True Blood
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Generally favorable reviews- based on 114 Ratings
- Summary: Season four introduces Sookie's grandfather (Gary Cole) and a coven of witches led by the mysterious Marnie (Fiona Shaw).
- Genre(s): Drama, Fantasy, Horror
- Show Type: Between Seasons
- Season 4 premiere date: Jun 26, 2011
- Episode Length: 60
- Air Time: 09:00 PM
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Positive: 8 out of 13
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Mixed: 5 out of 13
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Negative: 0 out of 13
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100True Blood works best when its freak flag flies--as long as its core characters are along for the ride.
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100Every line, every reaction is perfectly pitched, every shift from humor to menace to seduction perfectly played.
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80True Blood is a much guiltier, trashier pleasure than the monumental Thrones, but I wouldn't miss it for all the hush puppies in Louisiana.
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60This season, as before, True Blood employs its supernatural others to signify cultural anxieties about race and sexuality. Now these anxieties are foregrounded in some of the human protagonists. It's a necessary shift: while the show has always portrayed elements of the vampire community as corrupt, we have been assured that Bill, and maybe a few others, were merely misunderstood. As this story has lost credibility, the vampires as a plausible metaphor for "accepting difference" is falling apart.
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Positive: 16 out of 22
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Mixed: 2 out of 22
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Negative: 4 out of 22
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