Season One of True Blood
With her introduction towards the end of season one, no one had an idea how much havoc this maenad will cause. With her ’social worker’ status, she won the hearts of the locals, and still they haven’t realized the extent of the damage she has caused to them, their families and their town.
True Blood is loosely based on the books of Charlaine Harris which tell the stories of Sookie Stackhouse and her adventures with the mythical and mystical creatures. Accept for the characters, the whole premise has changed. The once calm and distant Bon Temps is in the midst of a war between human, supernatural beings and the undead.
Despite the war started by Fellowship of the Sun (who want to eliminate vampires), humans have to join forces with the vampires to somehow get rid of Maryann. Even though it’s not their fight, still the vampires will be helping out humans for multiple reasons: love, lust, sexual desires and the reason that Maryann can poison them with her blood.
With her ability to influence or control the behavior of people, forcing shapeshifter to changing shape, immortality, blood which is toxic for vampires, and those dreaded claws (Sookie would know better), Maryann has created an army out of the Bon Temps residents, which our heroes can’t kill. Which in a way is awesome, as the Vampires are not scary anymore and this maenad can cast a spine chilling spell on the humans and undead alike as she has a particular affinity for supernatural beings, and knows the perfect recipe for the human hearts. With her Goddess-like presence and the temperament of Ares, Maryann has become the un-crowned queen of Bon Temps.
As the book suggests, True Blood season 2 will end with a possible death or disappearance of Maryann, but the nightmares will haunt the people of Bon Temps for a long time.