You know, before tonight's episode I wouldn't have thought it possible for Tara to be any more useless and annoying ss a character, but damn if TRUE BLOOD's writers didn't prove me wrong.     Now that they've made their point, though, could they just stake her and be done with it?

You know, before tonight's episode I wouldn't have thought it possible for Tara to be any more useless and annoying ss a character, but damn if TRUE BLOOD's writers didn't prove me wrong.     Now that they've made their point, though, could they just stake her and be done with it?

I've always thought of Powers Boothe as the guy you got when you couldn't afford Tommy Lee Jones.  And Steve Railsback as the guy you got when you couldn't afford Powers Boothe.

I've always thought of Powers Boothe as the guy you got when you couldn't afford Tommy Lee Jones.  And Steve Railsback as the guy you got when you couldn't afford Powers Boothe.

Not to mention "Near Dark."

Not to mention "Near Dark."

Since the play Megan was trying out for was LITTLE MURDERS, are we to infer that the skinny balding guy with the coke-bottle glasses sitting on the couch during her audition was supposed to be Jules Feiffer?

Since the play Megan was trying out for was LITTLE MURDERS, are we to infer that the skinny balding guy with the coke-bottle glasses sitting on the couch during her audition was supposed to be Jules Feiffer?

I actually remember seeing something kind of like that.  I was sitting behind this couple who started out with their arms around each other, flirting and goofing around, and by the time the lights came up they were slumped sullenly at opposite sides of their respective seats as though actively repulsed at even the…

Indiana Jones might not be able to outrun the explosion of the Death Star, but he could probably survive it if there was an old fridge lying around nearby.

I'm assuming this is Iannucci surreptitiously letting his Brit flag fly:  "yoghurt" is the standard UK spelling, while pretty much no one in this country spells it that way.

It had never occurred to me that he might be alive.  But then, I think I must've somehow assumed that he'd actually been executed for treason, although now that I think back I can't really remember any specific mention of this.  Still, I have to give them credit for hanging on to a little detail like this until they…

Yeah, it does seem like it's there just 'cos the writers thought "hey, people liked all that Buffy and Angel stuff — we ought to get ourselves one of those," and stuck it in because they thought they needed it, not because it came organically out of the characters or premise.

By the end of the season, the Bo/Dyson crap will have largely retreated into the background, although they do half-heartedly trot it out from time to time.  I generally like the show, cheesy though it may be (it's certainly better than either Grimm or Once Upon a Time, not that that's saying much), but this is the one…

I was less bothered by Victoria's Cinemax-lite dalliance than some of the commenters here, although on the other hand I was disappointed that the Immortal Revenge Dog didn't put in an appearance.

I think she borrowed that wig from Anna Torv.

Trivial point (as if it could be anything else):  Does anyone else think it's odd that they insist on having Beth Behrs totter around in a pair of ridiculously high heels even when doing work for which they're clearly unsuitable?  I realize this is probably the wardrobe department's way of signifying "impractical,…

The close-captioning helpfully identified Flashback Emily's dialogue as being in a "(Boston accent)", which is good 'cos I wouldn't have known otherwise.

Yeah, Ringer's writing staff could learn a thing or two from the gang over on Revenge (sorry, REVENGE!!!) — when you have a premise this soapy and over-the-top, you either go big or go home.  I mean, the notion of button-cute Emily VanCamp as a Hamptons high society cross between the Count of Monte Cristo and Toshiro…

Actually, I thought it looked like a PG-rated version of the first big shootout in PUNISHER: WAR ZONE, myself