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Watching Being Human S2 in the background, while hunting through more flats/apts. Being Human is actually better written and acted than most of the Supernatural/horror shows but methinks it takes itself far too seriously. I feel like I'm watching some PBS Masterpiece Theater Literary Dissertation on what it is like to be a monster. Very talky tv show! Sort of The Seventh Seal with Vampires or maybe My Dinner With Andre meets Dark Shadows. More humor, less sturm and drang? And maybe less talking? Say what you will about Vampire Diaries and True Blood but they are incredibly funny in places and don't take themselves all that seriously. Also show more, tell less. Trusting their audience to fill in the blanks. Being Human is a bit like watching Angel wander about looking constipated guilty with lots of voice overs accompanied by tragic violin solos, while the other shows are bit like watching Spike wander about snarking at people and having a grand old time. Or a better analogy? Vampire Diaries and True Blood is watching Midsummer Night's Dream with blood and naked sex, while Being Human is well Hamlet. Or eating chocolat mousse vs. broccoli rabe. Oh well, it has a decent soundtrack, and I rather like Galvin and Daisy. But Annie gets on my nerves. She's so whiny. ( vague spoiler for episode 2, no further than that at the moment )
Finished episodes 5,6 and 7 of True Blood S2 last night. Release Me, Never Free Me, Hardhearted Hannah. Lots of fun. This series gets better as you go.
The last three episodes of it really did a satirical tap dance on religion. The whole giving of yourself completely to the cause or religion, letting it take your free will, your soul, so you are its bitch or puppet. The theme of True Blood or through line is basically choice or free will. Last season was about addictive substances interfering with your will. This year it is about abdicating or giving your choices to someone else - a lover or a religion. The desire to have someone else make your decisions for you. And it is actually fairly subtle about it, and hilarious in places. Jason Stackhouse story this season is hilarious, he's so adorably dumb. And dumb in a way that comes from a character place...than you know, damn, the writers are idiots place.
Sookie and Jason really do think with their crotchs. Both of them. And Eric? Actually kind of hot this year. I give Alexandre Starsgard a lot of credit. He's hilarious in places. And he looks like he could be a 1000 year old vampire. He and Bill's scenes are quite funny. As are Pam's. This show is satirical and incrediably snarky in places. Not surprising, when you consider the creators other work includes American Beauty. I was sort of reminded David Lynch's Blue Velvet, although it's not quite as surreal.
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Finished episodes 5,6 and 7 of True Blood S2 last night. Release Me, Never Free Me, Hardhearted Hannah. Lots of fun. This series gets better as you go.
The last three episodes of it really did a satirical tap dance on religion. The whole giving of yourself completely to the cause or religion, letting it take your free will, your soul, so you are its bitch or puppet. The theme of True Blood or through line is basically choice or free will. Last season was about addictive substances interfering with your will. This year it is about abdicating or giving your choices to someone else - a lover or a religion. The desire to have someone else make your decisions for you. And it is actually fairly subtle about it, and hilarious in places. Jason Stackhouse story this season is hilarious, he's so adorably dumb. And dumb in a way that comes from a character place...than you know, damn, the writers are idiots place.
Sookie and Jason really do think with their crotchs. Both of them. And Eric? Actually kind of hot this year. I give Alexandre Starsgard a lot of credit. He's hilarious in places. And he looks like he could be a 1000 year old vampire. He and Bill's scenes are quite funny. As are Pam's. This show is satirical and incrediably snarky in places. Not surprising, when you consider the creators other work includes American Beauty. I was sort of reminded David Lynch's Blue Velvet, although it's not quite as surreal.
( cut for spoilers )