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Originally Posted by
TravisR 
..... I do wonder how it's doing so good (even taking into account that the numbers for an HBO hit are way less than a network show) and how 'normal' people are able to handle some of the show's more graphic content. I mean in the last three or four episodes, there's been multiple orgies, people having a heart fed to them, attempted human sacrifice, vampires having sex covered in their victims' blood- all that seems way beyond what the average viewer wants to see.
TrueBlood is unique because it appeals to everyone's dirty little guilty pleasure, all of us, at the exact same time. BDSM, latex, goths, BMWs and black couture, leather, blood, boobs, southern girls, the preacher's wife, construction workers, angsty vampires, bi-sexuality, teenagers that never grow up, acid trips, bikers, werewolves & shape shifters, orgies, ancient greek things that eat like pigs but look good, Carl the slave, Ginger the fang banger, the mafia, prostitutes, The cocktail waitress who knows every dirty thought you ever had and everybody else seems to swill hard liquor like its going out of style just so the viewers in A.A. can live a little vicariously.
So my theory is that 85% of people get just a little
too excited at one point or another and everybody is happy because it allows the audience to indulge themselves while casting judgement on everybody else's kink, wrapped-up with enough wit and humor that almost nobody becomes uncomfortable for too long.
