Dark, intelligent, engaging, violent and sexy. Moonlight manages to be all of the above and does it with a consistent and coherent internal logic.
It's a thoroughly modern, 21st Century vision of the Vampire myth... complete with the good guy buying his supply illicitly from the local blood bank... whenever possible. Vampires can now have their pictures taken: "Don't you just love digital photography?" the hero says at one point, "So much better than back in the day when we didn't register on film." The scripts don't dumb anything down from the violence and story arches to the sexual tension and adult relationships. Jason Dohring is cast to Veronica Mars-type in a supporting role that I hope is expanded. My initial response to Sophia Myles as the private detective hero's intrepid reporter love interest was tepid at first but has improved as I've watched the chemistry between her and Alex O'Loughlin come to a slow boil.
And speaking of Alex O'Loughlin - sorta dark, fairly intelligent, very engaging, appropriately violent, and very very very sexy.
It's a thoroughly modern, 21st Century vision of the Vampire myth... complete with the good guy buying his supply illicitly from the local blood bank... whenever possible. Vampires can now have their pictures taken: "Don't you just love digital photography?" the hero says at one point, "So much better than back in the day when we didn't register on film." The scripts don't dumb anything down from the violence and story arches to the sexual tension and adult relationships. Jason Dohring is cast to Veronica Mars-type in a supporting role that I hope is expanded. My initial response to Sophia Myles as the private detective hero's intrepid reporter love interest was tepid at first but has improved as I've watched the chemistry between her and Alex O'Loughlin come to a slow boil.
And speaking of Alex O'Loughlin - sorta dark, fairly intelligent, very engaging, appropriately violent, and very very very sexy.