True Blood is an American television drama series created and produced by Alan Ball. It is based on The Southern Vampire Mysteries series of novels by Charlaine Harris, detailing the co-existence of vampires and humans in Bon Temps, a fictional, small town in northwestern Louisiana. The series centers on the adventures of Sookie Stackhouse, a telepathic waitress with an otherworldly quality.
This tv show contains 130 potentially triggering events.
Yes, several children. One character is abused by her alcoholic mother. Another knew her uncle had sexual thoughts about her because she could read his mind.
Season 4 Episode 5 a child is forced to repeatedly stab a goat while his grandfather holds the goat's head. Lots of pained bleating and blood splatter.
Season 4 Episode 6 they sacrifice a cobra by throwing a live one onto a fire
In the season 1 finale, the guy who killed all the innocent women throughout the season kicks a dog in a graveyard fight and it yelps in pain.
If you just disassociate for a second it's fine because SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS the dog transforms back into a human after that one kick/yelp.
Sookie's pet cat is killed by the dude murdering everyone to get to her. It's very quick but i believe the body is briefly shown strung up from the hallway chandelier.
S2: Bill is basically raped by his Maker, Lorena. He cant go against her orders and she holds him captive.
S3: Jason is drugged and raped repeatedly while tied to a bed while people watch.
S2: One of the antagonists holds parties that she turns into orgies that double as a ceremony to honour her god, it can be argued that her influence over the participants makes the sex they have fall into the category of rape since none of them remember it afterwards. One of the victims of this has a conversation with a friend the next day where she says that she’s worried she date-raped the man she’s been seeing since she can’t remember anything past the point where she blacked out.
Characters often strangle each other to get them to stop talking. I don’t recall any strangulation-related deaths, but there may have been a couple at most.
Early on in the show, there is a death that involves an animal hanging from a ceiling fan by a rope, but this was likely not the cause of death (murder). So it may be triggering still, in this regard
A character gets teeth pulled out as punishment in s1 and a characters head is exploded by a shotgun in s4 and her tooth is shown on the floor in s5 e1
There is obviously lot of blood shown throughout the series and intermittent gore scenes. For example when vampires are killed they explode in a fountain of blood and ooze
A man kills a baby off screen. And a character is described as having delivered babies and eaten them in the maternity ward. Multiple teen girls are killed at once by an out of control vampire
Several central characters are cops. The police are depicted as being flawed but overall good people doing their best to protect the community. There are scenes where cops engage in illegal activity like beating a suspect for information, which is depicted by the show as morally appropriate
Sort of. A female spirit possesses the body of a gay man (she was under the impression he was a woman because of his makeup/clothes) and is horrified when she realizes
There is a flashback in s5 ep3 where a character slits her arms in order to make a vampire turn her (she lives). A character tries overdosing on meds when shes left alone in the bathroom. A vampire stakes himself while under a spell. A character hires a hitman for himself in s5. A major character stakes himself in the finale. A character has a bath scene where he eyes the razor on the wall (and its implied he might kill himself) but only shaves his head. Major plot point in s4 involves vampires walking into the sun while under a spell. A vampire enters a tanning booth with the intention of committing suicide
In passing. In s4 a character says something alongs the lines of “fat and old” and is scolded for it. S5 ep5 uses the words “fatties first” when a prisoner tries to persuade a vampire not to eat him
Both Sookie and Jason Are kind of looked down on. Sookie for being unsexual and a virgin in the begining. Its decipted as shame. And Jasons for being extremly sexual active, and him mocked for this. Also Jessica kinda stays a virgin bc of healing reasons and its wierdly glorified.
In technically, the main character’s relationship with two different vampires is an age gap; they are both hundreds of years old and she is in her twenties, i believe.
Kinda, alot of supernatural beings sleep with humans. Some Are shapeshifter and turn into animal at a point, and probably Are with other shapeshifters as humans or animals, it might be weird.