So I’m in the process of clean up my room in order to move out and one of my tasks is organizing boxes and throwing away stuff. When Trueblood now one of my favorite television series had first come out there had been an article in Newsweek about it that I had cut out and saved until now.I remember when I was in Scotland I made Craig watch every episode with me online. Because I don’t want to get rid of the article and I do what to get rid of the physical article I’m going to re-post the story for my blog…so here it is:

Worth Your Time

By Joshua Alston | NEWSWEEK

Published Sep 13, 2008

From the magazine issue dated Sep 22, 2008

Images from the open credits

Sookie and Bill

Give HBO Some Credit

Even as American TV has evolved, one of its most charming aspects—the title sequence—has become scarce. To save precious seconds, many shows have jettisoned opening credits in favor of a brief flash of a logo, à la “Lost.” It’s a shame. A great title sequence is a gilded invitation to join the show’s universe.

The credits for the new HBO series “True Blood” (from Alan Ball of “Six Feet Under” ) are the perfect amuse-bouche. The show is about vampires assimilating into rural Louisiana, and the credits are a flip book of Deep South postcards: images of hungry gators and modest homes, neon crosses and dirt roads. In the final shot, a woman is dunked for a river baptism and appears to emerge in hysterics.

Either she’s in rapture, or just a hairbreadth from drowning. This is the world of “True Blood,” where quaint, romantic notions of the South are recast with dread.

The package was made by Digital Kitchen, the agency behind “Six Feet Under’s” Emmy-winning sequence. By hiring it again, Ball proves he understands that the slower the curtain is raised, the more intrigued his audience becomes.

© 2008

Bloody Good: The title sequence for “True Blood” is like a guilded invitation to join the show’s peculiar world.