True Blood Review

Like everyone, well maybe everyone, I love the lore of the Vampire.  It's been around for as long as humans themselves and with each telling the story shifts just a tad to add or subtract from the legend.  And so it is with HBO's new Sunday night offering True Blood from the producers of Six Feet Under.

In this particular re-telling, Vampires have come in from the cold, dark night and well, announced themselves to the world in order to integrated into the larger human society.  They have promised not to seek human blood and sip instead from bottled synthetic blood.  But their blood is sought after by humans and sold on the Black market for high prices a quick reward.  There is even a Vampire Bill of Rights making its way through Congress. 

True Blood takes place in the already wacky world of Louisiana and stars Anna Paquin as Sookie Stackhouse a mind reading waitress who befriends a 173-year-old Vampire named Bill Compton (Stephen Moyer).  Sookie lives with her grandmother (Lois Stackhouse) and brother Jason (Ryan Kwanten).  Sookie's foul mouthed, short-tempered best friend Tara Thornton (Rutina Wesley), gay short order cook, Lafayette Reynolds (Nelson Ellis) and bar owner Sam Merlotte (Sam Trammell), round out the cast. 

Pretty little blonde Sookie is hiding a secret, a secret Vampire Bill is aware of but can't quite get a handle on.  Ms. Paquin pulls off the roll of innocent Sookie rather well, and the part is quite a departure from her XMen rolls.  Finally, something to sick her acting teeth into.  Watch it, it not that bad so far...     

P.S. this is not a show for the kiddies; lots of bad words, bare skin and sex.