The melodrama. With True Blood, HBO executives have taken this genre that appeals to sexually depraved groups of easily entertained fruitcakes and put a more mature twist on it in order to appeal to a more pretentious sexually depraved group of easily entertained fruitcakes.
When I say "more mature twist" I mean killing characters and bringing them back to life with no explanation and randomly splicing in scenes of other people having sex. True Blood is softcore pornography badly disguised as coherent television. The basic formal for the show goes like this: INTRO - SEX - SOMETHING COMPLETELY UNRELATED TO INTRO - SEX - CONCLUSION THAT RESOLVES NOTHING - SEX - SEX.
The abundance of sex scene are there in order to appeal to a select group of people who believe that they can think vampires are cool yet still have any sort of sex life at the same time. Sorry nerds, but that's having your cake and eating that, the tray it came on, and the stripper inside too.
True Blood irresponsibly leads its viewers to believe that they are somehow sexually enlightened for watching such poor storytelling involving gay vampires. In reality, if you go up to a normal person and start talking about the mating patterns of vampires, wearwolves, and other things that don't exist, it's going to be a long, uphill battle to get them to even consider having sex with you.
This show also tries to trick their viewers into thinking they're watching something that's somehow socially conscious by trying to promote itself as an allegory for gay discrimination. But really, all they are doing is absentmindedly spewing off random references to homosexuality in order to legitimize their uninspired method of creating trash television. If any True Blood viewer can explain, without drooling on themselves, to me exactly how this show is a metaphor for specifically gay discrimination (and not any other type of minority/sect), please do so, but try to do it without a stake and garlic in your hand.
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