The intriguing trigger was enabling them to finally come out of hiding thanks to a synthetic liquid that takes the place of human blood. That’s a shame, since the series - originally adapted by Alan Ball from the Sookie Stackhouse novels - once felt fresh and bracing, tackling small-mindedness toward a mysterious and misunderstood minority (vampires) and their uneasy relationship with the human world. Featuring sweeping, mythologically dense arcs in earlier campaigns, the first two episodes here appear to circle back toward a somewhat simpler vision, but by now the show has drifted so far from its metaphorical foundation that it’s fallen into an inescapable hole, mutating into nothing more than a mild distraction. People can debate when “ True Blood’s” creative rigor mortis officially set in - somewhere during that stretch when the show began piling one supernatural creature upon another (werewolves and witches and faeries, oh my!) - but suffice it to say this once-significant and hugely lucrative HBO series limps into its seventh and final season looking pretty anemic.
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