In the field of show business is often justified by the theory that everything is repeated at regular intervals. For example, "the vampire theme" in the movie. The first surge of interest in it was marked in the 20-30-ies of the last century, then a lull. The next peak of fashion fanged fell on the 70th - again other characters. After the vampire renaissance in the mid-1990s (the films "Interview with the Vampire," "From Dusk Till Dawn" series "Buffy - the Vampire Slayer") seemed to be about the evil we long to hear. But then came the last "two thousandth" and following the acclaimed film "Twilight" instantly won great popularity series "True Blood."

The irony of the series "True Blood," dedicated to vampires, is that all the events in it curled in Circle the fact that vampires are no longer "real vampires". It so happened that by some ingenious Japanese scientists was invented a substitute for human blood, so-called artificial blood. Thus, vampires have received blood substitute all "vitamins and minerals", and they had no legal grounds to go to night raids to kill Homo Sapiens and drink their warm krovushku. And the people, therefore, deprived of a fair reason for revenge and extermination of vampires with all means available. So I would say that the agreement is restored and there is peace, peace and quiet, but the age-old enmity does not pass in vain, and the vampires who continue to treat each other with fear and suspicion.

The exception was a girl named Sookie Stackhouse, a waitress in a bar in the Louisiana backwoods town .  Rather, its tolerance for vampires because she herself for the rest of the people was an outcast - for Sookie had telepathic abilities and, it turns out, was not quite an ordinary man .  Yes, and whether there can be a normal relationship with the people of the girl, which is able to read minds? And that she did not arrange her personal life, it is also not surprising - to know how all the girls read men's thoughts, 99% of first appointments to an end after five minutes after the start .  But thinking vampire Bill Compton, once it entered the bar, Sookie could not read - well, do not lend themselves to reading thoughts bloodsucking .  Part of why Sookie and Bill and became romantically involved .  But who knew in advance that these relationships will cause many complications from both the world of men, and from the evil of the world ...

The most important thing is to understand myself a person who decides to watch TV series "True Blood" (now in America ended the second season of the show, the first was launched in September 2008) - this is not the standard vampire series for teenage audience .  First of all, this project distinguishes from others like him being here has developed its own mythology, its own system of coordinates, for which you need to thank the author of a series of novels about vampires writer Charlaine Harris .  Vampires are, on the one hand, have a set of some classic qualities of the other, and have the original features - such as not afraid of crucifixion and garlic, reflected in the mirror and can fall ill hepatitis D .  It is always interesting to watch not for a set of stamps, but for the product, on which bothered to stretch the imagination .  Another issue is that for fans of vampire stories canonical some innovations may seem intolerable, but here it comes into effect the principle of "like all   impossible. "

Noteworthy, and such a strong side, "True Blood" that this project is deprived of some of pop gloss. Recall that the "Buffy" - it was whatever the show - funny, funny, naive - not terrible either. In the case of the TV series "True Blood" is quite obvious that the creators put in the first place the task is not to amuse and entertain the audience and tickle his nerves, intrigue and frighten. Of course, without the comic element has not done (which is headlines that Angelina Jolie adopted a child-vampire), but the entertainment component in this case is not the first place.

Moreover - a closer look at the concept of the show, you can even get to some philosophical and political depths. After all, the atmosphere of mutual misunderstanding, suspicion and aggression, which in the series refers to the relations between vampires and humans, many in the United States is seen as a mirror image of those difficult relationships that are formed in this country between normal people and all sorts of so-called minorities. However, the question arises, do not gathering there a paint and really very politically correct America to the same sexual minorities are the same as would apply to vampires, but there is already dealing with the "cockroaches", living only in the minds of the Yankees.

And, of course, not to mention brilliant game starring singer, the talented Anna Paquin. The most suspicious could, of course, to write off these praises to the fact that this year, Anna was awarded the prestigious "Golden Globe" for his role as Sookie Stackhouse in the category "Best Actress in a Drama Series." But the fact that Paquin does not need this confirmation of his talent - after all, the actress received the "adult" "Oscar" at the age of 11 years (1994, for a supporting role in the drama "The Piano"), can not be talented.

  Alexander Babitsky

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