Be Excellent To Each Other

Anybody else getting this? I'm deeply impressed with this - it has some fantastic characters. It might be a bit sexed up to watch with my 14 year old daughter like I did - and now she's hooked on it. Anyway, if you don't know anything about it, it's set in the present day, in the deep South. With the invention of Tru Blood (sic) a synthetic blood, Vampires are out in society as they no longer need to feed on humans. Sookie plays a barmaid with a difference - she can hear people's thoughts.

It's written by Alan Ball of Six Feet Under.

3rd episode airs tonight.

According to the Daily Mail, these days all teenage girls are daisy chaining with half the school football team and gobbling furlongs of Yardie cock, so I wouldn't worry too much about a little sexy sexy on the telly box.

This sounds an interesting show - is it available anywhere online that isn't a Torrent?

Also - this thread reminds me - I need to finish watching American Gothic. I hope Caleb dies.

It's on in 'merka. You can torrent it.

This sounds up my street.

I will enquire more.

Malc

It sounds appalling, but I suspect that may be down to DBs sales pitch.

Also - set in the deep South. Plymouth?

I'll have you know my daughter is a naice gal.


Now that I don't know. I got it, like most of my merkin TV from piratebay

Heroes 3 tonight I think, though if they do anything EVEN REMOTELY similar to series 2 I won't be watching beyond the first episode.
Then next week we have Chuck (YAY) and Dexter starting.

I love the autumn.

If it's Laura Hamilton I'm banning you right now. 90% of programmes with vampires in are terrible.

EDIT - At Shin.

Yup, it is definitely worth a look. It's more character led than story driven. I got half way through the first episode before I realised that the lead character Sookie is played by an all growed up Anna Paquin.

and that would be Orleans, bwoy.

Don't people who use Pirate Bay get sued for thousands of dollars by the MPAA?

Re: Heroes - I gave up after episode three or four of series two. It was bad. Really disappointingly bad, after the aceness of series one.

It's not that bad, although I do live 10miles outside the place!

Malc

In fairness, the first series took a while to get going, but doing exactly the bloody same with the second series was fucking stupid. The guy who created apologised for getting it so spectacularly wrong.

You should get Chuck if you haven't seen it. Very funny.

Dexter is awesome as well.

I thought Heroes S2 was much better than S1, to be honest - except the emo twins. Was annoyed by the ending, because



Dexter is brilliant.

I'm now up to date on True Blood after starting it a couple of weeks ago. It's quite excellent, isn't it.

Stupid Sky+ box didn't stupid record the whole stupid series (probably because I stupid didn't tell it to)

I still don't like it. They only person I find vaguely likeable is the chef, everyone else is just fucking annoying. Especially Bill. You're a dullard, man! Be interesting, and a bit less fucking emo!

Still watching it mind, 'cos it's got titties in it.

I've been enjoying True Blood on FX very much, despite it having vampires in it.

I've been really enjoying it on FX. So much so, don't really want to go out tonight as I'll miss it.

Thing is, not liking any of the characters is a good thing. It means you're never averse to the idea of Bad Things™ happening to them all.

Bill is incredibly dull, aye. Miss Malabar fancies him for some reason, but she seems to have an appalling taste in men.

I think it's pretty good. Plenty of violence and boobies PLUS there's nothing else on Sky.

No it isn't.

Will the vampires be killed by the locals? Don't give a fuck.
Will <female character X> get it on with <male character Y>? Don't give a fuck.
Will X happen? Will Y happen? Don't give a fuck.

Don't care what happens to any of them whatsoever. See also BSG.

I quite like the characters in it.

Y'see, I think it's awesomesauce and that the characters are the best thing about it.

Sookie is awesomeness on a stick
Tara is funny
Lafayette is a legend
The two cops are great
Bill is very subtle for the most part and does a good job of coming across as very conflicted
Jason (who was in Home & Away!!!) is a complete idiot, but in a funny way. Him in the last episode when he'd [spoiler] was excellent
Bar owner fella is intriguing, and very much not what he seems

It's my favourite drama on telly at the moment, and runs my favourite thing (The Office) very, very close for 1st overall.

I have watched the first couple of episodes but then I was abandoned at home alone so it is beginning to build up on my sky+. Think I'll try and clear it this weekend because I've really been enjoying it.

Ban yourself when you get a minute, cheers.

Craster does seem rather 'Mr Chris' today.

I'm loving the show and am up to date with Season 2 now but I have to say that Sookie's character is massively unenjoyable, not particularly believable and the actress more often than not looks like Kerry Katona.

A lot of the vamp stuff is also fairly dreary. Bill Compton is particularly uninteresting.

That said, Eric is making the vamps a bit more interesting nowadays.

The supporting characters however are super ace. Jason is comedy gold. Lafayette is true awesomeness also. I love the small hick town feel, even if the show does occasionally lapse into Buffy/Angel territory.

Can't wait for the next ep.

For the purposes of this thread, can we have it so that things beyond where we're up to on FX are not mentioned?

I think we're about five episodes in.

Also, it's "Twilight" but not for faggots.

No. But it's fairly polite to talk about anything of note in spoiler tags.

Sookie is pretty in some scenes, but not in others. I can't make my mind up. I don't like her gappy teeth though.

Yep.

I'm pretty sure it's still for faggots. Unless Bill and Suki both get brutally slaughtered in the next few episodes.

This is next on my list to watch.. just finishing off Dexter series 3 on the last episode now..

See, I agree with Craster's opinion of the characters for the most part (although I like Sookie a bit more than he does), and I find the soap-operage deeply irritating but I still think the series is great. Maybe my standards are lower.

Also: Eric is the King Of Awesomeness. He's rocked the free world in the last couple of episodes (on Merkin TV).

After reading everyone's opinions on this, I have no idea whether I'll like it or not.

Gave me a good chuckle.

With BSG being finished and no Top Gear on right now, it's about time I started watching telly again. I may have to give this a go.

Fucksake. I hate being up to date with programmes.

Me too. That's why I went out and bought both serieseseseses of Jericho. Which is much better than True Blood, by the way.

I've been buying series one of that since yesterday on your recommendation. It should be bought some time today.