Adapted from the novels by Charlaine Harris, this HBO series from creator Alan Ball ("Six Feet Under") focuses on Sookie Stackhouse (Anna Paquin), a waitress in a backwoods Louisiana town who can read minds. Her life becomes even more complicated when vampires─who have been granted equal rights─begin to move into the area and she falls for handsome bloodsucker Bill (Stephen Moyer), just as locals start turning up dead. Ryan Kwanten, Sam Trammell co-star. **80 episodes on 33 discs. 80 hrs.**