s Law
Connie Britton, Friday Night Lights
Mireille Enos, The Killing
Mariska Hargitay, Law & Order: SVU
Julianna Margulies, The Good Wife
Elisabeth Moss, Mad Men

OUTSTANDING ACTOR IN A DRAMA
Steve Buscemi, Boardwalk Empire
Kyle Chandler, Friday Night Lights
Michael C. Hall, Dexter
Jon Hamm, Mad Men
Hugh Laurie, House
Timothy Olyphant, Justified

OUTSTANDING SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A DRAMA
Peter Dinklage, Game of Thrones
Josh Charles, The Good Wife
Alan Cumming, The Good Wife
Walton Goggins, Justified
John Slattery, Mad Men
Andrew Braugher, Men of a Certain Age

OUTSTANDING SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN A DRAMA
Kelly Macdonald, Boardwalk Empire
Archie Panjabi, The Good Wife
Christine Baranski, The Good Wife
Margo Martindale, Justified
Michelle Forbes, The Killing
Christina Hendricks, Mad Men

OUTSTANDING GUEST ACTOR IN A DRAMA
Bruce Dern, Big Love
Beau Bridges, Brothers & Sisters
Michael J. Fox, The Good Wife
Paul McCrane, Harry’s Law
Jeremy Davies, Justified
Robert Morse, Mad Men

OUTSTANDING GUEST ACTRESS IN A DRAMA
Mary McDonnell, The Closer
Julia Stiles, Dexter
Loretta Devine, Grey’s Anatomy
Randee Heller, Man Men
Cara Buono, Mad Men
Joan Cusack, Shameless
Alfre Woodard, True Blood

OUTSTANDING COMEDY
The Big Bang Theory
Glee
Modern Family
The Office
Parks and Recreation
30 Rock

OUTSTANDING ACTRESS IN A COMEDY
Edie Falco, Nurse Jackie
Tina Fey, 30 Rock
Laura Linney, The Big C
Melissa McCarthy, Mike & Molly
Martha Plimpton, Raising Hope
Amy Poehler, Parks and Recreation

OUTSTANDING ACTOR IN A COMEDY
Alec Baldwin, 30 Rock
Louis C.K., Louie
Steve Carell, The Office
Johnny Galecki, The Big Bang Theory
Matt LeBlanc, Episodes
Jim Parsons, The Big Bang Theory

OUTSTANDING SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A COMEDY
Chris Colfer, Glee
Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Modern Family
Ed O’Neill, Modern Family
Eric Stonestreet, Modern Family
Ty Burrell, Modern Family
Jon Cryer, Two and a Half Men

OUTSTANDING SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN A COMEDY
Jane Lynch, Glee
Betty White, Hot In Cleveland
Julie Bowen, Modern Family
Sofia Vergara, Modern Family
Kristen Wiig, Saturday Night Live
Jane Krakowski, 30 Rock

OUTSTANDING GUEST ACTOR IN A COMEDY
Idris Elba, The Big C
Nathan Lane, Modern Family
Zach Galifianakis, Saturday Night Live
Justin Timberlake, Saturday Night Live
Matt Damon, 30 Rock
Will Arnett, 30 Rock

OUTSTANDING GUEST ACTRESS IN A COMEDY
Kristin Chenoweth, Glee
Dot-Marie Jones, Glee
Gwyneth Paltrow, Glee
Cloris Leachman, Raising Hope
Tina Fey, Saturday Night Live
Elizabeth Banks, 30 Rock

OUTSTANDING REALITY SHOW HOST
Phil Keoghan, The Amazing Race
Ryan Seacrest, American Idol
Tom Bergeron, Dancing With the Stars
Cat Deeley, So You Think You Can Dance
Jeff Probst, Survivor

OUTSTANDING REALITY SHOW COMPETITION
The Amazing Race, CBS
American Idol, Fox
Dancing With the Stars, ABC
Project Runway, Lifetime
So You Think You Can Dance, Fox
Top Chef, Bravo

OUTSTANDING VARIETY, MUSIC, OR COMEDY SERIES
The Colbert Report, Comedy Central
Conan, TBS
The Daily Show With Jon Stewart, Comedy Central
Late Night With Jimmy Fallon, NBC
Real Time With Bill Maher, HBO
Saturday Night Live, NBC

OUTSTANDING TV MINISERIES OR MOVIE
Cinema Verite, HBO
Downton Abbey, PBS
The Kennedys, ReelzChannel
Mildred Pierce, HBO
The Pillars of the Earth, Starz
Too Big To Fail, HBO

The 2011 Emmys will air on September 18th with Jane Lynch hosting. 

True Blood -4×3- If You Love Me, Why Am I Dyin’?

I loathe, abhor, detest, revile, cannot cannot cannot stand the Hotshot "propagating the species," AKA mass rape, storyline. Absolutely hate it. It's gross and frankly, scary. I know this is a show about vampires and weres and whatnot, and lots of people have died violently, but I haven't found anything scary until this. And not "jump scary," not fun to watch scary just scary. And I repeat, gross. Ryan Kwanten deserves better.


Jessica glamouring Hoyt was particularly sad and I feel like that's not going to end well. Is Mrs. Fortenberry leaving all those creepy dolls around? And why the hell would you want your baby, evil or not, playing with a doll like that?


Love how Eric described what had been taken from him to Sookie. All the Sookie and Eric scenes were amazing, just wish there were more screentime overall. I felt the Pam scene at Sookie's house could have easily used another 2 minutes as well. They could have cut the Tommy plotline altogether and given more screentime to Eric & Pam, and that would have been just fine with me.


I'm wondering if Lafayette is a necessary ingredient in Marnie's magic. She had to beg and bleed herself to bring forth whatever spirit she's trying to channel. It wasn't so hard when Laf was part of her circle. I'm sort of iffy on Jesus now. Is he a good or bad influence on Laf? I'm not sure. 

True Blood -4×2- You Smell Like Dinner

Oh my goodness. This episode was five zillion times better than the season's premiere, even though I still think there are too many unnecessary narrative trajectories (e.g. Andy as a junkie, Arlene as a hysterical mother of a potentially Satanic baby, Sam's brother). 


Eric... his bow to Bill was epic! I couldn't stop laughing. And the last scenes, the way he went from confidant, badass vamp to lost boy in less than a sec was brilliant! It made the whole ep. for me.


Jason's story looked o.k. in the first part of the first ep. But now? Number one, the ep.2 opened with him being licked by a hillbilly kid, and that grossed me more than graveyardsex and the orgies, way back when. Number two, we are forced to watch more than 5 min of Crystal and baby-daddy-whose-swimmers-are-lazy, trying to hump him (for different reasons, obviously)?!?! And those 5 min are expanding into the next ep.???


Crystal... Just. Go. And. Die. Already. 


Fiona Shaw is rocking the house as Marnie - that whole witches coven scene was TB at its best.  Who knew a Big Bad on a Beanbag would work?

Liked the Bill flashbacks - Bill is such a better character (and Stephen Moyer a better actor) when he is so sneaky and hypocritical and manipulative that even HE is getting confused as to which side he is on (great scene with his face all blood-polkadotted, lying his ass off to Nan). Pam's little dismissal of Sookie's moaning - she is so right on with the bullshit-ometer, as she showed with Jessica in the previous episode.


QSA... Never warmed up to her, but I still didn't like the way she ended her run. I wanted to see an epic fight, not Bill winning in the most pathetic way possible-with a help from his little human army friends... and Nan.


I really hope they don't drag the Jessica/Hoyt trainwreck storyline out too much. I'm so sick of the general tv attitude that everyone needs to sow their wild oats, people who settle down young are always unhappy and trapped, etc. I'd rather see people who want unattatched lifestyles living them without trying to be someone they're not and hurting people in the process. 


Sam and the Shifters. I actually like this side story, though I wish he would stop being so angry. I hope Luna (hopefully not wearing her mommy's face right now) helps mellow him back to the guy we all liked in Season 1 and 2.


Lafayette and Jesus, I liked them but now I'm getting a ooky feeling about Jesus being pushy about the magic.

Poor Terry, has his hands full with a baby and Arlene the nutjob (I hope she's just a nutjob and the baby isn't really a demon or something).

Tara came back, looks great but is lying to her girlfriend... I'm happy to see her in a good place but she'll probably need to go back to New Orleans to get away from the crazy. She's been home what? A few hours and already had a run-in with a vampire.


PAM. Gosh, I want her to be my bestie. I want her to take Jessica under her wing, teach her some ridiculously sassy deadpan humor, and send her off to bask in bloodlust.