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True Blood is an American television drama created the series, and produced by Alan Ball. It is loosely based on The Southern Vampire Mysteries series of novels by Charlaine Harris. The show broadcast on premium cable network HBO in the U.S.. It is produced by HBO in partnership with Ball's production company, Your Face Goes Here Entertainment. It premiered on 7 September 2008.
Show the second 12-episode season premiered on 14 June 2009. 30 July 2009 HBO confirmed that True Blood will be renewed for a third season.Alan Ball has said that he plans to start filming the third season before Christmas, the 2009th
True Blood details coexistence of vampires and humans in Bon Temps, a fictional small Louisiana town. The series is about Sookie Stackhouse (Anna Paquin), a telepathic waitress at a bar who falls in love with vampire Bill Compton (Stephen Moyer).
The first season received critical acclaim and won several awards including a Golden Globe and an Emmy.
Series creator Alan Ball had previously worked with premium cable channel HBO on Six Feet Under, which ran five seasons. In October 2005, after Six Feet Under's finale, which was signed Ball a two-year contract with HBO to develop and produce original programming for the network. True Blood was the first project under the agreement after Ball became acquainted with Charlaine Harris' Southern Vampire Mystery books. [5] One day, while early for a dentist appointment, Ball was browsing through Barnes and Noble and came across Dead Until Dark, the first installment in Harris' series. Enjoying it, he read the following lines and became interested in "bringing [Harris'] vision to television." But Harris already had two Other customization options for the books. He said that she chose to work with him, though, because "really" got "me. That is how he made me go with him. I just felt that he understood what I did with books. "
The project's hour-long pilot was ordered simultaneously with the completion of the above development process and was written, directed and produced by Ball. Cast members Paquin, Kwant and Trammell was announced in February 2007 and Moyer later in April. [7] [8] The pilot was shot in early summer 2007 and was officially ordered to series in August, at which point Ball had already written several other episodes. Production on the series began Later that fall, be with Brook Kerr, who portrayed Tara Thornton in the original pilot, replaced by Rutina Wesley. Two more episodes of the series had been filmed before the 2007-08 Writers Guild of America strike shut production of the 12-episode first season until 2008. This September, had only the first two episodes of the series aired HBO placed an order for another season of twelve episodes of the show, with production projected to begin in January 2009 for a summer premiere.
Opening title sequence
True Blood's Emmy-nominated title sequence was created by Digital Kitchen, a production studio, was also responsible for creating the title sequence of Six Feet Under. The order, which primarily consist of depictions of the show's deep South setting, is played by "Bad Things" by Jace Everett.
Digital Kitchen wanted to explore themes of salvation and forgiveness in the opening title sequence.
Conceptually Digital Kitchen chose to construct a sequence around the idea of "the whore in prayer house "of mixing contradictory images of sex, violence and religion and show them from the position" a supernatural, predatory creature observing people from the shadows … "Digital Kitchen also wanted to explore ideas of redemption and forgiveness, and thus arranged for the sequence to progress from morning to evening and culminate in a baptism.
Most of the footage used in the sequence was filmed on location by Digital Kitchen. Crew members took a four-day trip to Louisiana for films and also shot at a Chicago church and a scene in a bar in Seattle. In addition, several Digital Kitchen crew made cameo appearances in the sequence.
In editing the opening, Digital Kitchen wanted to express how "religious fanaticism" and "sexual energy" could corrupt people and make them animalistic. Accordingly, several pictures of some images were cut to give the movement a trembling feeling, while other shots just was played very slowly. Individual frames were also sprayed with drops of blood. Order of transitions was constructed differently, although they were made with a Polaroid transfer technique. The last hit a shot and the first image of a second was taken as a single Polaroid picture, which was then divided between emulsion and support. The emulsion was then filmed becomes Further separation of chemicals and the pictures of this separation was placed back in the final editing.
Eight different fonts, inspired by Southern road signage, was also created manually by Camm Rowland for actors and film crew credits, and the show's title card.
Gary Calamar, the music supervisor for the series, said that his goal the soundtrack of the show is to create something "swampy, Bluesy and creepy" and feature local Louisiana musicians. Composer Nathan Barr writes the original score for the series which features cello, guitar, prepared piano and glass harmonica among other instruments that he performs himself. [Edit] The main theme song is "Bad Things" by country music artist Jace Everett from his 2005 debut.
Elektra / Atlantic Records released a soundtrack True Blood 19 May 2009, the same day as the release of DVD and Blu-Ray of the first season. Nathan Barr's original score for True Blood was released on CD on the Varese Sarabande label, 8 September 2009.
Both Nathan Barr and Jace Everett won in 2009 prices from Broadcast Music Incorporated in BMI Cable Awards category for, respectively, True Blood's original score and theme song.
Marketing
The premiere of True Blood was preceded by a viral marketing / Alternate Reality Game (ARG) campaign, based on BloodCopy.com. This included setting up several sites, encoding URL for unmarked envelopes sent to high profile blog writers and others, and even concerts with a "vampire" who attempted to reach to others of their kind, to discuss the recent creation of "TruBlood", a fictional beverage mentioned in the show. A MySpace account with the username "Blood" had, as of 19 June uploaded two videos, one entitled "Vampire Taste Test – True Blood vs Human", and one called "Blood Copy exclusive interview with SAMSON The Vampire". A prequel comic was handed out to participants in the 2008 Comic-Con. The comic centers around an ancient vampire named Lamar, who tells the reader about how TruBlood surface and was discussed between many vampires before they go public. At one point asking if Lamar TruBlood is to make the world safe for vampires or from them.
More commercials shown on HBO and Facebook aired before the series premiere, placing vampires in advertisements, similar to beer and wine. Some drink vending machines throughout the United States was also equipped with maps showing that they were "sold out" of TruBlood.
housands of DVDs in the first episode was distributed to participants in Midnight Madness, a special screenings event in the 2008 Toronto International Film Festival. Blockbuster Video free rental of the first episode of True Blood several days before it aired on HBO. The video had a weak promotional watermark throughout the episode.
16 April 2009, released HBO first teaser poster for the 2nd Season The image uses a technology perspective, showing observers one of two images. A minute-long promotional video advertising season two, which featured Bob Dylan's "Beyond Here Lies Nothin '", was released by Entertainment Tonight at the beginning May.
On 10 September 2009, HBO.com began selling Tru: Blood, the fictional drink that is displayed at the exhibition. In real life, it is a blood orange carbonated drink, developed and produced by Omni Consumer Products, a company specializing in defictionalizing brands from television and movies.
There is also a website for The Fellowship of the Sun, antagonists of the book series, featuring videos on hot-button issues like being a vampire.
FX (UK), UK and Ireland TV series, launched a comprehensive promotional site for the series.
15 September 2009, HBO made a mark registered with the United States Patent and Trademark Office for a possible future electronic game based on True Blood.
18 September 2009 launched an HBO True Blood jewelry line in collaboration with New York-based designer Udi Behr. Inspired by the series would Jewelry have a gothic look and will feature sterling silver, polished steel, and rubies.
Cast and characters
True Blood employs a broad ensemble cast composed of regular, central characters and a rotating group impermanent supporting characters. Although the series is based on the fictional town of Bon Temps, Louisiana, an appreciable part of the actors who comprise the cast is initially from outside the U.S.. In an interview explaining Ball that he did not deliberately seek out non-American "actors, but was willing to go anywhere he needed to "to find the actor who makes the character breathe." Ball went on to explain that in casting, there was more of a focus on who would portray character in a convincing manner rather than as would physically resemble characters from the book. Noting that there is a clear difference between the characters portrayed in True Blood and those depicted in The Southern Vampire Mysteries, he described Harris as being very understanding as to how her work was reinterpreted.
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The series is set in the fictional town of Bon Temps, Louisiana. The show acknowledges the reality that supernatural creatures such as vampires, telepaths, Shapeshifters and other mythical creatures exist.
In the first season vampires have recently come "out of the coffin" and many are trying to integrate or "mainstream" in society, a process made easier by the sale of artificial blood called "Tru Blood". Main characters of the series is Sookie Stackhouse (Anna Paquin), a telepath and waitress at the local bar, called Merlotte's, owned by Shapeshifter Sam Merlotte (Sam Trammell). Sookie's best friend Tara Thornton (Rutina Wesley) begins to work at Merlotte's in the pilot episode, and enter into a brief relationship with Sam during the first season.
In the first episode of viewers introduced to the vampire culture through Bill Compton (Stephen Moyer) who is rescued by Sookie when a local couple trying to drain his blood. After drinking blood Sookie Bill become psychologically connected Bill, and soon after they begin a relationship.
Sookie lives with her grandmother Adele (Lois Smith). Her older brother Jason (Ryan Kwant) is a road crew supervisor and womanizer. The main mystery of the first season worries Jason Stackhouse and murder of several women he has relationships with starting with Maudette Pickens (Danielle SAPIA) Merlotte's waitress Dawn Green (Lynn Collins) and his girlfriend Amy (Lizzy Caplan).
Jason works with Hoyt Fort Berry (Jim Parrack) and Lenie Rene (Michael Raymond-James). Lenie becomes engaged to Merlotte's waitress Arlene Fowler (Carrie Preston) and subsequently found to be the Bon Temps serial killer.
Detective Andy Bell Fleur (Chris Bauer) investigate murders in Bon Temps and favors Jason Stackhouse as chief suspects, and when he is proven to be wrong end of the season, he falls off the wagon. Bell Fleur boss is the town sheriff, Bud Dearborn (William Sanderson). Andy's cousin, Terry (Todd Lowe) is a former Army veteran who works in the kitchen at Merlotte's. Working with him is Tara's cousin Lafayette Reynolds (Nelsan Ellis), who also serves as a drug dealer, acting with vampire blood, known in the series as "V".
Tara's mother, and Lafayette's aunt, is Lettie Mae Thornton (Adina Porter), an alcoholic, undergoing an "exorcism" in the middle of the first season to exorcise her "demons". She sobers up and kick Tara toward the end of the first season.
People who indulge in sex with vampires is named "Fang-bangers" and in the first season the main destination for "Fang-bangers" are the local vampire bar called "Fangtasia", owned and operated by Eric Northman (Alexander Skarsg? Rd), a vampire who is sheriff in Louisiana, known as Area 5 of vampires. Eric employs Sookie to find a thief in his bar, but when the perpetrator (a vampire), is revealed and attempts to kill Sookie, Bill stakes and kills the thief to save her. Bill is punished for killing the second vampire being forced to create a new vampire. She is Jessica Hamby (Deborah Ann Woll), one seventeen year old girl. When she returned proves to be a handful for Eric and the end of the first season, she is taken in by Bill.
At the end of the first season is Tara involved in a DUI after being made homeless by her mother and meet "social worker" Maryann Forrester (Michelle Forbes) who agrees to take Tara in. During his stay with Maryann Tara is introduced to the "Eggs" Benedict Talley, to whom she feels an attraction.
During the first seasonal anti-vampire movement is represented by "Fellowship of the Sun", a Dallas-based church run by Pastor Steve Newline (Michael McMillian) and his wife Sarah (Anna Camp). After having turned himself in for killing his girlfriend in the penultimate episode of season is Jason Stackhouse employed by the church.
During the second season is influenced by Maryann Forrester and the conflict between vampires and humans expanded. Most of the cast from the first season returning and several new characters introduced. Maryann Forrester turns out to be a supernatural creature with the power to influence people, beginning with Tara and Eggs, but soon spread to the whole town Bon Temps.
Sookie is employed by Eric to investigate the disappearance of a vampire in Dallas. Godric (Alan Hyde) is a vampire more than two thousand years old, who is kidnapped by the Fellowship of the Sun, although it is later revealed that he gave himself like in an attempt to soothe relations between the two species.
In Bon Temps, ending Daphne Landry (Ashley Jones) Merlotte's as a new waitress, though she later reveals Sam that she is a Shapeshifter. At Fellowship of the Sun camp Jason encounters a rival named Luke McDonald (Wes Brown), which competes against Jason. At Fangtasia Eric Northman's deputy Pam (Kristin Bauer) have an expanded role, and in the middle of the second season she is approaching Lafayette and tells him to begin selling "V" for Eric.
Bill's maker Lorena (Mariana Klaveno) returns for a mid-season arc, where she tries to get Bill to admit his love for her, she later reveals that she never stopped loving him after the split. In Dallas, we are also introduced to Godric's Lieutenant Isabel (Valerie Cruz) and her human lover Hugo (Christopher Gartin). Also in Dallas public face of the American Vampire League, Nan Flanagan (Jessica Tuck), finally meet Sookie and Bill, previously only shown on television programs.
In the penultimate episode of the second season of the vampire queen of Louisiana Sophie-Anne (Evan Rachel Wood) is introduced. Both Bill and Eric visiting her in an attempt to find out how to defeat Maryann.
Plot
After establishment synthetic blood, vampires have progressed from legendary monsters to fellow citizens overnight. Sookie Stackhouse (Anna Paquin) is a telepath and a waitress at Merlotte's in the small Louisiana town of Bon Temps, owned by Sam Merlotte (Sam Trammell), a Shapeshifter-even if that secret is kept hidden. One night, Sookie meets Bill Compton (Stephen Moyer), a beautiful 173-year vampire who has returned to Bon Temps after death of his last relative. Since she can not hear his thoughts, she finds it easy to be in his company and about the first season will be the two romantically involved.
Season
Main article: True Blood (Season 1)
The main mystery of the first season concerns murders of women connected to Sookie's brother Jason (Ryan Kwant). Maudette Pickens and Dawn Green was strangled both cards after having been alone with Jason. Although Detective Bell Fleur have little doubt that Jason is the killer, the town sheriff does not suspect him. Jason and Sookie's grandmother is murdered shortly after. At the end of the season it is revealed to Arlene Fowler's fiancée, Rene Lenie is actually a man named Drew Marshall, who created a false identity, Cajun accent and all. He has been killing women, he believes, "Fang-bangers."
The first season also focuses on Sookie's relationship with Bill and Sam's relationship with Sookie friend Tara. Bill explains the rules of being a vampire for Sookie, and he considers himself to kill a vampire defending Sookie, he is forced to turn a young girl, Jessica, as punishment. In the last episode of the season, this new vampire back with Bill under his care. After Maudette and Dawn's murder, Jason becomes the vampire blood and has a brief relationship with another addict, Amy Burley, ending when she was murdered by Drew. Season ends with the discovery of a body of Detective Andy Bell Fleur car in Merlotte's parking lot. The first episode of season two reveals the body to be that of Miss Jeannette, drugstore clerk who gave fake exorcisms to Tara and her mother.
Season two
Main article: True Blood (Season 2)
Season two centers on the disappearance 2,000 years old vampire sheriff of Area 9, Godric (Alan Hyde). Eric enlists Sookie's and Bill's support finding Godric. As Sookie and Bill in Dallas, a supernatural maenad named Maryann causes mayhem in Bon Temps.
Reception
Critical reception of True Blood has been generally favorable, despite the fact that the first impression was mixed. The New York Post critic wrote about the opening episodes, "If HBO's new vampire show is any indication, there will still be many deaths – particularly among vampire hunters and viewers who love them – because everyone would be by die of boredom. And so it is with HBO's new series from death obsessed Alan Ball, creator of the legendary Six Feet Under, whose new show True Blood will not so much make your blood run cold as it will leave you cold. "
Whereas USA Today concluded: "Sexy, witty and unabashedly peculiar, True Blood is a blood-bath Southern Gothic romantic parable set in a world where vampires are out and about and campaigning for equal rights. Part mystery, part fantasy, part comedy and all wildly imaginative exaggeration, [True] Blood shows that there is still vibrant life – or death – left in 'star-crossed lovers cute "paradigm. You just need to know where stake your romantic requirements. "
By the end of the first season had True Blood a score of 64, indicating generally good reviews on Metacritic, an aggregator of critical responses. The second season had a more positive score of 74 on Metacritic.
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