{"id":577,"date":"2007-07-16T21:50:36","date_gmt":"2007-07-17T04:50:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alertnerd.com\/blog\/archives\/577"},"modified":"2007-07-16T21:50:36","modified_gmt":"2007-07-17T04:50:36","slug":"delicious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/?p=577","title":{"rendered":"Delicious"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I finally watched the handful of <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lifetimetv.com\/shows\/bloodties\/index.php\">Blood Ties<\/a><\/em> episodes socked away on my TiVo annnnnnnndddddd&#8230;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 <em>Painkiller Jane<\/em> and the non-Claudia Black episodes of <em>The Dresden Files<\/em> do not.<\/p>\n<p>Part of it is that the cheese is always fairly enjoyable &#8212; and when it ventures into &#8220;unintentionally hilarious&#8221; territory, it&#8217;s just over-the-top enough to be kind of awesome. I&#8217;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.<\/p>\n<p>It also has to do with Christina Cox, who I LOVE. In the late &#8217;90s, she was a big part of another B-tastic extravaganza, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fxtheseries.com\/\"><em>F\/X: The Series<\/em><\/a>, which also featured a pre-Matrixcized Carrie-Anne Moss. As tough PI Vicki Nelson, she gives <em>Blood Ties<\/em> a center and a soul and she always has perfect hair. She&#8217;s exactly the kind of charismatic presence a show like this needs.<\/p>\n<p>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&#8217;s books, on which the series is based.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I finally watched the handful of Blood Ties episodes socked away on my TiVo annnnnnnndddddd&#8230;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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,197],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-links"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}