In the not-too-distant future, vampires have come out of the coffin. Thanks to the invention of mass-produced synthetic blood, vampires no longer need humans for their fix and can walk freely, if not yet comfortably, among their living counterparts \u2013 though they can still come out only at night.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, in the backwoods Louisiana town of Bon Temps, Sookie Stackhouse works as a waitress at the down-home bar Merlotte\u2019s. Though outwardly normal, she has unusual qualities of her own: Sookie can read minds, which complicates her world in endless ways. But Sookie\u2019s life becomes a lot more interesting when Merlotte\u2019s gets its first vampire patron \u2013 the 173-year-old Bill Compton \u2013 and the two outsiders are immediately drawn to each other.<\/p>\n
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Mixing romance, suspense, mystery and humor, the new HBO series stars Anna Paquin (the \u201cX-Men\u201d films; Academy Award\u00ae-winner for \u201cThe Piano\u201d) as Sookie and Stephen Moyer (\u201cThe Starter Wife,\u201d \u201c88 Minutes\u201d) as Bill, the series is created and executive produced by Alan Ball (creator of the Emmy\u00ae-winning HBO series \u201cSix Feet Under\u201d), who also wrote the first three episodes and directs two episodes of the show, which is based on the popular Sookie Stackhouse novels of Charlaine Harris.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
In the not-too-distant future, vampires have come out of the coffin. Thanks to the invention of mass-produced synthetic blood, vampires no longer need humans for their fix and can walk freely, if not yet comfortably, among their living counterparts \u2013 though they can still come out only at night.\u00a0 Meanwhile, in the backwoods Louisiana town<\/p>\n