25 Best Fantasy TV Series, Ranked Worst to First
By Shawn Lealos
19. True Blood
HBO has had a lot of success with its original series, with everything from The Sopranos and The Wire to Entourage, Game of Thrones and the next fantasy TV series on this list – True Blood. The show is based on the Charlaine Harris Southern Vampire Mysteries novel series.
The HBO series starred Anna Paquin as Sookie Stackhouse, a halfling which is a telepathic human-faerie. She works at a bar in Lousiana in a world where vampires are real, and the public knows about them. The vampires have something called Tru Blood, which is synthetic blood that allows vampires to live without feeding on humans, although there is still fear and hatred among humans and vampires alike. This is because there are two factions of vampires – those who are willing to live with humans in peace and those who still want to prey on humans.
The series also has a number of other mythical creatures. Sookie’s boss Sam is a shapeshifter, and Sookie has a romantic relationship with a 173-year-old vampire named Bill Compton. Possibly the most interesting character was one that died early in the books but remained so popular that he lived on the TV show, that being a flamboyant short order cook named Lafayette.
The series was hugely successful, although its fandom shrunk as the final season aired. True Blood ended up lasting seven seasons and had a total of 80 episodes.