Respect Authority

With the first season of HBO’s True Blood about to end, it’s high time I said what’s been on my mind for the last eight or so weeks: Anna Paquin is a terrible actress.

It took a solid five episodes for True Blood to become a must-watch show for me. Although I was enthralled with the plot from the beginning — it’s set in modern-day Louisiana except vampires have revealed themselves to society demanding equal treatment and after the invention of synthetic blood that they can drink to ‘mainstream’ amongst humans — the show’s execution is uniquely stylized, much as all HBO shows are, and it took a handful of episodes to really understand and accept True Blood’s eccentricities. Read More ›