Bon Temps, Louisiana is just your typical small town right? WRONG! Filled with vampires, werewolves, werepanthers, witches, shapeshifters, and fairies, Bon Temps is anything but your typical town. HBO’s True Blood first created chaos when scientists discovered how to make synthetic blood that allowed vampires to live with humans peacefully…sort of.
Let’s take a look back at the first three seasons of mass chaos in small-town Bon Temps, Louisiana.
Season One Major Findings and Happenings:
-Sookie Stackhouse can read minds but not those of vampires and starts dating vampire Bill Compton
-Tara Thornton, Sookie’s best friend, has a crush on Sookie’s brother, Jason Stackhouse, and has been abused by her alcoholic mother
-Sookie’s grandma, Adele Stackhouse, is murdered in her own home
-We meet Vampire Sheriff of Area Five Eric Northman, his child Pam De Beaufort, who both run the vampire club Fangtasia
- Rene Lenier was the serial killer of the Merlotte’s waitresses, not Jason Stackhouse
Season Two Major Findings and Happenings:
-Maenad Maryann Forrester comes to Bon Temps to stir things up, putting the entire town under a sexual euphoric spell
-Arlene Fowler and Terry Bellefleur get engaged while Sookie rejects Bill’s proposal of marriage
- Tara falls in love with Eggs while Hoyt Fortenberry and Jessica Hamby fall in love
- Jason joined and left The Fellowship of the Sun
-With Bill’s help, Sam Merlotte kills Maryann
Season Three Major Findings and Happenings:
-Arlene is pregnant with Rene’s devil baby
-Bill is kidnapped by the Vampire King of Mississippi, Russell Edgington, who is on a quest for power
-With the help of Alcide Herveaux to protect her, thanks to Eric Northman, Sookie sets out to find her vampire lover
-Sam tracks down his real family and finds out he has a shapeshifter brother, Tommy Mickens, who is forced to particpate in dog fights by his family
-After finding out Russell killed his entire family, Eric kills his lover Talbot and enlists the help of Bill to bury Russell in cement
Check out the short video for the re-cap of seasons 1-3! Excited for season 5 Truebies?
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