Get Ready to Kiss Sookie, Pam, Tara and the Gang Goodbye After 'True Blood's' 7th Season

Prepare to kiss Sookie, Eric, Bill, Pam, Tara, Lafayette and the gang good bye following True Blood’s 7^th season next summer. HBO has decided to end the show’s run after next year’s 10-episode season, according to Deadline.

The series about vampires, werewolves, fairies, shapeshifters, witches and were-panthers in the fictional Bon Temps has featured plenty of LGBT characters since its inception in 2008, not to mention that the series, from out creator Alan Ball, began as what was arguably a gay allegory.

From bisexual actress Anna Paquin in the lead role as Sookie Stackhouse to Evan Rachel Wood’s lesbian vampire queen and Pam (Kristin Bauer van Stratten) and Tara’s (Rutina Wesley) fiery relationship, True Blood has featured plenty of queer women throughout the years.

HBO has a habit of ending series on a high –The Sopranos andSex and the City both ended after six seasons while the critically lauded Six Feet Under halted production after season five. While True Blood has been supplanted by Game of Thrones as HBO’s biggest ratings-getter, the sixth season still managed to draw an average of 10.6 million gross audience per episode, according to Deadline. 

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