We enter Blood Drive season 1 with a spoiler-free review, but not without a road map.
ThisBlood Drivereview contains vague spoilers.
Blood Driveis set in the future.
The world is broken.
Theres hardly any food.
Oil costs $2,000 a barrel.
People would kill to work for that company, or to stay employed, literally.
The cash prize is $10 million.
That could buy a lot of gas, if the cars in the race ran on gas.
The hottest rods have been retrofitted to accommodate a newer and cheaper energy source.
They run on blood, human blood, and that is cheaper than water.
Talk about road rage.
In the future that means hes kind of a good cop in a world of bad ones.
Some things dont change.
The cost for police protection starts at a molar.
Officer Bailey is a kind of living Ken doll that Grace calls Barbie.
Slink is the breakout here.
Cunningham is having too much dark fun for anyones good.
Slink talks like Marilyn Manson sings.
Too bad the witch drums pounded all over his teeth.
Hes not a nice guy.
Hes the one who comes up with the idea of partnering Grace and Arthur.
I know that its not fake, but at the same time I know it has to be.
Akis eyes do intermittent calisthenics that makes it impossible to look away.
Its not like there are no rules for the Blood Drive.
Drivers cant kill the other drivers, but any other gas source is free pickings.
Partners have to stay close to each other, or they get wracked with internal pain.
And they have to make the finish line in each city.
Otherwise their heads will blow up from the inside because of an explosive chip air-gunned into their necks.
Speaking of scars, the makeup effects, all the effects, are over-the-top-notch.
Blood, and other viscous juices, human and semi-human, is on tap.
Other body parts are liberally displayed: severed arms, jars of teeth and delectable eyes.
Of course not, because true romance is the most shocking surprise.
Blood Drivewill premiere on Syfy on Wednesday, June 14 at 10 p.m. Eastern time.
Rating:
4 out of 5
