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After watching Season 1, I feel comfortable making the following assertions:
-- The show's awesome.
-- And it's pretty much all about sex.
-- And that's okay b/c the vast majority of characters are scrumptious: Jason, Sam, Bill, Sookie, Eric (even if he's an a-hole), Lafayette, Amy (even if she's unbearably annoying), even Dawn.
Okay, plus the acting's good, the stories are compelling, and they know how to do mystery/suspense. Brad and I suspected every single person of being the Season 1 murderer (well, every single guy) except for the person it actually was. And yet, that storyline was totally believable. And satisfying.
If you saw the Sept. 2010 Rolling Stone cover with Anna Paquin, Stephen Moyer, and Alexander Skarsgard, then you know why I wanted to watch these
BUT, if you need more than fabulous bodies to entice you (I shudder to think such a thing is possible!), I've got some "legitimate" reasons in my bag of tricks, too. (And, I'm about to contradict my claim that it's all about sex. Except I did say it was pretty much all about sex - not completely.) The show is timely, relevant, and unabashedly provocative in its engagement with
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-- political hypocrisy (also know as "hypocritism" by me)
-- racism and race relations (vamps and humans in the show, obviously - given the deep South setting, however, the real race issues are barely even under the surface)
-- extreme, fundamental religion
-- drug laws and enforcement
and surely myriad other topics that I've been too dense to notice.
Further, it should be noted that I praise the show not out of the now-popular adoration of all-things-vampire. I got over Buffy long ago, circa 1999, and I think the cult following it has achieved is, well, silly. It's really not all that good, and Sarah Michelle Geller's voice is fantasically irritating. It always sounds like she needs to clear snot out of her throat. (As some of you know, there's nothing like an annoying voice to prickle me.) While Brad and I religiously watched Angel during my early college years, that was less a function of quality (which, decidedly, is not high) and more a function of that's-what-was-on-TNT-when-Law-&-Order-reruns-weren't.
And while I do love the Underworld movies and 30 Days of Night, I ask you, Who in her right mind doesn't!?
Basically, True Blood's a smart show that will draw you in in no time flat. It might even make you think. And did I mention how sexy it is?
i agree, i found it on demand and decided to give it a try. That turned into an all nighter completing the first season, followed by a day of folding laundry and completing the 2nd season. I am on the edge of my seat waiting for this summer's premiere!
ReplyDeleteoh and YES, it is borderline soft-core pornography. But it's HBO, SO IT'S OK!
ReplyDeleteSooooooooooooo jealous that you have on-demand! We have, like, 16 channels b/c if I turn the tv on I never want to turn it off! And all it takes for me to get sucked in is TNT - pretty much whatever's on (except for Bones, which is so terrible), I'm game.
ReplyDeleteWe get it through Netflix, so there's the inevitable lag time . . . blah. But we've got the first two discs of season 2 in hand and are starting in on that in about 15 minutes!