I'd like to see an episode where these persecuted celebrities meet up with the families of dead kids who were driven to suicide by bullies (Pheobe Prince, Tyler Clementi, Megan Meier, etc.) and realize how completely insulting the premise of this show is.

So the H8ers are treated just like the addicts on "Intervention"?  Please tell me they at least get paid an nominal fee for their time and trouble.  (The H8ers, not the addicts.)

Limeade Youth, I like to think Michael Hutchence is smiling down on you from the afterlife.  Now I'm off to go find that video on YouTube.

vandermonde, Kudos for bolding your posting-subject.  I cannot tell you how much I miss the easy-reading the old subject headers used to provide!

Okay now I think they should take a page from the "It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia" and shoot a bargain-basment "Lethal Weapon" sequel with Bill and Eric in the main roles.

Agreed.  I think the show has drifted from Alan Ball's initial claim that at its heart it was about "the terrors of intimacy".

Fair point.  I guess I was using "critical darling" as shorthand for: the press/award groups only seem to have room genre show produced by a highbrow talent at a time.  (True Blood probably has been given inflated reviews in some quarters because it came stamped w/ the Alan Ball seal of approval and thus was…

Re: killing the main character as a game-changer: Sookie, Eric and Bill will NEVER die.  HBO paid good money to license the rights to these characters from Charlaine Harris, and they are going to keep them around to the end.  Ned Stark actually does die in the Game of Thrones book, so although it was shocking to the…

I took it more as the writers tipping their hat to the fact that "The Walking Dead" took their spot as genre critical darling before "Game of Thrones" came on the scene.

In assessing whether the Marnie character worked this year, I thought there was way to much tell and not enough show when it came to the whole she-used-to-be-an-ignored-loony-but-now-she-loves-her-power.  She, Jesus, and Holly all commented on it - but I'm not sure if the viewer ever really felt her loneliness or…

For the episode lowpoint, I'd have to go with the scene where the CEMETERY CAME ALIVE. It reminded me of a Treehouse of Horror episode.  (And not in a good way.)  Also, Gran Stackhouse deserved better than being dragged out of the grave in her nightgown to usher Marnie into the beyond. Let the lady rest in peace.

Reverend Steve is a vampire!

I'm pretty sure she was in tears b/c she had just survived a near-death experience in the ring of fire, and Eric's savage/dark side reasserted itself making her realize that the gentle wouldn't-hurt-a-fly Eric she fell for was gone forever.

Since Bill is on record as telling Sookie she is his miracle, and now the  show is infested with fairy magic, I'm surprised Gary Calamar hasn't figured out a way to work that song into the background or credits.

Cash4 Lead, it was more a question of attitude than vampire politics & witchcraft.

As Incredibly annoying as high-fivin' Roy was, I enjoyed his Manson-like take on how the Wiccan hostage situation was like Hotel California.   With all his unbridled enthusiasm for Marnie's witchcraft he was like the Billy Mumphrey of the group.

The word on the street is that O'Hare will be back as Russell Edgington in Season 5.

The vampire slo-mo into freeze frame was so cheesy, I was left speechless.

I never quite know on TB whether the writers are doing something by design (i.e.: they plan to carry a thread through several episodes) or they are putting in an interesting idea as a one-off whim.  Much like David's review last week - I'm curious to see if they follow through on Sookie realizing she has the power in…

Fort Bellfleur had me at "hidey holes" and "insane squirrel".