Main themes involve tolerance, romance, family and friendship. Often themes also include backstabbing and betrayal, but also there are strong characters who truly love one another and take care of each other fiercely. Best suited for a mature audience however, it's full of sexual content, violence, language and a fair amount of drug use.
Sexuality includes nude breasts and buttocks, realistic sex, orgasms and prostitution. Violence is more fantastical then realistic and includes a good amount of blood, when vampires die they explode as blood bags. Biting is often erotic and a part of sex, and vampire blood is considered a drug to humans.
Drinking is a regular part of the show as one of the main stages is a bar. Marijuana is also used, although not frequently.
Language is also strong and frequent, including all the colors of the rainbow. As the series progresses it becomes more outrageous and wacky but if you have a decent stomach, don't mind strong sexuality and language and enjoy an out there fantasy drama this show is wonderful and you're in for seven seasons of sexy, campy fun. This title contains: Positive role models. This review Helped me decide. Had useful details. Read my mind 1. Report this review.
Adult Written by Daniellemarie March 1, It's superb Ok I must say true blood is graphic, but however it is a fantastic and addictive series and I think 14 and up are mature enough to understand what is going on and what they are talking about! Teens will love it because of the vampires and werewolves. This title contains: Positive Messages. This show is not for children! Don't get me wrong, this show is great but This show would be the best thing that ever happened to me if it were not for that.
Do not let your children under 18 watch this show. This title contains: Sexy stuff. Parent of a year-old Written by Jenoi July 11, Vampire Eroticism not for Kids I love this show, though I'm not sure why exactly, it's kind of dumb. And that content included two very popular but very different television series on totally different networks. True Blood appealed to a more adult crowd given its placement on HBO and its graphic content, while The Vampire Diaries certainly helped popularize The CW and even has a spin-off series still on the air despite the original show debuting over a decade ago.
Both series have left a lasting impact on pop culture, but there are some things that True Blood does much better than The Vampire Diaries, and vice versa. Lafayette, Arlene, Jason, Pam , the list goes on. While there are some fantastic characters on The Vampire Diaries too, they're not quite as memorable as the lovable Bon Temps residents on True Blood. Even when True Blood was at its worst, most people stuck around simply because they loved the characters so much.
Mystic Falls had its charms but it couldn't quite compare to the quirkiness of good ol' Bon Temps, Louisiana. Both shows had a central love triangle at its heart, but The Vampire Diaries did a better job with the romantic aspects of the story than True Blood did.
Since True Blood aired on HBO they had a leg up when it came to sex scenes, but sex doesn't always equate to intimacy and romance. There were some great romantic moments in True Blood, but The Vampire Diaries has so many scenes that would simply rip your heart out. The shipping wars between fans for TVD are way more intense for a reason. Again, since True Blood aired on HBO it was able to do whatever it wanted in terms of blood and gore.
The Vampire Diaries wasn't a slouch in the violence department either, especially once the Original vampires and rippers were introduced, but True Blood could blow them out of the water with the grisly nature of the show.
There are some scenes too graphic to even write about here. True Blood, a series adaptation from Charlaine Harris' prolific novels where vampirism, gothic atmosphere and Southern town, surrounding, sceneries and accents get mixed up so well, so polished, so warmly and icy dark at the same time, pulsating and grabbing hard its viewers' attention from the first episode and never letting go, heading them to the confines of a gothic hell where vampires, telepaths, fairies and ordinary people are sucked in and vibe together with demonic and lustful desires.
The opening sequence is crazy good, twisted, shaking viewers up their gut, amplifying, pinning and setting the mood episode after episode. The cast is wonderfully, innocently dark and well chosen, from humans to creatures, pleasuring us with their greedy innocence and wickedness at the same time.
Getting us to root for them, whoever they are, mesmerized by their awe inducing acts and devilish behavior. Plunge into the True Blood's world and become one with your inner demon, share their secrets and vibe humidly together with them.
Blood is a gory, Fantasy genre romp with a strong supporting cast. For a show that attacked stereotypes, it was a shame for them to perpetuate stereotypes of veterans random 22 February I give True blood, especially first four seasons or so seven to eight stars. It certainly is good fun to see its assailing and making fun of stereotypes. Following the vampire trend. Only ten years later, apart from a couple of episodes especially in the early seasons and guest starring from newcomers or popular actors , it all looks so pointless and irrelevant.
I used to be a big fan of the show, and loved all the hype around each new seasons. But rewatching it now, makes me realize how I loved the idea and memory of it, rather than the actual thing. Season 2 was fun and probably the best of the whole series. The lack of PCness in the early seasons, is refreshing as well as the assumed sarcasm. But each seasons got more and more ridiculous, and I can't shake the memory of the awful Skarsgard craze that ruined the dynamic of the show.
And its wanted « maturity ». From this moment on, it became an NC Vampire Diaries, with that annoying actor fan girls were crazy about. Being put in the spotlight too much. And even though writers tried to make the most of a fresh start for the heroine, in the end.
Damages have already been done. I can't tell you wether to watch it or not, but personally I think it aged pretty badly, on all accounts.
It's an overall good and entertaining show, but one that suffered through time and questionable storylines. Angelus2 2 July True Blood is set in a world were the invention of synthetic blood has allowed Vampires to emerge from the shadows and coexist with humans without having to feed on them.
Our real story however revolves around the residents of Bon Temps, a small town in Louisiana; one resident in particular, Sookie Stackhouse a young woman who is able to read the thoughts of others, she bumps into a Vampire named Bill and the two end up dating. Much of the first is based around their relationship and Sookie's introduction to the world of Vampires, as well as the adventures of her brother Jason and friends; Tara, Sam and Lafayette.
Course then their is the introduction of the coolest character on the show, Eric Northman a Viking and owner of 'Fangtasia'. But I nonetheless gave it a try, I did not read the books Something I regret but it's what I expected from a show about Vampires, there's sex, blood and whole lot of profanity!
Sure BtVS is a great show and it tells a rather tame tale of the undead as its aimed at pre-teens and older But True Blood is aimed a Adults and its rather satisfying, I personally thought that Season 3 was a slight let down, but season 4 looks promising. A true Vampire tale. MrGKB 16 February Even that hoary old daytime serial, "Dark Shadows," was far superior, despite its comparably minuscule budget. Never mind the generally excellent production values, laudable camera-wrangling, and a slew of pop songs to highlight Nathan "Hostel" Barr's quirky score, "True Blood" falls on its face in two key respects: one, in its desperation to cram as many nubile bodies into the cast as it can, presumably catering to its primary gonad-driven audience, its story lines are pretty much reduced to little more than sexual hijinks of mostly the lowest order; and two, the characters and plots are uninvolving, derivative, cardboard dross.
I gave Season One a good six or seven episode effort, and finally had to give up in despair of finding anything to latch onto. The whole affair is simply laughably bad, and not in a good way at all. Good luck to all involved, I guess; I imagine it's a fine paycheck, but none of you are doing anything worth paying serious attention to, not even the baring of breasts, butts, and bodies. Strictly for vamp geeks of indiscriminate tastes, and pervs of even less discriminate bent.
Thank providence I didn't have to pay a dime to watch any of it; all I lost was a few hours of valuable time. I love vampire movies and series, I really liked true blood when it was on, for me season one was fun but not the best season for me, season two was a improvement, season three was great, season four was good but a step down, season five is my favourite season actually, I loved bill turning dark and losing his way, him and Eric working together was great, season six was mainly good, I loved them bringing back human vs vampires, season seven I liked it.
It had good moments the only bug problem was honestly there was not credible big bad, true blood is a fun ride with blood gore sex horror campy comedic moments all rolled into one and is a once in a life viewing, one of the best shows HBO ever produced. Good 1st season Who knew that HBO could re-invigorate the vampire theme for a general audience? The dialog and characters are superbly done. Even though I've long tired of vampire movies, the characters were so interesting to watch that I quickly got hooked into the series.
After watching the full first season, the characters still proved to be the strong point to the show. Basically, the story takes place in a present-day world in which vampires have just been revealed to be real, living beings in the population. They no longer need to feed on human hosts but can now survive on a synthetic blood called "Tru Blood".
In a small Louisiana back-country town, a series of murders has sparked racial vampire tension and suspicion among its small inhabitants. The storyline deals with everything from special powers vampires, mind-readers The only curious thing I found in the program was that after a while, I stopped caring who the serial murderer was and was more interested in what each character was up to their individual story lines.
Losing that initial tension was about the only weak point of the series. One thing's for sure, if you're a fan of vampire movies - you'll have a treat with this movie. For everyone else, I'd say it's definitely worth checking out because it's really intriguing. Dracula living in a trailer park instead of a castle. A great dinner of catfish, blackeyed peas and rice and cornbread, served up with a tall, warm, bubbly bottle of Based on the novels of Charlaine Harris, which I've never read, but certainly will after this!
It's been two years since the world got a shock it never expected: vampires came "out of the coffin" as a race. We suspected they always lived - and fed - amongst us, but now it's official, and just as before with race relations and as it is now with GLBT people, the reaction across the board is the same - fear of change and fear of the unknown influences most people's feelings about it.
And it doesn't seem to matter much that vamps now opt for finding nourishment from a bottled beverage made of synthetic plasma called - wait for it - "TRU BLOOD", rather than from the warm, breathing, two-legged receptacles called Everybody Else. Sookie Stackhouse, however, has her own unique take on the whole deal. She serves up pitchers of beer and sweet tea, and will give you a piece of her mind, once she has a piece of yours Sookie is a telepath, and unfortunately for her, she can't turn off the constant flow of other peoples' streams of consciousness The only minds she can't read are vampire minds, something she discovers when she encounters Bon Temps' first vamp, the courtly and smoldering Bill Compton Brit actor Stephen Moyer in a bravura performance.
They are taken with each other on first sight - Sookie, who is not afraid of the unusual since she herself fits that category all too well, and Bill because he cannot figure her out - is she mortal, or something more?
There's the return of some faces we once thought gone forever, and a farewell to others we'd grown fond of. Season 5: Episodes 6 and 12, "Hopeless" and "Save Yourself" We don't want to spoil anything, so we'll just say these are good and leave it at that. Everything's gone so deep at this point that explaining why would risk giving away too much, but but this season wins our Best Use of Pam Award hands down and that's the highest honor we have to bestow, so don't miss a minute.
What better time to find your next best small-screen obsession than right before it's about to end? You get all the joy of good programming without the anxiety spike of knowing your favorite story is about to go off air for a year—an issue particularly acute with HBO shows and their toepisode seasons. And while True Blood will be permanently going to ground after this summer, there will be a bloody reckoning before it does.
And why shouldn't there be? For 70 episodes we've been tossed around in a maelstrom of vampires, demons, witches, werewolves, vengeful gods; we've earned the most insane ending possible. In fact, that's what makes this show great.
Even when it's faltered, True Blood has always followed through on its silent promise to shock and entertain us. Yeah, the whole werepanthers thing went nowhere fast, but then again, they gave us goddamn werepanthers. And for that, we are grateful. If Alan Ball, Mark Hudis, and Brian Buckner all showrunners at various points ever felt bashful about introducing potentially polarizing characters or creatures or grotesque acts, they never tipped their hand to the viewer.
And sometimes when you watch TV, you just want to slip into an impossible universe and have fun for a while without care or consequence. That's what True Blood does best, and for our purposes here, what makes its bingeability factor so high. When we need to take our vitamins, we'll just sad-cram The Wire.
Don't worry, we love it just like everyone else. Not that the show is devoid of substance. True Blood 's first season drew strong parallels between the fictional struggle for vampire rights and the very real struggle for LGBT rights. When the show premiered in , California was in the midst of a fight over Proposition 8, which sought to ban same-marriages across the state, and "God hates fangs!
If she were an even mildly politically active person, Sookie herself probably would have posed for a NOH8 portrait.
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