True Blood

[akirlu]

I haven't read any of the Sookie Stackhouse novels by Charlaine Harris, but after watching the first ep of the new HBO series First Blood, I will definitely be checking them out. Yeah, me and a hundred or so other eager beavers putting holds on them thru the KCLS library search engine. Despite being So Very Over the vampires thing, I enjoyed the snippets I saw on Sunday so much that I juggled our digital recording schedule (the series plays opposite Mad Men AND Masterpiece. *sigh*) and then watched the full episode in order via On Demand. (Less impressive when you realize that most or all of our On Demand is free.)

So, yeah, anyway, Anna Paquin leads a solid cast of quirky, funny, complex Southern Gothic characters in what promises to be an engaging and well-written mystery series. With Vampires. Oh, well, good writing trumps Yet More Vampires, I guess. And Stephen Moyer in the vamp role is, it must be confessed, very easy on the eyes, even if he is doing the Early George Clooney acting-upward-through-the-eyebrows thing.

Comments

[marykaykare.livejournal.com]

I have all Harris' Sookie novels if you'd like to borrow them from me instead of your library. No waiting. Well, there's waiting while I find them, but...

[akirlu.livejournal.com]

Yes, please, that would be lovely. If you have them found by Sunday, I could either catch you at the pub or stop by your place afterwards, depending on whether you're in a drinking mood.

[alces2.livejournal.com]

I liked the first episode also and look forward to getting to several of her books which are in my way-too-large to-be-read stack of books.

[replyhazy.livejournal.com]

What you said. (Even the pun.)

[akirlu.livejournal.com]

Well, that's encouraging. Heck, I haven't even read Ann Rice, but after not faring especially well with the works of Laurell K. Hamilton, Jim Butcher, and Kim Harrison, I've grown rather gun shy of vampires in fantasy fiction, unless it's by someone I already trust, like Elizabeth Bear. (New Amsterdam is pretty swell, though it has nothing to do with the TV series of the same name.)

[cluefairy-j.livejournal.com]

I guess it was bound to happen where we would find a tv series where we disagreed. hehe. I found it to be meh and I don't think I'll tune in again.

[akirlu.livejournal.com]

For what it's worth, the second episode was disappointing. What I liked best about the first one was the quirky elements -- like Sookie's grandma whose first thought on hearing of a vampire is whether he's old enough to remember the Civil War and would he be willing to talk about it to her historical society -- and the eccentric characters, particularly Tara and Lafayette, and the fast-patter dialog, and it seems that already on the second episode, that stuff is less prominent. I'll keep watching for a while, and we'll see, I guess.