Review Of Episode One Of Hbo’s True Blood
HBO’s vampire series “True Blood ” kicked off yesterday evening 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 complex relationship begins. So what did I prefer to think of the first episode of the show?
Do I believe it has legs? All those questions will be answered shortly enough within this review. Except for now, let me tell you what I did and did not like about it, starting off 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 character Sookie…well…at least halfly.
Paquin plays the role of a southern barmaid very well, and her look is certainly right for the role and the show overall. I also appreciated the attempt at adding some diversity to the show with 2 black main characters, one of the standouts being Sookie’s best mate Tara Thorton, played by Rutina Wesley.
Although in most shows or series filmed in New Orleans, the casting directors are fast to represent the right racial makeup of the town, unlike “Seinfeld ” which managed to get through a whole eight seasons without representing the extraordinary variety of midtown new york city.
The personality was originally meant to be played by Brooke Kerr ( Whitney from Passions ), but I felt Wesley was a lot more authentic in look and perspective. 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 confrontation with the store clerk posing as a vampire, and a genuine vampire / redneck.
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