TV DVDs - True Blood is the sexy, scary, wildly entertaining series from Oscar and Emmy winner Alan Ball and based on the Sookie Stackhouse novels by Charlaine Harris. Centered around the little town of Bon Temps, Louisiana (nowhere near Folsom, I hope), True Blood depicts the unstable balance between humans and vampires. An elixir called TruBlood, a synthetic blood substitute, slakes most vampires’ thirst for human blood. The purists, of course, still prefer the real thing, causing conflicts to arise between humans and the undead. As long as TruBlood continues to flow, then the real blood doesn’t . . . for the most part. Lose yourself in this highly entertaining series, featuring a variety of delightfully quirky - and often dangerous - characters.