‘Blood Ties’ Goes Bump Again Starting Tonight
Basic-Cable Vampire Series Back for More Blood
Like it or not, ready or not, care or not, Lifetime’s Blood Ties returns to the small screen tonight to kick off the back half of its freshman season. The first episode “D.O.A.” is already available in full format for streaming on the show’s network Web site (don’t you love when they do that?), but if you enjoy a more traditional viewing experience, then tune in on the tube at 11pm EST.
When the first half of the Canadian series wound down in May with the installment “Norman,” visually challenged (she suffers from the progressive, blindness-inducing genetic eye disorder retinitis pigmentosa) private detective Victoria “Vicki” Nelson (Christina Cox) managed to (temporarily?) rid Toronto of the demonic entity Astrof and its annoying, bumbling minion Norman Bridewell (Michael Eklund). She wouldn’t have been able to accomplish that feat, however, without life-saving assistance from her new undead colleague Henry Fitzroy (Kyle Schmid), a 480-year-old vampire trapped in the hunky body of an attractive 20-something graphic artist; her former police-force partner and sometime lover Mike Celluci (Dylan Neal); and her occult-enthusiast assistant Coreen Fennel (Gina Holden, who also stars as reporter Dale Arden on the current Sci Fi Channel original series Flash Gordon).
“D.O.A.” continues Vicki’s inquiries into the supernatural world when a former co-worker from her days as a cop shows up to seek her help uncovering what happened to him after he died on the job. Based on the brief snippets of the online episode I’ve viewed—I prefer my TV shows on the actual TV—all the characters seems back in their familiar snarky form, which is a good or bad thing, depending on whether you think Blood Ties sucks (not literally, of course) or rocks. I fall somewhere in-between and keep up with the show primarily for the many, many funny moments, some intentional (the catty dialogue among all of the main characters, for instance) and some not (the abominable so-called “special” effects).
FYI: Blood Ties is based on the Blood Books novel series by prominent Canadian author Tanya Huff.
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Blood Ties currently airs Fridays on Lifetime at 11pm EST
Blood Ties photo courtesy of Lifetime
