'True Blood: The Complete First Season'

After giving HBO one of its most successful series with "Six Feet Under," producer Alan Ball struck again with this very adult saga based on a series of books by Charlaine Harris.

Anna Paquin won a Golden Globe Award as Sookie Stackhouse, a Louisiana waitress whose mind-reading skill ups the stakes in her relationship with a vampire (Stephen Moyer). Ryan Kwanten and Chris Bauer ("The Wire'') also are featured