Get ready for another “fangtastic” (couldn’t resist) summer, because HBO’s True Blood is back and biting hard! There was not a moment of pause in the Season 5 premiere episode, “Turn! Turn! Turn!,” with each scene only given a window of five minutes or less before the rapid edits ensued. The editing was a bit much this episode, and while it does appropriately mirror the show’s heightened state of frenzy, I always prefer my favorite guilty pleasure show to sink in a little bit before going on the attack. True Blood‘s notoriety for juggling so many different subplots at once can be somewhat problematic when each of the different stories don’t quite intrigue or engage. Despite what many fans said, I thought last season was a remarkable improvement over Season 3′s silly/bordering-on-repulsive handling of many of our favorite characters. In Season Four, I loved what the writers were able to do with Eric — the brief amnesia spell humanized his malevolent soul — and his budding relationship with Sookie. Their intimate culmination was a high point in the series we won’t soon forget, and I absolutely thought Fiona Shaw successfully mustered through a demanding physical role, playing the Big Bad of the season, Marni the Witch. With both of these plot points no longer relevant now that Season Five has arrived, I was hoping for a new and intriguing storyline to emerge, with new characters to follow that could be as interesting and crazily delicious as former standouts from the past. Unfortunately, only one new character has my attention, but with the news that Christopher Meloni is coming aboard in next week’s episode, I can only hope that the remainder of Season 5 will be far more satisfying than the slightly underwhelming, if still entertaining, premiere episode. Read more on TV Review: True Blood: Season 5 (***)…
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The new spy thriller The Double from writer/director Michael Brandt starring Golden Globe Winner Richard Gere and Topher Grace, shows massive potential before ultimately failing to excite the audience as its predictable twists and turns create a flat line of a thrills and spills.
Richard Gere plays “Paul Shepherdson,” a decorated CIA veteran who is threatened with professional embarrassment after a young hot shot FBI agent, Ben Geary (Topher Grace) insists the Russian assassin “Cassius,” who Shepherdson claimed to have killed years before is still alive. Paul, who spent his career chasing Cassius, is forced to take on the same case after a US senator is murdered bearing the same trademark of Cassius. Agent Geary, who wrote his thesis on Shepherdson’s pursuit of Cassius, re-opens the case and the two team up to investigate the whereabouts of the deadly assassin before realizing that everything may not be what it seems.
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