由于日本科学家合成了一种人造血，一夜之间，吸血鬼不再是人们心中那富有传奇色彩的怪物，而是能与人类和平相处的朋友。尽管人类从此不在吸血鬼的猎食名单之列，但仍有很多人惴惴不安，他们担心吸血鬼们某一天会再次走出棺材，爆发血性。全世界的宗教领袖和政府官员们与吸血鬼们划清了界限，但是在路易斯安那州一个名叫Bon Temps的小镇上，人们和吸血鬼却和平相处着。当地的一个女服务生Sookie Stackhouse (Anna Paquin饰演)深知遭人遗弃的感觉，由于天生具有读心术，她得以倾听每个人心中的想法，同时她也对吸血鬼敞开心扉－－尤其是 Bill Compton (Stephen Moyer饰演)，这个173岁英俊的吸血鬼。正当Sookie 被因bill的到来而引起的一系列神秘事件而吸引时，与吸血鬼是否和平相处的考验才真正开始。本剧由《六英尺下》的创造者Alan Ball缔造，《真爱如血》探究了人类胆小的心灵世界，改编自Charlaine Harris的小说《南方吸血鬼》。被艾美奖获得者Ball形容为“为聪明人准备的大餐”的《真爱如血》，拥有着非常出色的演员阵容，这一切都预示着《真爱如血》会带给我们一场多么刺激的旅行。True Blood's sexy, swampy, and sometimes campy Louisiana atmosphere plays nearly as big a part in the show as Sookie Stackhouse and her vampire lover, Bill Compton. Fans of the HBO TV series know that music played a huge part in creating that atmosphere -- so much so that all of the episodes of its first season were named after songs that appeared in them. And while director\u002Fproducer Alan Ball's previous HBO series, Six Feet Under, also had an expertly crafted soundtrack that often blended indie and alternative rock with classic vocal pop, True Blood's music runs deeper and wider, often spanning artists like Japanther and the Cowboy Junkies in a single episode and still sounding cohesive. And though the show is steeped in vampire and other kinds of supernatural lore, this collection of songs couldn't be further from stereotypically dark, gothy music: the closest it comes (and it's a stretch) is either the Watson Twins' Mazzy Star-like cover of the Cure's Just Like Heaven or the Southern Gothic of Little Big Town's Bones, which, with its backwoods menace and beautiful harmonies, is a kissin' cousin of Fleetwood Mac's The Chain. True Blood moves seamlessly from classic swamp blues and soul to contemporary country to alt-country and rock, and though decades separate some of these songs, common threads run through them. There's a real twang to most of these tracks, most brashly on Jace Everett's Bad Things, which wraps temptation and longing in roadhouse swagger that makes it one of the most memorable TV theme songs of the late 2000s, especially paired with the show's vividly gritty title sequence. It's also no surprise that many tracks are about Louisiana or by artists from there, including Emmylou Harris' softly Cajun-tinged Lake Charles, Allen Toussaint's From a Whisper to a Scream, and Dr. John's brooding I Don't Wanna Know. True Blood mixes moods as easily as it does musical styles: C.C. Adcock's Bleed 2 Feed and Th' Legendary Shack Shakers' Swampblood embody late-night hedonism with snaky blues-rock and wild-eyed psychobilly; the Flying Burrito Brothers' Christine's Tune nods to the magical reality lurking around the show's edges with cosmic country-rock; and Lee Dorsey's Give It Up is just plain funky and sexy. True Blood's songs capture the feel of the show rather than focusing just on tracks that scored the series' key moments, and this approach feels more cohesive and listenable (although it has to be said that Slim Harpo's Strange Love, which soundtracks the first conversation Bill and Sookie have, is a standout). True Blood geeks will nitpick about some omissions, like Lynyrd Skynyrd's That Smell or Joan Baez's Plaisir d'Amour, but the soundtrack is so of the show and so enjoyable that it feels like spending some quality time with the jukebox at Merlotte's Bar and Grill.