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Review title: Not all that great
Product review: This show seems to have some weird (vampiric gaze?) over viewers that misleads them into thinking it is a great show. It could have been so much more, but being rooted in the bad source material is it's greatest foil, I'd have to say. Some of the acting, including the star, is below what I'd expect from a show with a budget this large. As a regular HBO subscriber I was looking forward to this show; only to be bored by episode three at the inane plot and meaningless direction of many of the characters and the MTV/slasher/rockstar depiction of some of the 'bad' vampires. A far better choice would have been to use the extremely superior Ann Rice series or Fevre Dream for a vampire setting; True Blood truly stinks.HBO, oh how the mighty have fallen. The Wire: gone. Deadwood: Gone. The Sopranos: Fuhgetaboutit. Hopefully they'll redeem themselves with The Pacific later this year and with A Song of Ice and Fire in the future.
