TRUE BLOOD episode #04 “Escape from Dragon House”
October 3, 2008 · Print This Article
HBO hour-long dramas ruled the 00s with The Wire, The Sopranos, Deadwood, Rome and Six Feet Under. However, all those shows are long gone and HBO hadn’t gotten me back to anything they’ve come up with since, except for the brilliant, but short Generation Kill. So now I’m almost fully on-board with their latest hour-long drama, TRUE BLOOD, from the creator of Six Feet Under.
It started off a little shakily, especially since I can’t stand TV shows or movies that just show miserable, ignant people’s lives. Just watching hicks in the deep south drink and wallow in dead-end jobs, no thanks. But the premise of the show kept me watching, which is that vampires have “come out of the closet” and revealed themselves to the general public after Japanese scientists invented a synthetic blood that allows vampires to not have to kill to get food, and thus they can attempt to become regular memebers of society.
Of course it’s not that simple for the vampires and a political struggle for vampire rights goes on in the background as the show’s two main characters, Sookie (Anna Paquin) and her vampire friend Bill Compton start a relationship of some kind in their very small town. Sookie is a very innocent girl, yet dresses in totally revealing clothes, doesn’t make sense to me. Bill is the most interesting character on the show, of course. Sookie’s grandmother also has a nice southern accent and dolls out good wisdom. I’d like to visit her regularly and drink her homemade lemonade. Ladies like that are getting increasingly rare.
The other human characters are mostly annoying though, but they are getting better as the show moves beyond just introducing them. Now that the show is revealing its main storylines and plot, is is getting very good. I think if they continue to show the hierarchy and intrigue of the vampire society and how vampires wanting to live more in human society struggle, then this could be a very fascinating show.
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