“True Blood” seeks to be sophisticated and edgy, but the only thing sharp about it is the actors’ prosthetic fangs.
Television
The Kids Are All Right: ‘Gossip Girl’ and ‘Glee’ portray generation next
Both “Gossip Girl” and “Glee” provide startlingly authentic accounts of the primitive needs of contemporary adolescents.
Manhattan Gothic: Mad Men and the shock of recognition
Like Flannery O’Connor, “Mad Men” radically resets a situation so that viewers see themselves from a previously unknown vantage point.
The Road to Redemption: TNT’s ‘Saving Grace’
The titular character in TNT’s “Saving Grace” confronts both the wrongs she has committed and the wrongs committed against her.
Bromanity: Familial love in ‘How I Met Your Mother’
The theme of family is coded into the language of the CBS show, ‘How I Met Your Mother.’
Everyone Loves Tina: A love letter to ’30 Rock’
30 Rock revels in pilfering from a multiplicity of pop culture sources and turning them on their heads.
Broken Down
Airing Tuesday night on PBS: The Released, the grim story of life after prison in Ohio.
Welcome to the ‘Dollhouse’
From the creator of ‘Buffy the Vampire Slayer,’ a new show with much to say about the inviolability of human dignity.
