Blood Drive (TV Series) The Chopsocky Special (2017) User Reviews

This show continues to grow & amaze...

[yard_boy · 10/10 · 11 August 2017]

The episode was very trippy, very alternative reality, but don't get too buzzed before watching. You need to pay attention or a scene change will sneak up and bite you.

Arthur spends a lot of time with the sexy and cruel android Aki. Or, so he thinks. Grace is on her own quest with the chop suey lady (great supporting role). The little time that we see Arthur's partner Christopher, we see a dark side, something that challenges the team. Or, is it all in Arthur's head again? Julian continues to be such a great and perverted carny-barker that I'm afraid he'll get typecast for future roles.

And then they go and spoil it all by showing something stupid like hallucination sequences...

[Coventry · 3/10 · 3 May 2020]

"The Chopsocky Special" is the ninth episode in the eccentric and pleasantly deranged cult/horror series "Blood Drive". Most episodes were really great, one or two were only mediocre, but this entry is the first true disappointment of the series (to me, at last). I was afraid that a redundant and largely irrelevant side story would come sooner or later, and as far as I'm concerned, this whole installment easily could have been left out. During the previous racing day, Arthur was shot by a demonic small-town Sheriff and now he's balancing between life and death. Grace, growing more and more fond of Arthur, takes him to a forsaken Oriental restaurant in the desert for clandestine surgery. Arthur himself has subconscious hallucinations, featuring female cyborg Aki, Julian Slink and his pal Christopher, but they are not very interesting. Deadly dull episode, pointless, irritating, and entirely without highlights. I miss the stoic and emotionless Grace of the pilot episode, and Slink's role here is hardly more than a cameo. Next episode, please, and fast!