Sookie Stackhouse and company are back for another series of sexy supernatural shenanigans involving multiple conflicting vampire factions, Viking revenge schemes, and werewolf turf wars.
The previous season of True Blood ended with all kinds of melodramatic events: deaths and disappearances, oh my! This season hits the ground running on the follow-up to those developments, and keeps the action and the plot twists (and of course the gore and nudity) flowing at a fairly rapid rate for its entire twelve episode run.
True Blood is a show with a very specific formula: it's very over the top, sudsy stuff, with unashamedly histrionic writing that profits from the commitment of its charismatic and talented cast. It certainly won't appeal to all people, and I think there's a very real risk that at some point the soapy silliness is going to overwhelm the actors' efforts to keep it engaging, but for now it is still managing the balancing act of treating all these shenanigans with utter in-character seriousness.
If sexy vampires are your thing - and clearly it hits a chord with a lot of people - True Blood definitely delivers the product you're after in season three.
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