I don’t know if you watch True Blood, the somewhat-new TV series based off Charlaine Harris’ Sookie Stackhouse novels, but I started it recently due to numerous pals saying “You will love it!” And, I did love the books. And I do love vampire stories in general.
Now that I’m watching it, I wonder why my friends think I love over-acting horribly-southern-accented uneducated fools who repeatedly engage in retarded brooding matches with cute, yet also-overacting vampires. Not one actor listens to anyone else, and the lines are so cliché and boring, I just am waiting for the punch line. Everything is a straight up (pun intended) commentary on the gay community acceptance in the guise of vampire community. And all this from Alan Ball! The creator of the best-written show on television IMHO, Six Feet Under. I can already see the episodes that he’s written stand out as at least tolerable. That’s a bad thing.
When Alan Ball pitched this show he said he pitched it as ‘Popcorn TV for Smart People’. I highly disagree. This is popcorn TV for people who like watching dumb people do stupid things. This is the reality TV of vampire shows.
And everyone has bad hair. Even the emo-brooding civil war vampire.
Ok, I will admit, I love me some vampires. But the rest of the show sucks. This show isn't even worth a pun about sucking.
I am tempted to continue the show in the hopes that other educated characters appear, and cajole Alan Ball off-screen into writing more episodes regarding the relationships. RELATIONSHIPS I said, not just brooding. I do realize that EVERYTHING put on television is dumbed down and sexed up to some extent. But can’t century-old vampires do anything else other than brood in Louisiana? And just being hot, brooding and sexy isn’t enough. Despite what you’ve heard.
At least I enjoy my boyfriend practicing the sexy brooding whenever the vampire is on screen. He’s getting good. If he gets good enough, maybe we can stop watching the show and just do the rest ourselves.
3 comments:
And that is why I'm not watching that fucking show. I LOVE the books, and I KNEW they'd ruin it. Plus I think Anna Paquin looks retarded. THERE. I SAID IT.
I loved the first season, but toward the end, I suspected it might have woven too many plot webs to untangle itself from without abandoning character development all together. But I think Bill and Sookie are a hot couple. I said it. Wanna fight, TL?
I don't think Anna ruined it - Cheryl is right - she and Bill are a hot couple (and together in reality too!) but it's certainly not better than the books. Which is dissapointing.
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