True Blood on HBO
 

Anyone watching? I watched the first episode. Some of it seemed overacted to me, but I'll watch again.

Thoughts?

It was pretty interesting as I had never heard of the book series. I thought that Tara was hysterical. I went to the HBO site and followed the links mentioned in the recaps. The American Vampire League and The Fellowship of the Sun seemed like any special interest group web site but the FOTS' site was more "intense." I also like the web site for the True Blood beverage. The commercial struck me as funny.

I watched it. Maybe I'm a prude, but the sex kinda made me uncomfortable... but I guess I should expect that from an HBO show. I was interested enough to plan to watch it again, and so was my roommate. It's an interesting storyline- something a little out of the norm. I watch a lot of the "girly" shows (Desperate Housewives, Grey's Anatomy, etc) but I'm not into shows like CSI, Bones, and House, so it's nice to have something different to watch.

A lot of us watched it after Entourage...I liked it even though parts of it seemed unintentionally hilarious. I'll have to give it a few more episodes before I decide if I'll watch it consistently or not. I tend to LOVE everything that HBO touches but the verdict is still out on this show.

I am intrigued by it but the scenes of Sookie drinking the blood last night made me cringe

I'm still in, my husband is out. He just can't handle it. He says it's too slow.

DH and I are LOVING this show! We saw the first episode as a rerun the other night and we are hooked! I love Lafayette, the cook. He is HILARIOUS! I have to temper this by saying that I am a HUGE vampire nerd LOL! I was addicted to Anne Rice in HS and I was known to play some vampire role playing games (The Masquerade) And no, I dont think Im a vampire and Im not a total freak LOL.................I was just a geeky drama nerd back in the day. I know why DH is still into it, and I will quote him directly............."Oh my God! When did Anna Pauqin get HOT?" LOL

I just caught a couple episodes by chance today and I like it. I don't know if I can watch it regularly, but I may...

I really like the show, I'm just a bit behind episode wise. I LOVED the line from Sookies boss (can't think of his name for the life of me) when he said that the town needed "blade or buffy". I was like "hell yeah, call in the slayer". I thought it was a nice little "tribute" to blade, which was a pretty successful movie and Buffy, which has a cult-like following (even to this day and the show has been off the air for 5 years now (I think, I'm still in denail about that, even though I own all 7 seasons)).

Plus, I'm always one of those people who likes the "odd couple" pairings, and I think Sookie and whatever his name is vampire man are cute. LOL. I'm a dork.

Me too...........Sookie and Bill are perfect for eachother. I have sort of a feeling that he either IS going to make her a vampire or they are going to have an argument about it at some point. And then there's Sam (Sookie's boss). Im actually fairly convinced that he's the one murdering all the women in town at this point.

I think Sam is the dog. As far as Bill changing Sookie into a vampire, isn't it with an exchange of the two bloods? Is there a time limit on it, because she already drank his and now he's drank hers. The whole doing V is starting to get to me.

This show is like part Buffy, part Twilight with a whole new set of rules added.

Now that you mention it, yeah............that does seem VERY possible.

I was thinking Sam can't be the dog, because he's been with the dog before. I was thinking he was maybe a werewolf/shapeshifter?

I thought he was the dog because when Sookie went out to rescue Bill from the Rattrays he asked Tara to watch the bar and went out, but you never saw him, just the dog. However there was a night he was petting the dog outside his trailer, so it could be an unknown character at this point. The dog seems to watch out for Sookie, and Sam claims to be from elsewhere and have no family, so who knows.

My favorite character by far is Lafayette.

My husband also thinks Lafayette is funny. We saw a guy at BevMo the other day that sounded just like him. It was kinda funny.