Numbed by tragedy, Sookie looks for refuge from the cacophony of her friends and neighbours’ inner voices. After lashing out at his sister and decking Andy, Jason wrestles with withdrawal symptoms from his V-juice habit. Tara resists the overtures of her mother, Lettie Mae, who’s trying to rid herself of a demon and needs her daughter’s help. Sam and Tara make a connection in their mutual search for “something real.”
Spurned by an exasperated Sookie, Bill ends up winning over Adele’s church audience with his vivid recollections from the Civil War, though Andy and Bud remain suspicious. Sam tries to make the most of his opportunity with Sookie, though she’s clearly not ready to commit. Ignoring Tara’s rebuff, Lafayette convinces Jason to give vampire blood, a.k.a. “V juice,” another shot. Alone at home, Bill remembers the painful wartime incident that changed his fate forever.
Anna Paquin has admitted that fans sometimes feel awkward about her naked scenes in True Blood.
The actress starred in Oscar-winning film The Piano aged 11 and in the X Men movies as a teenager. She told Bang Showbiz: “It’s been a gradual evolution for me. It’s probably weird for people to watch it and if they have this image of me as a sweet little child, but it’s not weird for me.”
True Blood creator Alan Ball has said that the sex scenes in the show serve an important purpose, as he feels that Vampires are a metaphor for sex.
Speaking at the Paley Centre for Media, Ball said:
“To me, vampires and the notion of vampires as a metaphor is sex. Of course that’s going to have to be a part of it and that’s part of the appeal. That’s why people love vampires, because they’re sexy.”
True Blood creator Alan Ball has revealed that we will soon see some more gay characters on the hit vampire TV show.
Ball told The Advocate: “There are a lot of gay characters in the books as you get further and further into them. We’ll be introducing some of those gay characters this new season.”
On other newcomers to the series Ball said:
Another killing in Bon Temps finds Jason back in custody with officers Andy and Bud. Tara gets him off the hook, but neither she nor Lafayette has the antidote to his current ailment. Urged by Gran to use her telepathic abilities to weed out the murderer and exonerate her brother, Sookie persuades Bill to take her to a Shreveport vampire bar called Fangtasia, where she impresses a dominant Nordic bloodsucker named Eric with her prescient powers. Later, Bill demonstrates his own considerable powers when an abusive patrolman stops the couple on their way home.
The TV and movie industry is littered with actors who were tipped to be ‘the next big thing’ only to end up with non-speaking parts in the latest Jean-Claude Van Damme film. Predicting stardom is a precarious business but Alexander Skarsgard has as good a chance as any of making it big. Movie-star good looks? Check. Sensible career choices so far? Check. An engaging and intelligent personality? Check. Family pedigree in the business? Well, his dad is Hollywood star Stellan Skarsgard, so: Check. He’s also recently starred in two of the most critically acclaimed and successful TV series to come out of the US last year, True Blood and Generation Kill.
Following on from our first interview with Stephen Moyer, the star of Channel 4’s True Blood here continues to explain the plot behind the show.
Foiled in their attempt to “glamour” Sookie, the vampires Malcolm, Liam and Diane make a hasty retreat after Bill lays claim to the waitress. At Merlotte’s, Sam seeks a short-term remedy to his long-term loneliness, while Tara seeks respite from her mother’s alcohol-fueled rage. Spurned by Dawn for lack of performance, Jason turns to Lafayette, Merlotte’s short-order cook, for help with his problem.
True Blood creator, Alan Ball, has revealed that several guest stars will return for the show’s third season, including Evan Rachel Wood as vampire Queen of Louisiana.
“The Queen is coming back,” Ball told The TV Guide. “Godric is coming back for an appearance, a flashback. There’s some new vampires in town, there are some werewolves. We do have a lot of werewolves coming in, male and female, but we haven’t started casting for the show yet.”
Oh joy to the world! This show – unlike FlashForward – hasn’t started to get bad on its second outing; it’s just getting better and better. And I’m so glad because since Lost hasn’t been on our screens, I’ve been hankering after something to really get my teeth into – pun entirely intended – and True Blood is it.
I suspected it was going to be compulsive viewing after last week’s first show, and last night’s second just confirmed that for me. I also really liked that we didn’t lose the first however many minutes of the show in a previously-on-True-Blood recap. It went right into the action where we left it, with Sookie getting a kicking from the trailer trash Rattrays.
Enter Bill, Matrixy fast old one to save the day and crush those pesky Rattrays like they were sticks. And rightly so too. I know I perhaps shouldn’t be condoning murder and everything but they really were nasty people and the world – albeit the fictional one – is better off without them. Read more & comment »
Sookie comes under attack from the Rattrays but is saved by Bill who heals her wounds with his own blood which leaves Sookie with temporarily heightened senses. Bill joins Sookie for a nocturnal stopover and ends up at his dilapidated estate where he fights off his primal vampire urges for Sookie. Later, Sookie’s desires get the better of her as she returns to Bill’s – and is greeted by his bloodthirsty vampire friends.
True Blood Episode 2 – 10pm Wednesday 14th October 2009
True Blood creator Alan Ball has confirmed that at least one character will die during the show’s third season.
Speaking to TV Guide, Ball said that “it’s a person we’ll be happy to see go.”
He added: “Somebody is going to bite the dust and it’s going to be really good to see them get what they deserve.”
I am hoping that it’s Jessica who dies but thinking it might be Eric. Any ideas people?
Stephen Moyer has admitted that appearing in vampire drama True Blood, has made him more open to the supernatural.
“I’m not superstitious in a way that I have to turn around three times before I go on set, but I think there’s something ‘other’,” he told MSN.
He explained: “In the last few years I have been much more open than I used to be to the supernatural.
“Doesn’t your race have a rather sordid history? Exploiting and feeding off people for centuries?”
No, I hadn’t inadvertently tuned in to David Cameron taking questions, this was in fact a line from one of the opening scenes of True Blood. A shop assistant was watching a talk show featuring a vampire who explained why they deserve the same civil rights as non-blood drinking people.
And I was hooked…
But given this is from writer Alan Ball, who also wrote Six Feet Under, to which I was addicted, I expected excellence and wasn’t disappointed. I can see me joining the ranks of the so-far small but exponentially growing group of Brits who cannot and will not miss an episode. Read more & comment »
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