we have everything, everything in the entire world, all happening at once. If there was ever a show guilty of 'lasersharking', its True Blood. Lasersharking is a gaming principle, positing the following: that sharks are cool, and that lasers are cool, but that sharks with lasers are rubbish. Its overkill, to the point that it actually makes both the shark and the laser less cool together than they were individually. True Blood brings us vampires, werewolves, shifters, fairies, a Maenad, a vampire/fairy hybrid, witchcraft, ghosts, werepanthers (Were. Panthers.), the vampire goddess and her Bible, black magic and voodoo, and its all happening at once in the same tiny area of the world, to the same people, often simultaneously. Now, with the season six finale, we have hep-V infected vampire zombies dropping fang across America the zombie apocalypse, albeit True Blood style. Really? Theres just not enough time to focus on any of these disparate elements to give each a fair crack of the whip. They're not trying to spread these intriguing concepts out from season to season. Its all chucked into the pot, heated up and then flung, undercooked, back into our faces like so much bad gumbo. All of the ingredients are wasted except vampires, who are so omnipresent and overplayed here that you could actually do with a lot less of them. Where does all this end, we ask you? Well, it turns out it ends ten episodes from the beginning of season seven, thank Lilith. Which is more or less where we came in. Is it about time that someone brought a halt to this convoluted mess, or is there life in this reanimated corpse yet? Let us know what you think in the comments!
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