OT: True Blood

I once saw an article claim Rome was the best TV show ever made... which is like, it was a really great show but let's not get carried away. If Rome can be the best ever, so can True Blood.

I still can't get over the fact that Lizzy Caplan was the dorky girl in "Mean Girls." Holy cow is she hot.

Does Twilight have graphic violence and sex along with a twisted sense of humor and a shitload of social commentary on the prejudices in American society? Because if so, I misjudged it.

That's what I thought at first, couldn't be more diffrent(other then the vamps). True Blood is neck and neck with, if not better then, Entourage and Weeds. I highly sugest watching them all from the first episode. I'm not a fan of vampire, warewolf type shit but this show is the absolute tits. Once you watch a episode and see a vamp run you'll notice they were all trained by barwis.

The greatest TV show ever thing was kind of a joke... I mean, it's a quality TV show but it's no X-Files if you get what I'm saying.

I've never been able to get into Lost, no matter how hard I try.

I don't find this to be true. Seinfeld's universal appeal is greatly exaggerated, and this is coming from a major fan. As the years have gone by, I've found myself less and less enamored with it... I'm down to the point where I'll only stop on a select few episodes.

And if we're talking comedies, The Simpsons trumps all else.

What The Duece!?
Brian gave you one hundred million points!?

don't spend'em all in one place.

It's early August. Would you rather this thread be the millionth one about predictions? If discussing showering isn't too off the wall for a Michigan football forum, then why would discussing a popular TV series be?

You'd be right if this was October, or maybe even next week if we've got some good info from the practices. As it is, we've got a 150 comment thread going about a meeting that may or may not have been called by RR a day early. I could care less what people start posting about at this point. Just think of it as team building/bonding exercises for the MGoBlog community.

at anna paquan's tits, you'll change your mind

Mmmm...Anna Paquin's tits.

I love Ari but I could definitely see him making a smartass comment about the past Michigan football season...I hope the Entourage writers don't force me to hate him

I had a similar experience. I consider it to be too weird as well.

If you see that and think anything other than "Holy shit best show ever" then you and I are on two different wavelengths

Agreed, True Blood has a long way to go before it is even in the same realm as The Wire it terms of greatness. The 1st season of True Blood was kinda boring, but it has really stepped up this season.

"It WAS created by Alan Ball who I have huge respect for - see Six Feet Under."

Co-sign. Six Feet Under is for me the best show thus far. It is big-screen quality, the best 60-hour movie you will ever see.

True Blood is good, but not great. It seems to be geared toward either a younger or dumber audience, or both. Like someone said above, the social commentary is poorly done, and it has some bad dialogue and simple-minded story lines. Nothing like SFU.

Dexter - SFU is the same reason I gave Dexter a chance - same lead actor. But I find Dexter to be really bad in terms of his 'self-commentary' - some really cheesy corny stuff. Can't sit through a whole episode anymore because of it.

+1 for the author link.

into clicking that link -- I had no idea she looked like that!

+1 for you, sir.

Ahhh, me eyes....me eyes!!!

a co-worker told me about the book, and actually highlighted all the spelling and grammar mistakes that somehow made it through publishing.

There is even one instance where the Author accidentally combines the first name of one character with the last name of another, so you don't know which character just spoke.

Just thought it was worth noting that you won't be reading the Godfather if you pick up that book.

I also like how she pronounces his name "BEEL".

But really, those two are like the worst part of that show. Bill is always a huge, gigantic wet blanket ("But Sookeh. That would be impropah!") and Sookie's always being all pure and devoted and crap... and then they have sex. Yawn.

Personally, I just root for as much Lafayette in every episode as humanly possible because he is campy as fuck and awesome. That and the redheaded vampire chick and the preacher's wife both need to get naked like yesterday.