Digital Intelligence An internet professional blog by Alex Sandrey

True Blood – Series 1

Just finished watching the first series of ‘True Blood‘ and having been caught both at work (during my lunch break) and at home enjoying and at times chucking along I have been asked ‘what it is?’. This has been surprising hard to explain. So rather than make a hash of it I though I’d plagiarize Wiki and say:

“[True Blood picks it's story up where] Following the creation of synthetic blood, vampires have progressed from legendary monsters to fellow citizens overnight. Sookie Stackhouse (Anna Paquin) is a telepath and waitress at Merlotte’s in the small Louisiana town of Bon Temps, owned by Sam Merlotte (Sam Trammell), a shapeshifter—though this secret is kept hidden. One night, Sookie meets Bill Compton (Stephen Moyer), a handsome 173-year-old vampire who has returned to Bon Temps following the death of his last remaining relative. As she cannot hear his thoughts, she finds it easy to be in his company and over the first season, the two become romantically involved.”…

I actually think that’s a bit lame. The show is well written and engaging without being too dark for horror fans or the like. There’s lots of light hearted elements that keeps it fun and enjoyable to watch. Some of the elements in the story is a bit predictable but like lost, 24 and prison break, that element of predictable suspense is a good thing (from the productions point of view) as you just can’t help but come back again and again to find out, finaly, that you were right all along (weren’t you clever).

As I said earlier I did enjoy this, it was different, it made me laugh in places at the same time there were elements of suspense and intrigue (and surprising large amount of naked breasts!?). As with all of these TV shows that seem to be destined from the off to run for a number of series there is an under current theme or ’sub-plot’ that always gets revealed way too slow for my liking but as they all do this I can’t really criticize ‘True Blood’ for following a working TV model.

All in all I would give it a… 3.5 out of 5. Fun, Funny, Good vampire show