True Blood – Season 1, Episode 5
April 16, 2009 at 3:00 am | Posted in TV Review | 1 CommentTags: Anna Paquin, Bill Compton, Bon Temps, Jason Stackhouse, Ryan Kwanten, Sam Merlotte, Sam Trammell, Sookie Stackhouse, Stephen Moyer, True Blood, TV Reviewed, Vampire
Dreading what soft-porn might lurk, I made myself watch episode 5 of True Blood as air-ed in New Zealand – on Prime last night. Warning: plot revealed.
It this episode, we find out more about Bill Comptom’s (Moyer) past – how he became a vampire. Sookie Stackhouse (Paquin) stops going out with Bill – end of Episode 4 – and goes out with Sam Merlotte (Trammell) instead. Jason Stackhouse (Kwanten) continues to experiment with ‘V’ – vampire bloody – and sleeping with the women of Bons Temp.
Bill served in a local regiment and fought in the “war of southern Independence”. On his way home, at the end of the war he is bitten by, and drinks the blood of, a vampire – turning him into a vampire. Incidentally, the vampire, in the guise of a war widow, bears a striking resemblance to Sookie’s grandmother – coincidence or plot hook to come.
Sookie, returns home from her unsatisfactory date – with Sam – to find what looks like her grandmother, her throat cut, on the kitchen floor. Oh the suspense …
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True Blood – Season 1, Episode 3
April 3, 2009 at 2:31 am | Posted in TV Review | 1 CommentTags: Anna Paquin, Bill Compton, Jason Stackhouse, Rutina Wesley, Ryan Kwanten, Sookie Stackhouse, Stephen Moyer, Tara Thornton, True Blood, Vampires
Episode 3 of True Blood air-ed in New Zealand – on Prime last night. Warning: plot revealed.
Sookie – Paquin – does not get gobbled up or ravished by the three unrully vampires we saw her surrounded by at the end of Episode 2. Bill – Moyer – makes a claim on her, and all the other vampires back-off.
There just too much sex; and I am not going to bother fitting it all in. Once again, not an episode for the not-so-old ones.
There is more character development: Why Tara – Wesley – has a chip on her shoulder – her mother is a drunk; Jason’s – Kwanten- libido leads him inevitably into trouble; Sookie is attracted to Bill (the vampire); vampires who flat together become more vampirish – wanting to drink blood and have sexual gratification with humans.
At the end Sookie walks into a murder scene – the last person seen with the dead waitress was Jason. The trend of leave-the-heroine-in-a-bad-situation ending is wearing a bit thin.
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True Blood – Season 1, Episode 1
March 19, 2009 at 2:46 am | Posted in TV Review | 1 CommentTags: Alan Ball, Anna Paquin, Bill Compton, Bon Temps, Louisiana, Sookie Stackhouse, Stephen Moyer, Telepathy, True Blood, Vampires
Episode 1 of True Blood finally air-ed in New Zealand – on Prime . Warning: plot revealed.
The storyline, directing (Alan Ball) and acting is just great. Within half an hour, the main character – Sookie Stackhouse, brilliantly played by Anna Paquin – and the general come-out-of-the-coffin of vampires is introduced. The treatment of Sookie’s telepathy is very effective. The other main character – Bill Compton, played by Stephen Moyer – has also been introduced: Stookie has to save him from vampire blood traders.
By the end of the episode, Sookie’s world has been built up – its underlying currents hinted at, and the supporting characters introduced. Sookie has also been beaten half to death – a classic ‘come back next week’.
Paquin of course won a Golden Globe for her portrayl of Sookie – and it is well deserved. Paquin, who is a brunette New Zealander, brings the blond southern Sookie to life. Sookie appears to be a person with principles and prepared to stand up for them. There is a hint that Sookie would like to get out of Bon Temps, Louisiana, but can’t at the moment.
I was surprised by the amount and explicitness of sexual content.
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Worth the wait.
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