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True Blood is an American television series created and produced by Alan Ball. It is loosely based on the South Vampire Mysteries series of novels by Charlaine Harris. The show airs on cable network hbo in the U.S. premium. It is produced by HBO in association with Ball's production company, Your Face Goes Here Entertainment. He created September 7, 2008.

The second show season of 12 episodes created on June 14, 2009. On July 30, 2009, HBO has confirmed that True Blood will be renewed for a third season.Alan Ball said he plans to start shooting the third season of Christmas 2009.

True Blood details the co-existence of vampires and humans in Bon Temps, a fictional small Louisiana town. Centers Sookie Stackhouse series of (Anna Paquin), a telepathic waitress in a bar, who falls in love with vampire Bill Compton (Stephen Moyer).

First season has 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 lasted five seasons. In October 2005, after Six Feet Under finale, Ball signed a two-year agreement with HBO to develop and produce original programming for the network. True Blood became the first project under the agreement, after Ball acquainted with the books by Charlaine Harris Southern Vampire mystery. [5] One day, while for an early dental appointment, Ball was browsing through Barnes and Noble and came across Dead Until Dark, the first installment of series of Harris. In fun, he read the entries following and interested in "bringing a vision] [Harris on television." However, Harris had two other options for adaptation for books. He said she chose to work with him, but because "really" had "me. So he convinced me to go with him. I felt he understood what I was doing with the books. "

The one hour pilot project was commissioned simultaneously with the completion of the development agreement and the above was written, directed and produced by Ball. Cast members Paquin, Kwanten Trammell and were announced in February 2007 and Moyer later in April. [7] [8] The pilot was filmed in early summer 2007 and was officially ordered to series in August, when Ball had already written several more episodes. Production the series started later in the fall, with Brook Kerr, who portrayed Tara Thornton in the original pilot, being replaced by Rutina Wesley. Two other episodes of the series was filmed before the 2007-08 writers Guild of America strike shut down production of the season 12-episode first until 2008. This September, after the first two episodes of the series was aired, HBO has placed an order for a second season of twelve episodes of series, scheduled to start production in January 2009 for a first summer.

opening title sequence

True Blood Emmy-nominated title sequence was created by Digital Kitchen, a production studio was also responsible for creating the generic Six Feet Under. The sequence, which is mainly composed of representations of the deep South setting issue, is played "Bad Things" Jace Everett.
Digital Kitchen was to explore the themes of redemption and forgiveness in the opening title sequence.

On Conceptually, Digital Kitchen elected to build the movie around the idea of "the prostitute in the house of prayer" by intermingling contradictory images of sex, violence and religion and the view from the perspective of a "supernatural creature predators observation the man in the shadows … "Digital Kitchen also wished to explore ideas of redemption and forgiveness, and thus arranged for the sequence progress from morning to evening and arrive at a baptism.

Most of the images used in the sequence was filmed on site by Digital Kitchen. The crew took a four-day trip to Louisiana for the film and also starred in a Chicago church and a stage and in a bar in Seattle. In addition, several members of the Digital Kitchen crew made appearances in the sequence.

In the opening edition, Digital Kitchen wanted to express how the "religious fanaticism" and "sexual energy" could corrupt humans and making animal. Consequently, several Executives in some plans have been cut to give an idea of nervous movements, while other plans were simply read very slowly. Images individual were also splashed with drops of blood. The sequence of transitions have been built differently, but they were made with a Polaroid transfer technique. The last image at once and the first image of another have been taken as a single Polaroid, which was then divided between the emulsion and support. The emulsion is then filmed being separated by chemicals and plans that separation have been seen in the final cut.
Eight different characters, inspired by road signs South, have also been manually created by Camm Rowland for casting and crew credits, as well as the show's title card.

Gary Calamar, the supervisor music for the series, said his goal for the soundtrack of the show is to create something "swampy, bluesy and sinister" and functionality local musicians in Louisiana. Composer Nathan Barr wrote the original score for the series which includes cello, guitar, prepared piano and harmonica drink with other instruments, making itself. [Edit] The main theme song is "Bad Things" by country music artist Jace Everett, from its inception Eponymous 2005.

Elektra / Atlantic Records released a soundtrack True Blood May 19, 2009, the same day as the release of the DVD and Blu-Ray's first season. Nathan Barr original score for True Blood is released on CD on the Varese Sarabande label September 8, 2009.

Both Barr and Nathan Jace Everett won in 2009 Awards from Broadcast Music Incorporated in the category BMI Cable Awards for, respectively, the original score and the True Blood theme 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 establishment of several Web sites, encoding web address in unmarked envelopes mailed to high profile blog writers and others and even the performance of a "vampire" who tried to reach out to others of their species, to discuss the recent creation of "TruBlood" a fictional beverage that is also 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 another called "Exclusive Interview with Samson BloodCopy Vampire". A comic book prequel was given to participants of the 2008 Comic-Con. The comic centers around an old vampire named Lamar, who tells the reader how TruBlood surface and has been discussed among the many vampires before going public. At one point, Lamar wondered if TruBlood is to make the world safe for vampires or their part.

Several advertisements featured on HBO and broadcast Facebook before the first round, placing similar ads in vampires to those of beer and wine. Some drink vending machines across the United States have also been equipped with maps showing their were "sold out" of TruBlood.
are thousands of DVDs of the first episode were given to participants of Midnight Madness, a special event projections of the 2008 Toronto International Film Festival. Blockbuster Video provided free rent the first episode of True Blood several days before its broadcast on HBO. Video had a slight watermark throughout the episode promotion.

On April 16, 2009, HBO released the first teaser poster for season 2. Image uses a technical point of view of observers who shows one of two images. A minute-long video advertising promotion two seasons, which featured Bob Dylan "Beyond Here Lies Nothin ', was released by Entertainment Tonight at the beginning of May
On September 10, 2009, HBO.com Tru started Buy: Blood, the fictional drink that appears in the show. In real life, it is a blood orange soda, developed and manufactured by Omni Consumer Products, a company that specializes in brand defictionalizing television and movies.

There is also a website for the award of the Sun, the antagonists series of books, videos containing Hot-button issues such as becoming a vampire.

FX (UK), the United Kingdom and Ireland distributor series, has launched an extensive promotional website for the series.
On September 15, 2009, HBO has filed a trademark registration with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office for a computer game based on possible future True Blood.

On September 18, 2009, HBO launched a True Blood online jewelry collaboration with New York-based designer Udi Behr. Inspired by the series, the jewelry will have a gothic look and features sterling silver, polished steel and rubies.
Discard and characters
True Blood employs a broad set cast of regular characters and a central rotation group of secondary characters impermanent. Although the series is based in the fictional town of Bon Temps, Louisiana, a significant number of actors including the actors are originally from outside United States. In an interview, Ball said he had not deliberately sought to "un-American" players, but he was ready to go anywhere he needed to order "to find the actor who plays the character breathe." Ball explained that, in the casting, there was more of a focus on those who would portray the character in a convincing manner than who physically resemble the characters in the book. Noting that there is a clear difference between the characters portrayed in True Blood and described in The Mysteries Southern Vampire, he described Harris as being very understanding about how his work has been reinterpreted.
[Edit] Main cast

The series is set in the fictional town of Bon Temps, Louisiana. The show acknowledges the reality that supernatural creatures as vampires, telepaths, and Shapeshifters There are other mythical creatures.

In the first season of vampires have recently 'on the coffin "and many are trying to integrate or" mainstream "in society, a process facilitated by the sale of artificial blood called Tru Blood. The main characters are Sookie Stackhouse series (Anna Paquin), a telepathic waitress at the local bar and called "Merlotte's, Sat owned shapeshifter Merlotte (Sam Trammell). Sookie's best friend Tara Thornton (Rutina Wesley) starts working at Merlotte in the pilot episode, and forged 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 saved by Sookie when a local couple to try to drain his blood. After drinking the blood becomes psychologically Bill Sookie related to the bill, and soon after they begin a relationship.

Sookie lives with her grandmother Adele (Lois Smith). His elder brother, Jason (Ryan Kwanten), is a supervisor of the team road and womanizing. The main mystery of the first season concerns the murder and Jason Stackhouse several women he had relationships with, starting with Maudet Pickens (Danielle Sapia), Merlotte's waitress Dawn Green (Lynn Collins) and his girlfriend (Lizzy Caplan) Amy.

Jason works with Hoyt Fortenberry (Jim Parrack), Leni and Rene (Michael Raymond-James). Leni is engaged to Merlotte's waitress Arlene Fowler (Carrie Preston), and it is later revealed to be the serial killer Good Time.

Detective Andy Bellefleur (Chris Bauer) investigate murders in Time Good and promotes Jason Stackhouse as the prime suspect, if it is proven false by the end of the season, he fell from the car. Bellefleur boss is the town sheriff, Bud Dearborn (William Sanderson). Andy's cousin, Terry (Todd Lowe) is a veteran of the Army's old who works in the kitchen at Merlotte's. Working with him is Tara's cousin Lafayette Reynolds (Nelsan Ellis), who also works as a drug trafficker, trafficking in the blood of vampire, the knowledge within the "V" series.

Tara's mother and aunt of Lafayette, is Lettie Mae Thornton (Adina Porter), an alcoholic who undergoes an exorcism "in the middle the first season to exorcise his "demons." It sobers and kicks Tara to the end of the first season.

Human beings engage in sex with vampires are called "Fang-bangers" and the first season the main destination for "Fang-bangers" is the local vampire bar called "Fangtasia", which is owned and operated by Eric Northman (Alexander Skarsgård), a vampire who is the sheriff Louisiana, known as Region 5 vampires. Eric uses of Sookie finding a burglar in his bar, but once the author (a vampire) is revealed and attempts to kill Sookie, Bill and issues kill the thief to save her. The bill is punished for killing another vampire being forced to create a new vampire. She is Jessica Hamby (Deborah Ann Woll), a young girl of seventeen years. Once she is turned to be a handful of Eric and the end of the first season, it is collected by the bill.

Towards the end of the first season, Tara is involved in a DUI, after being homeless by his mother, and answered "social worker" Maryann Forrester (Michelle Forbes), who agrees to take Tara in. When you stay with Maryann Tara is introduced to "Eggs Talley" Benedict, to whom she feels an attraction.

During the first season of the anti-vampire is represented by the Movement of the Sun ", a Dallas-based church led by Rev. Steve Newlin (Michael McMillian) and his wife (Anna Camp) Sarah. After turning to murder his girlfriend in the penultimate episode of season one, Jason Stackhouse is recruited by the church.

During the second season, Maryann Forrester's influence and the conflict between vampires and humans is developed. Most of the distribution from income of the first campaign and several new characters are introduced. Maryann Forrester appears to be a supernatural being with the power to influence human beings, start with Tara and eggs, but soon spread throughout the city of Good Cheer.

Sookie is recruited by Eric investigate the disappearance of a vampire Dallas. Godric (Allan Hyde) is a vampire more than two thousand years has been kidnapped by the Movement of the Sun, although it is later revealed that willingly gave herself in an attempt to calm the relations between the two species.

In Good Time, Daphne Landry (Ashley Jones) joins as Merlotte new waitress, though she later reveals to Sam that she is a shapeshifter. At the Camp Scholarship Sun Jason meets a rival called Luke McDonald (Wes Brown), which competes with Jason. At Fangtasia Eric Northman chief mate Pam (Kristin Bauer) gets an expanded role, and in the middle of the second season, she approaches Lafayette and told him to start selling "V" for Eric.

Bill manufacturer Lorena (Mariana Klaveno) returns for a mid-season arc, where she tries to get the bill to admit his love for her, she later reveals that she never stopped loving her after the split. In Dallas we are also introduced to Lieutenant Godric's Isabel (Valerie Cruz) and her lover man Hugo (Christopher Gartin). Also at Dallas public face of the American League Vampire, Nan Flanagan (Jessica Tuck) Sookie and Bill finally met, after only being shown on programs television.

In the penultimate episode of the second season of the vampire queen of Louisiana Anne-Sophie (Evan Rachel Wood) is introduced. Projects Bill and Eric from his visit to try to overcome how Maryann.

Plot

Following the creation of synthetic blood, vampires rose legendary monsters to their fellow citizens overnight. Sookie Stackhouse (Anna Paquin) is a telepathic waitress at Merlotte and in the small town Louisiana Bon Temps, belonging to Sam Merlotte (Sam Trammell), a shapeshifter, although the secret is hidden. One night, Sookie meets Bill Compton (Stephen Moyer), a vampire beautiful 173-year-old is back in Bon Temps after the death of his last remaining parent. Since she can not hear her thoughts, she finds it easy to be in his company and, during the first season, the two became involved romantic.
Season One
Main article: True Blood (Season 1)

The main mystery of the first season concerns the murder of women related to Sookie's brother Jason (Ryan Kwanten). Maudet Pickens Green and Dawn are both strangled shortly after having been alone with Jason. Although Detective Bellefleur is little doubt that Jason is the killer the town sheriff does not suspect. Jason and Sookie's grandmother is murdered shortly after. At the end of the season, it is revealed that the groom Arlene Fowler Rene Leni, is in fact a man named Drew Marshall has created a false identity, the Cajun accent and all. He was killed woman he regards as "Fang-bangers.

The first season also focuses on the relationship with Sookie Bill and the relationship Sam with his friend Tara Sookie. Bill explains the rules of being a vampire and Sookie after he finds himself killing a vampire to protect Sookie, it is forced to turn a young girl, Jessica, as a punishment. In the last episode of the season, this new vampire is left with the bill in its custody. After Maudet and murder of Dawn, Jason becomes addicted to vampire blood has a short relationship with another addict, Amy burley, which ends when she is murdered by Drew. First season ends with the discovery of a corpse in the car of Detective Andy Bellefleur in Merlotte's parking lot. The first episode of season two shows the body to that of Miss Jeannette, the clerk of pharmacies has exorcisms cans Tara and her mother.
The second season
Article: True Blood (Season 2)

Season two centers on the disappearance of the old vampire sheriff of 2000 years of Zone 9, Godric (Allan Hyde). Eric uses Sookie and Bill with Godric find. With Sookie and Bill to Dallas, a supernatural Maenad appointed Maryann causes mayhem in Bon Temps.

Reception
reception True Blood review was generally favorable, despite the fact that first impressions were mixed. The New York Post critic wrote episodes of opening: "If HBO new vampire show is any indication, there would still be countless deaths – in particular among hunters vampires and viewers who love them – because everyone would die of boredom. And so it is with a new HBO series of death, obsessed by Alan Ball, creator of the legendary Six Feet Under, whose new show True Blood will not be that shedding the blood of your cold because it leaves you cold. "

Considering that USA Today has concluded: "Sexy, funny and unashamedly particular, True Blood is a bloody Southern Gothic romantic parable set in a world where vampires are out to them, campaigning for equal rights. Part mystery, part fantasy, comedy part, and all the wildly imaginative exaggeration, [true] Blood proves that there still living the life – or death – left in the star-crossed lovers paradigm cute '. Just know where your application romantic challenge. "

At the end of the first season, True Blood had a score of 64, indicating generally reviews favorable on Metacritic, an aggregator of critical responses. The second season has scored more favorably than 74 on Metacritic.

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