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True Blood is an American television series created and produced by Alan Ball. It is based on the Southern Vampire Mysteries series of novels by 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 True Blood confirmed to be renewed for a third season.Alan Ball has said he plans to start shooting the third season before Christmas 2009.

True Blood detail co-existence of vampires and humans in Bon Temps, a fictional small Louisiana town. The series centers on Sookie Stackhouse (Anna Paquin), a telepathic waitress in a bar, who falls for vampire Bill Compton (Stephen Moyer).

The first record received critical acclaim and won several awards, including Globe Gold 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 the final Six Feet Under, Ball signed a two-year agreement with HBO to develop and produce original programming for the network. True Blood became in the first project under the deal, after Ball was familiar with the Southern Vampire books by Charlaine Harris Mystery. [5] One day, while an early appointment dentist, Ball was browsing through Barnes and Noble and I found Dead until dusk, the first installment of the series of Harris. Enjoy it, read the following entries and was interested in "bringing] [Harris vision to television." However, Harris had two options for adaptation to other books. He said she chose to work with him, though, because they "really" have me. That is how convinced me to go with him. Simply I felt I understood what he was doing with the books. "

one-hour pilot project duration was ordered at the same time with the completion the aforementioned development deal and was written, directed and produced by Ball. Cast Members Paquin, Kwanten and Trammell were announced in February 2007 and later Moyer in April. [7] [8] The pilot was shot in the summer of 2007 and was officially ordered to series in August, at which point Ball had already written several episodes. Series production started later than autumn, Brook Kerr, who starred as Tara Thornton in the original pilot, being replaced by Rutina Wesley. Two more episodes of the series had been filmed before the Writers Guild of America strike shut the 2007-2008 season production of 12 episodes of the first until 2008. In September, after only the first two episodes had aired, HBO made an order for a second season of twelve episodes of the show with production scheduled to begin in January 2009 for a summer release.

Opening Title Sequence

True Blood Emmy nominee sequence title was created by Digital Kitchen, a production studio was also responsible for creating the sequence of Six Feet Under. The sequence, which is largely composed Pictures of the series creation of the Deep South, to play the "bad things" 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 "the whore in the house of prayer" by mixing contradictory images of sex, violence and religion and their presentation in terms of "supernatural beings, human predatory creatures watching from the shadows … "Digital Kitchen also wanted to explore the ideas of redemption and forgiveness, and therefore arranged for the sequence to progress in the 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 movement nerve, while other shots were played only very slowly. individual frames were also sprinkled with drops of blood. transitions of the video clips were built another way, however, that were made with a Polaroid transfer technique. The last frame of a shot and the first frame of another were taken as a single Polaroid picture, which was divided between emulsion and support. The emulsion was filmed more then separated by chemicals and the shooting of this separation were placed back in the final edit.
Eight different fonts, inspired by road signs in the South, were also created manually by Camm Rowland and credit allocation crew and card series title.

Gary Calamar, the music supervisor of 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 wrote the original score composer for the series which has with cello, guitar, prepared piano and glass harmonica, among other instruments, all of which he performs. [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 the May 19, 2009, the day of the release of the DVD and Blu-Ray in the first season. Nathan Barr original score for True Blood was released on CD on the label Varèse Sarabande on September 8, 2009.

Both Nathan and Jace Everett Barr won awards from Broadcast Music Incorporated 2009 in the category of cable BMI awards, respectively, True Blood original score and song.

Marketing
The premiere of True Blood was preceded by a viral marketing / alternate reality game (ARG) Campaign BloodCopy.com based. This included the creation of multiple websites, the web address coding 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 in its class, to discuss the recent creation of "TruBlood" a fictional drink featured in the show. A MySpace account with the username "Blood" was, 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 given to attendees Comic-Con 2008. The comic centers around an old vampire named Lamar, who tells the reader how TruBlood 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 Univision before the premiere of the series, putting the vampire-like ads for beer and wine. Some vending machines in the U.S. were also equipped with cards indicating that they were "sold" to TruBlood.
iles DVD of the first episode were given to attendees of Midnight Madness, an event special projection of Toronto International Film Festival 2008. Blockbuster Video provided free of rent for the first episode of True blood several days before it was transmitted HBO. The video had a watermark weak promotion throughout the episode.

On April 16, 2009, HBO released the first teaser poster Season 2. The technique uses an image that shows the observer perspective of the two images. A season-minute promotional video advertising two, which featured "Beyond Here Lies Bob Dylan Nothin '", was released by Entertainment Tonight in early May.
On 10 September 2009, HBO.com began selling Tru Blood, the fictional drink featured in the show. In real life, is a 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 antagonists of the series of books, videos of hot issues such as becoming a vampire.

FX (UK), United Kingdom and Ireland broadcaster television series, launched an extensive promotional website of the series.
On September 15, 2009, HBO presented a trademark with the Patent and Trademark Office for a possible future electronic game based on True Blood.

On September 18, 2009, HBO launched a jewelry line True Blood in collaboration with New York-based designer Udi Behr. Inspired by the series, the jewelry will look gothic and will be 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 secondary characters impermanent. Although the series based on the fictional town of Bon Temps, Louisiana, a significant number of actors in the cast including originate from outside the United States. In an interview, Ball said not intentionally seek out "non-American" players, but was willing to go anywhere he needed to in order to "find the actor who plays breathing character. "Ball went on to explain that in the casting, had more than one approach to 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 Mysteries the vampire, 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 creatures there iconic.

In the first season of the Vampires have recently come "out of the box" and many are trying to integrate, or "current Principal, in society, a process facilitated by the sale of artificial blood called Tru Blood ". The main characters in the series are Sookie Stackhouse (Anna Paquin), a telepathic waitress and the local bar called Merlotte of "shape-shifting property of 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 the culture through vampire Bill Compton (Stephen Moyer) who is rescued by Sookie when a local couple trying 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 season Jason Stackhouse and murder of several women who have sex with, Maudette from 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 revealed that the murderer Bon Temps in series.

Detective Andy Bellefleur (Chris Bauer) investigating the murders of Bon Temps and promotes Jason Stackhouse as a prime suspect, and when he is wrong at the end of the season, which falls off the wagon. Bellefleur is chief of the town sheriff, 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 the cousin of Lafayette Tara Reynolds (Nelsen Ellis), which also functions as a drug trafficker, trafficking 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 exorcising 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 Skarsg? meetings), a vampire who is sheriff of Louisiana, known as Area 5 by vampires. Eric used to Sookie to find a burglar in his bar, but once the author (a vampire) is revealed and attempts to kill Sookie, Bill and stakes kills 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 seventeen. Once again she proves to be a handful of Eric and end of the first season to be fooled by Bill.

Towards the end of the first season, Tara is involved in a DUI, following which have been rendered homeless by his mother, and complies with "social worker" Maryann Forrester (Michelle Forbes) that agrees to take Tara in. During your stay with Tara is introduced Maryann "Talley eggs" Benedict XVI, whom he feels an attraction.

During the first season of the anti-vampire is portrayed by the Brotherhood of the Sun ", a Dallas-based church run by Reverend Steve Newlin (Michael McMillian) and his wife Sara (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 the 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 the 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 of a vampire in Dallas. Godric (Allan Hyde) is a vampire more than two thousand years old who is abducted by the Movement of the Sun, but was revealed later turned himself in an attempt to calm relations between the two species.

In Bon Temps, Daphne Landry (Ashley Jones) joins as a waitress Merlotte new, but later revealed that Sam is a shapeshifter. In the camp community Sun Jason meets a rival called Luke McDonald (Wes Brown), who competes against Jason. In Fangtasia of Eric Northman second in command Pam (Kristin Bauer) gets a larger role, and in the middle of the second season Lafayette approaches and says it will begin selling "V" for Eric.

Bill manufacturer of Lorraine (Mariana Klaveno) returns from a mid-season arc, where is that bill to admit the love for her, who later reveals that she never stopped loving him after the split. Dallas also introduces Isabel Godric's lieutenant (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 on television programs.

In the penultimate episode of the second season Louisiana vampire queen 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 to 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 has returned to Bon Temps, after the death of his last remaining relative. As she can not hear their thoughts, so 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 major concerns of the first season of the murders of women connected with Sookie's brother Jason (Ryan Kwanten). Maudette Dawn Pickens and Green are both strangled shortly after having been alone with Jason. Although Detective Bellefleur is little doubt that Jason is the murderer, the city sheriff are 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 Sookie's relationship with Bill and Sam's relationship with her friend Tara Sookie. Bill explains the rules of being a vampire and Sookie after him is killing a vampire to protect Sookie, is forced to turn a daughter, Jessica, as punishment. In the last episode of the season, this new vampire gets account in their care. After Maudette and murder of Dawn, Jason becomes addicted to vampire blood and has a short relationship with another addict, Amy Burley, that ended when she is killed by Drew. Season one ends with the discovery of a body in the car of Detective Andy Bellefleur in Merlotte parking. The first episode of season reveals that the body is that of Miss Jeanette, the clerk at a pharmacy that has given fake exorcisms Tara and her mother.
The second season
Main article: True Blood (Season 2)

The second season focuses on the demise of the vampire sheriff of 2,000 years old, Zona 9, Godric (Allan Hyde). Eric is ready for Sookie and Bill in helping find Godric. With Sookie and Bill in Dallas, a supernatural call Maryann maenad cause chaos in Bon Temps.

Reception
Reception criticism of True Blood has been generally favorable, although first impressions were mixed. The New York Post critic wrote the opening episodes: "If HBO's new vampire program is any indication, there would still be countless deaths – especially among vampire hunters and the viewers who love them – because all the world is dying of boredom. And so does HBO's new series of death obsessed with Alan Ball, creator of the legendary Six Feet Under, whose new program True Blood therefore not 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 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 season True Blood scored 64, indicating generally favorable reviews on Metacritic, an aggregator of critical responses. The second season scored more favorable than 74 on Metacritic.

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