My two new favorite shows...

While we're waiting for the new season of House, Heroes, and Chuck later this year, the second season of two TV shows just started recently -- True Blood and Leverage.

True Blood
Staring Anna Paquin -- aka Rogue from the dull X-Men flicks -- who plays a southern girl working as a waitress in a bar in a town in Louisiana and has the ability to read other people's minds. And in this earth, vampires are out in the open -- they outed themselves to the entire world. Vampires now are recognized as citizens and have political power in the human world -- a novel and interesting concept. The only show -- as far as I know -- that has vampires walking side-by-side with humans as equals under the law...

Downside is that it has tooooo much sex and violence. Not that it's bad in itself. Just that my wife is pregnant, and I really don't want her seeing bloody and violent scenes.

Aside from that, I like the show.


Leverage
Ah yes... The first time I learned about the different types of crooks out there: hitter, hacker, grifter, thief. Have the best of all four plus a brilliant mastermind and you end up with the greatest team of crooks a Mafia Wars fanatic can only dream of.

Like a modern version of Robin Hood, they go after the big, bad, rich people who step on their little, good, poor victims. Not the most original concept. But the characters simply make the show stand out.

This is much "cleaner" than the other show so I can enjoy this with the wife. :) Our favorite is the "Parker" character - the thief of the crew. Beautiful, acrobatic, and a weird sense of humor in one package -- we just can't stop laughing whenever she does the thing that she does. :))

Oh well... Another two shows on our list of must-watch TV...