True Blood
Created by Alan Ball
Thanks to a Japanese scientist's invention of synthetic blood, vampires have progressed overnight from legendary monsters to fellow citizens. And while humans have been safely removed from the menu, many remain apprehensive about these creatures "coming out of the coffin." Religious leaders, government officials, and vampire fundamentalists around the world have chosen their sides. But in the small Louisiana town… From TMDB
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The series has an approval rating of 70% on the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes. The first season of True Blood received positive reviews, despite initial impressions being mixed. Linda Stasi of the New York Post wrote of the opening episodes: If HBO's new vampire show is any indication, there would still be countless deaths – especially among vampire hunters and the viewers who love them – because everyone would be dying of boredom. And so it is with HBO's new series from death-obsessed Alan Ball, creator of the legendary Six Feet Under, whose new show True Blood, won't so much make your blood run cold as it will leave you cold. Robert Bianco of USA Today concluded: Sexy, witty…
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60 of 266 · most liked firstI’m at the Rolling Stone office and there’s a bunch of covers on the wall including the awesome True Blood cover when the hbo show was very hot, and it’s such a cool cover. The three stars look naked, covered in fake blood. There was a period when the show was genuinely subversive and interesting…
positive · AI labelView post →I just keep bouncing from show to show. I've got Restless Streaming Syndrome. I woke up today like, "I should rewatch True Blood." I also started rewatching The Larry Sanders Show a couple days ago. Hey now!
neutral · AI labelView post →This game is going so well that the Arsenal commentators are talking about the HBO show True Blood
neutral · AI labelView post →Thinking for no reason about that time I filmed two documentary tie-ins for True Blood when the TV series launched & how, in the Rolling Stone interview a few weeks later, one of my statements was put word for word in the mouth of one of the stars – uncredited, of course, because that’s how it goes
neutral · AI labelView post →my thrifted DVD haul which includes: the complete series of Buffy First 2 seasons of SATC First 2 seasons of Glee King of Queens S1 True Blood S3 Will and Grace S1 Modern Family S1 America’s Next Top Model cycle 1 Mad Men S2 and 49 films …for right at $150. Go to the thrift store, people.
neutral · AI labelView post →True Blood went from a show Mr Trish and I watched and enjoyed together to something I knitted in front of alone, occasionally glancing at the screen when I heard Eric's voice.
neutral · AI labelView post →One of the funniest things in TV history was HBO being really surprised that True Blood was a huge hit. You could tell execs/PR were like, “people want to do interviews about the sexy vampire show?? Why? Ratings good… whyyy?” Lmao. It wasn’t just the bananas way he said “Sookie”
neutral · AI labelView post →Most gorgeous person from a TV show 📺 IMO… Deborah Ann Woll from ‘True Blood’ 🖤
neutral · AI labelView post →Putting on TRUE BLOOD and trying, once again, to use my psychic powers to simply remove Sookie from this show
negative · AI labelView post →Share a TV show you love featuring vampires other than Buffy the Vampire Slayer. 📺 My choice: True Blood 🩸
neutral · AI labelView post →Share a TV show you love featuring vampires other than Buffy the Vampire Slayer. My choice: True Blood 🩸
neutral · AI labelView post →And I also want the TV show that the True Blood opening credits actually fits
neutral · AI labelView post →One of my fav things from the True Blood HBO show was the 'twist' that Bill the Vampire was an absolute bad guy. Huh. Weeeeeeeeeeeird. You mean the CONFEDERATE SOLIDER WAS A BAD GUY
positive · AI labelView post →True Blood, Claws, The Good Wife and now, finally, her own show. Carrie Preston is all hits, no skips. Also, #Elsbeth uses “consent decree” to upend the way police procedurals usually function as copaganda.
neutral · AI labelView post →True Blood (TV Series 2008–2014).
neutral · AI labelView post →I've always said that HBO and the creators of True Blood really took a big swing putting the best scene the show would ever have in its pilot. www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Ff_...
positive · AI labelView post →#BreakingKindSongs #MusicChallenge June 7️⃣ - Song that is hard to admit you like or not your usual preference. Jace Everett ~ Bad Things [Not my usual cup of tea but I loved True Blood series and who can resist 🔥 vampires. Lol] youtu.be/sMPNjPpdjKU?...
positive · AI labelView post →I'm midway through True Blood for the first time ever and I don't understand why no one ever thought to tell me this is the worst show on earth and I would love it for that reason
positive · AI labelView post →Now that I’ve rewatched the emotional support cannibal show (Hannibal), the girls get REALLY weird in the woods show (Yellowjackets), and the codependent vampires show (IwtV), I think I’ll go for delightfully trashy and start rewatching True Blood.
positive · AI labelView post →Share a 2000s TV show you love. 📺 My choice: ‘True Blood’ 🖤
neutral · AI labelView post →The Japanese developing artificial blood is the catalyst for literally the whole True Blood series, so here’s hoping a bunch of vampires “come out of the coffin” now.
neutral · AI labelView post →okay so the thing about True Blood getting the tv show is that it’s such a shame because that’s like objectively her worst series. like come on, the stepsibling body whisperer romance is RIGHT THERE
neutral · AI labelView post →Band of Brothers Battlestar Galactica Bridgerton Deadwood A Discovery of Witches Domina Downton Abbey Flesh & Bone The Forsyte Saga Game of Thrones The Good Wife Mad Men M*A*S*H The Morning Show The Newsroom Rome Six Feet Under Sports Night True Blood The Tudors Versailles Victoria The West Wing
neutral · AI labelView post →Rick Riordan confirms that a series adaptation of ‘THE KANE CHRONICLES’ is in the works at Disney+ Riordan will develop it with Angela Robinson (‘Wednesday’, ‘D.E.B.S.’ and ‘True Blood’)
neutral · AI labelView post →The rollercoaster of good show, bad show, great show, war crime that happens over a True Blood rewatch is bonkers
neutral · AI labelView post →Have you listened to Afflicted yet? If you like: - Lovecraft Country - True Blood - hoodoo - an incredibly diverse cast You'll like Afflicted! Listen now:
neutral · AI labelView post →I was today years old when I learned that Nelsan Ellis (Lafayette in True Blood) was STRAIGHT?! And called out another actor for leaving the show when his character was going to be bisexual. Love him so much. RIP 💜
neutral · AI labelView post →Aw man was True Blood good? I just watched the first episode and it seemed pretty good. I didn't really watch new TV in the late 2000s except for that one show with Eddie Izzard and Minnie Driver, I was too busy burning through Buffy and Angel
positive · AI labelView post →True Blood (TV Series 2008–2014).
neutral · AI labelView post →Did you know there is an excellent Sexy Beast prequel series airing right now on Paramount+? Did you know Stephen Moyer from True Blood plays Ian McShane's terrifying character Teddy Bass? Did you know he wants to drown London in the blood of the rich? I wrote about it for @lukeoneil47.bsky.social
neutral · AI labelView post →True Blood is not a perfect show by any means but my god remember when people used to have sex on tv
positive · AI labelView post →This happens at least three times a season in True Blood, a show I will always love too much not to keep hate-watching.
neutral · AI labelView post →It's The Sopranos, but honorable mention to True Blood, which has the biggest quality gap between credits and actual show of all time bsky.app/profile/nick...
neutral · AI labelView post →Whoever said the Obamas never committed a crime never saw Season 5 of True Blood. trueblood.fandom.com/wiki/Obamas
neutral · AI labelView post →Thinking about rewatching the True Blood series 🩸
neutral · AI labelView post →Rewatching True Detective season 1 for the umpteenth time and it's just always time well spent it's like re-reading HHGTTG it's always worth it. And back to the HBO thing, they have just an insane cultural legacy. Just think of the shows. True Detective The Larry Sanders Show Chernobyl True Blood
neutral · AI labelView post →#Howl-A-Ween #MusicSky #MusicChallenge •TV/Movie horror theme• From my favorite vampire TV series "True Blood"🩸 Day 1️⃣5️⃣: Bad Things 🎶 by Jace Everett youtu.be/sMPNjPpdjKU?...
neutral · AI labelView post →I'm watching the True Blood series for the third time. I never get tired of hearing the opening song.
positive · AI labelView post →We’re watching True Blood for the first time. This show is so goddamn ridiculous. Is it an HBO show without a copious amount of sex?
neutral · AI labelView post →I just saw the trailer for the AMC Vampire Lestat series. Even if you lived through the True Blood years, I don't think you're gonna be prepared for how ferally horny this show is gonna be.
neutral · AI labelView post →“True Blood” was a show where you’d talk it up to someone until they watch an episode with you then after it was over they’d look at you like “THAT’S what you’re into?”
neutral · AI labelView post →Happy 17th anniversary to one of the best Vampire TV series of all time, the incredible "True Blood". 🖤🦇⚰️🩸🪦
positive · AI labelView post →So I’ve started watching a show again. True Blood. Yes, it’s a rewatch. But this is pretty great to me, it’s a small part of me coming back. I’ve missed her.
positive · AI labelView post →I often thought about what a show that actually matches the opening credits to True Blood would be like.
neutral · AI labelView post →12. True Blood. Although the show manages to be really fucking dull in spite of its schlocky pulp trappings, Lafayette never is. The show's MVP, and someone a lot of friends of mine in college saw themselves in. RIP Nelsan Ellis.
neutral · AI labelView post →Hot take, but Supernatural gets all the hype that Grimm RIGHTLY deserves. Yes, the CGI, is CGI’ing…but that’s what adds to its charm. It’s like True Blood, X-Files, and the new Sabrina series had a REALLY angry kid.
neutral · AI labelView post →I think everyone should consider taking the revelations of the Epstein files - how there are literally affluent cannibalistic vampires walking among us and juxtapose that with the 'True Blood' series. Just a suggestion...
neutral · AI labelView post →Every time I see gore in this show I think about how the flavor of the True Blood was apparently delightful, berries and orange I think?
neutral · AI labelView post →If you see this, post four of your favorite characters from four different series. #thewheeloftime #trueblood #theexpanse #threebodyproblem
neutral · AI labelView post →There's a new Dorkspawn episode out now and I took an opportunity to tangent about the *extremely* relevant show True Blood in relation to the end of Act 2 of Mass Effect 3. dorkspawn.carrd.co
neutral · AI labelView post →What’s a TV show intro you never skip? I’ll go first: True Blood (2008-2014) 📺🩸 #tvsky #hbo #trueblood
positive · AI labelView post →Share a guilty pleasure TV show you love. 📺 My choice: True Blood 🩸
positive · AI labelView post →another reason why True Blood is the goofiest fucking show of all time is the premise synthetic blood is invented and it becomes a drink for vampires rather than, you know, saving millions of lives right away the world would be changed MASSIVELY and IMMEDIATELY and True Blood is like vampires tho?
negative · AI labelView post →i forgot how much smoke True Blood has for evangelicals. i feel like nothing as openly anti-christian as this show is could ever get made in 2026
positive · AI labelView post →My (Trump voting) dad has gotten into watching True Blood. Looking forward to how this conversation is gonna go
neutral · AI labelView post →is there any great TV character who was done more wrong by their show than Tara in True Blood though like seriously. yeah that show puts everyone into a meat grinder but that last season shit was straight up disrespectful.
negative · AI labelView post →I should probably mention that my day job is writing and/or editing comics. I've worked on a lot stuff over the last 20+ years from Lucifer to Angel to True Blood to my own series, Ash & Thorn. This is my favorite cover from the series by Jill Thompson.
neutral · AI labelView post →UK coverage! “True Blood meets Eurovision” LOLLL www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio... Full series out now on BBC iPlayer! 🥳 #TheVampireLestat
neutral · AI labelView post →Wifey and I are rewatching True Blood for our date night. Nothing like a comfort show about hot sexy vampires to quell your grief. 🤣
positive · AI labelView post →Regardless of what you think of the show itself (It's so much goofy fun) the opening credits/music of True Blood is an all-timer.
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