"I can't listen to politicians anymore, I get a seizure. Can we put it on my home decor show now?" Terry, war veteran-with-problems (True Blood)
Alan Ball has created again very refreshing and captivating new show. Even though based on book series, the first season has started to show promising diversion toward the end into its own direction. Hopefully Alan Ball continues to into his private road, what viewers have enjoyed in shows like Six Feet Under.
Thanks to a Japanese scientist's invention of synthetic blood, vampires have come out of their coffins, and are now demanding their own civil rights in form of Vampire Rights Amendment (VRA). Religious leaders as well as humans and vampires (and other creatures) are choosing their sides. And not all are happy how the world has changed. The show is exploiting themes like racism, homophobia, drug abuse and civil rights in a new-old way in Southern small town Bon Temps.
Local waitress Sookie Stackhouse (Anna Paquin) is "cursed" with the telepathy, and "otherness". However, in one evening Bon Temps first vampire handsome Bill Compton (Stephen Moyer), walks in and things are starting to stir in small town.
Show is blessed with good actors. Especially Stephen Moyers performance as a Civil War vampire is outstandingly captivating to watch. Lafayette (Nelsan Ellis), a short-order cook/private gay entrepreneurial, and his colourful cousin Tara (Rutina Wesley) are serious, wicked, and painfully funny at the same time. Sookie's sex-addictive brother Jason (Ryan Kwanten) and her slightly stocking boss Sam (Sam Trammell) portrait their roles well. Overall the supporting cast is bullseye. The main mishap is lead lady Sookie's character that exhibits so many personalities (or syndromes) during the show that viewers are lost. In the end the character is painfully loud, annoying and overacted, which creates a shameful lack of taste in contrast to other characters. Sookie might turn out to be the "Jar Jar Binks" of True Blood.
The first three episodes are addictive, and the best love story in TV for a long time between Bill and Sookie is certainly driving mad with its intense beauty. Unfortunately, after the first three episodes the show starts to lose little by little its focus in storyline, some of the acts are overly extended or chaotic; the love story is trivialized, and all this is culminating in episode 11 into totally absurd lines and takes degrading the show into a badly written soap opera. The season finale patches some of it, but leaves a lot of lose threads. Still, True Blood is worth watching because of its isolated pearls that are embedded in some characters and their lines. And Lafayette's wardrobe alone... Hopefully the coming second season can restore some of the lost charm.
Music "Bad Things" by Jace Everett, and generally music in this show is worth listening.
Alan Ball has created again very refreshing and captivating new show. Even though based on book series, the first season has started to show promising diversion toward the end into its own direction. Hopefully Alan Ball continues to into his private road, what viewers have enjoyed in shows like Six Feet Under.
Thanks to a Japanese scientist's invention of synthetic blood, vampires have come out of their coffins, and are now demanding their own civil rights in form of Vampire Rights Amendment (VRA). Religious leaders as well as humans and vampires (and other creatures) are choosing their sides. And not all are happy how the world has changed. The show is exploiting themes like racism, homophobia, drug abuse and civil rights in a new-old way in Southern small town Bon Temps.
Local waitress Sookie Stackhouse (Anna Paquin) is "cursed" with the telepathy, and "otherness". However, in one evening Bon Temps first vampire handsome Bill Compton (Stephen Moyer), walks in and things are starting to stir in small town.
Show is blessed with good actors. Especially Stephen Moyers performance as a Civil War vampire is outstandingly captivating to watch. Lafayette (Nelsan Ellis), a short-order cook/private gay entrepreneurial, and his colourful cousin Tara (Rutina Wesley) are serious, wicked, and painfully funny at the same time. Sookie's sex-addictive brother Jason (Ryan Kwanten) and her slightly stocking boss Sam (Sam Trammell) portrait their roles well. Overall the supporting cast is bullseye. The main mishap is lead lady Sookie's character that exhibits so many personalities (or syndromes) during the show that viewers are lost. In the end the character is painfully loud, annoying and overacted, which creates a shameful lack of taste in contrast to other characters. Sookie might turn out to be the "Jar Jar Binks" of True Blood.
The first three episodes are addictive, and the best love story in TV for a long time between Bill and Sookie is certainly driving mad with its intense beauty. Unfortunately, after the first three episodes the show starts to lose little by little its focus in storyline, some of the acts are overly extended or chaotic; the love story is trivialized, and all this is culminating in episode 11 into totally absurd lines and takes degrading the show into a badly written soap opera. The season finale patches some of it, but leaves a lot of lose threads. Still, True Blood is worth watching because of its isolated pearls that are embedded in some characters and their lines. And Lafayette's wardrobe alone... Hopefully the coming second season can restore some of the lost charm.
Music "Bad Things" by Jace Everett, and generally music in this show is worth listening.