Light in the end of a tunnel

Throughout the years, people have time and time again been fascinated with vampires. The eternal charm of creations similar to Bram Stoker’s Dracula, F.W. Murnau’s Nosferatu, and factual stories pertaining to Vlad the Impaler, as well as recent successes of Stephanie Meyer’s Twilight saga, Anne Rice’s Vampire Lestat classic, and flicks varying from Fright Night to From Dusk ‘Til Dawn, are testaments to the status of vampires in modern day times.

Perhaps it’s due to the baffling nature of these fabled beings. Or possibly it’s because of the brooding conflict they possess, being active for all of eternity but being removed of life since their transformation. Or perhaps it’s due to the reason that vampires represent things that we all dreamt of at some point: perputal life, hypnosis, and other kinds of abilities.

At any rate, it cannot be denied that vampires have always been, and will always be, a great element of general hottest TV program from Alan Ball – best known as the prized-winning novelist and director of modern day classics like American Beauty and Six Feet Under – tries to exploit the viewers’ attraction with vampires even further, albeit, presenting the popular legend under an absoulute new light.

For a start, vampires are portrayed as a wronged lot. They are not much predators as they are preys. Vampires, in the eyes of True Blood, are envoys of marginals in the actual world. Having surfacing in the open to “be normal” with the population, vampires are regarded with fear by ordinary persons. And as with each situation of bigotry, panic leads to abhorrence, and loathing causes all forms of trouble.

Secondly, forget about the Angel-Buffy, Edward-Bella, and even the Dracula-Mina archetypical connection. The drama amid the program’s female lead, Sookie Stackhouse – played by Anna Paquin – and the show’s local vampire, Bill Compton – played by Stephen Moyer – is truly unique. She can understand mentalities. His brain can’t be understood. She considers him amusing because of this. He finds her different due to her abilities. All of these mixed initiates a romance that can be as ageless as the most memorable pairings in film and literature.

True Blood is not for children, with gratuitous handling of violence, sex and nudity to cover the picture of an ugly world once the apparently naпve New Orleans city is engulfed by the darkness of the night. Played on HBO, True Blood promises a TV encounter like no other.