NEEDS MORE MUMMY: Oh, those jokers at Slate, trying to make us think they're serious when they ask why Mad Men receives a more fawning critical reception than True Blood.
By way of rebuttal, let me describe one scene from last night's True Blood: Sookie, a young telepathic muse/waitress lies comatose in a hospital bed. She is surrounded by her loved ones: her dim brother; a vampire boyfriend who got confused and sucked out all of her blood; a werewolf; a tough-guy short-order cook in halfhearted drag; and a woman who a few weeks ago was hypnotized by a confusingly female minotaur into polyamorous cannibalism. One friend is absent because he is busy turning into a dog to rescue his brother, who also turns into dogs, from his job, which is dog fighting; her other suitor also is missing because he's a viking secretly carrying out a millenium-old blood feud, the present step of which involves playing best man in a coerced royal vampire wedding held in a torture-chamber basement and officiated by a veteran of the Spanish Inquisition. Sookie awakens and screams, because they are all from the same town, but nobody has the same accent. And also because her name is Sookie.
well, when you put it that way . . .
ReplyDelete... you capture exactly why it's awesome.
ReplyDeleteI think that the crazy, over-the-top, campy and excessive everything of True Blood is part of why on my Sunday night's it's a perfect pairing with Mad Men, which has so many thought-provoking and often sad components to it. Both shows linger with you for entirely different reasons and are excellent for what they are.
ReplyDeleteI've had the first season dvd's sitting on the shelf for awhile... I don't know if I can handle them after reading this...
ReplyDeleteI love them both equally. They are very different shows but not everything has to be serious and deep to be truly good entertainment.
ReplyDeleteNot everything needs to be serious and deep, to be truly good entertainment, but something needs to be good. I'm not sure what's more amazing -- that this show is written by people who sat down and wrote it, or that they based it on something that somebody else sat down and wrote that presumably made as little sense.
ReplyDeleteI have not read the books but according to a few people I know that have the show and the books are pretty different -- they take basic characters and stories from the book but have no problem taking them completely off course from where they go in the books over the course of the show.
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