I went into it apprehensively, thinking this was going to be another vampiric masturbation fantasy. While that certainly is present, the whole concept of vampires sort of serves as a backdrop and social commentary, providing background conflicts and forming the sort of lifeblood that keeps the whole story together.
The meat of it is really about the personal struggles of the characters, of which there are a whole lot and some of them have really cool stories about addiction, familial hardship, relationships, social pressures.
Ontop of that, there's a shitton of good murder mysteries go on.
I'd definitely recommend checking it out.
I started watching it when a friend of mine was like "Dude, you have HBO and I don't, I'm coming over to your place to watch True Blood this summer". And I liked the show enough to get Season 1 on BluRay.
Season 2 is also quite enjoyable, and it flows very nicely with Season 1, though you don't realize just how much it does until very late in season 2.
Also, don't forget to mention Anna Paquin's boobs. Falaanla Marr fucked around with this message on 11-07-2009 at 11:05 PM.
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Liam's fortune cookie read:
the main character is infuriating, later seasons suck
Later seasons?
There were only 2.
Unless you're talking about the book series that the show is based off of. Falaanla Marr fucked around with this message on 11-08-2009 at 12:08 AM.
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Falaanla Marr has funnier quote texts than me:
Later seasons?There were only 2.
Unless you're talking about the book series that the show is based off of.
oh, im referring to the 2nd season
it sucks
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Mr. Parcelan wrote this stupid crap:
whaaaaat is the matter with it
Nothing, Liam is just being a negative nancy
I've watched both seasons and read all the books up to date.
Season one was all: "Ah'm a southern bell who for some rahson vampahrs just cain't get 'nuff of me and I don't know why."
Two was a bit better for Sookie, except then it seemed that everyone in the town had some kind of magical power. However, some of the lines became a bit funnier,so I wouldn't mind seeing what season 3's like. 
Season 4) No longer dating Bill, Sookie discovers Eric running naked down the road one evening with no memory of who he is. They bone like crazy. Werewolf witches move into Shreveport to wreck up the place. Season 5) A sniper starts shooting non-humans, Sam is one of the victims. Sookie helps her werewolf friend from Season 3 try to become leader of his area's pack. Season 6) Sookie starts dating a weretiger who looks like a giant Mr. Clean. Her vampire cousin who is lover to the Queen of Louisiana is killed and Sookie heads to New Orleans to set her things in order/find out how she died. Season 7) Bill is in even deeper shit with Sookie, who is still dating the weretiger Mr. Clean. Sookie is hired to attend a big Vampire conference by the Queen and Eric. Drama and love triangles abound. Season 8) Hurricane Katrina leaves the area in ruins after it hits. Werewolf packs fight while Sookie tries to mediate. The Queen is offed and Nevada vamps move in to take over the State. Sookie meets her great-grandfather. Season 9) Drama, drama, drama.
Season 3) Bill is kidnapped by his maker. Sookie enlists the aid of Eric to track him down, who gives her the services of a werewolf to do so.
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Liam had this to say about Jimmy Carter:
you only spoilered book 3
I spoilered it all.
Moving into furry territory there. Dangerous.
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Katrinity got a whole lot of nerve:
I spoilered it all.
oh, well google chrome only spoiled the first line
i dont care personally, just figured id tell you
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The logic train ran off the tracks when Mortious said:
Weretigers?Moving into furry territory there. Dangerous.
There are two types of shifters in the books. You have 'Shifters' who are unrestricted in what form they can take though generally require a visual aid to shift sometimes. Then you have the 'Weres' who are shifters that can only transform into one form which is predetermined on their bloodlines (ie The first child of a werewolf will be a werewolf, the first child of a weretiger will be a weretiger.)
So far in the books I've seen Werewolves, Weretigers, Werepanthers (a strange close-knit community near Bon Temp were most of them are several generations inbred with one another), Werefoxes, and maybe a couple more in brief passing mention.
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Liam stumbled drunkenly to the keyboard and typed:
oh, well google chrome only spoiled the first linei dont care personally, just figured id tell you
That's always been a problem with Firefox and Chrome and the spoiler code here.
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Mr. Parcelan has funnier quote texts than me:
liam is a werepug
sometimes i wake up and look at the mirror and i just look MAD AS HECK
and then i know its a full moon
