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True Blood is an American television series created and produced by Alan Ball. It is based on the series of Southern Vampire Mysteries novels Charlaine Harris. The show airs on the premium cable network HBO in the United States. It is produced by HBO in association with Ball's production company, his face goes here Entertainment. It premiered on September 7, 2008.
The show's second season of 12 episodes premiered on June 14, 2009. On July 30, 2009, HBO confirmed True Blood to be renewed for a third season.Alan Ball has said it plans to begin filming the third season before Christmas 2009.
True Blood details the co-existence of vampires and humans in Bon Temps, Louisiana, a small fictional town. The series centers on Sookie Stackhouse (Anna Paquin), a telepathic waitress in a bar falling in love with vampire Bill Compton (Stephen Moyer).
The first series received critical acclaim and won several awards including a Golden Globe and an Emmy.
Development history
Series creator Alan Ball had previously worked with premium cable channel HBO on Six Feet Under, which ran five seasons. In October 2005, after the final Six Feet Under, Ball signed a two-year agreement with HBO to develop and produce programming original network. True Blood became the first project under the deal, after Ball was familiar with the Southern Vampire books by Charlaine Harris Mystery. [5] A day, while earlier dental appointment, Ball was browsing through Barnes and Noble and I found Dead until dusk, the first delivery Harris series. Enjoy it, read the following entries and was interested in "bringing the vision] [Harris on television." However, Harris already had two options for adapting to the books of others. He said he chose to work with him, though, because they "really" has "me. So is how he convinced me to go with him. I just felt I understood what he was doing with the books. "
one-hour pilot for the duration of project was ordered at the same time with the signing of development agreement and above was written, directed and produced by Ball. Cast members Paquin, Kwanten and Trammell were announced in February 2007 and Moyer late April. [7] [8] was killed the pilot in early summer 2007 and was officially ordered to series in August when which Ball had already written several episodes. The production of the series began that fall, with Brook Kerr, who starred as Tara Thornton in original pilot, being replaced by Rutina Wesley. Two more episodes of the series had been filmed before the 2007-08 Writers Guild of America strike shut down production of season of 12 episodes of the first until 2008. In September, after only the first two episodes had aired, HBO ordered a second one of the season of twelve episodes, with production scheduled to begin in January 2009 for a summer release.
Opening Title Sequence
True Blood is nominated for an Emmy title sequence was created by Digital Kitchen, a production studio was also responsible for creating the sequence of Six Feet Under. The sequence, which is mainly made to represent the deep South setting of the series, to play "Bad Things" by Jace Everett.
Digital Kitchen wants to explore themes of redemption and forgiveness in the opening sequence.
Conceptually, Digital Kitchen chosen to build the sequence around the idea of "slut House of Prayer "by mixing contradictory images of sex, violence and religion and their presentation of the point of view" to supernatural beings, creature human predator watching from the shadows … "Digital Kitchen also wanted to explore the ideas of redemption and forgiveness, and therefore arranged for the sequence to progress from morning to night and end up in a baptism.
Most of the images used in the sequence was filmed on location by Digital Kitchen. Crew members took a four-day trip to Louisiana to film and also shot at a church in Chicago and on stage and in a bar in Seattle. In addition, several members of the Digital Kitchen crew made cameo appearances in the sequence.
In the opening edition, Digital Kitchen wanted to express how "Religious fanaticism" and "sexual energy" could corrupt humans and making animal. Consequently, several stills of some photographs were cut to give a feeling of nervous movements, while other shots were played only very slowly. individual frames were also sprinkled with drops of blood. transitions the video clips were built differently, however, that were made with a Polaroid transfer technique. The last frame of a shot and the first frame another was taken as a single Polaroid photo, which was divided between emulsion and support. The emulsion was filmed more then separated by chemicals and shots of this separation were placed again in the final edition.
Eight different fonts, inspired by road signs in the South, were also Camm Rowland created manually by the cast and crew credits, and card series title.
Gary Calamar, Music Supervisor the series, said that his goal for the soundtrack of the series is to create something "swampy, blues and spooky" and to feature the participation of musicians from Louisiana. Nathan Barr writes the original score composer for the series featuring cello, guitar, prepared piano and glass harmonica, among other instruments, all of which he himself performed. [Citation needed] The theme song is "Bad Things" by country music artist Jace Everett, from his 2005 self-titled debut.
Elektra / Atlantic Records released a soundtrack True Blood on May 19, 2009, the day of the release of the DVD and Blu-Ray in the first season. Nathan Barr score True Blood original was released on CD on the Varese Sarabande label on September 8, 2009.
Both Nathan and Jace Everett Barr won awards from Broadcast Music, 2009 Incorporated into the category of BMI Cable Awards, respectively, of True Blood original score and song.
Marketing
The premiere of True Blood was preceded by a viral marketing / alternate reality game (ARG) Campaign, based in BloodCopy.com. This included the creation of multiple websites, coding web address in unmarked envelopes mailed to high profile blog writers and others, and even the actions of a "vampire" who tried to reach out to others of its kind to discuss the recent creation of "TruBlood," a fictional drink featured in the show. A MySpace account with the username "Blood" had, as of June 19, uploaded two videos: one entitled "Vampire Taste Test – True Blood vs Human" and a "Exclusive interview with BloodCopy SAMSON THE VAMPIRE ". A prequel comic book was delivered to attendees of Comic-Con 2008. The comic centers around an old vampire named Lamar, who tells the reader TruBlood about the surface and discussed among many vampires before going public. At one point, asked whether TruBlood Lamar is making the world safe for vampires or from them.
Several commercials featured on HBO and Facebook aired prior to the premiere of the series, vampires placing ads similar to beer and wine. Some vending machines in the U.S. were also equipped with cards indicating that they were "sold" to TruBlood.
DVD iles the first episode were given to attendees of Midnight Madness, an event of special screenings of 2008 Toronto International Film Festival. Blockbuster Video provided rent-free the first episode of True blood several days before it was broadcast on HBO. The video had a watermark weak promotion throughout the episode.
On April 16, 2009, HBO released the first teaser poster for season 2. The technique uses an image that shows the observer perspective of the two images. A Season minute promotional video advertising for two, which featured "Beyond Here Lies Bob Dylan Nothin '" was released through Entertainment Tonight in early May.
On September 10, 2009, HBO.com began selling Tru Blood, the fictional drink featured in the show. In real life, is a drink blood orange soda, developed and manufactured by Omni Consumer Products, a company that specializes in branded defictionalizing television and movies.
There is also a community website for the Sun, the antagonists of the series of books, videos of hot issues such as becoming a vampire.
FX (United Kingdom), United Kingdom and Ireland broadcaster of the series, launched a huge promotional website of the series.
On September 15, 2009, HBO filed a trademark registration with the Patent and Trademark Office for a possible future game-based e True Blood.
On September 18, 2009, HBO launched True Blood a jewelry line in collaboration with New York-based designer Udi Behr. Inspired by the series, the jewelry will look gothic and will with sterling silver, polished steel, and rubies.
Cast and characters
True Blood employs a huge cast of regulars at the center and a rotating group of impermanent secondary characters. Although the series is based on the fictional town of Bon Temps, Louisiana, a significant number of actors in the cast including originate outside the United States. In an interview, Ball said he did not intentionally seek out "non-American" players, but was willing to go anywhere I needed to in order to "find the actor who makes breathing character." Ball went on to explain that in the casting, had more than one approach which portray the character in a convincing way rather than physically resemble the characters in the book. Noting that there is a definite difference between the characters portrayed in True Blood and represents in Southern Vampire Mysteries, which he described as very Harris understood in terms of how their work was being reinterpreted.
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The series is set in the fictional town of Bon Temps, Louisiana. The program recognizes a reality that supernatural creatures such as vampires, telepaths, shapeshifters and other mythical creatures exist.
In the first season of the Vampires have recently come "out of the box and many are seeking to integrate or "mainstream" in society, a process facilitated by the sale of artificial blood called Tru Blood. " The main characters of the series is Sookie Stackhouse (Anna Paquin), a telepathic waitress and the local bar called Merlotte of "shape-shifting ownership Sam Merlotte (Sam Trammell). Sookie's best friend Tara Thornton (Rutina Wesley) starts working at Merlotte pilot, and entered a brief relationship with Sam during the first season.
In the first episode viewers are introduced to the culture through vampire Bill Compton (Stephen Moyer) who is rescued by Sookie when a couple local attempt to escape from your blood. After drinking the blood of Bill Sookie Bill becomes physically connected to, and shortly after starting a relationship.
Sookie lives with her grandmother Adele (Lois Smith). His older brother Jason (Ryan Kwanten), is a road crew supervisor and a womanizer. The mystery of the main concerns of the first Jason Stackhouse season and murder of several women who have sex with, from Maudette Pickens (Danielle Sapia), Merlotte's waitress Dawn Green (Lynn Collins) and his girlfriend Amy (Lizzy Caplan).
Jason Hoyt Fortenberry works with (Jim Parrack) and Lenier Rene (Michael Raymond-James). Lenier agrees with the waitress Merlotte Arlene Fowler (Carrie Preston), and later it was revealed that Bon Temps is the serial murderer.
Detective Andy Bellefleur (Chris Bauer) investigating the murders of Bon Temps and promotes Jason Stackhouse as the prime suspect, and when he is wrong at the end of the season, which falls off the wagon. Bellefleur boss is the sheriff in town, Bud Dearborn (William Sanderson). Andy's cousin, Terry (Todd Lowe) is a retired Army veteran who works at Merlotte's kitchen. Working with him is Tara's cousin Lafayette Reynolds (Nelsen Ellis), which also functions as a drug trafficker, trafficking in vampire blood, known within the series as "V".
the mother of Tara, and Lafayette's aunt, Lettie Mae Thornton (Adina Porter), an alcoholic who undergoes an exorcism "in the middle of the first season of exorcise his "demons." She kicks sober Tara to the end of the first season.
Human beings who engage in sex with vampires are known as Fang-bangers "and the first season the main destination of" fang-bangers "is the local vampire bar called" Fangtasia ", which is owned and operated by Eric Northman (Alexander Skarsgård), a vampire who is sheriff of Louisiana, known as Area 5 by vampires. Eric used to Sookie to find a thief bar, but once the author (a vampire) is revealed and attempts to kill Sookie, Bill and stakes kill the thief to save her. Bill is thus punished for killing another vampire by having to set a new vampire. She is Jessica Hamby (Deborah Ann Woll), a girl of seventeen. Once again proves to be a handful of Eric and end of the first season fooled by Bill.
Towards the end of the first season, Tara is involved in a DUI, following to be homeless by his mother, and meets "social worker" Maryann Forrester (Michelle Forbes), who agrees to take in. Tara While Tara is introduced with Maryann to "Talley eggs" Benedict XVI, whom she feels an attraction.
During the first season of the anti-vampire is represented by the Brotherhood del Sol, a Dallas-based church run by Reverend Steve Newlin (Michael McMillian) and his wife Sarah (Anna Camp). After the surrender of the murder of his girlfriend in the penultimate episode of the season, Jason Stackhouse is recruited by the church.
During the second season, the influence of Maryann Forrester and conflict between vampires and humans expands. Most of the cast of the first season and returns several new characters are introduced. Maryann Forrester reveals itself as a supernatural being with power to influence human beings, from Tara and eggs, but soon spread to all the people of Bon Temps.
Eric Sookie is recruited to investigate the disappearance a vampire in Dallas. Godric (Allan Hyde) is a vampire more than two thousand years old who is kidnapped by the Movement of the Sun, but is later revealed to be delivered voluntarily in an attempt to calm relations between the two species.
In Bon Temps, Daphne Landry (Ashley Jones) joins as a waitress Merlotte new, even more later revealed that Sam is a shapeshifter. In the camp community Sun Jason meets a rival named Luke McDonald (Wes Brown), who competes against Jason. In Eric Fangtasia Northman second in command Pam (Kristin Bauer) gets a larger role, and in the middle of the second season comes to Lafayette and says it will begin selling "V" Eric.
Bill manufacturer of Lorraine (Mariana Klaveno) returns from a mid-season arc, where it is that bill to admit his love for her, most later reveals that he never ceased to love him after the split. Dallas also introduces Godric's Lt. Elizabeth (Valerie Cruz) and her human lover Hugo (Christopher Gartin). Also at the Dallas public face of American Vampire League, Nan Flanagan (Jessica Tuck) finally meets Sookie and Bill, previously only shown in 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 his visit in an attempt to find a way to defeat Maryann.
Plot
Following the creation of synthetic blood, vampires have gone from legendary monsters citizens during the night. Sookie Stackhouse (Anna Paquin) is a telepath and a waitress at Merlotte in the small Louisiana town of Bon Temps, owned by Sam Merlotte (Sam Trammell), a shape-shifting, but the secret is hidden. One night, Sookie meets Bill Compton (Stephen Moyer), a vampire-looking 173-year-old who has become Bon Temps, after the death of his last remaining relative. Since she can not hear his thoughts, he found it easy to be in his company and, with the first season the two become romantically involved.
Season One
Main article: True Blood (Season 1)
The mystery of the main concerns of the first series of murders of women connected with Sookie's brother Jason (Ryan Kwanten). Maudette Dawn Pickens and Green are both strangled shortly after being alone with Jason. Although Detective Bellefleur is little doubt that Jason is the murderer, the town sheriff does not suspect him. Jason and Sookie's grandmother is murdered shortly thereafter. At the end of the season it is revealed that boyfriend Arlene Fowler Rene Lenier, is actually a man named Marshall Drew created a false identity, Cajun accent and all. He has been killing women he considers "fang-bangers."
The first season also focuses on the relationship with Bill and Sookie relationship Sam with her friend Tara Sookie. Bill explains the rules of being a vampire and Sookie after he is killing a vampire to protect Sookie, is forced to turn a girl Jessica, as punishment. In the last episode of the season, this new vampire is left with the account under his care. After Maudette and murder of Dawn, Jason becomes addicted to vampire blood and has a short relationship with another addict, Amy Burley, which ends when she is killed by Drew. Season one ends with the discovery of a body in the car Detective Andy Bellefleur in Merlotte parking. The first episode of season reveals that the body is that of Miss Jeannette, the clerk at a pharmacy that has fake exorcisms Tara and her mother.
The second season
Main article: True Blood (Season 2)
The second season focuses on the disappearance vampire sheriff of 2,000 years old, Zona 9, Godric (Allan Hyde). Eric enlists Sookie and Bill in helping find Godric. With Sookie and Bill in Dallas, a supernatural maenad Maryann called cause chaos in Bon Temps.
Reception
Critical reception of True Blood has been generally favorable, despite first impressions were varied. The New York Post critic wrote the opening episode: "If the program new HBO vampire is any indication, there would still be countless deaths – Especially in the vampire hunters and the viewers who love them – because everyone is bored to death. And so does HBO's new series of death obsessed Alan Ball, creator of the legendary Six Feet Under, whose new program of True Blood, not so much make your blood run cold, and that will leave you cold. "
Whereas U.S. Today concluded: "Sexy, witty and unabashedly peculiar, True Blood is a bloody Southern Gothic romantic parable in a world where the 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 are still vibrant life – or death – left in the "Star-Crossed Lovers paradigm of the Cuckoo '. You just have to know where to stake his claim romantic. "
At the end of the first series, True Blood had a score of 64, indicating generally favorable reviews, Metacritic, an aggregator of critical responses. The second season was more favorable score of 74 on Metacritic.
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