True Blood, Curb Your Enthusiasm (28/8/11)
Posted by The TV Critic on 29 August 2011 | 0 Comments
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True Blood - 410 - Burning Down the House
I don't have much to say about this episode. It felt largely like cards being shuffled before bigger showdowns to come. I'm not particularly interested in Andy's addiction or Alcide's problems. The twist that it is Marnie who is more anti-vampire than Antonia is not exactly a twist. We knew practically nothing about her and so it's not a shock. It also presents a logical conclusion to the story where Antonia stops her from killing Bill and Eric and finally moves on to heaven or whatever weird sexy afterlife you get if you live in Bon Temps.
Curb Your Enthusiasm - 808 - Car Periscope
Once more Larry goes to Seinfeld for his inspiration and actually brings to life an idea of Kramer's (724) in the car periscope. I enjoyed Larry getting wrapped up in the fun of driving the car. And in his idiotic but understandable assumption that men who go for a less than stunning wife have real character. As with his insistence on having a Jewish lawyer (801) it felt like a clever way of giving a prejudice some plausability before demonstrating why pre-judging is a bad idea.
The actual one-armed man part of the story felt flimsy. With no explanation for what that guy was doing at the party things felt incomplete. The host of the party and the inventor both flew off the handle at Larry in ways that didn't feel organic. I would rather Larry get yelled at for doing something wrong rather than have characters overreact in ways that don't convince.
