Monday, 21 November 2011

Tv review: true blood season 3


More kinky sex, more wacky storylines, more bizarre supernatural randomness!

When at the end of a season we wonder out loud why we did watch something it’s a clear sign that things aren’t going into the right direction.
At least this time the main villain is not kinky sex personified, actually the main villain is the only thing that has been done mainly right in the whole season. Russel Edgington is a very fun and interesting character and brings back vampirism to the center stage. There are very fun interaction between him and Eric Northman, who continue to be the show stealer.
Sadly the rest is descending into a complete mess.
Lafayette, the other breakthrough character is badly shoehorned by the screenwriters into plot lines that deprive him of his more interesting feature. See while they did the right call by not killing him at the end of season one they clearly don’t know what to do with him, they can’t go to the books, where (spoiler alert) he’s been long dead, and so they put him into more serious and depressing storylines making him increasingly somber. This is an obvious mistake, we liked him because he was fun and flamboyant, we don’t want another Tara.
Speaking of which the amount of bad and crazy stuff that keeps piling on her is absurd. She was already a morose and annoying person even when she didn’t have all those reason to whine; now she is unbearable.
This is probably the main problem of this serial, beyond all the kinky sex and storylines so absurd that they leave our mouths gaping open, nobody is really likable, they are all different shades of terrible.
Pile on it a supernatural quotient that is spiraling out of control with five different types of supernatural creatures living near this tiny hamlet and you get a train wreck.

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