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Jul 16I finally watched the handful of Blood Ties episodes socked away on my TiVo annnnnnnndddddd…I enjoyed them! Somehow, the heady brew of melty fantasy cheese, overheated vampire mythos and soothing Vancouver backlots hits my B-level-genre-TV-loving sweet spot in a way that Painkiller Jane and the non-Claudia Black episodes of The Dresden Files do not.
Part of it is that the cheese is always fairly enjoyable — and when it ventures into “unintentionally hilarious” territory, it’s just over-the-top enough to be kind of awesome. I’m thinking of the moment in the voodoo-themed episode wherein one of the voodoo dudes gleefully sits in a chair made out of bones that look like they were swiped from the Indiana Jones(TM) Adventure Outpost at Disneyland.
It also has to do with Christina Cox, who I LOVE. In the late ’90s, she was a big part of another B-tastic extravaganza, F/X: The Series, which also featured a pre-Matrixcized Carrie-Anne Moss. As tough PI Vicki Nelson, she gives Blood Ties a center and a soul and she always has perfect hair. She’s exactly the kind of charismatic presence a show like this needs.
The show was popular enough to get a second season, which starts in the fall. In the meantime, I plan to check out Tanya Huff’s books, on which the series is based.
