True Blood

The new series from HBO and Alan Ball. I've never seen his work before, nor read the books the series is based on. But I'll check out anything that deals with classic monsters like vampires.

I've managed to watch the first episode and it's got me interested to tune in next week if I can. But I can't say that I'm completely won over like I was when I first saw Dexter.

First impressions:
Liked the cast. Although I felt that all the characters except for maybe one or two, seem to be portrayed as "idiots" depending on the degree of idiocy. Some are just flat out trailer trash stupid, and others are just sad but likable chumps who are going to get screwed by something nasty later on. I hope I made sense on that. But it's just the first episode and there was a lot of other stuff going on, so I hope my opinion changes on that.

Re: the "other stuff". Here's one of those things : at first I had a hard time with the concept that some people would pay lots of money for vampire blood for its energy boost and sexual performance enhancing abilities but then I remembered the hard core vegan food I once had to eat and wondering at the time why people could eat such awful tasting slop, then it clicked for me. Both images make me ill, but it is a reasonable idea.

What freaked me out:
The brief scene of kinky vamp sex. Holy crap, that was weird. Scared the bejeebus out of me.

I liked the fact that it was able to scare me, and hope that this series is able to pull of the scary elements every week. But I don't think I need to see that scene anymore.