True Blood: The Complete First Season [Blu-ray]

I recieved this boxset as a gift from a friend who was urging me for a while to watch True Blood. I was a little iffy about the whole vampire thing with all the twilight stuff out right now. I didnt enjoy Twilight the movie (but loved the books!), so i was hoping it wouldnt be as cheesy.

Thankfully my hopes came true! This whole season is amazing, sexy, addictive and great for anyone who loves or hates vampires!

I am SO glad I got into this show. I am now a super fan!

True blood is one unique show. You would think a vampire show is just that, biting necks etc. Not True Blood, you never know what to expect? The cast is really good too, Anna Paquin has reinvented herself. From word of mouth or just watching for a few minutes, people willing be glued
to this series just as much as the Soprano's.

Authors who write vampire stories always try to find a fresh angle to tell the vampire story. True Blood is based on "The Southern Vampire Mysteries," a series of novels by Charlene Harris. The HBO series and the noveles uses the intertwining lives of inhabitants of Bon Temps, a small town in the deep south. It is part Peyton Place and part murder mystery. The fresh angle in True Blood, is that the vampires have come out in public and are seeking their civil rights. This has been made possible due to the invention of an artitifical blood called "true blood." Many vampires would like to remain predators and continue prey on humans. Drawing victims to seedy vampire bars. Many humans hunt down vampires and use vampire blood as a drug, that they call "V." Meanwhile, roadhouse waitress, Suzie Stackhouse is isolated by her telepathic powers. One day a vampire comes into the bar where she works and she cannot read his mind. Bill Compton, who in the way of all good vampires, is aslo troubled by his lot and he becomes a careful suiter to Sookie. Most of the first series is deticated to the romance of Bill and Sukie. This is complicated by a series of grisley murder that seem to connected to Sookie's hapless older brother Jason and whose victims are woman who have been known to associate with vampires.

The series is a good adaption of "Dead Until Dark", the first novel of the series. There are some changes from the book but the adaptation works very well. Anna Paquin is wonderful as Sookie. Her Sookie can be both steadfast and vulnerable. This is the way of romantic heroines. I liked the fact that Stephan Moyer underplays the vampire love interest. His Bill Compton is the vampire as troubled, heartbroken loner. I liked the always reliable William Sanderson as Bon Temps' no nonsense sheriff and the wonderful Stephan Root as a hapless vampire, kidnapped to have his blood drained by addicts. As the secrets of the Bon Temps are revealed in the series there is a great deal of explicit sexuality, drug use and some violence and I would not recommend it for a younger audience. A little too grown up younger fans who have finished reading Twilight and want more vampire stories.