The series exemplifies that near future located in a near-dystopian. This series includes a former policeman, forced to take part in the death race where it appears that this race is where cars operate on human blood as a real fuel.
The channel has recently favored slick, futuristic dramas, full of gleaming cities and high concepts, but Blood Drive is a gleeful detour into grindhouse gore and raunch.
Like any good Grindhouse affair, Blood Drive is a cacophony of bloodshed, debauchery, and puerile humor, and it's infinitely more fun than it's actually good. Fortunately, it's a lot of fun if you have the right disposition.
If grindhouse TV wants to thrive in the medium, it needs to put its shocks and flesh in service of something more than a game of perpetual provocation and one-upmanship.
It is miles ahead of Sharknado (which also lives on Syfy) and on the whole well-produced and directed, though its effectiveness varies from episode to episode and even from sequence to sequence.
In a medium prone to artistic pretensions, some realized and some damningly elusive, there's some value in a show that just aspires to be a bloody, leering, disreputable hoot and largely succeeds.
While it is no heir to what Rodriguez and Tarantino did, Blood Drive is an indulgent Grindhouse for all the modern direct-to-video goofiness and weirdness you can only watch at home now anyway.
