True Blood - The Complete First Season

Pros: quite original, great cast, sexy and fun, innovative presentation
Cons: might take a couple of episodes to hook new viewers

True Blood is a new series that has been airing on HBO for a little over a year now, and which has finally made it to a DVD set.  Season two of True Blood is just around the corner, making it the perfect time to get caught up on ...

Pros: Smart, Sexy, and very well done.  Great production values; consistant gothic feel.
Cons: None worth mentioning.  Either you like Vampires, or you don't.

True Blood (2009) Created by Alan Ball, from the novels of Charlaine Harris.   Sookie Stackhouse: [surprised] You're alive? Bill Compton: Technically, no.   It's modern day Louisiana, and Vampires are ...

Pros: A unique, original series, with engaging characters and plots...
Cons: ...it's just so damn addicting, though that's not really a con

I can blame one of my best friends for getting me hooked on True Blood.  I remember the day that it happened- I admitted my fan girlish love for ...

Pros: Great cast, original ideas added, sexy, bloody, and freakin' fun
Cons: Only if you don't like excessive swearing, blood, or sex

I work at a bookstore (at least I did *sigh*).  I read all the Charlaine Harris Sookie Stackhouse novels.  And I enjoyed them.  Thoroughly.  ...

Pros: Imaginative portrayal of Charlaine Harris's novels, strong performances, great visual look, soundtrack
Cons: Graphic, over-the-top kinky sex. Southern accents. Amount of graphic gore and violence.

 Alan Ball (Six Feet Under) takes on Charlaine Harris’s beloved Southern Vampire series in True Blood, starring Anna Paquin as Sookie Stackhouse, a telepathic waitress in a small Louisiana parish. Sookie’s gift is feared ...

Pros: Great fresh actors, an evenness of action, romance, lust, and really sets the mind free.
Cons: May make your stomach turn, but the good qualities certainly outweigh the bad.

Like many Americans around the country, I am a huge fan of the Twilight book series. It is a new American Classic for teens and young adults. The True Blood series is just what the doctor ordered. A sexy, intriguing, brilliant series that sparks your curiosity. I would recomend the t.v. show and the books alike to anyone and everyone. It's a nice little escape from reality, and causes one to question the limits of the world around us.