Hah I love this thread. It's supposed to be about highly anticipated TV shows to be released during one out of four seasons in 2011, and we end up talking about all kinds of shows anyway.
(very mild spoilers)
Anyway I've been watching some True Blood lately, and wow. It's a very good show, much to my disbelief that any vampire show released on TV can ever break out of the "WE R TEH EMO" mold. They really need to lay off the softcore porn scenes though. The story is pretty well-written, even if the social commentary starts to die down after season 2, but I'm finding it annoying that for every 15 minutes of nail-biting scenes, there will be a 5-minute interlude of sex scenes complete with nudity. Also, everyone has sex with everyone. Seriously, I know we're living in an age of liberal rights, but whoa, lay off the libido-enhancing drugs, Bon Temps!
But yeah other than that, the show paces itself very nicely, and the cast of characters is great and memorable (especially Pam and Lafayette)... with the exception of Sookie. Fucking Sookie.
Season 5 is great, and I can't wait for the next episode. TBH Season 4 started to wear me down with all the retarded "everyone fornicates like dogs" and other irrelevant subplots halfway through the season, but I'm glad I didn't stop watching, because the show's last 4-5 episodes are really good, and its finale was unexpected, yet satisfying.
Post edited July 12, 2012 by lowyhong