True Blood follows Sookie Stackhouse, a telepathic barmaid who finds comfort in the company of vampires since they have no brainwave activity for her to read. She and her brother Jason were raised by her grandmother after losing their parents in a flood and she tries to keep her telepathic ability a secret. Thanks largely in part to the creation of a Japanese-made synthetic blood called True Blood (where the series takes it name) vampires have made their existence known to the world. Sookie works at the bar 'Merlotte's' which is owned and operated by her boss Sam Merlotte who has a secret of his own.
First Aired: 2009-06-28 Bill and Eric work together to save Sookie from a mysterious creature. Jason has second thoughts about the Light of Day retreat anti-vampire agenda, but Sarah and Steve reassure him with flattery and promises. Sam leaves town after alienating everyone. Jessica heads over to Merlotte's, wher Hoyt falls for her. Tara is attracted to Eggs but is rudely interrupted by a fog.
First Aired: 2009-06-21 Sookie is forced to babysits Jessica, and deals with the romantic inconveniences the teen vampire's presence creates. At the Light of Day leadership conference, Jason makes an impression on its ambitious leaders, Steve and Sarah Newlin. Maryann casts her spell on Merlotte's patrons.
First Aired: 2009-06-14 Dallas vampires employ Sookie Stackhouse to use her telepathy to help find their lost companion. Sookie's relationship with Bill is tested when she learns the truth about his involvement in uncle's death. Jason spends money on a retreat to The Fellowship of the Sun.
First Aired: 2008-11-23 Sookie finds a connection to the murders in Bon Temps. Jason finds a new goal in life. Bill tempts fate, continuing to find a way to rescue Sookie from harm. Sam is troubled by a familiar face from his past.
First Aired: 2008-11-16 Bill and Eric come out of the tribune astonished over Jessica. Sookie and Sam visit a philandering police officer to get information behind the mystic visions. Jason and Amy ponder over their future. Lafayette decides to pay a state senator a visit on the campaign trail over his hypocracy. Sookie and Sam begin to get closer. Jason lands himself in trouble with the law.
First Aired: 2008-11-09 Sam divulges a secret to Sookie. Tara finally see's Miss Jeanette's true intentions. Sookie has visions that disturb her at an engagement party. Jason and Amy wonder what to do with Eddie. Bill is faced with a harsh punishment but the magister has other ideas involving a human Jessica.
First Aired: 2008-10-26 Sookie braces herself for more tragedy. Tara thinks of a new approach with dealing with her anger by adopting a similar therapy to Lettie Mae. Amy charms a crowd showing a darker side to Jason after the V juice runs out. Bill persuades Sookie into helping Eric using her gifts to catch criminals.
First Aired: 2008-10-19 Bill gets into action after he learns of Sookies painful past. Jason makes a connection with Amy in Fangtasia searching for V juice. A trio of mysterious red necks come for their old friend Bill seeking justice against vampires.
First Aired: 2008-10-12 Numbed by tragedy, Sookie looks for refuge from the cacophony of her friends’ and neighbors’ inner voices. After lashing out at his sister and decking Andy, Jason wrestles with withdrawal symptoms from his V juice habit. Tara resists the overtures of her mother Lettie Mae (Adina Porter), who’s trying to rid herself of a demon and needs her daughter’s help. Sam and Tara make a connection in their mutual search for “something real.â€
First Aired: 2008-10-05 Bill is welcomed to speak about his previous life as a Confederate soldier while at the Descendants of the Glorious Dead meeting. One member shows Bill a tintype picture of the Compton family, causing more questions. Meanwhile, Sam, Sookie, Tara and Jason are all at the meeting too. Sookie deals with losing someone who she was close to, and Tara is noticed by Jason while high on vampire blood.
First Aired: 2008-09-28 When a barmaid at Merlotte's is found murdered, Jason becomes the lead suspect. Later, Bill introduces Sookie to Fangoria, the biggest vampire bar in Shreveport, and to Eric, the oldest vampire.
First Aired: 2008-09-21 Tara heads to LaFayette in order to relax. Dawn returns home to see if Jason is still tied up. Meanwhile, Sookie meets some of Bill's friends.
First Aired: 2008-09-14 Sookie believes that Bill is the one murdering the people who almost took her life. Meanwhile, Tara must cope with family issues; and a new church threatens the vampire world.
First Aired: 2008-09-07 One random night while Sookie is working the night shift at her local bar, a mysterious man walks in. Immediately she knows something is different about him, because she cannot get any sort of mental reading off him. But when he orders blood, Sookie realizes that she has finally met her first vampire.