True Blood Season 5: Still A Hit

By Arielle Edwards on July 4, 2012

True Blood, Photo courtesy of Keith McDuffee

The hot television series, True Blood, is now on its fifth season and the ratings are climbing up the charts. Based on the novels by Charlaine Harris, this series focuses on the co-existance of humans with vampires in Bon Temps, Louisiana. Centering around the on-goings of none other than heroin, Sookie Stackhouse,  a waitress at a local bar who seems to possess some telepathic abilities.

As the television series moves on, director Alan Ball decided to lead the series in a new direction, away from the script of the novels. Although the characters maintain the same personalities as they do in the books, some things are just not the same.

At first, this irritated me. Alan Ball takes something that was already so great and turns it into something…well…different. But, as the series played out, it just kept getting better. I could not miss an episode! Although I’m still disappointed in not being able to see the series play out exactly as it did in the books, it is still an awesome series that I would recommend to anyone.

Full of fanging and banging, this is not a show meant for children or the ill-fated. As synthetic blood is introduced into this fictional universe, vampires come out of hiding and into the proverbial daylight. Other supernatural creatures are also introduced as the series moves along. Creatures such as werewolves, shape shifters, and fairies are brought into the plot.

Although fictional, Ball does a wonderful job in making the viewers seem as though the story could actually happen. With fangs sharp as cutting knives, actors Stephen Moyer and Alexander Skarsgard jump into character as two vampires feigning for Sookie’s love and affection.

Claiming HBO’s most watched series since The Sopranos, True Blood was also named the eight highest rated show for the first ten years of IMDb.com.

To learn more about the television series, visit IMDb.com or HBO.

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