Friday, 28 October 2011

Tv review: True Blood season 2


Our heroes face an anti vampire group and a new supernatural menace.

I really wonder hoe watches this series. Clearly the producers think that the viewers are all into this “random ridiculous sex scenes put everywhere” thing because now instead of one per episode we have at least two, if not three. Even the big bad of the season get his power almost literally from kinky sex.
Maybe somebody somewhere find all this exciting but, for me, it’s still all incredibly campy even if even I must concede that they somehow corrected their aim and that there are at least a couple of nice ideas in there.
The pacing is still terrible, the first half of the season is nigh unwatchable with the main plotlines advancing at a sluggish rate. Thankfully al the buildup leads somewhere and the final showdown is actually engaging and fast paced.
I still don’t understand the role of many characters, we spent an incredible amount of time following Jason Stackhouse around and his plot goes literally nowhere.
At least they understood which are the breakout characters so we get more of the flamboyant Lafayette, even if he is much toned down, and much more of Eric Northman who is wonderfully amoral and inhuman.
 Still not recommended viewing but is getting better.

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