Hello Slogosphere! I am back from a week of vacation on the Virginia coast, where I spent my days splashing around in the Atlantic and my nights removing sand from my crannies and watching DVD-and-iTunes-supplied episodes of True Blood. My late-blooming interest in HBO’s sexy vampire series was previously mentioned here. Now that I’ve seen a whole lot more of the show (just started Season 3!), I’d like to point out the following.
*All women who date vampires are annoying. Granted, True Blood‘s Sookie is nowhere near as drippy as Twilight‘s Bella—at least Sookie puts out—but that doesn’t mean she doesn’t annoy the fuck out of me. What do vampires see in these whiny drip girls?
*True Blood is ridiculous. Seriously, it’s like Melrose Place with more blood and fucking, a fact that made itself known with the first of the show’s 10,000 plot twists involving a STOOPID romantic misunderstanding and/or a character’s ability to instantly process trauma. Still, fun!
*The primary pleasure of watching the show is determining your True Blood dream date. For many folks, this is vampire Eric (too pretty) or vampire Bill (weird wig) or Jason Stackhouse (too young and meth-y looking), but for me it is no one but Hoyt Fortenberry. (Don’t argue with me.) However, if Sam Merlotte were to get a crew cut, he might take the lead. As for the ladies, the woman who plays Tara is a solid pillar of gorgeousness, but a terrible actress. (How many accents can one character have?)
*Seattle’s Digital Kitchen makes glorious credit sequences.
@50 I’d give you that Lafayette is Hurley to Jason’s lovechild of Sawyer-and-Miles, actually.
@51 the entirety of the Dexter score should be up every year. It’s consistently the most moving and engrossing score on television. We just finally caught up on S4 and I’m actually giddy for S5, which almost never happens for me on TV. It’s seriously like all the other dramatic TV actors are playing catch up to Michael Hall now, not to mention the cinematographers. Dexter outdoes even most feature films in being just plain stunning visually.
The King of Mississippi is oddly appealing, but more in a over-the-top entertainment way. For sheer eye candy, gotta go with my wolfman Alcide!
I’m to the point where I’m only curious about what Alan Ball will do with the characters, but don’t really care about them anywhere near as much as I do for the characters in the books.
I am VERY interested in seeing how Ball’s changes will play out and his take on vampire politics – especially in light of the latest episode.
I find it is best to just sit back and enjoy all the lovely eye-candy that Mr. Ball is supplying to us all.
I love true blood!!! But sookie is incredibly annoying. Just read the books! I don’t know why I love the show I guess you’re right. Its all about the dream dates. Mine would be the always hunky eric but jason would be second. Even though I agree he does look methy.
I like Big Bang Theory as much as the next unrepentant geek, but to claim that their credits outdo True Blood’s is ridonk.
@33 Whiney loon would be an extreme understatement. All she does is quiver and blink excessively, it’s painful to watch.
Wasn’t vampire Eric killed in a tragic gasoline accident in Zoolander?
#24 Thanks.
Mr. Schmader, I humbly offer this rebuttal: You are off your fucking rocker. I get it, we disagree about My Favorite Show, and I suppose I grudgingly respect your opinion, or not. But it appears that you are on Season 3, which I am going to assume means you watched Season 2, and yet there is no mention of the delicious Michelle Forbes, or Kristin Bauer, whose icy, sarcastic, bitchy nasty Pam is one of the best things on TV EVER, and I guess you haven’t gotten to Talbot yet in your viewing, who is charming, humorous and catty. Also, Lettie Mae Thornton. Adina Porter freakin’ OWNS that role. And while I am no expert on Northern Louisiana accents, I love Rutina Wesley’s (Tara’s) attitude and delivery, and in Season 3, she fucking kicks serious ass and takes everyone’s names. I find Sophie-Anne absolutely irritating, and yet you offer no mention of her incredibly grating demeanor.
And do I really need to mention Franklin? Maybe you are not there yet. Godric? Stan (swoon)? In summary, yes, True Blood is ridiculous. It’s a show about vampires, maenads, werewolves and a bunch of other supes that I shall not mention, in case you are unfamiliar with the books. It’s ridiculous, sexy, thrilling, campy, dramatic, and unique, and also one of the best shows I’ve seen on TV in a long time. (If you have distate for Anna Paquin’s Sookie, then the books would make you positively apoplectic. I think she does a good job of conveying the lead character of the books, without making you want to throw the book, or TV in this case, through the window, as I actually did with the second novel in the series. I enjoyed the first book, but I really had to force myself to finish the second. I believe it’s still in the alley behind my house where I tossed it, if you wish to retrieve it.)
In response to your question “What do vampires see in these whiny drip girls?”, all will be revealed.
And bitches, Bill is NOT wearing a wig.
I still think Six Feet Under had the best opening credits sequence– and it’s obvious that the opening credits to Dexter, much like it’s choice of lead actor, were inspired by SFU.
@TVdinner – totally with you on the awesomeness of Lafayette!
@24
HOOOOOOOOOOOLLLLLLLLLYYYYYYY SHIT.
Lafayette is a preening, self serving gay/black cliché (I mean come on, a drug dealing tranny? FTW?!)- In short obnoxiously IRRITATING and if I may say so, smelly looking and fat…