Salon's Heather Havrilesky has seen a few episodes of True Blood, HBO and Alan Ball's new Southern fried vampire drama. And she's got good things to say about it. Also, she's apparently been snacking on mescaline while on hold with the phone company.
In other words, AT&T not only hires hot-tempered vampires to handle its phone lines, AT&T not only colludes with companies run by hot-tempered vampires, but AT&T itself
is run by hot-tempered vampires -- which explains why the corporate
behemoth aided the president in his nefarious eavesdropping activities.
But look, don't get rid of your land line, because even though the
hot-tempered vampires at the FDA keep assuring us that cellphones are
safe, international studies have correlated excessive cellphone use
with brain tumors,
something we might've known a decade ago, if not for the hot-tempered
vampire CEOs of most of our large corporations and the hot-tempered
vampire lobbyists who work for them and the hot-tempered vampires
taking over the House and the Senate as we speak.
Um, HUUUUUUHHHHH?
But even though the second episode of the season isn't structured very
well, with lots of rambling talk about nothing, even though the show
lacks the tightness and the natural momentum of "Six Feet Under" (and
the weight and the intensity, for that matter), "True Blood" is still
odd, unpredictable and off-kilter. And while the same might've been
said for the ill-fated, rambling David Milch experiment "John From
Cincinnati," the difference is that at the end of each episode of "True
Blood," I want to see what happens next. Sookie and Bill are both good
characters, and the setting and the story are both original and
unfamiliar.
Oh, OK, thanks, Heather. Don't leave the house until you get some sleep.
