She's furious that Sookie and Lafayette got Pam to turn her without her consent (which raises interesting discussion points), and she's especially piqued that Pam is her Maker since she and Pam have never gotten along. Tara initially hates being a vampire - given her anti-vampire biases - and even tries to end her own life. Instead, Season 5 begins with Pam (Kristin Bauer van Straten) showing up at Sookie's house and being grudgingly convinced by Sookie and Lafayette to turn Tara into a vampire to save her life. Sure, she was integral to the narrative for four seasons, and it would have been a "heroic" death, but she still would have been a Black woman - one who'd been abused and wronged - who died to protect the white heroine. If that had been the end of Tara, it would have been bad. RELATED: Boys From County Hell Stakes Ireland's Claim to the Modern Vampire
When Debbie (Brit Morgan) breaks into Sookie's house to kill her, Tara intervenes and gets shot in the head in the last moments of the season. By the end, though, she abandons Marnie's cause and once again makes up with Sookie. She again goes up against Sookie and the "good" vampires and breaks up with Naomi for Naomi's own safety. Lafayette and his boyfriend Jesus ( Kevin Alejandro) bring her to a Wicca circle run by Marnie (Fiona Shaw), a necromancer with an anti-vampire agenda that initially appeals to Tara. She has a brief interlude of happiness between Season 3 and 4, living in New Orleans and dating Naomi (Vedette Lim), but then she gets dragged back to Bon Temps. For obvious reasons, she distrusts vampires, which often pits her against Sookie. She's subject to her mother's abuse and casual racism that has characterized her life.She's manipulated by Season 2's big bad Maryann (Michelle Forbes), mourns the death of her boyfriend Eggs ( Mehcad Brooks) and gets kidnapped and abused by a vampire named Franklin (James Frain). Tara consistently has a terrible time in True Bloods' first four seasons.
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RELATED: Green Lantern Film Reportedly Still in Development Despite HBO Max Series Not to mention her abusive, alcoholic mother Lettie Mae (Adina Porter) is a weight around her neck. She struggles to hold down a job despite her intelligence because her temper often gets her in trouble with authority figures. She's Sookie's ( Anna Paquin) best friend and Lafayette's (Nelsan Ellis) cousin. However, Tara in the show is so much more than that.įrom the first episode of True Blood, Tara (played by Rutina Wesley, a Black actress) is one of the main players. In the books, Tara is a side character She's a white woman who lives in Bon Temps, runs a dress shop and appears intermittently, usually to further Sookie's story. One such change was the role of Tara Thornton. When HBO adapted Charlaine Harris' Southern Vampire Mysteries novels into True Blood, it made a few key changes to the core cast.
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