Vampires haven’t really graced our screen since Buffy the Vampire Slayer finished in 2003. But it seems that Vampires are sexy again primarily due to the Twilight book and film series. This has caused many others to jump on the bandwagon and create vampire related TV shows and movies.
One of these is HBO show True Blood premiering on satellite and cable channel FX tomorrow at 10pm. The show is in its second season in the US so it is pretty difficult to avoid spoilers in a world so easily connected and as I haven’t seen any episodes yet either, I will be trying to keep the spoilers out of this.
The creator of the show is Alan Ball, also creator of Six Feet under and it is based on novels by Charlaine Harris
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Usually vampires are vicious, merciless killers but thanks to the invention of synthetic blood, branded Tru Blood, by a Japanese scientist, Vampires no longer need to feed on humans and so can live among them civilly. The show is set in a small town in Louisiana, Bon Temps where most of the citizens are sceptical of the vampires. One citizen, local barmaid, Sookie Stackhouse is intrigued by the vampires and can relate to feeling of being a outcast due to the fact that she can read people's thoughts. She becomes acquainted with one vampire, 173 year old Bill and is drawn into a series of mysteries and events that may change her life.
Of course as we’ve seen in other shows vampires can never be friendly as they are basically soulless monsters so will be interesting to see if they really can live as part of communities and will any of them pay any prices for their past crimes.
According to forums and comments I’ve read this show deserves it’s 10pm post watershed time slot with lots of gory and sexy scenes.
I’m particularly looking forward to this show, I was an avid fan of Buffy and Angel and was very impressed by the Twilight film and am now listening to the audiobooks so hopefully this will be as good.
See below for a preview of the series
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