Title: True Blood
Tags: True Blood drama first season tv HBO
Blog Entry: And ooh, does this series make me want to do bad things with it....NOT. I was not an avid watcher of this series but overall this series will seem interesting especially to all fans of Buffy and Angel out there. It seems like only yesterday we were introduced to Sookie Stackhouse, psychic waitress, and her love interest Bill Compton, vampire with some soul, if not A soul and the rest of the crazy cast of characters. We saw pretty much every woman Jason Stackhouse slept with get killed, which made me happy that Tara managed to resist his man-whorish ways. We learned that Sookie's boss Sam is really a shapeshifter who can turn into a dog. We saw some of the vamp subculture, the subculture of humans who get high off vamp blood and who try to hang out with vampires and the conservative elements resisting equal rights for vamps. It all came down to Jason suspecting that he was responsible for the deaths of all the women he'd slept with (and his grandmother), but the real murderer was Rene, who was faking being Cajun and was real in his hatred of women who slept with vampires. A mark of a generally well-crafted show is that it gets you to forgive its inevitable lapses and plot holes. Such is the case with "True Blood," where it seems like at some point Sookie should have been able to "read" that Rene was acting very strangely, if not that he was the murderer. And when Sam turns into his dog form to attack Rene (um, can't you turn into something bigger? Or a scarier dog than the one you did turn into? Or at least take him on as a man?) And when Bill decides to venture out into the sunlight to try to stop Rene. (You'd think he'd pull a page from Spike's book and throw a blanket over himself or something.) The upshot, though, is Sookie manages to deal the deathblow to Rene, so good on her. Too often the damsel in distress needs guys to save her. Plot threads that are waiting for us in Season Two: Bill's having to explain to Sookie that he "made" a hottie redhead vampire who is going to follow him around all the time; Tara's involvement with a shapeshifter woman (played by Michelle Forbes, who seems like she's on a mission to be on every excellent TV series she can) who seems to be inducting her into some sort of cult and who has some sort of past with Sam; Jason's involvement with an anti-vampire church and what I suspect will be the overarching question: Who killed Lafayette? Bill, who needed to feed on someone after his exposure to the sun? The closeted senator who Lafayette threatened? Someone else?
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