Is anyone else totally addicted to the new HBO series True Blood?
I just started watching season one on-demand and have become completely hooked on the show.

Alan Ball does it again. You may remember his amazing work from Six Feet Under and American Beauty. Always putting something totally different out there in an oddly dark yet relatable fashion.

True Blood is a story about a fictional scenario where after the creation of synthetic blood made by a Japanese company, vampires come out of the closet to co exist with us now that they don't have to drink human blood anymore and are no longer a threat.

This "blood is the drug" scenerio creates a canvas for all sorts of mayhem.

Like the criminals known as "Drainers" who try to catch the vampires to sell their blood on the black market. Then there are the "Fangbangers" human women who prefer to have sex with Vampires. There is Fangtasia, the vampire bar hangout, and one of the main characters sex craved Jason who becomes addicted to true vampire blood and after overdosing on "v-juice" ends up with a true boner, e.g. an erection that wont go away so he has to go to the emergency room to have all the blood in his penis drained with a needle, twice..

Awesome. True Blood makes Twilight look like romper room.

Of course the heart of the story evolves around the love story between Sookie a telepathic waitress at a diner who hears everyone's thoughts and Bill Compton the vampire she falls in love with because he is the only one whose thoughts she can't hear. She feels more normal with him than anyone else.

When I first saw True Blood's pilot I was immediately drawn to the plot and the colorful cast of characters. It took me a couple episodes to get past the bad Louisiana accents, but once I took a better look I could see there were deeper questions and dilemmas being explored: Prejudice, discrimination, racism, existentialism, sex addiction, love, you name it.

Maybe I'm just a sucker for a good vampire romance but I can't wait for the season 2 premiere this Sunday night. If you are a fan of Alan Ball's previous work you will love sinking your teeth into this new series, no pun intended. Ok, maybe a little.