HBO is apparently doing a reboot of True Blood? Eh. [Dlisted]
Chloe Fineman is great at celebrity impressions. [OMG Blog]
Kim Kardashian was part of the virtual front row at the Dior show. [RCFA]
Donald Trump held a packed & maskless White House Hanukkah party. [Towleroad]
Emily Ratajkowski is bumping along. [JustJared]
Prince was a fan of the Ocean’s Eleven franchise. [GFY]
Big Mouth’s Season 4 is a new era, apparently. [Pajiba]
Men did some domestic chores briefly during lockdown but they’re over it. [Jezebel]
You can tell people have been inside too long because they’re freaking out about a little jokey pronunciation of “microwave” from Nigella Lawson. [LaineyGossip]
I love Michelle Pfeiffer’s jeans but I hate that blazer. [Tom & Lorenzo]
No Eric Northman, no sexy, plus no Lafayette what’s the point?
Exactly! The show was fun and messy, but I mainly watched for those Eric, Lafayette, and Pam.
^Amen to that! No Alex Skarsgård, no Nelsan Ellis = no interest.
Amen Amen
It’s also too damn soon.
Literally no one wants a True Blood reboot. The original already improved on the awful books as much as possible, and they’ll never find a better cast (at least not for Lafayette, Eric and Pam).
The ending of the books ruined it for me.
This. Dead Ever After wasn’t just a disappointment for me; it completely ruined that series.
I’ll never read anything authored by Charlaine Harris again.
You mean Sam being a perv weredog who kept sneaking into Sookie’s bed and then her getting together with him? Kinda not how I expected a chick who seems to like vampires ending up.
Literally no one wanted a Charmed reboot (everyone asked for a continuation with the next generation) but we got one anyway.
Doesn’t matter.
This! Thank you! Charmed was one of my favourites and to see it like that, it drives me mad! I really don’t understand why so many series are getting the reboot recently.
Chloe Fineman does the most realistic and hilarious impersonation of Timothee Chalamet!!! It was so great that my husband could tell who it was, even though he’s not that aware of TC (if that makes sense lol).
Timothee is hosting SNL this weekend…
CANNOT WAIT 🤣🥰😅🤗
I refuse to watch a True Blood without Alexander Skarsgard 🤷♀️
Just rewatched all of True Blood in October. Not interested in a reboot.
And Nelsan Ellis is such a loss. Rest in peace, Lafayette.
Although I would like to know if Eric and Pam still have Sarah chained in the basement.
Nelsan was such a brilliant actor.
Nope!! Too soon for a TB reboot!!!!!
What. Why. Just ….. no.
Way, way too soon for a reboot. The show went off the rails after the first 3 seasons (and the finale was terrible, but apparently still better than how the books ended)… but the cast was near perfect. No one’s going to come close to the late Nelson Ellis as Lafayette, the actress who portrayed Pam, or Alexander Skarsgaard as Eric. While I thought the writing around Sookie became unbearable, even Anna did a great job and embodied the character very well.
Also, with the people involved I have a feeling they are going to try and “age” down the characters which would be annoying. They are meant to be grown as* adults, not Riverdale age.
A True Blood reboot? No thanks. Not without my baby Alexander as Eric Northman. Hard pass.
Just because you can, doesn’t mean you should! The last few seasons where just a messy and I only watched them for Pam & Eric. Why did wrong Tara so?! I’ve always hopped that if HBO would move on to the Lily Bard Shakespeare series of books by Charlaine Harris. Lily solves murder mysteries in a small town, but is also dealing with her own PTSD from being brutally kidnapped/raped/tortured as she also tried to get her life back together but she’s all independent and just a strong female character. It’s only 5 books so they could totally do it as 5 seasons! Even 4 if they did a “holiday special” because one of the books takes place at Christmas. IDK, call me
HBO?
I suggest never adapting any Charlaine Harris books ever.
Have you seen the Midnight, Texas show they did based on those books? It’s pretty good.
I’m in the same boat as if they don’t bring Alexander Skarsgard back, I’m not interested in watching. I also had forgotten that the actor who played Lafayette passed away a few years ago and he was also one of the most fun characters along with Pam. I was all about Sookie and Bill in the first few seasons but then Bill became Vampire Messiah (or whatever that weird storyline was) and I ended up not being able to finish the show. And Sookie just became really grating (not necessarily Anna Paquin’s fault).
Blah.
Dear HBO. Do as follows: take Sterling Browns vampire character from Supernatural and make him the main character of the reboot. Thank you. That is all.
My husband and I just had a knock down drag out fight about the household chores thing. We’ve been home since March and it looks like it. He thinks he’s doing so much of course but he doesn’t take into acct the emotional baggage I carry with everything I do for the kids. I’m the one who selects and purchases all of their clothes, toys, Christmas gifts, everything. I make all the appts, make sure they are getting everything they need. I’m the one that does most of the cleaning and ALWAYS go to bed after him because I have shit to do when they kids finally go to bed. The biggest problem I think is that for one his mother did everything for him so I’ve had to retrain him for the last 15 years and also he wouldn’t mind living in a pit. He wouldn’t change his sheets for months if I didn’t do it I don’t think, he doesn’t care about the counters and floors being covered in crumbs but I’ve had it and there is still no end in sight with this pandemic. Also the fact that I haven’t had any me time in 9 months.
If I was in the UK or Canada I might be feeling some hope since they are on top of vaccine distribution but in the US I have no confidence that we are going to do it right just like we effed up the whole PPE situation in the beginning. I feel like I’m going to be stuck in this house for another year. Sorry, it’s been a day.
Also I just read that over and make him sound completely awful, he’s not. He does a lot, people have actually commented on how great he is, and he’s a great dad but he just doesn’t get it and I probably let things build up to long and then explode. There is no solution though right because unless we want to risk getting our high risk daughter sick we are stuck doing all of this on our own.
are you me, and are you married to my husband? lol we are living parallel lives, and yes I am over it too! too bad my family is at the back of the line for getting the vaccine so we’ll probably be in this hell for another year.
I could NOT with the fairy thing. No thanks.
I’m all for reboots of fantasy, horror, sci-fi fare, but True Blood certainly had a particular temperature. But it’s not TRUE Blood without Eric, Pam and Lafayette. You can have the spunky lead and her brooding vamp lol.
No just no…
That jacket is too big for Michelle. She’s so tiny! I really like her and her work but her resting face always looks like she’s just smelled a fart.
I’ve always loved her style but unfortunately, she didn’t feel confident enough to leave her face alone.
I liked True Blood when it aired although I bailed about halfway through the run because it went absolutely off the rails about midway through. I tried to re-watch it during the quarantine and it did NOT hold up in my opinion. I couldn’t get past Anna Paquin’s awful acting and weird Southern-ish accent.
I actually like the idea of a stylized and better written True Blood; with people who can act and can have convincing southern accents.
The only take-away I have from True Blood is that Ellen deGeneres is the fairy queen. Based on that unsettling photo used so often on this site of Ellen at the Golden Globes looking like she’s about to steal a soul.
My husband and I are still childless and so far he’s been very good at pulling his equal weight in our house, but boy was that a long road. When we first moved in together he would disrobe from the door to the bedroom, shedding clothing along the way and then just leave it there. 4 years and many many fights later he now does his share with cleaning and house maintenance. I’ve kept all the cooking to myself, but that’s more because I love cooking and he will cook when I am too busy or tired. I grew up with my father and brother doing absolutely nothing in our house other than the occasional maintenance and my mother and grandmother killing themselves keeping up the house and holding down a full-time job. I swore to myself I would never ever live like that, even if I had to live alone for the rest of my life.
This kind of crap is exactly why I made sure my son knew how to cook, clean, sew and grow. I may have also emphasized an independent way of life where you did things for yourself rather than expecting others to do it for you. To be fair, while he does do all four adeptly, he would really rather just cook and grow
Nigella’s pronunciation is obviously a joke, but let’s just revisit Delia Smith’s pronunciation of hummus shall we? In our house, we always call it, ‘Who-mousse’ now.