At first, I wasn't interested in this series. My wife and I have watched HBO for several years, now, and some of the best TV series we've seen were on HBO, including Rome, Carnivale, and Six Feet Under. But a series about modern-day vampires, set in the South? Give me a break. It appears everything under the sun (pun intended) about vampires has already been done, in novel and movies, and on TV, and now the writers and producers are resorting to doing those same things all over again.
Yet my wife was very interested in True Blood. (She has a higher tollerance for cliches and overdone plots/characters than I do.) And as she watched episode after episode, and as I played on the computer in the next room, I found my attention drawn away from my computer by the TV show's audio, and I found mysef getting up and going see what was going on, again and again. By the 3rd episode, I was hooked.
Anyway... I have a good guess who the serial killer is: Spoiler: Sookie's best friend, Tara. Why this person? Simply because Spoiler: Tara is possessed by a demon. A demon even more powerful than the one that possessed her mother, making her mother a raging alchoholic..
Some other observations regarding this: Spoiler: At first, I thought the serial killer might be Sam, because he appeared to be mysterious and even a little creepy. But now we're seeing that Sam is a genuinely good guy, albeit he's a lycanthrope of sorts, i.e. he can turn into a dog. But now we're seeing that Tara is far more dysfunctional than she first appeared to be. Yes, we're beginning to see a tender and lonely side of her, making us feel sympathetic toward her. But we're also seeing that Tara might be genuinely possessed by a demon! A demon that the witch doctor says is more powerful and far more dangerous than the one that possessed Tara's mother. Besides, who better to blindside the TV audience with as the secret identity of the person who brutally killed Suki's grandmother, than Suki's best friend?
Last edited by Cynosure; 11-05-2008 at 02:51 PM..
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