Steinesongo Too many fans seem to be blown away

CommentsXp Best movie ever!

Dynamixor The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

Cassandra Story: It's very simple but honestly that is fine.

Elain-ee This series is up against some stiff competition, airing as it does during the same era as Being Human, Vampire Diaries and True Blood. It is also following up on the heels of some classic supernatural television, namely Buffy the Vampire Slayer and X-Files.What it does well at is keeping up a suspenseful plot arc and terse dialogue that keep things moving. At times, the dialogue crosses the line from terse to vague and clichéd though. All the actors seem highly competent, and manage to stay in their roles even when given poor lines - thankfully, this isn't a problem in every episode.What I really noticed while watching this is how poorly its style and special effects compare to similar other shows. Both X-files and True Blood are favourite shows of mine and both obviously did a lot of research to keep up with the fashion, music and lingo of their time. By comparison the music, conversations and fashions in Blood Ties seems like they were pulled from a 1995 Style Guide - or worse still, from a Sears catalogue! The intro song, in particular, sounded so cringe-ingly outdated that I had to mute the television every time it came on. It's a shame, because Canada has some great cutting-edge music and fashions to choose from but in this series, it's painfully obvious that the budget (and imagination) needed to track it down just weren't there.However, I think that most of these flaws stem from Canadian underfunding of television and the arts. When will this country's government get with the (television) program and realize that, by denying its budding stars a decent stage to shine on at home, it is driving all of its talent away? Probably never... it has been a huge problem for decades. Still, Blood Ties gives one the sense that talent still exists in Canada, even if it is doomed to languish in a latent form.

fredastair1 I don't watch lifetime much. I like science fiction, mysteries and most importantly well written and fast moving plots. While that can be some slow parts at times in these stories it is more from the directing than the writing. Overall this is a well done science fiction series. It is not as good as the SciFi series Stargate or Stargate Atlantis but in my book it is better than the HBO series True Blood. I can't believe it but I do like this Lifetime program. The plots are always well conceived science fiction and character development / interaction between the three main characters is excellent. Lifetime isn't listed as a favorite channel on the remote but Blood Ties is a program I do have Tivo'd for a season pass.

shaggydog53 Don't get me wrong, folks, this was a nice try, but no banana. The series definitely has some moments; there have been better attempts at "friendly vampires", though (e.g. "Buffy", "Angel", "Forever Knight" etc.)I read "Blood Price" when it first came out in 1991 - and the TV series doesn't hold a candle to it or its sequels. If you want my advice: get the books by Tanya Huff, an awesome writer in Fantasy and Horror BOTH, and hope that SHE will come up with another sequel, not the writers of this series (which moved further and further away from the original with every installment). I think the only character they really cast right was Celluci. Got on my nerves in the books AND the series ;-)P.S.: Whatever happened to Tony Foster?

siege223 I love Blood Ties. I go over to Lifetime.com to watch the 22 episodes almost daily. What I like about the show is that it's fun, quirky, sexy, a little campy, dramatic, and did I mention sexy? I have a crush on all three of the main characters/actors--Vicki, Henry, and Mike. I love the racially-diverse cast. I love the witty dialog. I love how given a low production budget, they were still able to make the show more of a fantasy based show with pretty good special effects. Potential-wise, this show's first 22 episodes are very similar to the first 2 seasons of Buffy, and I would love to see in what direction the show evolves.