Cajun Accent for Actors!

I've just finished watching season 1 of HBO's True Blood. I have enjoyed it. I will now start enjoying season 2.

I read the first three books in Charlaine Harris' Sookie Stackhouse series on which the show is based. I know I enjoyed the books at the time. I even suggested them to a friend of mine who has now read all of the books in the series. For some reason, though, I doubted that I would actually like the show. I don't know why. It has vampires, other magical/mystical things, melodrama and sex. Basically my favorite things (throw in pirates and it'll become my favorite show ever). But the real key to the show's entertainment value, I believe, is that it doesn't take itself too seriously. It allows itself to be as deliciously campy as a southern vampire sexy melodrama murder mystery series would inevitably be. And, as a result, it is enjoyable to watch. I wish some other shows would start following this model (*cough*Heroes*cough*; this also reminds me that I really need to start watching Supernatural).

The unfortunate thing about the end of season 1 is that Lafayette, Amy, Eddie, Gran and Rene are all dead now. But on the plus side for season 2: Admiral Cain! And religious fervor!

This couldn't possibly be better and/or worse.

Once again, summer means no new TV and no new TV means I blog very little. But alas...here's a preview for the upcoming CW show The Vampire Diaries, by Kevin Williamson (of Dawson's Creek and Scream fame, and of Hidden Palms infamy):



So after that I am super excited about this show. Not because it looks good in any possible sense of the word. It basically looks like a crappy story with crappy actors (excepting Ian Somerhalder) and Kevin Williamson's famously inane dialogue. Nor because it appears to be in any way an original take on the vampire genre, the high school genre, or the high school vampire genre, because it basically looks like Twilight for TV. I'm excited because of how amazingly bad it has the potential to be. This is a show about vampires in high school by Kevin Williamson! In my wildest dreams it will be like combining The Covenant and Hidden Palms. Meaning so incredibly horribly bad that it is both hilarious and freakishly engaging. I can only hope that the cancellation of Privileged allows for the cast addition of Michael Cassidy as the exact character he was playing in Hidden Palms for no reason whatsoever. Come to think of it, I'd be pretty pleased with appearances by Taylor Handley as well. And maybe some Amber Heard and her infuriatingly slow blinking. Sadly, I'm sure the version of the show I'm crafting in my head is way more entertaining than what will actually be produced. Regardless, I can't wait.