subject: Review Of Episode 1 Of Hbo's True Blood [print this page] HBO's vampire series "True Blood " started last night with it's premier episode "Strange Love". The episode is the series pilot where a waitress as a local New Orleans bar meets a vampire named Bill, and from there a complicated relationship begins. So what did I like to think of the primary episode of the show?
Do I believe it has legs? All those questions will be answered shortly enough inside this review. Except for now, let me tell you what I did and failed to like about it, starting with the "likes " first. I did like the gothic look to it, which is perfectly anticipated and normal considering it's filmed in Louisiana, the deep south.
If you're familiar with 2005's releases "The Skeleton Key " with Kate Hudson, and "Venom " with Agnes Bruckner, then you already know the landscape of the series visually. Another like of mine was Anna Paquin's personality Sookie...well...at least halfly.
Paquin plays the task of a southern barmaid pretty well, and her look is definitely right for the job and the show overall. I also appreciated the attempt at adding some variety to the show with 2 black main characters, one of the standouts being Sookie's best mate Tara Thorton, played by Rutina Wesley.
Though in most shows or series filmed in New Orleans, the casting directors are fast to represent the correct racial makeup of the city, unlike "Seinfeld " which managed to get thru an entire eight seasons without representing the extreme diversity of midtown New York.
The character was initially meant to be played by Brooke Kerr ( Whitney from Passions ), but I felt Wesley was more authentic in look and attitude. I also liked the opening scene of the first episode, which had a young couple going into a local store and getting into an oral showdown with the store clerk posing as a vampire, and a genuine vampire / redneck.
by: Jaron Iwei
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