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S2:
"Nothing But the
Blood," "Keep This Party Going," "Scratches," "Shake and Fingerpop,"
"Never Let Me Go," "Hard-Hearted Hannah," "Release Me," "Timebomb," "I
Will Rise Up," "New World in My View," "Frenzy," "Beyond Here Lies
Nothin'"
S3:
"Bad
Blood," "Beautifully Broken," "It Hurts Me Too," "9 Crimes," "Trouble,"
"I Got a Right to Sing the Blues," "Hitting the Ground," "Night on the
Sun," "Everything Is Broken," "I Smell a Rat," "Fresh Blood," "Evil Is
Going On"

by
Walter Chaw "True
Blood" is pulp crap. Yet as Bryant
and Bill
have already so eloquently pointed
out, it's highly-addictive pulp crap--the sort of shallow,
handsomely-mounted titillation that fosters the craze that sprung
up around prime-time soaps like "Dynasty" and "Falcon
Crest". White-collar smut
that traffics in the currency of the age: once upon a time it was the
super-rich, now it's the supernatural. Plus ça change, plus
c'est la meme. It's certainly soapier than
showrunner/creator Alan Ball's previous pay-cable drama, "Six Feet
Under", but to its credit what "True Blood" does in returning sexuality--and gore, and (southern) Gothic trappings--to the
vampire mythos, it does
well. The shame of it is that it seems to be ashamed of itself and so
continually strives for relevance in aligning the plight of its
vampire underclass to gay rights. Bill said it first, but is the
appropriate
supernatural analogue to gays really vampires? Is it wise to suggest
that gays
present that same kind of sexual allure? The same kind of blood
contagion?
Doesn't that play into the Conservative storyline a bit too neatly?
At least
it's not "The Walking Dead".
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