HBO Renews True Blood for a Second Season
Only two episodes of HBO’s new vampire show True Blood have aired so far, but apparently this is more than enough to sell the higher-ups on the future of the series. HBO has just renewed the show for a second season this week after episode #2 gained 24% more viewers from the 4 million who tuned in to see the pilot the week before.
The show certainly has a built-in audience of sorts by focusing on vampires, but although I liked the first two episodes I’m still waiting to be fully hooked. It’s still hard to say where the story is going exactly. The series is created by Alan Ball (Six Feet Under) and it certainly has a lot more soap opera elements than horror, but I suspect the Buffy crowd may be finding this an easy show to get into. If you haven’t seen it yet, you can currently catch the first two episodes on HBO’s official True Blood site. If you have seen it… what did you think? Does the show really have enough legs to make it to season 2?
Comments (3)
It’s still too early to be determined but I already know:
Posted by Ryan M. on September 18th, 2008-I don’t like the actor playing the vampire.
-I don’t like the supernatural elements of vampirism they’ve introduced.
-The vampire-mortal-forbidden love thing is a tired old whore.
-That “angry Black woman” character is sickly cliched.
-The title sequence is forgetable (something no good series suffers from).
i liked the pilot, but the second one wasn’t very interesting. i also read that in the books almost erverybody got some kind of superpower. so i don’t know whether this will work me, we’ll see
Posted by markusmaria on September 18th, 2008LOVE THE SERIES! Now we’re about seven episodes in and I love the fact that its plugged in for a second season. Bill is a nice change from the romantic, sweet-talking, and old school cliched sexy vampires. He’s a southern gentlemen…and Sookie isn’t a hot sexy blonde who every male in america wants to bang just on her looks. Its makes her the anti-hero, and likeable because women can relate.
Posted by Hannah on October 27th, 2008Leave a Reply