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| teddy33 | Apr 19 2010, 06:38 AM Post #1 |
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In the alternative present of True Blood, vampires walk among us. They have lately come, as one character puts it, "out of the coffin". Thanks to the invention of a human Blood substitute, the undead can now get sustenance from convenience stores. Among the liberal-minded, vampires have become socially acceptable, even a little fashionable.True Blood, however, is set in a swampy corner of Louisiana where the liberal-minded are thin on the ground (the local attitude to vampires is encapsulated in a shot of a motel sign in the opening credits, where someone has slung up the words God Hates Fangs), and suspicion hangs in the air like a fog. The action centres on Merlotte's Bar & Grill, a roadhouse full of undesirables presided over by waitress Sookie Stackhouse. Sookie can hear people's thoughts, which must come in handy, but she appears to regard it as an affliction. True Blood,The only person she can't hear thinking is Bill, the handsome, brooding stranger who turns out to be Merlotte's first ever vampire customer.True Blood is the latest offering from Alan Ball, creator of Six Feet Under. True Blood's in its second series in America, where it's garnered critical acclaim and high ratings, so over here, naturally, it's on FX, where they hid The Wire the first time round.nna Paquin plays Sookie with a permanently dented perkiness, and the other characters are all winningly demented. True Blood's sophistication might be wasted on such a hokey premise, but even at its worst it's destined to be 10 times better than anything else on TV. Faint praise, perhaps, but there you are.,nna Paquin plays Sookie with a permanently dented perkiness, and the other characters are all winningly demented. nna Paquin plays Sookie with a permanently dented perkiness, and the other characters are all winningly demented. True Blood's sophistication might be wasted on such a hokey premise, but even at its worst it's destined to be 10 times better than anything else on TV. Faint praise, perhaps, but there you are.'s sophistication might be wasted on such a hokey premise, but even at its worst it's destined to be 10 times better than anything else on TV. Faint praise, perhaps, but there you are. ____________________________________________________________________________ stardvdcity The Simpsons DVD 1-20 30 Rock DVD 1-3 Entourage DVD 1-6 True Blood DVD 1-2 The Office DVD 1-5 Nip Tuck DVD 1-5 Walt Disney DVD 153 Discs MI5 DVD 1-8 Alias DVD 1-5 Monk DVD 1-7 Bones DVD 1-4 South Park DVD 1-12 Two and a Half Men DVD 1-6 007 James Bond dvd The Sopranos DVD 1-6 Lost DVD 1-5 Navy NCIS DVD 1-6 |
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