After a couple of seasons where the show and its mythology have grown increasingly crazy and outlandish, True Blood returns on somewhat surer footing, with a couple of key cast additions and driving storylines to bolster the serialized drama.
Although I had noticed the similarities in the structure of seasons 6 to season 2 it was still very entertaining to watch... Hey, whatever formula works - an over-done and typical hero's journey that people still fall for. It always ends with good fun, chaos & bliss - almost orgy-like. I docked two points for the last episode. It felt like it was written by some elementary child and filmed by film students with messy edits, cheesy FCP title slates "7 years later" or something, unnecessary dialogue, rushed beats, last-minute rewrites, abrupt character changes and dull story developments to fuel next season. Season 7, episode 9 should of been the series finale since season 7 is excessive.
While True Blood remains wildly and bloodily inventive--and will certainly remain a huge HBO hit--there's still an overwhelming sense that deja-vu-all-over-again has set in.
The show could use a return to what made it great in the first place: [Sookie and friends] battling monsters with the help of benevolent, attractive bloodsuckers.
Unwilling to really shake things up, the writers have instead drained the life out of their own series, and what's left is merely a desiccated reminder of something that was once entertaining.
A little messy, again, like season five but it was such an improvement from the previous season. Werewolves story line is such a secondary plot now and it felt like it wasn't supposed to be there! It was nice to see Sarah return and I think most of the plot lines were good. The finale has set up an interesting new path and I am excited for season seven, which will be the final season (I think it is time we say goodbye to True Blood, so hopefully they make it good and do the series justice)
True Blood certainly went down hill from season three, I feel like every season starts off strong and peaks halfway through... then dwindles and putts along to a lackluster ending usually just being too ridiculous for ridiculousness' sake. Overall they consistently build too many story lines and consistently reach for that shock factor in seeing just how ridiculous they can get. I did enjoy season six more than five though and four for that matter. the Warlo character was just sort of thrown in there it felt and they kinda flopped that, but like I said they crowd the show with so much stuff going on and they end up not being able to really do much with it all; making it far too unbelievable to the point where I much prefer The Vampire Diaries to this because it knows what type of show it is and doesn't feed off of your awe but simply presents compelling storylines that are believable and truly intense. I will say this much the badass vamps in Diaries are way more badass and threatening than the badass vamps in True Blood. I mean Russel Edgington acts like a ten year old on crack, hard to believe for a personality that old he never felt threatening, somewhat amusing at times but ultimately annoying especially when they brought him back. I still give it a five out of ten for what it was. But yeah I'll take the first three seasons to go please.
Up until season 2 or 3, I really enjoyed this series. Then the writers started throwing in all sorts of monsters and witches to the point that my suspension of disbelief was tested and tried ad nauseam. With season 5, the writers began concentrating again on the vampires (especially good ol' divalicious Pam armed with her venomous tongue), and therefore I thought that the writers were back on track. However, this sixth season is just plain boring, and nearly all of the characters the series has collected over the years are present without advancing the storyline (pesky actor contracts?). A good example is the werewolf subplot where nothing happens (which honestly isn't much different from the fifth season when you think about it; why are the werewolves still there?).
Speaking of bad, I would say that the 9th episode is the worst of the bunch and epitomizes the entire season. Interwoven among gripping action sequences are yawn-inducing funeral speeches, which I nearly fast forwarded. I should have, since they killed the action for me. During this episode there are also flashbacks of a shell-shocked, dirt-covered Terry, who hobbles around a clearing in the woods, all bug-eyed. I couldn't help laughing, but apparently this scene was supposed to be serious. In conclusion, this season of True Blood has become a parody of itself. And don't get me started with the finale. A horde of vampires at the end? Neither frightening nor inventive.
Lo, how the mighty have fallen. This last season of True Blood is surely going out with the wimpiest of whimpers, and the least provocative of bangs. The writers are clearly so "written out" that there can be no suspension of disbelief, willing or otherwise. The so-called plot lines are disorganized, the actors seem burned out, their characters are made to speak lines so insipid it's hard to correlate who these once engaging fictionalized people are now with whom they were in seasons past. As a die-hard loyal fan of the books and the series I feel insulted, unappreciated and ripped off.
In a word, I'm done. I'm not going to watch any more of this drivel. Why should I waste my time on this product when it's obvious the True Blood writers and producers haven't bothered to spend any of their time or creativity making a last season designed to leave the viewers wishing the show would never end, and instead have managed to present us with the opposite--a last season which will leave us saying, "Thank God this tripe is over?"
This last season fiasco represents the degree of contempt in which we loyal viewers are held, and it's a truly disappointing example of the lack of creative integrity that permeates Hollywood and its attitude towards a viewing audience who have lowered its expectation for quality to such a depressing degree that, by our continuing agreement to watch this garbage, makes it abundantly clear that, to shamelessly paraphrase one of our founding fathers, shows that viewers get pretty much the television content they deserve.