Some of these HBO series are better than most new movies these days. True Blood is a vampire story with the twist that the vampires are living among us – they have come out of the closet so to speak. The storyline flows really well against this backdrop because the whole vampire aspect is made so much more believable that the typical on screen vamp tale.
There is sort of a new age explanation for what animates vampires, many of the traditional powers and weaknesses of vampires are handled as myth, and there is sort of a political and cultural tension that is analogous to the way homosexuals and other minorities are and were treated both by law and society.
So, I’ll put this up with the other good HBO series that paved the way – The Sopranos, Deadwood, Six Feet Under, and Rome.
I’m one episode into “Big Love.” If that first episode is an indicator of the rest of the season, I doubt I’ll be as enthusiastic should I ever blog about it.
Been watching HBO’s True Blood – first season
Some of these HBO series are better than most new movies these days. True Blood is a vampire story with the twist that the vampires are living among us – they have come out of the closet so to speak. The storyline flows really well against this backdrop because the whole vampire aspect is made so much more believable that the typical on screen vamp tale.
There is sort of a new age explanation for what animates vampires, many of the traditional powers and weaknesses of vampires are handled as myth, and there is sort of a political and cultural tension that is analogous to the way homosexuals and other minorities are and were treated both by law and society.
So, I’ll put this up with the other good HBO series that paved the way – The Sopranos, Deadwood, Six Feet Under, and Rome.
I’m one episode into “Big Love.” If that first episode is an indicator of the rest of the season, I doubt I’ll be as enthusiastic should I ever blog about it.