True Blood Reviews

This page contains reviews for the television show entitled True Blood. The series centers around the courtship of a human waitress (Anna Paquin) and a 173-year-old vampire (Stephen Moyer). The series debuted on September 7, 2008 on HBO. Six Feet Under creator Alan Ball produced the pilot.

"Ball decided to take Charlaine Harris’ light, fun series of Southern Vampire Mysteries and turn it into a heavy-handed political fable with vampires, recently rendered "safe" by the creation of the synthetic Tru Blood as stand-ins for the disenfranchised."—Mary McNamara of the Los Angeles TimesLos Angeles Times: True Blood Feels Drained (September 5, 2008)

"Vampires have a fascinating jumble of roles here: They are pariahs, junkies and predators, but mostly they seem like disaffected rock stars..."— Geoff Boucher of the Los Angeles TimesLos Angeles Times: True Blood HBO's Next Great Tribe (August 5, 2008)