While we all wish we could attend the annual Comic Con, to get a lot of True Blood action. Someone decided to post this great interview Tv Guides Aussiello did there :)
The Calgary Herald has done a little article on the highlights we should expect in the next episode.
"Could True Blood truly be the best, bloodiest, bloody good drama on TV right now? It's not an entirely absurd question. Tonight's outing -- only the second in what looks to be True Blood's most frantic, action-packed and morally complex season so far -- is so fast, funny and clever, it's hard to believe it was made for TV. True Blood breaks long-established TV rules with an almost cheerful abandon: by introducing a half-dozen new characters, all of them flamboyant and over-the-top; by placing old characters in serious jeopardy; and by jamming so many jarring images, funny one-liners and puzzling moments together, the viewer hardly has time to think, let alone take it all in. A few highlights, to give you an idea: - Nazi werewolves! No, seriously. There are several flashbacks - the Second World War, when vampire Eric Northman (Alexander Skarsgard, stealing virtually every scene he's in) is a Nazi officer. - Anna Paquin is marvellous as Sookie, walking so many fine lines -- terror and -tongue-tied and quick to anger. When she tells Eric, "Don't you underestimate me," and he snaps back, "Don't you underestimate yourself," about five different reactions flood across her face at the same time. This is refined acting, at its best. - A new character -- a cursing werewolf named --- takes serious offence whenever someone mentions his name out loud. "Call me that again," he seethes. "I (expletive) dare you." - Hard-luck hero Lafayette, preventing his gal-pal -from overdosing, counters her mom's shrieky, "Sweet Jesus!" with, "You're too busy praising Jesus to realize your daughter is trying to move in with Him permanently." There's much more where this came from. True Blood is powerful, profound, and a guilty pleasure at the same time. Not many TV dramas can pull off that high-wire act. (HBO Canada -- 9 p.m. SOURCE Ew.com has done an article on the love triangle between Bill, Sookie and Eric and the presence of Nazi's in this season.
"How difficult it is to be sleek, sexy, and swift — all qualities True Blood displayed so effectively last season — when you're straining to introduce new friends and enemies to your audience. That's the challenge of True Blood's third season. There's so much going on with the characters to whom we're committed (Anna Paquin's Sookie, Stephen Moyer's Bill, Alexander Skarsgård's Eric, Rutina Wesley's Tara, and Sam Trammell's Sam Merlotte, to skim the surface) that the first few episodes of the new season are crammed to bursting with plotlines — and faces — old and new. The big addition this season is the introduction of werewolves to the true bloodiness of the show. Remorseless shifters with superstrength who get hopped up on vampire blood as though it were some combination of Ecstasy and crack, the werewolves arrive with a World War II backstory complete with flashbacks of Eric and Godric (Allan Hyde) posing in Nazi uniforms. In a show this stuffed with goodness, may I offer a small suggestion? Flashback scenes just take up valuable time we could be spending in the present. Picking up from season 2's vampire-napping of Bill, the opening hours of True Blood follow Sookie's frantic search for him. This accomplishes a few things simultaneously. We get a lot of Bill the way we like him most: trapped, angry, savage in his attempts to escape his werewolf captors. We also get Sookie having to decide whether she'll take Eric up on his offer to help, knowing that proximity to the Blond God of the Dark often leaves that gal all swoony. The drawback? Too many scenes of a vulnerable Sookie, running around squawking to anyone in sight that someone needs to help her. New faces include James Frain as Franklin, a vampire who becomes involved with Tara; Denis O'Hare as the foppish vampire King of Mississippi; and — in a crucial role from Charlaine Harris' sourcebooks — Joe Manganiello (One Tree Hill) as Alcide, a werewolf smoothy. In the series' second week, we meet the mother of our beloved Lafayette (Nelsan Ellis); she's played by Alfre Woodard in a terrific performance that quickly exceeds anything she's doing on the new TNT show Memphis Beat. What show creator Alan Ball has brought to True Blood's pulp-horror trappings is a unifying theme of power versus helplessness: an insistence that victims are capable of toughening, of overcoming their powerlessness to become smarter and stronger. It's a positive message that Ball and his writers and directors smuggle into a show that only seems to revel in decadence, gore, and duplicity. True Blood's dirtiest little secret is that it may be among the most ethical, even righteous, shows on television." SOURCE EW Has a preview of the cover of Entertainment this week and it features the love triangle we all adore; Sookie, Bill and Eric!
"Summer is heating up and so will television screens with Sunday’s return of HBO’s sexy and scandalous vampire series, True Blood. We’ve got the scoop on the new season, which includes scary werewolves, even scarier new vampires, and the search for Bill Compton. We’ve also got your introduction to all the key new players, including werewolf Alcide, played by Joe Manganiello. And Manganiello tells EW that — shocker! — it didn’t take long for his clothes to come off. “Having been a fan of the show, you know you’re going to be naked at some point,” says the newcomer. “I will say that I was welcomed into the brotherhood of the sock. When you’re naked on the show, you have to wear a sock, and it’s not on your foot.” Anna Paquin (who plays Sookie Stackhouse) is certainly used to getting naked on the show, but says the graphic love scenes are the least of her concerns. “It doesn’t really bother me,” she admits. “I’m really close with all of our cast, and we’ve all seen each other in various compromising and odd situations.” The actress is, of course, particularly close with fiancé Stephen Moyer (who plays Sookie’s vampire lover Bill), and Moyer says their real-life romance definitely adds to their love scenes. Jokes the actor, “I think that one great bonus is we don’t need a fluffer.” In addition to serious True Blood scoop, we also present the 10 Must-See Shows of Summer, giving you all the advance intel on the return of favorites like Mad Men and Jersey Shore, as well as a rundown on hot new shows like The Big C and Haven. What other shows made the list? You’ll have to check out the issue and see for yourself! For more on True Blood and all the hottest summer TV shows, pick up the new issue of Entertainment Weekly, on stands Friday, June 11." SOURCE USA Today has done a little article on HBO's True Blood, featuring a new picture leak of Alcide and Sookie.
"Werewolves, to be exact, will join the peculiar world of vampires, shape-shifters and mind readers who spice up the third-season HBO drama, returning June 13 (9 ET/PT). "It's just another element added to the supernatural craziness of it all," says Anna Paquin, who plays the telepathic Sookie Stackhouse. "There's no way you can ever get bored on a show like this. When you think you've seen it all and done it all, something weirder and wilder comes out of the woodwork." CALENDAR: Check out TV offerings this summer Weirder and wilder should provide an infusion of Oh! positive for an avid fan base that more than doubled during Blood's second season to 5 million viewers for each episode's first broadcast. Adding in replay, DVR and on-demand viewing, Blood ranks second only to The Sopranos among HBO series in total viewership. The thirst for Blood may be unquenchable. Fan site true-blood.net reports more than four times as many visitors in the past 30 days as in the corresponding period in 2009. Why do fans respond so strongly? "Part of us yearns for the muck of the primal," says series creator and executive producer Alan Ball. "We still have part of us that feels in awe of nature and all of the stuff that is bigger and scarier than us. ... I think True Blood has evolved into a show that can feed that desire, that incorporates fear, terror, sex and transcendent behavior in a way that's really entertaining and funny at the same time." And over-the-top bloody, of course. The series roughly follows the popular Sookie Stackhouse novels of Charlaine Harris, which focus on the mind reader and her relationships with vampire boyfriend Bill Compton and other folks (human and otherwise) in rural Bon Temps, La. The new season, which introduces werewolves, more shape-shifters and the byzantine world of vampire politics, corresponds to the third novel, Club Dead. "This is classic, escapist fun," says Stephen Moyer, who co-stars as the 173-year-old Bill. "You can read it on so many levels. It can be an hour of escapist drama. You also can watch it for comedy, suspense, as a thriller, as a horror. It's an audacious show." Continue reading here... Our lovely and delicious affiliate truebloodnet.com has a list of the nominations you can make for our True Blood HERE ! :) And while youre there take a peek around!
Actor Stephen Moyer and his on/off screen love Anna Paquin are doing a film together titled "Open House" MTV is reporting.
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