TrueBlood Review - HBO is doing it again!
Among my friends, it’s no secret that I can be a bit “critical” of what the TV Executives are deciding we want to watch. However, I’m a huge fan of the premium cable channel series shows. The late Sopranos and Deadwood from HBO and the, still fresh, Dexter over on Showtime were/are excellent. Having taken a backseat to Showtime (in my home), HBO has pulled off something that had me thinking, “You gotta be shitting me! A series about Vampires.” Yes, Vampires!
We join the show, for me, in episodes 1 and 2, hot off the DVR last night. (When I should have been sleeping.) True Blood starts off in an America where Vampires have (I am not making this up), “come out of the coffin”, and apparently, “just want to fit in”. Well, they want to fit into the “after sunset social scene”. In this world, technology has created a perfect synthetic blood called True Blood, that can be purchased in (so far as we know) bars and convenience stores. Thus, vampires don’t have to feed on humans and can now cohabitate with the mortals. As much as I’m liking the show so far, I have a couple of issues with the believeability of the story. Here’s why.
Goodbye lateshift for all you mortals. Firstly, vampires are strong and fast. Our first vampire, Bill Compton, (Not Count William Compton IV or anything like that) kills a couple of people, saving his mortal, telepathic, fine as hell, girlfriend, and makes it look like they died when a tornado hit their mobile home. What I’m saying is it would only take 1 or 2 of them to do the work of 20 people. Unemployment, depending on how many of them file for social security numbers, could be off the charts.
They are being oppressed and persecuted. Yeah right! In this show, they are hunted an “drained” for their “narcotic/aphrodesiac-like” blood and treated much like a minority. Folks using words like “you people” and “your kind”. This would never happen. Even out in the sticks with a dive-bar full of like-minded, biggoted vampire hating rednecks to back you up. One of the guys could clean house. For “hatin’ on vampires”, I’m calling bullshit!
In summary, they’ve done a lot of good stuff with this one. I think HBO has found a much overdue winner in True Blood. Now, if this series ends with a “switch to black”, I’ll put a stake in HBO, in my house. You heard me!
I’m sorry, I just have to say that you missed a couple of points with your issues.
First off I don’t think Vampires are going to effect Social Security or unemployment. The reason I say this is because in the show people are rather weary of vampires as a whole and you’re not going to hire people you’re afraid of, I don’t care how much work they could do.
Secondly, vampires with jobs are a bit how should I put it? Well the point is why? Why would a vamp need a job? If you can live long enough that your personal affects belong in a museum or would fetch thousands in the hands of personal collectors, why work. Only new vamps would work and I think the vampire community would sort of discourage that seeing as new vamps would be more likely to harm humans.
Now about vampires cleaning house…well I would think that goes with what I just said about the vampire community. Vamps as a whole are trying to make nice with the public. You don’t make nice by tearing through hundreds of people as if they were tissue paper.
What limits vampires aren’t people, but rather their own society that wisely enough knows that if it came to all out war, humanity would win hands down. Vampires aren’t packing nukes or ruling the world, if anything its wiser on their part to speak softly and turn their abilities toward their advantage as so long as it doesn’t hurt them as a people.
Now that I’ve got my inner Geek out, let me just say I love the series so far. And they’ve done some really dynamic things that have made this show great to me. Oh and I’ve really enjoyed your review.
Lupine
22 Oct 08 at 12:54 pm
Awesome! My first comment. Thank you for your time.
Matt
29 Oct 08 at 1:26 pm
I love trueblood sooooo much!
My friends and i have treublood parties every sunday…
im addicted to it…
and i love bill…
he is so sexy…
I WISH HE COULD BITE ME!…..EVERYWHERE…lol
Crystal
5 Nov 08 at 11:09 am