More like this. Watch options. Storyline Edit. Set in modern times, vampires roam the Earth and are humans' mortal enemies. However, a substitute has been found for human blood, a substitute that vampires can consume with the same effect as human blood. This is True Blood.
Now humans and vampires can co-exist in harmony, and even form relationships. But there will always be rogue elements on both sides ready to exploit the uneasy truce. You Know You're Hooked Season 4. Drama Fantasy Mystery Romance Thriller.
Did you know Edit. Trivia To shoot the title sequence, the production crew took a four day trip to Louisiana, Chicago where the church was filmed , and Seattle for the bar scenes and writhing bodies. They would jump out of their cars as soon as they saw something they liked, or got permission to shoot people's homes, like the man in the rocking chair. He later had a few beers with them. Executive Producer Mark Bayshore is the man dancing with the girl, her arm around him, and his sons are the boys with berry juice over their faces.
Goofs When Sookie is eating Adele's pie, the amount of pie on the fork keeps changing between shots. Soundtracks Bad Things uncredited by Jace Everett. User reviews Review. Top review. 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 True Blood wasn't a viewership success at first but thanks to the vampire craze spearheaded by Twilight , its audience numbers quickly grew.
By the middle of its run, the series had become one of HBO's most-watched programs since The Sopranos. What's more, the ratings actually ran steady until the end, which only further confused the reason for its cancellation. The series ended because the creators of True Blood felt they ran out of worthwhile stories to share. And I think in the case of True Blood , it just felt like we had reached a place where the storytelling was hitting a wall. And to stay just because the ratings were strong felt not who we are and we needed, quite honestly, the money and Sunday night space for new shows.
In ending it, they were able to shift their focus to other shows like Game of Thrones which later took over its Sunday night timeslot. It was hard to say goodbye for long-time viewers but most would agree that the series had run its course. Despite having thirteen novels of stories to work with, True Blood veered too far off course to get back to the show's heart and soul.
The trouble came after original series creator Alan Ball left and was replaced by a new showrunner Brian Buckner. This popularity put it in the same category as HBO's beloved show The Sopranos , which is regarded as one of the best TV shows of all time.
This allowed it to ride out the wave of vampire fanaticism to its end, all without drawing the show itself out beyond its sell date. HBO programming director Michael Lombardo explained why the network decided to end the series in And I think in the case of True Blood , it just felt like we had reached a place where the storytelling was hitting a wall. Thankfully, for fans who are desperate to sink their teeth into more True Blood , a reboot of the series is on the way.
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