What the corpus says about True Blood

You are a clerk at Video Culture, a video store. A customer just finished True Blood and wants to know what to watch next.

Below is what people who love movies said on three podcasts (Blank Check, The Rewatchables, The Big Picture) about True Blood and the films around it, one line each. Every line starts with where it came from, in brackets: [show · episode · time · speaker (how sure we are it was them)]. A [pairs] line says how often two films were put side by side. A [speaker] line says what that person likes. A [bits] line lists a show's running bits: a format, not an opinion.

[Blank Check — Patreon · Eclipse · 0:46:58 · unknown (0.30)] The Twilight Saga: Eclipse ↔ True Blood · theme · Twilight's newborn-vampire subplot prompts a comparison to True Blood, where turning someone makes you responsible for them. · "I'm thinking about true blood again."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Eclipse · 0:47:56 · unknown (0.30)] True Blood ↔ What We Do in the Shadows · theme · True Blood's mundane vampire responsibility is what makes What We Do in the Shadows work. · "that's so much of what makes what we do in the shadows work, right?"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Species’ · 1:06:34 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Species ↔ True Blood · what-if · A Species series would need the nudity and camp of True Blood. · "You almost had to think about it like true blood."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Species’ · 1:28:23 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Species ↔ Mimic · programming · Double-feature pick: Mimic, the killer-cockroach movie from a couple of years later. · "I had mimic, the nearest Sorvino movie that came out a couple years later."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Eclipse · 0:08:12 · unknown (0.40)] David Slade ↔ The Twilight Saga: Eclipse · programming · Summit hired a horror stylist hoping to make the franchise scary and win teenage boys. · "I think they went like, oh, here's a guy who does like highly stylized, sophisticated horror shit."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Species’ · 1:28:33 · Craig Horlbeck (0.40)] Species ↔ Amanda and the Alien · programming · Double-feature pick: a 1995 Cinemax-style movie about an alien learning its body and having sex. · "There's a movie called Amanda and the Alien."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Eclipse · 1:17:57 · unknown (0.40)] The Twilight Saga: Eclipse ↔ The Hunger Games · programming · Twilight's casting grew from B-list to Oscar nominees by the third film, like Hunger Games gaining Hoffman and Julianne Moore. · "And it's kind of the same thing with hunger games."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Species’ · 1:29:05 · Bill Simmons (0.30)] Species ↔ Under the Skin · programming · Proposed as a double feature, but it is an art film so Van upgrades it. · "Under the skin, as in Scarlett Johansson?"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Eclipse · 2:10:08 · Ben Hosley (0.50)] The Twilight Saga: Eclipse ↔ Toy Story 3 · programming · Eclipse opened the same weekend as Toy Story 3, Last Airbender and Grown Ups (box office game). · "It's Toy Story 3, and it's the weekend."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Species’ · 1:06:59 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Species ↔ The X-Files · lineage · Madsen and Helgenberger could be Mulder and Scully in a Species TV series. · "you could talk me into Madson and Helgenberger being like Mulder and Scully"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Eclipse · 2:21:20 · unknown (0.40)] The Twilight Saga: Eclipse ↔ The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn · programming · The final film is promised to take a huge liberty with the book and be entertaining, and the second to last has Michael Sheen camp. · "at least, I remember the next one having some Michael Sheen in it."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Species’ · 1:12:56 · Bill Simmons (0.30)] Alien ⇒ Species (the maker said so) · lineage · Giger thought Species ripped off too many other alien movies, such as the chest-burster. · "He thought the movie ripped off too many other alien movies"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Eclipse · 0:06:32 · unknown (0.40)] The Twilight Saga: Eclipse ↔ Imitation of Life · lineage · A guest on the prior episode (Chris, who worked on the franchise) was told the series plays like a Sirkian melodrama; his mother was nominated for Imitation of Life. · "it's like a Circian melodrama"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Species’ · 0:11:36 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Species ↔ Congo · theme · Species belongs to a 90s subgenre the speaker calls scientist fiction, alongside Congo, Outbreak, Sneakers, Sphere and Mimic. · "Um, so it's a little bit sci-fi, a little bit adventury, but Congo, outbreak, sneakers, sphere, species, mimic."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Eclipse · 0:17:30 · unknown (0.40)] The Twilight Saga: Eclipse ↔ Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones · lineage · The meadow-and-flowers romance scene reads as Attack of the Clones vibes; the ending returns to the same field. · "Whereas this is Attack of the Clones vibes."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Species’ · 0:11:48 · unknown (0.30)] Species ↔ Michael Crichton · theme · The subgenre is described as getting a little Crichton in your life. · "Yeah, get a little Crichton in your life."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Eclipse · 0:35:05 · unknown (0.40)] The Twilight Saga: Eclipse ↔ Sonic the Hedgehog · theme · Speedster problem via Rebecca Drysdale: a character faster than everyone has no shared continuum with others; the Sonic movie solved it with a road trip. · "Sonic is inherently kind of a tough character to build dramatic narrative around because his whole thing is he goes faster than everyone else."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Species’ · 0:45:58 · Chris Ryan (0.30)] Species ↔ Borat · theme · Aliens and outsiders watching hotel-room TV to learn the culture is a gimmick that works in Borat, Big and Species. · "Borat, Big, this movie."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Eclipse · 1:27:57 · unknown (0.40)] The Twilight Saga: Eclipse ↔ The Lord of the Rings · theme · Cullens don't sleep, like elves in Lord of the Rings. · "They are, they are like elves in Lord of the Rings or whatever."
[speaker] Chris Ryan · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ · A franchise and genre scholar who likes Jason, the early sequels, and Manhattan; attention to trivia, tropes and critic reception. Treats slashers as a canon with tiers. · stances: Parts 1, 2, 4 and Manhattan are the good ones; The series finds its legs at 4
[bits] The Rewatchables: Apex Mountain (The moment a star peaks; where on the mountain a performance sits); Who Won the Movie (The hosts name the person who came out of the film best off); The Ebert review (Roger Ebert's original review and star rating read aloud. Ebert is cited, never on the show); Casting what-ifs (Who was almost cast, or who should have been); Most rewatchable scene (The scene each host would stop on while flipping channels); Aged best / aged worst (What holds up and what does not); Picking Nits (The little things in a film the hosts love that they don't think totally work: the nits); Double feature (The film each host would pair it with; a programming pick)

Recommend three to six films, and only films that appear in these lines. A series, a TV film, or a franchise counts too when a line recommends it or pairs it with True Blood; name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend True Blood itself. For each one, give one short reason in your own words and say whose reason it is: the show, named exactly as the brackets name it, and the speaker when the line names one (an "unknown" speaker is just the show). If the lines are thin, say so plainly rather than stretching them.

Keep a contrast a contrast. When a line sets two films apart, the reason is how they differ; never turn it into a way they're alike. A line with ⇒ puts the source first and what drew on it second, and one marked "the maker said so" is still the host reporting it: say who said it, and never state an influence as fact.

You know only what's on these lines. Add no fact they don't state: not who directed a film, not what kind of film it is, not when it came out, unless a line says so. Say nothing about the store or how anything rents here.

Talk the way a clerk talks to a customer at the counter: plain text, titles written plainly with no asterisks or other markup, no headings, no lists of more than six, no JSON.