True Blood: Season 4 DVD Review

True Blood: Season 4 DVD Review

Rating: M
Released by Warner Home Video

A little bit of a case of it ain't broke, don't fix it with this latest True Blood release.

The 12 part series four collection based on Charlaine Harris' very successful books, heads back to Bon Temps, the sleazy sexy mid America where vampires, werewolves, shape shifters, faeries and politics all mix together.

Picking up where season 3 ended with Anna Paquin's Sookie Stackhouse disappearing into the faerie realm, the 12 part run kicks off one year after Sookie vanished, meaning that all the stories which dragged a little at the end of season 3 could be resolved off screen.

But when Sookie returns, she finds her world changed and a coven of witches creating havoc in Bon Temps....

This latest season of True Blood doesn't really expand the premise much further out and adds perhaps a little too much of the supernatural elements to the mix. Don't get me wrong, all of the cast and the increasingly lunatic storylines are present - as well as some sizzlingly sexy love scenes too - but there's just the feeling that this series is starting to lose touch a little too much with the reality which helped make it a soaraway success in its first two years.

Here's hoping year five sees the show a little back on track and going back to the basics.

Extras: Commentaries

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