http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/2010/may/21/your-next-boxset-true-blood
'Your Next Boxset':
Based on Charlaine Harris's novels, and developed by Six Feet Under's Alan Ball, True Blood is a breathtaking ride. From the opening credits – a brilliant, atmospheric montage dripping with swampy hellfire and Southern brimstone – to the witty choice of outro music (Beck's Timebomb as a Christian terrorist walks into a vampire lair), it's never less than totally entertaining. Initially, it's all about Bill and Sookie's steamy human-vampire romance; but pretty soon you'll be just as consumed by the adventures of her dim hunk of a brother Jason; her best friend Tara's encounters with backwoods voodoo; or bar cook Lafayette and his put-downs ("Who ordered the hamburger with Aids?"). It's got to be one of the only shows where a serial killer is one of the least exciting storylines. The episodes fly by, with each hour screeching to a halt – and then picking up exactly where we left it in the next. It's the perfect, "just-one-more" box set if you've got a weekend or two spare.
- The Guardian,
Buffy The Vampire Slayer
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/03/13/AR2011031303058.html
'The Best Of High School TV Series':
Are we watching too much TV? Maybe so. Rarely have I received as many e-mails as when I sought help picking the five best high school television series of all time.
- The Guardian,
Buffy The Vampire Slayer
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/03/13/AR2011031303058.html
'The Best Of High School TV Series':
Are we watching too much TV? Maybe so. Rarely have I received as many e-mails as when I sought help picking the five best high school television series of all time.
Some of the suggestions were what I expected. Other choices surprised me. Katya2, a commenter on my blog, was among many who urged the selection of "Buffy the Vampire Slayer." The choice made sense, Katya2 said, because the monsters infesting the show were "often just an exaggerated or disguised version of ordinary high school problems - dating, social competition, parental pressure, etc."
"Buffy" was a clever horror show metaphor for high school life.
- The Washington Post, Monday, March 14, 2011
The Vampire Diaries
The Vampire Diaries is a mishmash of ideas we've seen before (a ring allowing a vampire to withstand daylight? Hello Buffy), brooding bad boys and clunking bad-emo-band dialogue about souls. Though its teen target audience might not necessarily cross over with True Blood, it still suffers by comparison.
-The Guardian, Tuesday, 2 February, 2010
"Buffy" was a clever horror show metaphor for high school life.
- The Washington Post, Monday, March 14, 2011
The Vampire Diaries
The Vampire Diaries is a mishmash of ideas we've seen before (a ring allowing a vampire to withstand daylight? Hello Buffy), brooding bad boys and clunking bad-emo-band dialogue about souls. Though its teen target audience might not necessarily cross over with True Blood, it still suffers by comparison.
-The Guardian, Tuesday, 2 February, 2010
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