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The series follows Sookie Stackhouse, a barmaid living in Louisiana who can read people's minds, and how her life is turned upside down two years after the invention of a synthetic blood called Tru Blood that has allowed vampires to 'come out of the coffin' and allow their presence to be known to mankind. Now they are struggling for equal rights and assimilation, while anti-vampire organizations begin to gain power.
8 November 1961, New York, USA
22 March 1964, Homestead, Florida, USA
5 July 1960, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA
24 April 1964, USA
7 February 1985, Westlake, California, USA
2 June 1978, Bayamón, Puerto Rico
2 February 1987, Tucson, Arizona, USA
24 January 1940, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA
27 June 1978, Los Angeles, California, USA
8 October 1968
June 14, 2009
I'm happy to report that this season, there's More Blood! More Torture! More Killing! and More Intrigue! than last season.
June 14, 2009
True Blood will never be confused with the high-quality projects HBO has staked its reputation and brand on, but it can be an entertaining pop/pulp thriller with a fair amount of comedy sprinkled in.
June 14, 2009
Sly and beguiling, it offers up desperate souls and sweaty bodies, hungry vampires and fearful humans.
June 14, 2009
As good as Paquin and company play it, this is another quality pay-cable show that does have a secret handshake. Or bite.
June 14, 2009
Ball has brushed up on his Buffy reruns, opening up the show's universe to far more devilish creatures and ideas, and it seems the further he steps away from the vamps, the closer he gets to the beating heart of the human.
June 14, 2009
The fleshed-out secondary characters have better material than Sookie and her vampire Bill.
June 14, 2009
"True Blood" is a little less cartoonish and over-the-top than it sometimes seems. Or maybe we're too overwhelmed or distracted or disenchanted to recognize the true nature of this cartoonish, over-the-top, morally mixed-up world we're living in.
June 14, 2009
I'd have an easier time taking True Blood less seriously if it could make up its mind as to how seriously it wants to be taken.
June 14, 2009
"True Blood" is truly terrific.
June 14, 2009
Addictively watchable, not so much a guilty pleasure as a binge food. Cable catnip, in other words.
