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.

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[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.