Watching the First, Middle & Last Episode of TRUE BLOOD | First Time Watching (REACTION) 

the fact that's the only eric you've seen....i'm crying lmao

At the time True Blood came out, Twilight was huge, Vampire Diaries was on TV and vampires were firmly in the teen melodrama genre. With this show (airing on HBO) they wanted to put the sex back in vampires and reclaim the genre for adults again.

Sookie is 25 and still a virgin because she can read minds and so far everyone she has dated was weird in his head, so she needs someone that she can't read. The series is really good and starts out being BETTER than the books, but ends up just weird and strays off the plot entirely, which is a shame because some really fun things happen later in the series.

Getting to enjoy the finale without the downhill travesty that was the last half of this show was probably a blessing. I, myself, was happy to see Bill go by the end. Lol.

The accent René is doing in the first episode is Cajun. It's kind of like a mix of southern and French. The actor does an okay job of portraying it, but a lot of the other southern accents are way over the top. I live about an hour from where the fictional town of Bon Temps would be located. Nobody talks like that. 🤣

The entire series takes place over only about 2 years. It's crazy when you watch all of it and realize how much happened in those two years.

First) I love True Blood, I love that you are doing the First, Middle, Last for it! Second) You really should try doing Sons of Anarchy or Hannibal next. Third) Bit of fun fact; Anna Paquin (Sookie) and Stephen Moyer (Bill) met and fell in love on the show, got married and have two kids.

Huh, the last episode is better than I remembered. The show got real bogged down and annoyed me at many points, but maybe doing beginning, middle, end gives you a better slice of what it offered.

I HIGHLY recommend watching S2:E8- "Timebomb". It is essential viewing. The next episode, "I Will Rise Up", is also well worth a watch. Great world & character building

Vampirism has always been a metaphor for marginalization, but the show (and books) directly link it with being queer. Coming out of the "closet" becomes "coffin", a blood borne illness targets the community and their sexual partners (Hep-V in the show, Sino-AIDS in the books), they have similar civil rights issues, etc. Plus, vampires are naturally very fluid sexuality and gender-wise by nature. Once you reach a certain age, you could give fuck all about labels or the petty ways humans see you. Season 2 is widely acknowledged as the best season. Season 4 is my personal favorite, even if Jason goes through some truly horrendous things in it. There's at least one character who experiences horrific trauma each season. I'm not a huge fan of the last few seasons of the show, but they are better than the books. In fact, the final novel is so unforgivably bad, I had a conspiracy theory for a while that Charlaine Harris wrote us an ending that we all would hate so much that we wouldn't want her to continue the series. That way, she could move on to something else. There are 14 books and 3 novellas in the series, so it's hardly surprising she'd want to move on to something new.

There's a lot of great twists and turns in this show, it just keeps you guessin as well as constantly entertained.

True Blood changed the shape of television. It was the first huge show of its kind, it defined HBO's new direction of highly produced tv with shorter season arcs, and is a huge part of the reason television looks the way it does today. I never really liked the final episode, I think Bill should have found a way to allow himself to pass on without making Sookie do it. But I was glad she chose to keep her light. But the main thing I don't like is Jessica and Hoyt. They're a couple for a while in earlier seasons, they just got back together here before this episode. And I don't like Hoyt at all, I think he's a small town "nice guy" and Jess is better off with no one (or with Jason). Instead of the random Sookie lookalike that just showed up a few episodes ago, lol.

This show had a lot of potential and, for me, never completely met that potential. It wasn't afraid to get into hard conversations, but didn't always know how to complete the conversations it started. And while some characters, like Jason, got interesting arcs, others, like Tara (who was also my favorite) never were able to shine the way they shoud have. They did also introduce a few too many kinds of supernatural creatures in my mind (though I understand this was an issue with the books as well, and is kind of hard to get away from in this genre.) However, I did used to watch it with friends as it was coming out, so it has a special place in my heart, and I respect them for never being afraid to try new plotlines.

Fun fact - the actor playing Mack Rattray in episode 1 (James Parks) was also Tector Gorch in the Bad Eggs episode of Buffy.

Here we go! I really enjoyed True Blood. Instead of a standard teen drama, it's a more adult and serious supernatural series, with excellent characters throughout, a rocking intro song that gets stuck in my head for weeks, and its own unique take on vampire lore. Also, having vampires of all different ages who are prominent characters is interesting. It is definitely high on the sex-o-meter, though, LOL. I love the first/middle/last intro to shows. It's fun and different from other reactors. Tara is a gem.

Charlaine Harris is honestly a fantastic author, The Sookie Stackhouse series, Midnight, Texas (set in the same world) AND the Gunnie Rose series (Alternate history with magic, MC is a badass gun-for-hire). I haven't yet read any of the Aurora Teargarden books but I'm betting they're good too

I think True Blood is a perfect candidate for first, middle, last. Man, what a middle episode though. The fact that was your first introduction to Eric had me laughing so hard. I think I stopped watching after season 4 so it was interesting to see how it all ended. Great reaction as always.

I’m so glad I found someone who loves tara as much as I did. She was the spotlight for me too. Hate what the writers have done to/with her character though. Also have to mention that you have great analysis that do make me think more about the writing of the show and the interesting concepts/aspects that they explore, I enjoy hearing your predictions and talking about the informations you can gather just by watching 3 episodes of a show

Oh boy…Tyler, you’re too wholesome for True Blood 😂

I don't know why, I've been watching for a few months, but THIS episode is having me go back and catch up on videos of yours that I have missed. I think I'm a fan.

I was laughing went you went all cringe when Sam was holding and thinking about how much he wanted Sookie. This show has so much great funny to it though really as you go along.

Yeeesss!! I clicked so fast!! ❤ This series is like a guilty pleasure of mine xD is so good and SO bad at times it makes it even better for the cringe moments 🤣🤣 Personally I really enjoy the "first, middle, last" videos you make, watching you try to figure out WTH happened in between (which you were spot on for most of it btw). I think it speaks highly of a show that you can really so invested on a character's arc just by watching bits of their story. Tara's death is honestly so bad I'm glad you didn't get to see it, they truly robbed us of a decent finale for her 😢.

True Blood is a must to watch fully, just like Buffy. I feel a very accurate description of it is The Game of Thrones of vampire shows.

You know this show actually gets the deep south pretty accurate, when you go mixing in vampires and Jesus it's a hoot to watch edit: The weird accent is Acadian, aka Cajun. These people speak French that's a different dialect than France or Quebec. His people being from Acadia up in Canada, left out of that area and ended up down in Louisiana. Some fascinating history if you get curious to look it up.

The thing with this show is its never slow, where some shows like Buffy definitely can be there's always a lot of big fun things happening. I still love Buffy though its also great, just two different vampire shows is all.

In the first season Sookie is 25, just still rather inexperienced because the whole mind reading thing has made it difficult for her to actually interact with guys and it not go to shit. Ergo how she ends up with vampires/supernatural figures who are harder to read. This show plays with a lot of American South tropes, which is usually underrepresented in vampire media. Rene in the first season is going for a creole accent, which is a combined kind of French/southern/Haitian thing pretty central to Louisiana/New Orleans area. The whole SA thing with Jason in the 4th season, is a....weird inbreeding were pantger plotline. And Eric is normally a very older, dominant viking vampire and then he got his memory erased and turned into a sweet little puppy dog really 😂 By the last season he is back up 'himself. And the meaning behind Bill saying her killing him would mean she could be done with vampires - is that vampires are very attracted to fairies. Drinking their blood can lead to them feeling stronger being able to be walk in daylight for short amounts of time. And it's where her mind reading power comes from. So he thinks if she gives up the last of her fae power, she'll be human and not get dragged into as much supernatural chaos.

Damn, I did not know how true blood ended...i wasn't expecting to cry

Late to the party but wanted to find time to enfage in your reaction fully. It was definitely an intense show and I think the 3 episodes fairly represent the complexity of it, while also missing some of the sillier subplots that caused a few people to switch off. But yes, very sexualised and gory, but hilarious and thought provoking too. Thanks for the commentary!

Yes when vampires in this series die the explode in a big goopy mess. Not ash. Lol

To many people hated the last season, but that ending to me it’s just a beautiful ending to the story.

Sookie is an old, somewhat rare but traditional in the South, nickname for Susannah. Just. FYI.

you HAVE to do an video on Six Feet Under its from the same creator of true blood and you truly don't need to watch the whole series to cry your eyes out during the last sequence 😊

Omg I'm so excited for this video. This show is so crazy 😂

This show is based on the Sookie Stackhouse aka Southern Vampire series of mystery books by Charlaine Harris.. There is a whodunit storyline in every book. The first book came out in 2001, and _Twilight_ came out in 2005.

What a splendid idea! I loved true blood! And you British even better lol greetings from Chester

The Goderic episode (season 2 "I Will Rise Up") is some of the best TV to come out of that era. It's worth a watch if you're picking some choice episodes from the series to explore.

Sookie had so many love interests and in the end she ends up with someone that we only see the back of his head! Probably only part I didn’t love about the finale.

Silver is also sometimes included in vampire lore yes.

So excited for this! Clicked on the video the second I saw it

True Blood had a hold over folks similar to Lost or Game of Thrones. Its an interesting watch, but for a youtuber, it would be an editing nightmare because of the sex and blood everywhere. and the gore. and the disturbing situations. #JusticeForTaraSheWasRobbed

Unfortunately the show is actually very bad on race and treated Tara and Lafayette terribly in the last few seasons. Honestly it felt personal and i ended up writing about it for my podcast Nerdgasm Noire. I still think very fondly of the show, however and i have an unopened bottle of true blood on a bookshelf.

Best Vampire series since Buffy. Doesn’t beat Buffy mind.

My favorite vampire shows are True Blood, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Interview With The Vampire soon to be airing its 2nd season and Van Helsing tv show. Next on the list are Angel, The Vampire Diaries and The Originals and Tooth Pari. All great shows, but the first four listed are my favorites as well as I think some of the best Vampire shows I've ever seen. I'd say True Blood, Van Helsing, and Interview with the Vampire are the most realistic as far as imagining vampires actually existing, which just makes it that much more fantastic.

lol now I wanna see you watch the whole show 😂

The 22 episode format was originally intended for network television to fill a 9-month time slot for the sake of ad sales. Then networks use the summer to start production for the next year. So they had to fill out 22 episodes with SOMETHING..usually filler.

I always look forward to your Buffy reactions, and I would certainly watch a reation to the whole True Blood series.

The books and the show are set in that area of the US where European, African, Caribbean Island, and Native American mythologies collide...and are all real. A different take on the concept was done in _American Gods_ .

I’m commenting without watching the video first but I just wanna say I absolutely love this show. The final season and final episode itself are not good for the most part but there is still some good stuff. I highly enjoyed seasons 1-6 though. Season 3 might be the peak of the show.

Sometimes, when you have time, try to binge this show and let people know what's up because too many people dont know about this show.

Going to love it - Stays much more true to traditional depictions of vampires

Sadly, there is people who say that shit out loud

I'm so excited to see you checking this out. The first three seasons are so good and fun, but the last few 😮‍💨 They went off book and like GoT the quality cliff dived. Your comparisons to Twilight are apt, as they were both brought to screen the same year (or within a year of each other) I got to meet quite a few of the actors, including Joe M, "Tara" & "Lafayette" (RIP).

The show as a whole is OK. There's some good stuff. It's very different from the books especially after season 3. Love jessica

Never knew anything about this show other than the title, I always assumed it was some crime show 😂

You should watch the tv show! It’s amazing, campy, gorey, and well acted

‘Hug my neck’ is old person southern. Mamaws, great aunts those are the type of people who tell you to hug their neck, but yes it’s real.

@Tyler can I suggest the 100. I plan to rewatch and finish it.

I understand the whole being spoken for bit, I mean, who doesn't want that for themselves as well as the people you care for.

Honestly, I think the last episode is probably much more emotionally resonant and enjoyable in this format! From what I remember (having watched this all a while ago), the show had pulled Sookie and Bill apart with so much betrayal etc. that in context it felt forced to bring them back together with such love and trust here, but watched like this it really works! You’re also kind of interestingly in Hoyt’s shoes regarding his romance with Jessica - as far as he remembers, they’ve just met and had an immediate connection, but then she explains to him that they actually had a very intense romantic relationship that he had erased from his memory. I was eagerly awaiting your response to Bill’s goopy death - it’s how all vampires die in the show, and I remember being glad that they didn’t back down from it in this instance, but yeah, if you are not expecting it!! Quite the shock.

All of True Blood is intense, that's part of the rave.

Tara is literally off screened in the opening moments of season 7 Tyler. I’m not kidding.

If you have the time, I think you'd enjoy this series thoroughly (or at least the first three seasons before it jumps the shark a bit) and I'd love to see it.

Would love to see you react to the first season or two of this show, but it drops off incredibly fast

I never finished this show. But I used to love it! I only watched your reaction to the first two episodes because I don’t want to be spoiled. I hope that doesn’t mess with your algorithm. Now I feel like rewatching these first few seasons and finishing it this time!

True Blood has no filler episodes I'm tellin' you now.

I can't remember if you've said if you've watched Marvels Agents of SHIELD, but if you haven't I think that would be a great one for First, Middle, Last!

You should definitely watch the whole thing! It's one of my favorite vampire shows. You kinda spoiled a little, but it's still worth watchin all the way!

Great reaction. Loved true blood, the books were better however they were completely different as the show went way off track. Middle episode Eric was under a spell so he was all soft and nice and sookie and Eric had a relationship after Bill, and I’m sure with Alcide (Joe) as well. The last couple of seasons imo were disappointing. Bill was born near the civil war that’s how old he is. Sookies gran died in season 1. The accent you couldn’t place was Cajun and he ended up being the murderer of maudette. Anything other questions about the characters just ask the fans 😂

I kinda go back and forth on the acceptance/integration/racial/gay/etc metaphor as presented in this show (and vampire stories in general). I get what it's going for, and it *does* do some interesting exploration. On the other hand, real world minorities aren't superpowered life-draining casual murderers who can rip your family in half and hypnotize you into thinking you did it. The anti-vampire humans in this universe aren't exactly wrong; even the well-intentioned vamps in this show lose control over themselves and kill people pretty frequently. I mean, cool, got it, thank you for exploring this idea Alan Ball, but my societal "othering" isn't exaaaaaaactly because I'm a literal Halloween monster constantly sitting inches from exploding the people around me into gore, y'know?

Yea vampires on this show don't turn to dust or go poof.

This show is such a wild ride, but god DAMN that ending. I've never been so angry with a show than I was with the last two episodes of this show. I swear the writers of the show were high on Bill's supply. They could not let the damn character go, despite the fact that he was *supposed* to be gone less than halfway through the show. Well...not *gone* , but definitely not an integral part of Sookie's life anymore. But the writers kept dragging his presence along like the rotting corpse he was.

oooohhh MY god, I clicked so fast I want to see how you feel about this show and I want to see its impact on you as a viewer. Been watching you since Buffy and the good place and I enjoy your perspective.

This was not a good candidate for first, middle, last. The plot is dense and there's so many amazing performances to explore.

No, dearie, Bill is our Jacob (well, also not, there is a "Jacob") You will see ^^ You're in for a hell of a ride 🩸

Oh man, I stopped watching the show after two seasons, they really strayed from the books. Bill was a piece of sh!t in the books, I hate how they made him likeable in the show. Edit: OMG, I haven't watched the show in years...I've only just realized that Grams was reading a Charlaine Harris book. I'll have to backtrack, it's probably one of the Sookie Stackhouse novels. 🧐

Ummm…. Soooo… yeaaah… noooo…? No.

I loved this show. Never a fan of these first and last videos reactors do...kinda spoils everything. 😩🤷🏼‍♀💜

I enjoy Dylans content, but..the fact that this is a trend now is infuriating to me. I don't want to sit here frustrated over everything you missed asking questions, I want you to commit to what you are watching and deliver the pay off, because you will enjoy the ride so much more KNOWING what everyone's motivations and stories are. I was exited for the beginning of the episode and unsatisfied by where the half way led. Are we that lazy to not just watch content someone else created without being lazy fucks. I say this in caring frustration.