True Blood = Truly Bad

I never saw True Blood until a few days ago, in fact, I never even heard of the show until recently. I was extremely hopeful for this series and expected to enjoy it, even if it was only because I love vampires. Sadly, I was in for quite a downpour of disappointment.

The premise is interesting; Vampires are now out in the open, "out of the closet", and live among humans, all while being discriminated against. Apparently this is supposed to be a metaphor of the discrimination of homosexuality in our world, but the show doesn't do a good job of portraying this in a serious tone. There is so much potential in True Blood, but one, very specific thing holds it back...

...Sex. The show is full of explicit, pointless and unneeded sex scenes. There is no reason for the show to throw this much sex at you, especially when there is no legitimate reason for its existence. Every time that I would start to get interested in the show, I would be immediately taken out of the experience because apparently I need to watch some people hump the crap out of each other like a couple of horny bunnies.

I have only seen the first two episodes of season 1 (I love you Netflix!), but those episodes were enough to turn me away from giving the series another shot. I will consider watching more of season 1 if I'm told the show changes its ways after the first few episodes, but from the little I've heard, True Blood keeps the pointless sex coming and coming (sorry, it was just too easy) all night long!

I am giving the first two episodes of True Blood, two sausages out of five.

Comments

[TheGamerGeek]

Yea, I heard, not from you of course, that it was a great show. I've got a free rental at the nearest video store so I'm gonna use it to rent True Blood season 1 and hopefully I like it more than you. Also, pointless sex is annoying and odd. Really slows the pace down.