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Having resolutely followed the gathering of creatures of the night since the initial appearance of True Blood, I find Season four a bit akin to a gathering of eagles.
In Season One, back in the fall of 2008, we were introduced to vampires. At some point, and I don't recall precisely when, shape-shifters entered the fray, followed by werewolves.
I believe it was back in season three, that we met our first fairies, and began to recognize the extent of Sookie's powers. Then there came mediums and were-panthers, which makes sense, since there are still panthers in certain areas of our southeastern swamplands. And finally our less than friendly coven of witches.
With all of this in play, season four seems to bounce back and forth between converging story lines. But it does it well, and interest is held. True Blood has not yet jumped the shark.
As far as I'm aware, True Blood is still being shot on 3-perf, and taken to HD in post.
Something that I found of interest, was a comparison between AMC's Breaking Bad, which seems to go through the same post ethic, with HBO's True Blood. As I mentioned in my piece on Breaking Bad, run it on a moderate to large flat panel, and it looks terrific. Take it up to projection size, and some deficiencies begin to emerge. Nothing untoward, but a less than film-like presentation. With both being shot on 3-perf, True Blood, when projected to the same size, holds image quality quite a bit better.
With episodes still rounding out to an even dozen each year, the Blu-ray of season four adds up to 720 minutes of programming plus extras.
HBO continues to provide the home theater audience with quality Blu-rays, and that is my preferred viewing method.
A continuing high quality entertainment, especially for those into a bit of horror and the occult, and extremely high quality Blu-ray discs.
Recommended.
RAH
In Season One, back in the fall of 2008, we were introduced to vampires. At some point, and I don't recall precisely when, shape-shifters entered the fray, followed by werewolves.
I believe it was back in season three, that we met our first fairies, and began to recognize the extent of Sookie's powers. Then there came mediums and were-panthers, which makes sense, since there are still panthers in certain areas of our southeastern swamplands. And finally our less than friendly coven of witches.
With all of this in play, season four seems to bounce back and forth between converging story lines. But it does it well, and interest is held. True Blood has not yet jumped the shark.
As far as I'm aware, True Blood is still being shot on 3-perf, and taken to HD in post.
Something that I found of interest, was a comparison between AMC's Breaking Bad, which seems to go through the same post ethic, with HBO's True Blood. As I mentioned in my piece on Breaking Bad, run it on a moderate to large flat panel, and it looks terrific. Take it up to projection size, and some deficiencies begin to emerge. Nothing untoward, but a less than film-like presentation. With both being shot on 3-perf, True Blood, when projected to the same size, holds image quality quite a bit better.
With episodes still rounding out to an even dozen each year, the Blu-ray of season four adds up to 720 minutes of programming plus extras.
HBO continues to provide the home theater audience with quality Blu-rays, and that is my preferred viewing method.
A continuing high quality entertainment, especially for those into a bit of horror and the occult, and extremely high quality Blu-ray discs.
Recommended.
RAH
