True Blood Season 5 Poster – Sookie!
May 12, 2012
Less Than 30 Days to True Blood Season 5!
The posters are out for the HBO True Blood stars for season five! There will be one for each actor and we at TrueBloodNet.com have decided to present one per post in order to give each it’s own top billing. As we all know, Sookie, Bon Temps telepathic waitress discovered she is also a Fairy last season. Sookie is played Oscar winning actress Anna Pacquin. For four seasons Sookie has been at the center of a vampire triangle between Vampire Bill and Eric Northman. At the end of last season she rejected them both and also turned down hot werewolf Alcide. Will she stick to that and spend a season alone? Will she find someone new? Maybe turn to Sam who’s always carried a torch for Sookie?
Photo Credit: HBO
Video: HBO Teases Fans With Another True Blood Season 5 Clip
April 16, 2012
Waiting Still Sucks but a New Teaser Makes it a Little More Fun:
As fans eagerly await the June 10th premiere of HBO’s True Blood Season 5, another teaser clip has been released. This video, the fifth released so far, is 37 seconds long and features Alcide (Joe Manganiello) and Sookie (Anna Paquin).
The clip is a scene from an upcoming Season 5 episode of True Blood. It is set in Sookie’s kitchen and is a conversation between Alcide and Sookie. When questioned, Alcide says he’s come to warn Sookie that Russell Edgington is on the loose. Sookie is confused since she believes that Russell is dead. The video ends as Alcide says, “You mean they didn’t tell you?”
We can’t wait for Season 5! How about you?
The clip can be viewed at HBO and YouTube.
Source: HBO
Video Source: You Tube
Joe Manganiello Dishes on “Magic Mike” and the “Season of the Werewolf”
March 2, 2012
A Werewolf Stripper?
As fans eagerly await the return of True Blood’s Season 5 this summer, Joe Manganiello seems to be the most prolific celebrity spoiler for the show. It has been noted that if we were to call season four the season of the witch, season five will be the season of the werewolf. That means a whole host of hot new werewolf cast members. Manganiello told Access Hollywood correspondent Tim Vincent (at GQ’s Men of the Year Party in LA) that he’s looking forward to the season. Last season, Alcide “helped end the reign – and life – of packmaster Marcus… and actress Dale Dickey recently joined the cast as Marcus’ – presumably grieving – mom.”
Manganiello said:
“I can’t wait to work with her (Dale Dickey) and I think there’s gonna be some werewolves who are gonna give Alcide some trouble this season, as well. I’m anxious to see who they’ll cast.”
The actor has revealed that he’s on par with the fans in wanting to see his character bump nasties with Paquin’s. “Alcide likes Sookie a whole heck of a lot. She’s single, Alcide’s single… I totally want to see them hook up.” Apparently, Manganiello’s mother is a big Paquin fan as well, and wants to see her son’s character “find love with Bon Temps’ fairy-waitress.”
He also raved about the disastrous return of Russell Edgington. “I love Denis O’Hare,” he said. “Him coming back – it’s not good for Alcide, but it’s definitely good for the show.”
Finally, in a separate interview with Access Hollywood, Manganiello spoke about his role in the new, star-studded, male-stripper movie “Magic Mike” in which he plays Big Dick Richie (Gasp! Drool.) While the movie was “loosely inspired by Channing Tatum’s own past,” the actors were treated to lessons from the likes of Britney Spears’ choreography team. “Body rolls, some hip stuff,” Manganiello mentioned. His costars include Matthew McConaughey, Matt Bomer, Adam Rodriguez, and Alex Pettyfer.
I personally am waiting with bated breath for the release of this film (in post-production) along with the return of True Blood, of course. Who’s with me? Leave your thoughts in the comments section, and check out the two full interviews that I have listed as sources if you need anything juicier.
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Photo: Spike TV
True Blood’s Leading Ladies in Top 25 Hottest Women on Horror TV Shows
February 19, 2012
What do Luna, Sookie, and Jessica Have in Common?
They’re all hotties, of course! It’s obvious that HBO’s True Blood is one of the scariest and goriest horror shows on TV, but what makes it even better are the beauties we get to see on screen. Three of Bon Temps’ residents made it on the Complex Top 25 Hottest Women on Horror TV Shows list:
#2- Deborah Ann Woll (Jessica Hamby)
#7- Janina Gavankar (Luna Garza)
#15- Anna Paquin (Sookie Stackhouse)
To see the other 22 women, check out the results! Sit tight Truebies, more True Blood is coming our way soon!
Source: Complex
Video: Joe Manganiello Reveals His Love for True Blood
November 20, 2011
Yorkshire Terriers, Love Squares, and Werewolves, Oh My!
In a recent interview, Emma Roberts, an Entertainment Reporter for MSN Entertainment, spoke with the statuesque Joe Manganiello about his role as Alcide Herveaux on HBO‘s True Blood. At 6’5″ and 225 lbs, Manganiello is not only a beefy hunk of a man, but as Roberts notes, is charming and adorable. When Alcide growls, Manganiello revealed that he’s channelling his 8 lb Yorkshire Terrier when Hercules (how effing sexy is a big man with a tiny dog named Hercules?) is threatened with the prospect of losing his pig-ear treat. If you weren’t swooning over Joe before, now would be a good time to start.
What Manganiello loves, and what audiences love about his role as Alcide, is what we love about dogs: “he’s very loyal, he has a big heart; no matter all the bad things that happen to him, he keeps coming back.” And why does Alcide originally fall for Sookie? She smells good. (I wish he’d sniff me out!)
About the forming love square between his character, Sookie Stackhouse, Bill Compton and Eric Northman, Manganiello surmises,
“My character offers something very different to the other two vampire suitors – he can go out with Sookie during the day, take her to tea, go to the beach. So they can do other things in the daylight that the others can’t.”
He adds that vampires can be “savage and duplicitous.” Whereas werewolves can also be savage, “Alcide in particular has a very strong moral code which isn’t necessarily present in the other characters on the show.” He articulates that Alcide has fallen for Sookie because she has a spunk, an energy of light; when he’s forced to take her into the underground world of werewolves in Season 3, he feels inclined to protect her and those feelings never disappear.
Truebies, if you want to enjoy Manganiello’s delightful personality in video form, watch the full interview below and let us know what you think in the Comments section!
Source: MSN UK TV
Photo: HBO
Big News for True Blood Comic Series
November 11, 2011
Publishers Have Announced a Monthly Release!
According to IDW Publishing the TRUE BLOOD comic book series has become one of their most popular titles. Since its first issue was published by IDW in July 2010, each installment has given Truebies a deeper insight into their favorite characters. Now, a new comic will be released every month. Alan Ball, the show’s creator, says about the series:
“The comics are a great way to continue telling True Blood stories off screen. With this new ongoing series, Truebies will be able to find a new comic in stores every month. We’ll also have even more room to create in-depth drama and further explore the world of Bon Temps.”
After IDW and HBO reached the New York Times‘ Best-Selling First Comic Collection with their compilation of ALL TOGETHER NOW, they released the second compilation entitled TAINTED LOVE. All Together Now is about a woodland monster who ravages Merlotte’s and Tainted Love revolves around Jessica ingesting some poisoned bottles of True Blood and Bill‘s search for its origin. In stores now, the third mini-series (not yet compiled) is called THE FRENCH QUARTER and:
“finds Sookie and Eric in New Orleans tracking a killer, whom Eric and Godric thought they killed in Paris more than 200 years ago, while Bill is in town investigating a local Hep-D outbreak that may be connected to the killer’s latest victims. Meanwhile, back in Bon Temps, Truebies will wonder why Pam is hanging out at Merlotte’s and what it is she wants with Lafayette.”
The French Quarter issues will be compiled as a series and released in March 2012.
TRUE BLOOD: ALL TOGETHER NOW ($24.99, 160 pages, hard cover, full color) is now available in stores. Diamond order code DEC10 0370; ISBN 978-1-60010-868-6.
TRUE BLOOD: TAINTED LOVE ($24.99, 160 pages, hard cover, full color) is now available in stores. Diamond order code JUL11 0370; ISBN 978-1-61377-019-1.
TRUE BLOOD: TAINTED LOVE ($11.99) is available in Apple’s iBook Store here: http://bit.ly/smqTIA
The entire TRUE BLOOD COMICS COLLECTION is available for the iPad, iPhone and iPod touch through the Apple App Store [http://itunes.com/apps/idwpublishing/truebloodcomicscollection]
TRUE BLOOD comics are available for the Sony PSP through the Sony Digital Comics store here: http://bit.ly/fKNzWV
Whoever has these comics or loves comics and True Blood should let us know what you think in the comments section! If you have any Truebie friends, I know the books make a great holiday present! (I’m hoping to find Tainted Love in my stocking since I’ve already purchased and devoured All Together Now.)
Image and Article Source: IDW Publishing
True Blood = Real Life?
October 14, 2011
A Doctor Compares the Microcosmic Bon Temps to the Macrocosm of Reality:
A newbie’s interpretation of True Blood and the psychology of “why we like it” appears on Psychology Today’s “Look Around and Look Within” blog written by Dr. Susan L. Smalley. Recently enthralled with the show, like a V-addict she watched all four seasons in one week.
The points that Smalley expands on are how 1. Sookie Stackhouse is a transparent, self-aware character; 2. “the world is not always as it seems;” 3. Equality of all beings, as a theme, plays a major role; 4. “religion can fuel intolerance;” 5. the characters of True Blood are constantly questioning who they are and subsequently altering themselves for the better (or worse) and 6. the mundane is supernatural.
Smalley’s article touches on why the majority of Truebies love the show: the fictional life presented is an indubitable metaphor for Reality. The problems of Bon Temps, albeit fantastical, are a mirror of true life; the ancient axiom of Life imitating Art (and vice versa) is empirically extolled by audiences.
Check out the full article here.
Let us know what you think in the comments below!
Source: Psychology Today – True Blood and True Life
Image: HBO
Video: Skarsgård on Eric in Season 5 of True Blood
September 21, 2011
The Actor Contemplates How Eric Should Be:
MTV recently caught up with True Blood’s Alexander Skarsgård (Eric Northman) at the screening for his latest film, Straw Dogs. Skarsgård was looking dapper as always, while sporting a mini-bouffant, which suits him quite well! He was asked how he wants to see his character during Season 5, whether he’d like to see Eric still heartbroken due to Sookie breaking up with him, or not. He replies that he doesn’t really know… he does, however, think that just because Eric is “back”, it doesn’t mean he’s the same old Eric:
“Old Eric is back, but it’s not like the old Eric, because he still remembers the love with Sookie, and those moments — and that changed him.”
We learn that Alan Ball and the writers are already hard at work writing the scripts for Season 5 (squee!), and we already knew from Janina Gavankar here that filming begins in November (double squee!), so hopefully waiting will suck less this time around, what with all this excitement, and sure-to-come news and spoilers!
Check out the video, Truebies, and tell us how you’d like to see Eric next season!
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Source: MTV – Alexander Skarsgård Talks Next Season of ‘True Blood’
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True Blood’s Season 4 Finale Shocks Viewers
September 16, 2011
True Blood Finale Bloody Good or Just Bloody?
HBO is famous for having some of the most extreme and riskiest shows on television. And what is True Blood most famous for? Being extremely bloody, that’s what. This season finale is no different. How did the finale end? In a bloody mess of course!
Many Truebies, including myself, aren’t happy with the weak way Marnie was dispatched. She stabbed and killed Jesus in order to acquire his brujo magic and then chained a shirtless Bill and Eric to burn at the stake when her reign of terror came to an end thanks to a number of Bon Temps ghosts led by Adele Stackhouse (Sookie’s Gran) and Antonia. Both joined together to convince Marnie to release her rage so she could rest in peace. I don’t know about you Truebies, but that seemed too easy to me.
Mark Roush, writer for TV Guide, said:
“With the Marnie dilemma ponderously resolved, and Gran’s Hallmark advice to Sookie (“Being alone… ain’t nothin’ to be afraid of”) interrupted by Eric’s droll “Excuse me, we’re feeling a little crispy up here,” there’s still half an episode to go. And does it ever pile it on.”
Sookie cuts both Bill and Eric out of her life making fans wonder if a certain were-tiger named Quinn will make an appearance next season.
What else happened on Sunday’s finale? Well, Steve Newlin appeared at Jason’s door bearing a nice set of shiny white fangs. Alcide discovered an empty hole in the cement garage where Russell Edgington was supposed to be entombed. While Sam was confronted by a snarling wolf, the ghost of Rene spooked Arlene by warning her that Terry’s new war buddy is up to no good. Nan Flanagan was staked by Bill just before Sookie was attacked by Debbie Pelt. Just when you think Debbie is going to shoot Sookie, Tara dives in front of her and is shot in the head. Sookie blows Debbie away and we are left with Sookie screaming for help as she cradles Tara’s lifeless body in her arms.
Is Tara dead? I guess we can’t believe anyone is dead, knowing True Blood’s infamous resurrections, until they are at least six feet under. Even then, considering the Russell Edgington situation, that’s barely a guarantee on True Blood.
Source Credit: TV Guide- Finale Review: HBO’s Sunday Night
(Photo Credit: HBO, Inc.)
True Blood’s EP and Writer on Sookie’s First Love
September 10, 2011
Alexander Woo Talks Vampire King and Viking Vampire:
Executive producer and writer of HBO’s True Blood, Alexander Woo, explained that Sookie Stackhouse’s first love, vampire king Bill Compton, was very recent and was also very, very deep. But now, Sookie seems to be falling in love with Eric Northman. Now the old Eric is back, memory and all. So what does this mean for the love triangle involving Sookie, Eric, and Bill?
On the choice to return Eric’s memory, Woo said:
“It felt like a good time because Sookie and Eric have gotten as close as… well, probably as they can get in this short period of time. This was the time for this roadblock where he [Eric] gets his identity back. And the fun of it for the viewer, I hope, is to see how that affects the relationship they had established while he didn’t have his memory.”
Woo said Alexander Skarsgård did an extraordinary job of conveying Eric’s sadness as a result of his memory returning because we got to see Eric at his core, the kind of humanity that Sookie fell for. Not only will the return of Eric’s memory affect his relationship with Sookie, but also his relationship with Pam.
On the changes that we have seen in Bill this season, Woo said:
“We wanted to show how he [Bill] has changed with this mantle of being the king of Louisiana. There are certainly a lot of responsibilities, so we thought it would certainly be fun to watch… interesting, and he seemed to be really good at it. But he has this gift. Part of it, I’m sure, comes from when we’ve seen Bill be charming, and so wonderful and so delightful. It reminds Sookie of why she was drawn to him in the first place.”
Woo adds that even though there are all of these things that have happened in the interim in the four years of the show or the four seasons since Bill and Sookie first met, we have to remember that it has really only been little over a year in their world. Sookie and Bill didn’t meet all that long ago. Bill doesn’t have to be Sookie’s lover, but he will always be a big part of her life.
Readers, do you agree? Sound off in the comments!
Source: The Hollywood Reporter - ’True Blood’ EP Defends Bill: ‘He was Sookie’s First Love’
(Photo Credit: HBO)
