HBO’s “True Blood” and The CW’s “The Vampire Diaries,” the subject matter may differ. Yet, both have very similar plots involving their three main characters.

“True Blood”

Sookie, played by Academy Award winner Anna Paquin plays a normal yet telepathic waitress. She ends up falling in love with two vampires. In The Vampire Diaries, Elena Gilbert (Nina Dobrev) is a teenage girl who is torn between two male vampires. Coincidence?

One of the other elements that make these two shows very similar is the towns they live in and how they are similar. In CW’s “The Vampire Diaries,” Mystic Falls’ town has horrors beneath it that eventually becomes one of the main things that the characters fight off in each episode. In “True Blood,” the city that Sookie resides in Louisiana also has evils lurking around the city, ones that she must again fight off during almost every episode.

Next, another element that makes these two series very similar is the “good vampire”/”bad vampire” theme in both series. Potential love interests for the main heroine deal with the more sensitive vampires. They seem to be more loyal and friendly to those around them. Then, the two bad boy vampires have off- and on-again relationships with the series’s main female character. The evil vampires also are always in the mood for “danger,” but at the end of the day, despite their bad boy persona, they both have a heart of gold and are very loyal.