Please Explain: What’s So Hot and Yummy About “True Blood?”

If you don't like it, you don't like it. Personally, I never got into LOST, Twilight, or Dr.Who but a million other people can't stop raving. Nothing has universal appeal.

BTW, I love True Blood!

True blood is pardon the pun bloody fantastic ! i have been watching it since the first season and i am totally hooked .

Can i just say that Alexzander Skaergard is beyond hot !like Boston said with the long hair i was like meh but now ..(fanning myself) HOT HOT HOT.
i am in Sudan and the only thing keeping my sanity is the fact that in 4 weeks i will be able to get my true blood fix.
i like everything about it including the opening credits and theme song because i know something good is about to happen.

All i can say is just watch it then you will understand what the fuss is about

to the people who mention eric northman... to me he wasn't much to look at in the begining because i don't like long hair on men. but now... holy crap. if vamps were real my ass would be packing everything i can carry in my hoopty and taking the ride to louisiana. he can bite me any day lol

I.CANT.GET.ENOUGH.

true blood is an acquired taste. i accidentally watched one episode and felt like i needed to know what happened before to get it. so i went online, streamed the whole previous season and i was hooked. i haven't missed an episode since. and when i do, catch up online. i'm even thinking about getting books so i can get a fix to calm my urges lol i know every word to the song that plays with the opening credits. i was never the scifi type. but now all i can say is: "from the outside looking in you can never understand it. from the inside looking out, you can never explain it." in other words, you have to take the leap and see for yourself. let me know if you want the link so you can catch it from the begining. reading a summary won't do it justice!

ok, i've embarrassed myself enough. bye lol

There's just something sexy about vampires...

True Blood is the ish...
That show is amazing, I love everything about. Tara and Sam was hot lastnight.

I will try my best to be brief and to the point.... the show has no real racist/racial overtones or muck to wade through. The races mingle freely and there is plenty of IR swirling going on, which says a lot for Louisiana! Mix that with some sexy supernaturals (sups)& humans, crazy and unexpected plot twists, **steamy** sex scenes, and some very witty dialogue- and voila! You have True Blood!

Did I mention that the males, even crazy Franklin, are HOTT!!! Man, oh man....

Anybody mis Franklin?? lol

I love this show, but I hear you Chris. This season started off bloody and more violent than any other season. I seriously considered to stop watching the show, but they toned it down last week but I haven't see last night's episode. The draw to the show is just how wacky and out of this world this one little town in Louisiana is. Like someone else said, there's Vamps, Wares, Shifters, Necromancers, Fairies, Christian fundamentalist. The residents of Bon Temps is like no other town you've seen before.

True Blood is one of my favorite shows. I don't subscribe to premium channels, so I catch up on Netflix. I haven't seen this season yet, so I am eager to catch up on all the "controversy".

I have always liked "vampire" stuff, so this show fits in. Lafayette is worth the price of admission alone (my favorite non-vamp on the show). Tara used to get on my nerves the first season, but her character has gotten less shrill and has gotten more depth than just Sookie's BFF. She has her own stories independent of Sookie now. And can I just say the men are SMOKING HOT!

I have never watched it. Don't watch t.v, but this sounds too good to pass up.

Monique, your complaint about the show lacking a voodoo connection shows you haven't been watching the past few episodes. During these most recent epis, Lafayette and his boyfriend Jesus discover that both of them are descended from practitioners of the black arts in one form or another.

True Blood is awesome. I NEVER miss a show. NEVER.
1. Alexander Skarsgard is the sexiest creature to ever draw breath, hands down.
2. How often do you see a BW being shown in relationships where she is desired by WM on tv?
3. The books are great, and the show is like an alternate version of them.
4. Did I mention how HOT Alexander Skarsgard is?
5. I totally like to get my perv on, eyeballing The Sexy Swede (Alexander Skarsgard).

It's a lot more than just sex. Not only are there vampires, there's werewolves, shape shifters, (there was some crazy lady who turned into a beast and got everybody to go crazy) and now there's people who turn into panthers and we just found out the main character is half fairy. I can tell you this without ruining it for you:
The premise is that after thousands of years, they've made some synthetic blood (called True Blood) and vampires are trying to fit into normal society. Sure, that's not usually the topic in the forefront on the show, but that's where the name comes from. It was nice to see a show come out that rivaled Twilight but was definitely not for children. There's novels as well, if you'd prefer to read them- but we all know books are always better than movies/tv shows.
One of the main characters is Tara, one of the few black people in this backwoods town, which means that most of her love interests tend to be white. It's really more about the struggles that the people in the show have with everything in their lives- there's two human/vamp relationships going on (which is kinda like an IR relationship except the hatred is multiplied tenfold) and it's drama. For those who don't have it in their lives, it fills the quota without making you feel dumb for watching a dummy do stupid stuff in their real lives.

How can you people not like this show... ? It has drama, comedy, crazy, sex, violence, sex, shapeshifters, vampires, sex, fairies, gay .. and did I say sex... now.. I have been watching from China no less... for all three seasons.. and I am a true blood.. fan.. mind you.. it started with the vampire romance books that I have read for years.. and now all of a sudden they took these books and went visual with them.. from Vampire diairies, twilight to true blood... all in all .. it is just pure entertainment... if your looking for logic and truth.. nay.. not here.. but if your just looking for crazy, entertaining story with a little humor sometimes.. and a little hottness at other times... this is the show to watch... I never read too deep into it.. i just watch it... as for interracial relationships... they have it all.. even inter-species relationships... and the black chick.. kind of gets on my nerves.. but.. Lafayette.. he is the best.. and I do think they are going to add a little voodoo.. in there after the last episode.... so.. download some episodes.. and check it out.. anyway... the black woman..(can remember her name) that plays Lafayette's mother... i loove her...

I've watched true blood from the first season. I enjoy movies/series that can create alterante realities and tell interesting stories that are logical given that particualr reality. It's somewhat sci-fi. It asks you to really suspend reality. I mean how does a vampire get a hard on? But I think the writing and overall story line with it's twists and truns and intrigue gives you enough "sustanence" that you go along for the ride knowing it's really over-the-top. I think True Blood does that well.

My only gripe about True Blood is that it does not have any real discussion or depiction of vodun (commonly known as voodoo) in it. It has two african-american characters and it is set in louisiana and no mention of Marie Louveau, no mention of vodun rituals or any African sprirital practices. That I find very suspect becuse it once again marginalizes the AA characters as appendages in this mystical, supernatural world with nothing to contribute to the dynamic or its development.
Can't tara and layfeyette (who is brilliant) have some old gandmother spirit walking with them to protect them from some of this vampire madness? and I'm sorry but sookie ain't that cute and can sometimes be a little dense.

I don't own a TV, but I used to watch it online. It was good in the 1st season, but its just pathetically over sexed and boring now. Also, knowing more about the main actors overly sensationalized private life (can't escape it on even Hufington post) kinda kills any interest I have about their acting.

ps. Eric Northman is sooooo NOT hot, funny how hollywood have to constantly make up fictional hotness for people. True Blood and that $hitty Twilight crap killed any interest I ever had for Vampire movies.

You can't just go by what happened between Tara and Sam on last night's episode to judge/not judge the show. It's three seasons deep and certainly Tara and her relationship with Sam, as well as relationships with others on the show is more than taking out "148 years of STRUGGLE" on the YT man LOL. Basically "True Blood" is a soap opera; just as over the top and melodramatic but with nudity, crazy sex scenes, graphic violence, strong language, vamps, shapeshifters, werewolves, conservatives, southerners, gays, democrats, repubs, Greek god worshippers, so on and so forth. I'd suggest racialicious.com for 'summaries' if you're interested. They do roundtables for the show and are pretty thorough. It's not just a two-layer cake of melodrama; it goes a little deeper and has some pretty great acting via Nelsan Ellis, Rutina Wesley, Alexander Skarsgard, et al.

Ummm......Eric Northman. Nuff' said!!!
He is ridiculously HOT!