True Blood How the HBO Vampire Series Ended

True Blood: How the HBO Vampire Series Ended

True Blood ended after seven seasons of supernatural adventure and romance. Here’s where it left each of its major characters.

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True Blood How the HBO Vampire Series Ended

For seven seasons, True Blood, HBO’s adaptation of Charlaine Harris’ Southern Vampire Mysteries, told the tale of the supernatural creatures of Bon Temps, Louisiana, after the invention of “Tru Blood,” a synthetic blood that allowed vampires to make themselves known to humans. But vampires weren’t the only fantasy creatures that haunted the series. There were also werewolves, shapeshifters, witches, mediums and fairies, including half-fairy Sookie Stackhouse, who meets vampire Bill Compton in the first episode, and finds a whole new world of romance and intrigue opening up to her.

Within its fantastical setting, True Blood often touched on issues like equal rights and discrimination against marginalized groups. Ultimately, though, what got the most attention was the show’s many romantic entanglements, especially Sookie’s relationships with Bill. As a result, the series finale spent most of its time wrapping up that storyline.

Before the last episode, several characters’ stories had already concluded. After an ultimatum from his pregnant girlfriend Nicole, Sam Merlotte leaves Bon Temps to move to Chicago, and Lafayette is in a happy relationship with vampire James. Meanwhile, Sookie’s werewolf boyfriend Alcide died earlier in the season, as did Sookie’s best friend Tara Thornton (and the less said about her arc as a ghost, the better).

True Blood How the HBO Vampire Series Ended

A few episodes earlier, it was revealed that Bill contracted Hepatitis V after taking a sip of Sookie’s blood. Sookie had no idea she was a carrier of the deadly vampire disease, and unfortunately, because of her status as a fairy, Bill became sick more quickly than a vampire typically would. Salvation seemed to come from Eric, who was sick with Hep V earlier in the season but discovered the cure rests in anti-vampire activist Sarah Newlin’s blood. Bill ultimately refuses the cure, however, a decision he doesn’t explain until the finale.

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The finale opens with Bill explaining that he believes in order for Sookie to have a normal life, he has to die. Throughout the series, the pair held a torch for one another no matter what else was happening. And with Alcide dead and Sookie uninterested in a relationship with Eric, it seemed possible that she and Bill would get back together. But Bill makes it clear that although they can’t stay away from one another, he doesn’t believe their romance will result in the life Sookie wants. So he asks her to use her fairy light to end his life before the Hep V kills him, which would also make her completely human. Sookie agrees to think about it.

Bill uses his remaining time to make sure his vampire daughter Jessica is taken care of. Jessica got back together with soulmate Hoyt after Hoyt returned to Bon Temps to bury his mother. Jessica had used her vampire powers to erase his memories of her before he moved to Alaska in Season 5, but as soon as Hoyt saw her again, he was drawn to her. And even though he was in a relationship with Brigette, who traveled with him to Bon Temps, he broke up with her just for the chance to talk to Jessica.

True Blood How the HBO Vampire Series Ended

With Hoyt and Jessica a couple once more, Bill, ever the Southern gentleman, asks Hoyt if he’ll one day marry Jessica. After Hoyt says he would, Jessica suggests they have the wedding that day so Bill is alive to see it. At the wedding, Sookie realizes that she can hear Bill’s thoughts, something that’s normally impossible because vampires are technically dead. Hearing Bill’s internal pleading to her makes her decide to fulfill his wish to end his life.

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However, when she meets him at the cemetery that night, she decides against using her fairy light to deliver the true death to him because her fairy powers are a part of her identity. Instead she uses a shovel to stake Bill, crying as he dies. But then she crawls out of his grave and walks home.

The episode flashes forward to one year later, when Eric and Pam, having killed their partners in the Yakuza and taken Sarah Newlin for themselves, have created a synthetic blood substitute that acts as both a cure for Hep V and a food source for vampires called New Blood. Secretly, they also rent out Sarah to wealthy vampires who want to drink right from the source.

The story then settles on a scene on Thanksgiving three years later. Eric and Pam’s New Blood is a multi-billion dollar company, yet the pair are back to running the vampire club Fangtasia, where Eric is once again sitting on his throne. Meanwhile, Sookie is preparing for a holiday dinner. She’s heavily pregnant and married to a man whose face is never shown. As the sun sets, her friends and family from throughout the series — including Sam who now has two children with Nicole and Jason who has married and had children with Hoyt’s ex Brigette — gather to enjoy a meal together. While this conclusion underwhelmed many fans, it nonetheless brought the stories of the main characters to a hopeful conclusion that highlighted one of the show’s other themes: the value of family.

All seven seasons of True Blood are available to stream on HBO Max.

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