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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!