True Blood Season 1 A

(Sorry Nathaniel)

Okay, so made a brief comment about this show earlier. I pretty much just said it was awesome. Which it is. In this part I'll give more deets about how/why it is so awesome.

The show is set in a parallel world to ours where humans and vampires live together. Vampires drink 'Tru Blood' instead of real human blood. However, some humans consent to letting vampires feed off of them in exchange for money, sex or even for the vampire's blood (which acts as some sort of hallucinogenic drug, dubbed 'V'). The thing I always think when watching this show is "Who could've thought that a show based around vampires and such could be so real?". True Blood really succeeds in taking fatasy/science-fiction/whatever elements and using them in a realistic fashion to create characters, ideas, themes and symbols. The show uses a lot of vampire-related topics as metaphors to real-world topics like drug-abuse and racism (or the more current form of prejudice, homophobia). It also has wonderfully real characters where none of them are really good or bad, they're all just human. This is something I love and it isn't something that occurs very frequently. Brothers and Sisters is another show that comes to mind that pulls this off. The lead characters are both great and have a fantastic relationship. When I say "lead characters" I am referring to Sookie and Tara, not Sookie and Bill. Sookie and Tara are fantastic. Sookie and Bill, not so much. Sookie and Tara's relationship is close to rivalling that of Meredith and Cristina from Grey's Anatomy. Actually, that's a lie. It's not close, but it's still pretty damn good. Unfortunately Sookie and Bill suffer from the annoying cliche that I didn't like the first time and don't like anymore the twelfth time. Sookie is all blonde and naive and absolutely blinded by love to see that Bill is ABSOLUTELY TERRIBLE for her. And Bill is dark and dangerous and absolutely blinded by love to see that Sookie is WAY TOO GOOD for him. There are a lot of main characters in the show, but the other most important ones would probably be Jason and Sam. Jason only really does two things in this show: sex and drugs. He's a complete jerk and a total moron but he's loveable. Sam is sort of like poor man's Bill. He has all the same shit going on with him, just not as much. This is why Sookie chooses Bill over Sam. This, and Bill likes to bite her during sex and Sookie loves her some kinky violent sex. Another interesting is Lafiet (not sure on the spelling for this one). He's the drug-dealer, who is awesome and badass. He also seems to be wise and has good advise to give to Sookie and his cousin, Tara. Strangely enough my two favourite characters would probably be the red-haired woman at the bar and her husband, Rene. These two don't really get their own storylines and their role in the show is simply the innocent humans who witness everything that everyone else is doing. Although the lost two eppies weren't quite as good as all the previos ones, they were still worth watching and I really think this show has potential. Can't wait to see how it all turns out.