How True Blood Perked Up Zombies in the University

Posted by ai on Jul 21, 2009 in CRITICIZING A HOBBY, FEATURED, KULTURA Articles | 9 comments

The last time I had dvd marathon was about a year ago, when Sex and the City was showing on the silver screen and my friend Janette and I wanted to revisit Manhattan world of painful stilletos and back-breaking sex.

One weekend, another friend, Kei, passed to me a copy of True Blood Season 1, which Janette just returned after 10-hour-straight watching. I looked at the cover

and decided I do not like it because me no fan of vampire stories.

But the two have acquired this exquisite taste when it comes to viewing experience. I mean when they say you’ll like it, oh man, you WILL want to watch it againandagainandagain.

And so I didn’t do my research assignment to check out what True Blood tastes.

It was a yummy feast of bloody romance and dirty licking and sucking of morale of small people in a small town where vampires are as common as sins.

The come on of the story is this: what if vampires live among us? The problem is twofold: vampires need human blood and humans want vampires’ blood. In this town, vamps are outcast but their profitable blood is an all-cure power dose and an effective aphrodisiac (works ten times better than viagra).

For the vamps who have gone “mainstream” (the lifestyle of the “good kind” who wants to live an ordinary human life) bottled synthetic blood is their lifeline. They’re called True Blood, those commercial blood for mainstream vampires.

But the series doesn’t focus on the synthetic blood.

Each character in the series has a crazy story to tell. Each has flavors to be consumed for hours. Each has peculiarities that the viewer/ voyeur doesn’t want to have but, on a second thought, perhaps want to have.

Every episode arouses the evil in you that you will cheer virgin/psychic Sookie Stackhouse (Anna Paquin) to make love with hot vampire Bill who just came out of the graveyard soil, or laugh at La Fayette’s libidinous homosexuality, or Tara’s extreme sensitivity with any mention or hint of black slavery and woman oppression.

What happens next is what’s gonna bother anyone who starts playing the first episode. One major event is the death of a hooker after having sex with a vampire then with a sex addict human.

It is tragic in many places but funny for the most part.

It’s really the characters who hook you to your seat and see how humans can be so much like vampires.

In fact, at the Department of Humanities, I do know of so many vampires – libidinous and blood-thirsty.