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  • Spike TV
  • Jun 28, 2006
  • Spike TV
  • Jun 28, 2006
Blade

Summary On the mean streets of Detroit, an ancient evil is growing bolder by the day. The House of Chthon is on the verge of eliminating the final barriers to their supremacy over mankind, and only the Daywalker can stop them. Half human, half immortal. His only allies are a master weaponsmith and a woman obsessed with revenge against Chthon. An...

  • Spike TV
  • Jun 28, 2006
  • Spike TV
  • Jun 28, 2006
Blade
Season 1
Season Premiere: Jun 28, 2006
Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 15 Critic Reviews
49
User Score Generally Favorable
7.3
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Summary On the mean streets of Detroit, an ancient evil is growing bolder by the day. The House of Chthon is on the verge of eliminating the final barriers to their supremacy over mankind, and only the Daywalker can stop them. Half human, half immortal. His only allies are a master weaponsmith and a woman obsessed with revenge against Chthon. An...

Season Episodes

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Episode 1 • Jun 28, 2006 • 1 h 28 m
Pilot
Blade joins forces with Krista Starr to help her get revenge on an evil vampire who killed her fraternal twin brother.
Episode 2 • Jul 5, 2006 • 43 m
Death Goes On
Krista has a bad dream where she bites her mother's neck. Both Blade and Marcus starts to hunt an ash dealer, Cain.
Episode 3 • Jul 12, 2006 • 42 m
Descent
Marcus orders Krista to deliver a bag to Vanessa, and Blade hunts the doctor who makes vaccine to vampires for Marvus.
Episode 4 • Jul 19, 2006 • 42 m
Bloodlines
Blade is caught by a group of vampires called Bad Blood, a group that Blade first turned.
Episode 5 • Jul 26, 2006 • 42 m
The Evil Within
A bloody ritual visualizes for Krista where Boons is heading. Blade focuses on Vanessa Simms who is very pregnant, as Krista searches for the Aurora vaccine. Marcus gets a surprise visit.
Episode 6 • Aug 2, 2006 • 43 m
Delivery
Hardly alive Chase is brought home to Marcus who orders Krista to bring back Vanessa.
Episode 7 • Aug 9, 2006 • 42 m
Sacrifice
An old friend from Blade's childhood is murdered.
Episode 8 • Aug 16, 2006 • 44 m
Turn of the Screw
Krista asks Blade for help as her mother has run away, and Alex wants to save Chase from Marcus.
Episode 9 • Aug 23, 2006 • 43 m
Angels & Demons
Marcus seeks Krista's love and sympathy by showing her how he was turned into a vampire.
Episode 10 • Aug 30, 2006 • 43 m
Hunters
Bethany asks Shen to find her sister who's disappeared from a waitress job in a night club.
Episode 11 • Sep 6, 2006 • 42 m
Monsters
Charlotte and Thorne suffer an air crash. Blade and Collins go to the crashed plane to investigate.
Episode 12 • Sep 13, 2006 • 42 m
Conclave
Marcus plans a full-scale attack on the pureblood Vampires as they gather to celebrate their ultimate triumph and Marcus prepares to execute his apocalyptic plan.

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 15 Critic Reviews
49
40% Positive
6 Reviews
27% Mixed
4 Reviews
33% Negative
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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 15 Critic Reviews
49
40% Positive
6 Reviews
27% Mixed
4 Reviews
33% Negative
5 Reviews

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75
When gunplay, kickboxing, and throat slitting actually feel like breaks in the action, you've got a series with brains as well as teeth. [28 Jul 2006, p.55]
By Gillian Flynn FULL REVIEW
75
The more it progresses, the more surprises it unwraps, and the more promise it presents.
By David Hinckley FULL REVIEW
70
"Blade: The Series" is pretty good, really, as these things go.
By Robert Lloyd FULL REVIEW
50
Surprisingly inoffensive.
By Anita Gates FULL REVIEW
40
Quite the bloodletting experience, even gratuitously so.
By Ray Richmond FULL REVIEW
20
Feels more like a bland swig of plasma than the bloody romp that it ought to be.
By Brian Lowry FULL REVIEW
10
It's just more of the same martial artlessness. I kept expecting to see Batman-style OOF! BAM! graphics on screen.
By Matt Roush FULL REVIEW

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Generally Favorable Based on 4 User Ratings
7.3
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50% Mixed
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0% Negative
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