For background on the (Southern Vampire) series, you can check out Charlaine Harris' website . However, much like Stephenie Meyer's website, I find Charlaine's to be poorly designed and hard to navigate. So, you may just want to hit up Amazon to see reviews or wikipedia.
Anyway, overall I enjoyed the first episode of True Blood. I like the main character Sookie, as played by Anna Paquin. I last remember her in X-Men, but I think she pulls off a Southern cutie very well in this show.
Sookie's best friend, Tara, was played by Brook Kerr (who I really like and I think did a great job) in the pilot, but she's replaced by Rutina Wesley in the aired series. Why do I love Brook Keer? Because she played Whitney in Passions of course! I loved that soap opera...Who in the world is Rutina Wesley?? Apparently, she starred in "How She Move" (says the google machine), although I have yet to see or hear of this 2007 film. Sorry Whitney, I was rooting for you!
The first episode was FULL of sex and very explicit sex scenes. Hopefully that part of the show will mellow out some b/c I was never that interested in watching naked ladies jiggle up and down. Aside from that, I think the show has a lot of promise. Nice introduction to a bunch of characters, actors I generally like, interesting plot, and good development scenes between Sookie and Vampire Bill.
It's also made me want to check out the books.
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I had to turn it off in the first 5 minutes or so. It was TOO MUCH for me. And I am disappointed because it looked like it might be good.
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