True Blood premiered on HBO this week and there have been a lot of mixed opinions about it. Surprisingly, I liked it for the most part. I think it’s because I was ready to be disappointed based on the early reviews I read online. I figured Alan Ball would make it his own and *loosely* base it on the Charlaine Harris series.

Things I could have done without:
-Lots of graphic sex including the weird vampire growling as he’s doing Maudette.
-Cliched southern characters.
-Crazy shrill dialogue for the Tara character, WTF?
-Wimpy looking Eric.
-Bill looking like he desperately could use a shower and a little hair of the dog.

Things I liked:
-The campiness of the horror.
-Anna Paquin as Sookie, I think she did a pretty good job.
-Grandma Stackhouse, her childlike sweetness about Bill talking to her civil war group was cute.
-Merlottes, it was just how I had pictured it in my head.

I definitely want to see more of the series. I lucked out and had a free HBO weekend for the first episode but I’m hoping that it will be on iTunes soon. I really don’t want to subscribe to HBO just for this. If you haven’t seen it yet, you can find it on YouTube and as a free rental from Blockbuster. Anyone else seen it? What did you think?

Update: Okay so I caved and signed up for HBO. It really wasn’t as expensive as a thought it would be (on $8 extra per month). I watched the first episode again and I just couldn’t resist. I’ve been keeping an eye on iTunes but I had a sinking feeling that HBO wasn’t going to put it on there so that more people would go subscribe to HBO. I guess their nefarious plan worked (on me anyway). I’ll let you know how it goes.

-Vicky

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