True Blood Back Again? Fangtastic

Excited much? Oh yes most definitely....

What am I talking about? Well Sunday 5th of February is when the new series of 'True Blood' starts in the UK on FX.

Now, it's not news that there are differences between the Charlaine Harris, 'The Southern Vampire Mysteries' books and the tv series.

In my opinion the 4th book, 'Dead to The World' was the best out of the Sookie Stackhouse novels to date. It provided me with stacks of entertainment much to the aggravation of my husband who was subjected to me laughing out loudly at some parts. Then, perhaps more annoyingly, reading the part out to him.......

I am fully aware of just how much of a pain in the arse this makes me, but I can't help it, sometimes the jokes and clever quips from Sookie combined with the smart answers from Eric's sidekick Pam and excellent storyline led me to want to share the book with the world, or certainly anyone that had no choice but to hear me.

So, what can we expect from Alan Ball as opposed to Charlaine Harris apart from some serious eye-candy for both sexes?

More witches will be making an appearance and fairies too in the shape of the Sherlock Holme's very own fr-enemy Irene Adler from the episode entitled 'A Scandal in Belgravia'. Though you may not recognise Lara Pulver with her clothes on! It goes without saying that obviously there will be more werewolves, were-panthers, shapeshifters and vampires all looking extremely overly gorgeous.


We left Season 4 with Bill Compton in a fight with the queen of Louisiana over Sookie. Jason had 'inherited' the town of Hotshot from Calvin Norris. Eric was so severley pissed off at having been buried in concrete by Bill, that he spilled the beans to Sookie about Bill being told to seduce Sookie for the Queen of Louisiana who basically wanted her fairy blood so she could become a daywalker.

Tara is confused as hell and to be honest who can really blame her? Being kidnapped by Franklin the mentally insane and psychopathic vampire (thankfully due to my other love Criminal Minds I know he wasn't a sociopath), then finding out your fuck-buddy can turn himself into any creature he wants would certainly mess with my head.

The fabulous character of Lafayette had just discovered his boyfriend Jesus is a witch. I'm not sure whether typing that one sentence I may end up with a religious organisation wanting to burn me at the stake! Anyway, at the same time, Lafayette is starting to 'see things' ooooooh spooky!

So, what will happen now that Sookie has been taken the hand of Claudine the fairy? Who will win the battle of the vampires and will Eric get his mobile phone back from Bill? Who knows?

A word to the wise, don't DARE disturb me on a Sunday night when True Blood is on, I may have to get Alcide to come over and sort you out!

American Horror Story - you're going to die in there

Yay!!!! A brand new TV series for me to follow!

There are only a few series that I actually follow, namely True Blood, Criminal Minds (though not in any order at all, which sometimes leaves me confused) and The Walking Dead.

Tonight I’m going to give another TV show a try. It’s called ‘American Horror Story’ and begins on FX: UK tonight at 10pm.

Now, its not just Dylan McDermott who attracted me to the idea of ‘American Horror Story’, honestly, but every so often a good creepy drama appears that is worth its weight in gold. I’m thinking along the lines of ‘Millennium’ with Lance Henriksen as an FBI profiler or indeed ‘American Gothic’ with the very scary Gary Cole as Sheriff Lucas Black. All completely brilliant thrillers that if you haven’t seen or heard of, I recommend that you watch.

Bear in mind that the creators of this drama are none other than Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk who are better known as being the writer/producer team behind Nip/Tuck and Glee. Interested a bit more now?

American Horror Story appears to feature the ubiquitous haunted house, you know the sort, old, dusty, in need of repair but very gorgeous to look at. So much so, that even if I hadn’t spilt the proverbial beans you would still just know that it was creepy as hell and even Yvette Fielding wouldn’t want to spend the night there.

Queue family suffering from lots of tension, emotional problems and trying to work them all out. Now you can see this is a recipe for disaster……

We have betrayal, Ben Harmon (husband) has had an affair, death and grief comes in the shape of Vivien Harmon (wife) who has had a still-birth then as if there isn’t anything to feel remotely positive about, Murphy and Falchuk throw a depressive daughter, Violet, into the mix.

To have all the cheesy traditional horror ingredients thrown into the mix and still be given a second series ‘American Horror Story’ must be doing something right.

So, Ill be tuning in tonight, even if it’s just to shout at the TV ‘Oh no!! Don’t go in there!’

THE WALKING DEAD

Please! When WAS the last time you washed?

Much to my delight, ‘The Walking Dead’ has returned to FX. I enjoyed the special effects, the storyline and even Andrew Lincoln’s accent change to American.

I was a bit apprehensive when I found out that there had been an array of staff changes behind the scenes to the point where I wasn’t quite sure what to expect from the new series.

Would I get the same level of gore? Would the storyline still be reasonably exciting? Would there be anything quite as rank and revolting as seeing a horse being eaten by the undead?

Well, yeah there was, to all of the above questions.

We got up close and friendly with several zombies, including a spectacular view of rotting gums and teeth. So close you could almost smell the decomposition.

There was a good bit of drama in the opening episode too…. I won’t say too much in case you haven’t watched it, but when Bambi appears trust your gut instinct. Just sayin’

Blade the Horse didnt get his contract renewed

Much to my warped sense of joy, there was the ‘gore-fest, disgusting, make me look away in horror, boak inducing’ scene too. All I can say is I'm so very glad that smell-a-vision doesn’t exist.


Yup, come Friday night, Ill be tuning in to see more zombies. Feeling a bit of an expert now after all these zombie books, TV shows and films I’ve been watching, I’m not sure I ever really want to be in the position to draw on that knowledge though.




Article By:  Lynn Tulloch