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Why Do We Keep Coming Back to ‘True Blood’?

By Alison Herman on

It’s indisputable at this point that True Blood, HBO’s supernatural drama chock-full of skin, sex, and camp, is Not a Good Show. Though it’s inherited Game of Thrones’ all-important Sunday night time slot and ostensibly shares a genre with the fantasy series, it is far from a worthy successor to the smart writing and subtle characterization of its more critically acclaimed counterpart. In fact, True Blood has been on something of a downward spiral since its second season, when the Godric story line gave the show its last attempt at a character whose inner life couldn’t be summed up in a single paragraph. But here’s the thing about True Blood: even though it’s awful and most of its viewers know it, those same viewers just keep coming back, by the millions, season after season. … Read More

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‘True Blood’ Season 6 Premiere Recap: Which Character Drove Us Craziest This Week?

By Tom Hawking on

Yesssssssss True Blood is back! TV’s greatest ongoing bait-and-switch returns for another reason — lest we forget, the show’s first season promised to be some sort of vaguely serious exploration of what it might mean if vampires really were part of society, before taking a sharp left turn into the sort of high camp supernatural soap opera that allegedly highbrow TV aficionados can’t quite believe they find themselves addicted to watching. People like your correspondent, for instance. This season Flavorwire will be adopting various approaches to recapping the show, but for now, let’s stick with last season’s format, because with a new season comes a whole slew of new storylines, new characters… and new annoyances. So, who irritated us most last night? Read on, True Blood suckers… … Read More

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Alan Ball Developing New HBO Drama

By Alison Nastasi on

The sixth season of True Blood starts tomorrow, with newbie Brian Buckner (Spin City, Friends) at the helm. The… Read More

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Flavorwire’s 10 Most Anticipated TV Shows of Summer 2013

By Tyler Coates on

Summer has commonly been a wasteland for television, but with the staggered seasons of original cable programming, the next few months feature a surprisingly terrific lineup of returning favorites as well as new series on cable, network TV, and on Netflix. While you’ve probably already made it through the fourth season of Arrested Development twice already, here are ten other series worth checking out this… Read More

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Popular TV Shows Improved by Diddy

By Tom Hawking on

Just like pretty much everyone else on the Internet, the inhabitants of Flavorwire central giggled heartily at the news yesterday that Diddy was trying to inveigle his way onto Downton Abbey. The fact that the whole thing was a clever piece of promotion for a pretty amusing Funny or Die video didn’t dampen our enthusiasm any — by then, we’d moved onto envisaging other TV shows that we’d like to see Diddy on, and breaking out Photoshop to make our dreams a reality. See the results of our fantasies after the jump. … Read More

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10 TV Shows Better Than the Books They Were Based On

By Tom Hawking on

So if you’re celebrating your birthday today, you share it with Charlaine Harris, she who gave the world the insanely successful Sookie Stackhouse novels and thus, indirectly, also the joys of True Blood. As you’ve probably noted if you read Flavorwire at all regularly, we’re borderline obsessed with True Blood, and its success got us thinking of the slew of TV shows based on books that have emerged in the last few years — and, in particular, those that have defied the old adage that the book is always better. We’ve collected a bunch of shows that we reckon have transcended their literary origins — can you think of any other shows that are better than the books they’re based on? (And before you go all crazy in the comments, a disclaimer: we said “better.” We’re not necessarily claiming the books in question are bad — although some most definitely are — just that the TV series they spawned was/is better. OK? Carry on.) … Read More

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‘True Blood’ Casts New Love Interest for Sookie

By Caroline Stanley on

Because if there was one thing True Blood needed, it was another love interest for Sookie Stackhouse. Yet according to TVLine when the show’s sixth season premieres in June, English actor Rob Kazinsky (who you might remember from a brief stint on Brothers and Sisters) will join its cast as our… Read More

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‘Blade Runner’ Star Rutger Hauer Joins ‘True Blood’ Season Six

By Alison Nastasi on

THR reports that Blade Runner star and genre vet Rutger Hauer has joined the cast of True Blood as a series regular. Season six will feature the actor, starring as Macklyn — “who has a deep and dark connection to Sookie Stackhouse (Anna Paquin) and her brother, Jason (Ryan Kwanten).” The sixth installment… Read More

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The Flavorpill Guide to DIY Pop Culture Halloween Costumes: TV

By Judy Berman on

Halloween: It’s always more complicated than you want it to be. Even if you’ve got your plans set, it’s a struggle to find the perfect costume — without resorting to the same crappy, overpriced, pre-packaged getups everyone else will be wearing. Thankfully, just as we have done for the past two Octobers, Flavorpill is helping you out with a series of easy DIY costume guides tackling various pop-culture realms. Don’t worry — there’s no sewing involved.

For 2012′s first installment, we visit the world of television, where the horror genre is having quite a moment. You may have cringed at the news, earlier this month, that Target was offering an American Horror Story-inspired bondage costume. But we can do much better than that. We’ll show you how to transform yourself into some of the year’s most memorable characters and outfits, from Community to Game of Thrones, after the jump. … Read More

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