Yet another series

[yakalskovich]

essayel and carolinw independently both told me that 'True Blood' was good, so I decided to give it a try.

Starting meekly with season 1, episode 1 and not jumping right to an episode with James Frain in.

So far, I like it. It's funny!! I didn't expect it to be funny, from what I had heard, but it is, squeal-out-loud, scare-the-cats kind of funny, at that! The way Sookie laughed when the vampire said his name was Bill. Or Tara telling that dick-led bloke, "You're a gigantic parody of yourself, and you don't even know it!"

But then, it's from the same creator as 'Six Feet Under'. So yes, it's probably going to be worth my time...

I'm giving it a tag, too, as to not to have to seek out and re-tag posts later. It feels like that kind of a series.-

Comments

[ceitfianna]

True Blood's on my Netflix queue currently behind Avatar: The Last Airbender, perhaps I should bump it up.

[erastes.livejournal.com]

Yes!!!! I've been banging on about it forever. If you can stand the gore (and it's very gory where I am right now) it's wonderful. Brilliantly written, excellent character development - you'll learn to love ALL of them. When it's done, I'll read the books, but not yet.

[yakalskovich]

Well, I only watched one episode yet. You'll hear more as I go along. But so far, it's as brilliant as people said, and I totally didn't expect the sheer funny of it.

There's one tertiary character (Sal said she'd turn up again) who's a very posh and cool vampire lady from some vampire civil rights movement who goes on the serious talk show circuit and goes on about how vampires just want to join mainstream culture like everybody else (she's on the telly that's running in some location, not actually a character even). That is so totally Lady Margolotta of her!!

[yakalskovich]

I'm totally looking forwards to seeing more! Episode two is piping in as I type.-