Moonlight

I know it seems like I watch a lot of TV. That’s because I do. And last night I plunged into another series, and its all a bit odd really. I’ve always been able to get into sci-fi. Space, aliens, flying police boxes… its all good with me and I easily become consumed by it. I’ve never, ever ‘got’ vampires though. I didn’t watch Buffy and didn’t have any interest in the whole phenomenon. For me I guess scary monsters crosses the line into something I cant relate to. However, i was pleasantly surprised by “Moonlight“. I picked it on a whim from the ‘on-demand’ listing on BT Vision, and for the first few minutes of the pilot I was very very cautious. It all seemed to be trying a little too hard to be clever and stylish and yet at the same time it kept throwing in cheap vampire gags. However, by late on in the first episode, I found I was beginning to warm to ‘Mick St John’ and his life as a good vampire. The more vulnerability his character showed, the more likable and watchable he became. I quickly moved onto episode 2 and was really glad to see it all settle down. The story was an interesting twist on the standard good versus evil vendetta, and Alex O’Loughlin really started to pull it out of the bag in terms of the vulnerability factor. Its clearly early days for me and this series, but it may just have turned around the whole vampire/fantasy tv genre for me. All they need to do now is drop the cheap vampire gags. Bloody awful.