True Blood
Aug. 27th, 2008 10:19 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shipperxHaven't posted in a week or so. I'll get around to that. Hope everyone is doing well (or at least reasonably okay). Posting will come later. For now, copy pasting Roush's review of the new HBO series True Blood . (I admit to once having tried to read one of the books and being unable to make it through. I didn't particularly like it. But the HBO ads and clips have looked somewhat intriguing -- even if I wanted to smack the producer around for saying that it's a 'new' take on vampires because it used dark comedy. Uh... yeah. New. He even admitted to never having watched BtVS or AtS. So hey, FYI producer-- not. so new!
Still, I'm willing to give the series a try even if I was less than thrilled with the only book in the series that I tried to read.
Still, I'm willing to give the series a try even if I was less than thrilled with the only book in the series that I tried to read.
True Blood Series premiere: Sunday, 9/7, 9/8c, HBO
In a Louisiana backwater, someone’s killing women who are getting it on with vampires—a minority now living openly after the invention of a synthetic-blood drink, but facing persecution (think gay allegory). Graphically sexy and scary, and often wildly funny, True Blood, from Six Feet Under’s Alan Ball, turns Charlaine Harris’ rollicking mystery novels into a broadly entertaining, deliciously twisted slice of modern Southern Gothic. Anna Paquin leads a colorfully eccentric ensemble as a telepathic waitress taking girlish delight in her instant attraction to a soulful vamp (Stephen Moyer) whose mind is blissfully closed to her. My score (0–10): 9
