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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