You Bit Me

True Blood Season 2 just keeps getting better and better! How is it that Alan Ball comes up with the most unexpected and creative ways to interpret common life lessons and experiences?

The scene where the chick who Bill made into a Vampire meets the young sweet guy in Merlott's bar just gave me the chills. So much happens in the space of like 3 minutes! You see her lusting after his blood then realizing that he genuinely likes then she fesses up to being a vampire by ordering True Blood when he asks her what she would like. And then when he smiles in awe instead of recoiling in anger and disgust she lights up like a bulb! I just love that! Because it implicates all that is still human in her, fear of rejection, loneliness and insecurity even though she is now immortal.

Suckers

So I've become hooked recently to HBO's latest series, "True Blood", another creation from Alan Ball of Six Feet Under (my all time favorite) and American Beauty Fame. What I find sort for ridiculous though is how over the top the vampires movements are. I mean like they always make a point of moving at light speed, not from place to place but from like spot to spot. Like one of them will be lying out on the sofa and then sit upright really fast or like the phone will ring and they will reach out and pick it up in a second. That cracks me up. It's like their supernatural speed has been applied to really practical things that any human could achieve in one movement, like flushing the toilet or turning their heads. I'm sure this will improve in future episodes though. I'm only on the third one.