A Taste For True Blood

All through the years, individuals have always been enthralled with vampires. The timeless appeal of works similar to Bram Stoker’s Dracula, F.W. Murnau’s Nosferatu, and realistic tales regarding Vlad the Impaler, in addition to the current accomplishments of Stephanie Meyer’s Twilight saga, Anne Rice’s Vampire Lestat epic, and flicks ranging from Fright Night to From Dusk ‘Til Dawn, are evidences to the status of vampires in modern day times.

Maybe it’s due to the mysterious nature of these fabled creatures. Or possibly it’s because of the dark divergence they have, being alive for all of eternity but being removed of life since their transformation. Or maybe it’s due to the reason that vampires represent matters that we all imagined of at some instance: immortality, hypnosis, and other kinds of abilities.

Anyhow, it cannot be denied that vampires have forever been, and will forever be, a big element of popular hottest TV series from Alan Ball – well known as the prized-winning novelist and director of contemporary classics like American Beauty and Six Feet Under – tries to milk the public’s enthrallment with vampires even further, notwithstanding, presenting the famous legend under a whole new light.

For a start, vampires are presented as a mistreated bunch. They are not much killers as they are preys. Vampires, in the eyes of True Blood, are representatives of marginals in the actual world. Having come out in the open to “be normal” with the population, vampires are regarded with terror by ordinary people. And as with each case of prejudice, panic causes hatred, and abhorrence leads to all forms of trouble.

And then, forget about the Angel-Buffy, Edward-Bella, and even the Dracula-Mina conventional relationship. The relationship amid the program’s heroine, Sookie Stackhouse – played by Anna Paquin – and the program’s local vampire, Bill Compton – portrayed by Stephen Moyer – is actually extraordinary. She can understand minds. His mind can’t be understood. She considers him witty due to this. He finds her different due to her faculties. All of these combined leads to a story that can be as ageless as the most memorable combinations in movie and literature.

True Blood is not for children, with gratuitous usage of violence, sex and bareness to cover the image of a hideous world once the apparently innocent New Orleans town is embraced by the shade of the night. Played on HBO, True Blood guaranteed a TV encounter like no other.