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69 of 79 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Blood Ties has the bite!, 6 Sep 2007
I was drawn to the show when I first started watching the commercials on the Lifetime TV network (in America).
Based on the successful books by Tanya Huff, Blood Ties follows Vicki Nelson (Christina Cox), a private investigator who was released from the Toronto Metro Police because she is going blind because of retintus pigmentosa. It was a normal day in the office when Gothic girl Coreen (Gina Holden) comes into her office to help her find her boyfriend Ian's killer; whom she believes was a vampire. What ends up happening to Vicki from this point on changes her life forever.
Along the way, she meets Henry Fitzroy (Kyle Schmid), bastard son of Henry VIII and now well recognized for his graphic novels and charm. They begin a tumultuous relationship against everything the darkness can throw at them.
If anyone was a fan of "Forever Knight" or "Buffy," you definitely want to check out Blood Ties and go on the website to support the show for a second season. The books were extrodinary and if they are able to have their way, it would be interesting to see how they incorporate the second story in book two and the first story in book three into the show.
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30 of 35 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
A totally incredible show!!, 1 Oct 2007
We're only up to episode 7 in the UK, yet I can't wait to get my hands on the DVD box set so as I can watch them over and over!! I simply love this show - it had me completely hooked from the pilot - something that has never happened to me before with a TV show!!! I am completely obsessed with it!!
It has everything....humour, romance, drama, passion and the supernatural. The scripts are very clever, going from intense drama one week, to flirty humour the next. And the acting is simply superb, never once do you think 'yeah, as if!' the characters totally suck you (no pun intended!)in to their world! And the chemistry between them all just works!
If there is any justice in this world, the show will continue for many more seasons...and until then I can't wait until January to get my hands on this set and feed my Henry addiction!
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13 of 15 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
I thought it would be bad - I was wrong, 4 Dec 2007
I started watching this with a degree of dread - the memory of other shows at the front of my mind - after a couple of episodes I was hooked.
It has a comfortable familiar feeling with out being just another a copy of previous ideas.
A great series, I highly recommend it.
Note - this is season one and two in the one box set:
Season 1
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Season 1, Episode 1: Blood Price - Vicki Nelson, an ex-police detective with Retinitis Pigmentosa, gets caught up in an investigation after she witnesses a murder and the victim's girlfriend asks her to prove it was committed by a vampire.
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Season 1, Episode 2: Blood Price: Part Two - Vicki learns the truth about Henry, and their lives get more dangerous as Norman escalates his requests.
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Season 1, Episode 3: Bad JuJu - Vicki gets caught up in voodoo when she tries to locate her client's brother.
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Season 1, Episode 4: Gifted - When Vicki goes looking for a dead-beat dad, she finds a little more supernatural, and many more memories, than she wants.
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Season 1, Episode 5: Deadly Departed - Vicki runs up against a Celtic spell when she investigates why a judge, prosecutor and defense attorney are being targeted.
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Season 1, Episode 6: Love Hurts - Vicki tries to clear a client of charges he murdered his wife, but with the jousting between Henry and Mike, and a disturbing dream, it looks like the case may be a little more complicated than she thought.
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Season 1, Episode 7: Heart of Ice - Vicki's investigation into the disappearance of a homeless woman brings her up against a creature that may be more powerful than Henry. Elsewhere, Mike is approached by a mysterious stranger who knows more about Henry.
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Season 1, Episode 8: Heart of Fire - Mike and Vicki race against time to save Henry.
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Season 1, Episode 9: Stone Cold - Vicki is asked to investigate the disappearance of a young man, and it leads to a club owner whom Mike is attracted to.
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Season 1, Episode 10: Necrodrome - Vicki is on the trail of a body that has apparently been resurrected.
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Season 1, Episode 11: Post Partum - Vicki goes undercover at a fertility clinic that has an astounding rate of success.
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Season 1, Episode 12: Norman - Norman is back from his demon dimension, and things are not looking good for Vicki.
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Season 2
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Season 2, Episode 1: D.O.A. - Vicki is asked by a ghost to find his body, and Mike gets involved while investigating a dirty cop.
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Season 2, Episode 2: Wild Blood - Mike grudgingly asks Vicki for help on a case that involves a woman suspected of killing like an animal.
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Season 2, Episode 3: 5:55 - Vicki relives the same day until she can get it right.
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Season 2, Episode 4: Bugged - Grotesquely mutilated bodies keep turning up at Coreen's favorite Goth hangout leading Vicki into her assistant's darkly alternative lifestyle.
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Season 2, Episode 5: The Devil You Know - Christina's back in Henry's life and has brought her stalker along.
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Season 2, Episode 6: Drawn and Quartered - Henry pressures Vicki into helping an artist friend clear her name of murder, and Vicki can't understand their connection.
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Season 2, Episode 7: Wrapped - A mummy returned from the dead is stalking the city looking for Henry and his life force, and Vicki does the unthinkable to protect him.
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Season 2, Episode 8: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly - A serial killer from Vicki's biggest case as a detective contacts her from prison taking back his confession and claiming the real killer is about to strike again. When the murder happens as he describes, Mike and Vicki butt heads trying to determine if it's supernatural or human.
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Season 2, Episode 9: We'll Meet Again - A teenager who claims he and his true love have been reincarnated throughout the centuries runs into trouble when he finds she's created a new life without him, Mike continues to feel pressure at work because of his association with Vicki, and Henry makes a break.
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Season 2, Episode 10: Deep Dark - Astaroth claims Coreen and then taunts everyone with secrets from their past and possibilities of their future if they'll only partner with him, and Vicki is faced with an impossible decision.
No word on season 3 as of yet
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