I LOVED the first season of the HBO hit vampire and supernatural show True Blood.  I couldn’t wait to tune in every Sunday night, and was always bummed if we couldn’t see it that Sunday and had to wait and watch it a day later even.  I’m like that with very few shows these days, since I feel that little is actually worth watching and is pretty low quality, but this show’s rare mix of supernatural combined with a little bit of hip and new themes, and great dialogue and story lines, really sucked me in.

Now, the second season is a totally different story.  Sookie Stackhouses’ lines seem to be ridiculous.  You can almost see the actress, Anna Paquin’s knowledge of this when she utters some of the ridiculous lines she’s been given this season.  Oh, and her character has become sort of annoying as well as Bill’s character.  Everyone seemed a bit off from the start, with Bill’s southern accent seeming the worst of all of them.

The story line, I know follows the books pretty closely, but it veers off into the completely ludicrous.  I think the show where I decided the show had pretty much jumped the shark was when Jason Stackhouse dresses up in a branch and some costume to throw off the idiot black eyed zombies that have overtaken the town thanks to Maryann’s minead monster character.  The idea that everyone gets together for huge origies under her spell isn’t well played out, and tended to look totally moronic, further embarrassing the show’s integrity.

All in all, the show seems to have descended into hokiness from a light, fun cheekiness that existed the first season, and I’m hoping it can return to its former glory next season, but my hopes are pretty low since this season has been nothing short of embarrassingly bad in my opinion.