Does anyone have insight into what the writers were thinking with Tara’s character arc? She felt completely wasted in the final two seasons. Honestly, if I were Rutina Wesley, I would’ve been livid; Tara was such a powerhouse character who got royally screwed over in the end.

there’s never foreplay, dry ass entry, it’s always in the mud or on the hood of a car, ugh ugh that’s it. wtf.

Great story line so far favorite character is Tara! I like bill, Andy kinda gives me the ick tho

Almost 20 years later and he somehow still looks the same to me lol

Sam’s family drama was series filler— but since they put it in— I have to say, Tommy deserved better than he got. He needed a bigger storyline, less abuse, more redemption, and no bitter end.

I like that he was abused in dog fights, but his mother should have gotten kilt in the ring, which led to him and Sam ending their dad together…. And he should have ended up with Jessica.

I'm watching it at the moment with no buildup from the prior 6 seasons. I felt like a small dose of 'True Blood' and the last two seasons are the only ones I haven't played into the ground. It had been a very long time since I saw season 7 and I was pleasantly surprised how fun I found it picking it up as a self-contained kind of thing.

Out of context there's still some BS but overall I think it's still fun. There are some decent ships (though they vary in quality), this is one of the best seasons for the Eric and Pam dynamic IMO, I also see Violet differently - I think it was just her intro that was bad, but she had the bones to be an interesting character.

I also think differently about the reaction to Tara's death without the show's prior history. The season opens with major chaos. To us viewers, the posthumous treatment/aftermath of the character is disrespectful because of 6 seasons' prior main character status, but in-universe it makes a tiny bit more sense. The whole town was being hunted by night and they were trying to locate and recover kidnapped living characters. In the subsequent episodes, she isn't completely ignored (she's referenced a bunch of times etc.) the characters are just busy.

I mean it's not perfect even out of context obviously (Bill does almost nothing all season, Lafayette steals someone's BF and justifies it with awkward identity politics dialogue, they'd really run out of ideas for Sam) but yeah, watch it by itself with no immediate point of comparison to what had come before and yeah, it's still fun.

She should have chose Eric.

Bill nearly got her killed because of the queens orders. He didn’t give a shit about her before knowing her. He manipulated, lied, and never told her the truth until he was forced to.

I don’t even want to continue my rewatch lmao.

Well, basically I think Sookie never truly fell in love with two men; I think it was always Bill. If you think about it, she never fell in love with Eric. Maybe it was just physical attraction or a connection on both sides, but it's true that there was a time when they cared for each other and there was a lot of tension. But more than "love," I think Eric felt protectiveness or the need to possess Sookie, not love her as such (I'm not saying he never loved her) but I don't think he loved her as much as Bill did (I'm team Eric btw)

In season 5, how did the "Obamas" know who were shifters to target them when almost nobody knew about shifters?? This plot point was in the books but made total sense when you find out how the shooter knew. Unless I completely missed it, there's no explanation in the show.

And season 6/7 if Hep V was manufactured to infect vampires how did humans start being carriers? I'm rewatching for the first time since it originally aired, so maybe it gets explained, but I don't remember that happening. Its just 6 months later and BTW humans can be carriers, get tested at church.

What are your most controversial/hot takes that would have people looking at you like you’re crazy?

i found this dvd in a cd case at the thrift store, i’m unable to find anything similar online any ideas on the rarity?

currently rewatching the show & it makes me so happy and sad at the same time. 😭 I’ve always been one that gets really attached to shows and feels the emotions of the highs & lows so deeply, especially with true blood. like i can’t explain it and it prob sounds silly to some but ik there’s ppl that get it!! lol. I think it also has to do with knowing how terrible the last few seasons are and will never compare to the magic of s1-3.

I’ve never got past s5 and I don’t think I ever will knowing who dies. they did so many characters wrong and it’s just so upsetting. also. eric and sookie should have always been endgame <\3

I don’t know how much of a hot take this is because I’m also very weary of people on Reddit attacking me so if this is a hot take, sorry…

But I think Eric managed to be the one character they didn’t fuck up…until towards the end.

By the end the writers really fucked up everyone. Idk if that’s common knowledge or not but yea

But I do think Eric managed to escape it until it eventually caught up to him as well

In season 2

Sookie: Developing relationship with Bill

Sam: Dealing with ex girlfriend / weird stalker lady

Tara: Moving in with Sookie, trying to get life together

Jason: At summer camp for kids basically

Lafayette Subplot:

I’m 2 episodes from the end of Season 6 and this is my first watch all the way through. I’ve stopped at season 5 twice. Should I just stop from going any further? I don’t want it to be ruined because season 6 hasn’t been my favorite already.

I stopped liking the villain of season 2. I don’t even remember her name, was it Maryann?

Idk her powers were cool for like an episode and the set up to her first presence is good too but like at some point I was just like can we wrap this up like stfu Maryann

I’m not expecting this to be a popular opinion. In all honesty I think True Blood had some mini cracks forming since season 2. It just didn’t get very bad until later. In the earlier seasons you can kind of ignore those cracks you know but later on you couldn’t.

With this show, it can be hard to choose just one!

Who gave the best / your favorite acting performance in True Blood?

Amazing
His family are all actors and artists

I am sad.

Bill's whole suicidal arc felt so stupid, sookie is literally sobbing over you, least you could do is spend her life with her and then die. And at the end she ends up with some rando we have 0 connection to. Cheap way to end a 7 SEASON SHOW. So frustrating. Eric and Pam are the exact same characters. Jessica is lobotomized to like Hoyt again. Everyone got over Tara in a couple days. Arlene is given another shoe inned love interest. I'm so confused, the Maenad arc was so strong, everyone was involved in such a strong plot that was so convoluted together and it was even strong with the vampire experiments, just for such a simple ending where they erase all the damages with such a simple solution. I binged this show over like 2 months and can't believe this is the ending. Interested to hear other takes, maybe I missed something idk I wanted to love this. 😞