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New Show Recap: True Blood, S7E9 — “Love is to Die”

“Whatever this is. Whatever you’re doin. You don’t get to hide behind the word fate.”

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New Show Recap: True Blood S7E8 — “Almost Home”

“From the very first moment that we met, you reminded me of what it was like to have my human heart. The problem was, it was only a memory. All I had was my darkness to give you in return.”

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New Show Recap: True Blood S7E6 — “May Be The Last Time”

Last week, my occasional recap companion, Mini, observed that “Karma” felt emotionally honest. The connections between the characters seemed authentic, the sense of doom and loss rang true, and the painful bits – of which there have been a lot this season – were actually painful. Mini is new to watching True Blood so she […]

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New Show Recap: True Blood S7E6 — “Karma”

“This is bullshit. I imagined my death many times. But I never thought I’d meet the sun in a place with wall to wall carpet.”

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New Show Recap: True Blood S7E4 — “Death is Not the End”

“Eric Northman is nothing if he is not pure fucking sex on a throne.”

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New Show Recap: True Blood 7×3, “Fire in the Hole”

Slay Belle: On the previously on, stuff happens, Sookie plots doing something stupid, and we are re-ensaddened by the revelation that Eric is infected. We’re in LA, at yoga class. Everything is serene, which means everything is going to go to shit.

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New Show Recap: True Blood, 7×02, “I Found You”

“So that dog turned into our mayor… There’s a bigger picture here you all are missing. This town is full of vampers, has a dog for a mayor, being preached out by a telepath!”

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New Show Recap: True Blood 7×01, “Jesus Gonna Be Here”

So I know everyone’s been waiting with bated breath for Slay Belle’s weekly Buffy recap but unfortunately said Slay Belle has been up to her eyeballs in work the last few weeks and will be unable to visit the Scoobies or her TV boyfriend Spike until next Friday. I, her teenaged daughter, jokingly said last […]

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Retro Recap: Buffy the Vampire Slayer, 4.10 — “Into the Woods”

“Sometimes I envy you so much it chokes me.  And sometimes I think I got the better deal.  To be that close to her and not have her. To be all alone even when you’re holding her. “

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Retro Recap: Buffy the Vampire Slayer, S5.E8 — “Shadow”

“I mean, what if she’s not a demon or sorceress or spirit or whatever these books cover? … Something old. So old it pre-dates the written word.”

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Retro Recap: Buffy the Vampire Slayer, 5.7, “Fool for Love”

Death is on your heels, baby. And sooner or later, it’s gonna catch you. And part of you wants it. Not only to stop the fear and uncertainty, but because you’re just a little bit in love with it.

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Retro Recap: Buffy the Vampire Slayer, 5×06, “Family”

You learn her source, and we’ll introduce her to her insect reflection. Um… that, that was funny… if you um, if you studied Taglarin mythic rights… and are a complete dork.

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Retro Recap: Buffy the Vampire Slayer, 5×05, “No Place Like Home”

For centuries it had no form at all. My brethren, its only keepers. Then the abomination found us. We had to hide the Key, gave it form, molded it flesh… made it human and sent it to you.

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Retro Recap: Buffy the Vampire Slayer, S5.E4, “Out of My Mind”

It’s not about him. It’s about us. You’re getting stronger every day, more powerful. I can’t touch you. Every day, you’re just… a little further out of my reach.

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Retro Recap: Buffy the Vampire Slayer, S5.E3 — “The Replacement”

On my seventh birthday… I wanted a toy fire truck, and I didn’t get it, and you were real nice about it, and then the house next door burnt down, and then real fire trucks came, and for years I thought you set the fire for me. And if you did, you can tell me. […]