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Sometimes a TV show slips thru the cracks like "Star Trek"and fortunately for us all its saved if only for 3 seasons.Moonlight sadly is not such a series.Only 16 episodes were made for the 2007 season on CBS.However I saw it on a cable network just can't remember which one later.Now many folks like the"Twilight "movies and HBO's "True Blood"as do I,but I own nether.This series however is far better than ether one.As only the second TV series I have reviewed I will add its a cheap purchase for now,and only 4 DVD's so well worth the price I paid of 35 dollars.
Lets start with what might be the best pairing I've ever seen in a TV series for chemistry between male and female leads.Alex O'Loughlin as Mick St. John and Sophia Myles as Beth Turner.Since this series we have loved Alex in the new Hawaii 5 -O series and Sophia was great in a fairly interesting film called "Outlander".There is a real sexual tension and forbidden longing from the start of the series.Mick you see is a Vampire ,a good guy as well,and had saved Beth when she was kidnapped at 6 years old.You see Mick lives as a private investigator and Beth's parents hired him to find her.It seems Micks wife who is also the Vampire who"turned"him,kidnapped young Beth as a way to offer her young blood to Mick as a way to save their marriage.Mick you see is not happy nor embraces his undead life and hopes somehow there is a way back although he knows there really isn't.
So Mick kills his wife ( it seems (?) ) to save the 6 year old.Now 20 or so years later he runs into Beth,who is now a TV reporter for a gossip show called Buzzwire,sort of like a early version of TMZ. She thinks she knows him but can't figure out from where.The two work together on future stories where he is as a investigator and she as a reporter who keep winding up working together.As the show goes on she is drawn to him to point of saving him by letting him drink her blood and he fights what he feels is a doomed future for them if they fall for each other.Well she has a boy friend whose a DA and well I think you can guess the tug she feels for both as she is slowly learning more about Mick and what happened when she was 6 years old.Thats all you need to know to become hooked on a truly sadly romantic series that one can only dream of what season two and beyond might have brought.Truly a SCI-FI/Horror series with a human heart that is so much beyond anything else that is sad it's over and the actors have moved on so there will never be a Star Trek sort of resurrection.What we do have is 16 episodes of roughly 45 minutes or so to travel this dark world on the night,gossip,crime,and forbidden love that tugs at the heart.Such a good background soundtrack that some episodes bring a tear.In lieu of a trailer I have dd a link to a hauntingly beautiful song from the show below the pix.
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