True Blood – Seasons 1-3 Complete (HBO) DVD – Anna Paquin, Ryan Kwanten 

All episodes from the first three seasons of the offbeat vampire drama adapted from Charlaine Harris’s ‘The Southern Vampire Mysteries’ book series by writer Alan Ball. Anna Paquin stars as Sookie Stackhouse, a Louisiana waitress with telepathic powers whose life changes forever when 173-year-old vampire Bill Compton (Stephen Moyer) walks into her place of work. Episodes from the first season comprise: ‘Strange Love’, ‘The First Taste’, ‘Mine’, ‘Escape from Dragon House’, ‘Sparks Fly Out’, ‘Cold Ground’, ‘Burning House of Love’, ‘The Fourth Man in the Fire’, ‘Plaisir d’Amour’, ‘I Don’t Wanna Know’, ‘To Love Is to Bury’ and ‘You’ll Be the Death of Me’. Episodes from the second season comprise: ‘Nothing But the Blood’, ‘Keep This Party Going’, ‘Scratches’, ‘Shake and Fingerpop’, ‘Never Let Me Go’, ‘Hard-Hearted Hannah’, ‘Release Me’, ‘Timebomb’, ‘I Will Rise Up’, ‘New World in My View’, ‘Frenzy’ and ‘Beyond Here Lies Nothin”. Episodes from the third season comprise: ‘Bad Blood’, ‘Beautifully Broken’, ‘It Hurts Me Too’, ‘9 Crimes’, ‘Trouble’, ‘I Got a Right to Sing the Blues’, ‘Hitting the Ground’, ‘Night On the Sun’, ‘Everything Is Broken’, ‘I Smell a Rat’, ‘Fresh Blood’ and ‘Evil Is Going On’.

Vampires have come out of the coffin and are now living among us. Surviving on synthetic blood they no longer need human blood to survive. Or so it seems… The small town of Bon Temps Louisiana boasts a wide array of colourful locals. Meet Sookie Stackhouse (Academy Award winner Anna Paquin a sweet and innocent waitress who hides her powerful ability to read minds; Bill Compton (British actor Stephen Moyer) a 173-year-old vampire who’s just moved back to town; Sookie’s brother Jason (Aussie hearthrob Ryan Kwanten – Vinnie Patterson from Home And Away) a ladies’ man who can’t seem to stay out of trouble; tough-as-nails Tara Sookie’s loyal best friend; Sam the owner of Merlotte’s who tries to keep his feelings for Sookie to himself; Lafayette a man about town who’s always cooking up something illicit and off the menu and a quirky cast of characters who each hide their dark secrets in the shadows of night in this series that’s like no other.