Comments on: ‘True Blood’: A guy show for chicks?

By: Zandra Towns

Zandra Towns — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 23:42:18 +0000

You are in serious need of well rounded girl friends. But I know we are few and far between. I, like Sarah and her mom, was counting the days to Star Trek.
I watch True Blood and try not to spoil it for my husband who does not read the novels they are based on. We were talking about your post and we came to the conclusion that stories about vampires can be targeted toward any gender. It depends on the story. Just like war movies can be ‘chick or ‘guy’ based on the story. Examples – Saving Private Ryan and Pearl Harbor. Vampires, like war, are just a storytelling subject.

By: Greg M

Greg M — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 01:52:46 +0000

Cool. Waiting for your reviews is kind of like the year we all had to wait for Best of Both Worlds II based on the rumor that Patrick Stewart was leaving. Only this time it’s like 2 years. I know I’ve been waiting with baited breath.

By: Jammer

Jammer — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 22:20:19 +0000

To be reviewed.

By: Jack Bauer

Jack Bauer — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 17:34:48 +0000

Awesome, how about season 5-7?

By: Remco

Remco — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 23:12:01 +0000

Maybe I’m a chick, because I loved Buffy, and I’m interested in watching True Blood. Although my excuse is that there is a lot of sex. And we guys love sex.

By: Jammer

Jammer — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 22:33:33 +0000

Pretty good. I’ve got seasons 1 through 4 currently posted at http://www.jammersreviews.com/st-tng/

By: Jack Bauer

Jack Bauer — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 19:51:19 +0000

Hey Jammer, how are those Next Gen reviews coming?

By: Quinalla

Quinalla — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 15:31:13 +0000

True Blood does seem to have a little bit of everything and that is a huge part of why I like it. Vampires (and humans for that matter) are scary, but also so ridiculous too, and everything else: romantic, serious, funny, pathetic, disgusting, compassionate, etc. This show really has taken the concept of “Vampires come out” and run with it down so many different avenues, not content to focus too much on one aspect or another, but throwing it all together in a way that works and feels like a full and real picture. It glorifies vampires (and again humans), but then turns around and laughs at them in the next breath.

And yeah, the show isn’t perfect, but it has never failed to be enjoyable to me, which is what I want out of a TV show in the end

By: Luke Matic

Luke Matic — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 14:36:16 +0000

I wouldn’t say vampires equal chick flick just based on those few examples. Even just Lost Boys, as a horror/comedy or it’s more gory sequel (with vampire head soccer) or Buffy or Dusk Til Dawn to name a few more show it exists in a variety of different styles (even as vampre-esque creatures like the Wraith on Stargate Atlantis or The Hamiltons). On the other hand I didn’t go see Twilight at the cinema but I enjoyed watching it on DVD mainly because the ad showed a dude flying with a chick THROUGH a window! (well, it looked that way to me, so what). And I enjoy watching True Blood (through torrents) but as a guy the thing I like most is the relationship between and the strangeness of sookie and bill and although i can appreciate how it’s supposed to be showing the mundane/normalcy of regular life contrasted with the supposed fantastical vampires watching ryan kwanten frak and frak and frak ain’t like how ron moore did it much better with EJO just shaving his mo! But then he’s EJO.

By: Sarah

Sarah — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 06:24:54 +0000

I’m a woman who was counting down the days to “Star Trek” and, indeed, saw it with my mom as our Mother’s Day outing. I also saw “The Hangover” opening weekend. So there. I suspect a lot of women did. It is my observation that quite a healthy number of women enjoy, and happily admit to enjoying, “guy” movies, but guys seem to think it’s a threat to their masculinity to admit they liked a “chick flick.”

Take that as a statement on masculine image and its role in marketing. Not that crappy romantic comedies don’t aim at women in the same way, but at least action movies (marketed by people who are smart, at least) don’t make women feel bad for enjoying them.

By: Alex1939

Alex1939 — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 21:42:04 +0000

I’m a single dude and I like True Blood. Good, not great. The only other person that I know that watches it regularly is a friend’s girlfriend though.

It helps that there isn’t much else I’m interested on TV right now, particularly since baseball isn’t a sport I follow.

By: Brendan

Brendan — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 20:01:45 +0000

A friend of mine bailed on seeing The Hangover with a group of us to watch this show. We went to his house after and yelled “paging Dr. ******!” into the window. (Hangover reference)