Comments on: Our Top 10 Biggest TV Letdowns of 2008

By: bws

bws — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 15:35:40 +0000

Agree with most of the other commenters… True Blood breathed some life into HBO. I really enjoyed this one week in and week out. And I think it got the highest ratings for HBO in a long time.

By: tezuka

tezuka — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 07:08:45 +0000

although True blood is not as good as HBO’s previous shows (when it’s in its prime). i won’t consider it a letdown. I for one did not have high expectation when I first began , but after 2~3 eps, it really captivated my interest.

By: blueberry

blueberry — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 21:30:11 +0000

I dropped True Blood after the first episode.

I should have stayed on just to see Lizzie Caplan nekked. Yum.

By: DB

DB — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 02:51:10 +0000

seriously? True Blood is in your biggest tv letdown list? omg. this is such a travesty that I doubt you should be running a tvaddict blog. I love Showtime shows, but True Blood is HBO’s comeback show! I didn’t expect to fall for the show (dislike vampires) but whoa, it is enormously addicting. judging from the fact that the rating of this show is building week-to-week even exceeding what the sopranos and SatC did during their freshmen years, I’d say most people are loving it too. definitely one of the, if not, the best new show of 2008.

By: slow17motion

slow17motion — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 02:36:36 +0000

True Blood is fantastic

By: Lindlee

Lindlee — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 23:12:25 +0000

Thank you, thank you, thank you for saying something about Mark Paul Gosselaar’s hair! I haven’t watched Raising the Bar but I’ve seen the preview for it more times than I can count. Every single time, all I could think was “Do something with your hair!”

By: Aleks

Aleks — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 20:06:06 +0000

The problem with Ben Silverman is that while he does belong in the TV industry, he has the completely wrong job. He’s a producer, not a programmer, and NBC has seriously confused the two.

We miss you Kevin Reilly!

By: DAVE ID

DAVE ID — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 17:46:44 +0000

TRUE BLOOD is very watchable. It takes getting used to. It has some angry AWWW COME ON!!! moments but otherwise it’s pretty damn cool. It’s was 50 times better to watch than the 3rd season of Dexter which should have been on this list. Dexter Season 3 was a fraking TRAINWRECK.

By: Dominique

Dominique — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 16:43:24 +0000

While True Blood is not as amazing as Six Feet Under, I think it is really good and much better than the crap we have on TV now. I would not list True Blood as a letdown of 2008 but I agree with you on the new 90210, Shonda and her horrible Grey’s Anatomy (I do enjoy Private Practice though), Heroes, Eli Stone’s cancellation, etc. For me, Fringe ended up being a letdown for 2008. I still watch but I could let it go easily and it is not as good as I first thought.

By: Naf

Naf — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 16:35:17 +0000

So is True Blood not good? I’ve heard some great things.