Alan Ball, director and creator of the popular series Six Feet Under, brings life back to HBO with season two of the blood- and sex-infused True Blood.
True Blood is centered on the adventures of Sookie Stackhouse (Anna Paquin), a telepathic waitress who lives in the fictional small town of Bon Temps, La. The world in which she lives is one where vampires and humans publicly coexist because of the recent invention of synthetic blood. After the developments of season one: Sookie's romance with 173-year-old vampire Bill Compton (Stephen Moyer), the discovery that there is a mass murderer on the loose killing anyone who sleeps with vampires, and an ongoing display of graphic sex and violence, viewers did not think True Blood could get any weirder. For the most part, the fans drawn to season one either indulged in the series to get their fix of the current vampire craze or simply could not resist watching such intensely pornographic sex and murder scenes.
Although viewers of True Blood's first season may have considered it a guilty pleasure, the popularity of the show has significantly increased this season. In season one, Ball laid on very thick plotlines in which the struggle for equality between vampires and humans served as an obvious metaphor for inequality among minorities such as blacks and gays. These issues, however, are obviously not new to the adult fan base, causing viewers to not be entirely intrigued by the somewhat typical themes. The only reason it actually worked was because it dealt with vampires - and extremely good-looking ones at that. Ball's cast is unusually attractive, as it boasts the faces and talents of Anna Paquin, Stephen Moyer, Alexander Skarsg
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