Now I’ve seen the show. I have to say, though I may be one of the few, I prefer the show. True Blood is great so far. It’s a hard show to put on with all the characters and scenes. I think HBO has done a great job with the casting and putting different story lines in the show. They are fleshing out the characters now and we are slowly getting more into the story. The scenes with Sookie and Bill are mesmerising. The are trying to take us on the journey with Sookie, in the latest episode showing that vampires can be very dangerous. The music is spectacular and the opening of each show is divine. I’m thrilled that they upped for another season.
True Blood is, of course, based on the series of novels written by Arkansas writer Charlaine Harris. The series was originally known as the Southern Vampire Mysteries, but has since come to be better known as The Sookie Stackhouse novels. The premise is that a Japanese corporation has successfully created artificial blood, a product so like the real thing that vampires, previously relegated to feeding off humans in the dark, come “out of the coffin” and into society, intent on living off the new fake blood. The series’ title comes from the name of the artificial blood marketed and sold in stores. The television series wisely does not try to hew too closely to the novels, though for the most part Sookie’s story does. And the way things turn at the end of the season, it is clear that Series Two (the show was renewed very early in the season) is going to pick up with the second novel in the series, though the action most likely will be in Bon Temps and not in Dallas (the second novel is entitled LIVING DEAD IN DALLAS).
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