
True Blood - Image credit: HBO
I’m not much of a TV guy, since pretty much everything out there usually just sucks.
Broadcast free TV treats you like a moron, with their puritan standards and stuff. Cable gives you tons of movies you’ve seen 3856 times in uncountable reruns.
I think the last time I followed something on cable was Californication and, I have to admit, they’re accomplishing to maintain the interest of the public.
A couple of weeks ago I stumbled on a lot of blogs talking about True Blood as the new sensation. Curiosity killed the cat and I gave the show a chance.
I must say it kept me on the edge of my seat since the opening credits.
Anna Paquin is a very good actress, her role as a naive girl with telepathic skills (she can listen to people’s thoughts) who gradually shows she is not that naive at all, combined with her wardrobe full of short shorts and dresses is a winner.
In case you don’t know, True Blood is about vampires living among humans after the Japaneses have invented an artificial blood that allows them not to kill anymore.
Forget what you know about vampires, mirror, crosses, garlic and all that crap you’ve seen in every vampire movie since Christopher Lee.
The only rule that’s still going is the one that says they cannot do their business on daylight.
Humans seem to be irresistibly attracted to the dark beings, and a lot of girls carry teeth marks on their necks an groins (it seems the veins down there are very juicy).
This rule must have come from Interview With the Vampire, since you can be bitten by a vampire and keep taking a normal life, as long as he doesn’t kill you, of course, and you don’t drink from his blood.
Combine all this with a lot of cursing, sex and nude scenes and you have the best series of the year.