Any more than that and he loses his mind, so if nothing else, watching him attempt to reintegrate Crystal’s family into Bon Temps will make season four essential viewing. Now, as we well know, Jason is really only good at protecting one girl at a time. Yup, Crystal left with her brother-fiancé, after he killed their uncle-daddy, leaving Jason to look after the entire redneck village. In what was perhaps the most interesting twist in the episode, Jason Stackhouse somehow didn’t get the girl. Wouldn’t you run if you were essentially Vampire crack? Banishing all vampires from her house, no one can blame her for quite literally being away with the faeries by the end of the episode. Unable to use his vampire powers on her, it’s looking increasingly like Bill had to glamour her the old fashioned way. He heads straight for the Stackhouse place, where Bill is once again busy filling Sookie’s head with his apparent need to protect her, but with Eric’s arrival, his protestations of love are exposed for the manipulation they are. Which is something that Sookie, thankfully, finds out when Eric somehow manages to escape death for the second time that day. Bill, it seems, is easily as devious as Mr. Still, the hallucinations provide Bill with the perfect distraction, and before he knows it, our favorite sheriff is face down in his own cement grave. Suffice it to say, Godric is not best pleased. True Blood crawled through four, ever-more bloodless seasons, until, finally, the stake through its heart felt like a merciful release.Hell bent on making Russell suffer, Eric and Bill devise an ingenious plan to encase the weakened king in cement for the next century or so. His camp charm turned to scenery-chewing, which is not a pretty sight when you’re wearing fake fangs. Knowing how much fans loved Russell Edgington, the show brought him back from his burial in concrete under a car park, but like a vampire under the Louisiana sun this fan favourite withered through overexposure. Plots went nowhere with characters no one cared about. Fire demons, witches, vengeful ghosts, vampire gods, werepanthers and shapeshifters all made appearances. From that moment on it was a slow slide into the grave.įairies were the first signs of rot as the creators added more mythological characters in an attempt to recapture the magic. Sookie is part-fairy or, as she puts it – “I’m a fairy? How fucking lame.” Fans agreed. That’s not a joke – there is a pond in the graveyard that is a portal to the land of fairies. But if this was the high point, the groundwork for True Blood’s decline was being laid in the final episodes of season three. A vampire fundamentalist who thinks of humans as nothing but walking meals, he bursts into a news studio, rips the spine from the anchor live on air, and delivers a furious anti-human rant while gesticulating with the quivering backbone in his hand. Russell Edgington, the nefarious vampire king of Mississippi (don’t ask), provided most fans’ favourite True Blood moment. Season three provided the pinnacle of the show’s success.
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The showrunners had found a successful formula for a hit show: magic plus shagging equals entertainment. Season two managed to cram in more mystical sex by introducing a madness-worshipping maenad straight out of Greek mythology who inspires town-wide orgies. Unfortunately, she never manages to overhear anything helpful. Sookie, or Sookah as co-star Stephen Moyer (vampire love interest Bill) calls her in his faux American accent, was a telepathic human played by Anna Paquin, who used her powers to try to solve the crime. This gave the show plenty of opportunities to show just how acrobatic vampire love can be. Season one focused on the hunt for a murderer who targets women who have sex with vampires, AKA “Fangbangers”. Were they a surrogate for HIV-positive people? Should vampire marriage be legal? Sometimes they’d hit you in the fangs with their messages – banners declaring “God Hates Fangs” were a typical bit of True Blood subtlety about the subtext of the show – but it was always a fun ride.
The vampires of True Blood emerged from their coffins boasting violence, verve and sociological metaphors. Beneath the campy eroticism and over-the-top fantasy there was more to True Blood than anyone expected. Although they both premiered in 2008 the True Blood vampires had a lot more bite than the anodyne, twinkling corpses of the Twilight universe. True Blood was exactly the show vampire fans were crying out for – a southern gothic mystery with torrents of blood and sex.
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