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True Blood: The Complete Second Season (HBO Series) Reviews:
Good Alternate Sookie Story
2009-11-07 - I saw season 1 and find it a little disappointing because it seems they dont stick to much to the books, so I started calling the series the alternate sookie story.

In season 2 you still will find good Bill, he is sooo goood with sookie, and it seems they make eric look like a very bad guy, not like in the books.

Anyway, I already convince myself that this is an alternate story and I will not try to compare it with the books because they wont fit. Even though I liked season 2 very very much, they stop the every episode super sex scene and concetrate more on the story line. Very fun and addictive after episode 3 until episode 11.

I wish they will do more episodes per season, like 15 and not 12.

I just cant wait to see season 3, even if I already read the books, since this is kind of a new story I am following it.


Best show ever, again!
2009-11-04 - Season 2 was just as awesome as season 1,I think this is a must for anyones dvd library! I just cant wait for season 3!

BEST VAMPIRE SERIES, EVER
2009-10-19 - STUMBLED ON THIS AND I WAS LIKE OMG, LOVED THE STORIES, THE CHARACTERS, THE LOVE SCENES AND THE WAY IT IS PRESENTED IN LOUISIANA SETTING. ADDICTED FROM THE START.

is it possible?
2009-10-14 - i love the series "true blood."
in the vast wasteland of garbage that tv has become, it is a breath of fresh air.

however, has anyone, besides myself, noticed that moronic jason stackhouse looks and acts like a younger george w.?

would alan ball have done this on purpose?

well, it works for me. every time i see stupid jason, it brings back memories of our great 43rd president.LOL

Another fine season for one of TV's more entertaining shows
2009-10-06 - In its second season TRUE BLOOD remained something of a phenomenon, one of the highest rated shows ever on HBO and widely discussed across the Internet by critics and fans. As in Season Two, the show more or less followed the storylines laid down by the Sookie Stackhouse novels, but Alan Ball and his team of writers felt free to make significant alterations. For instance, Season One ended with the impression that Lafayette, who does indeed die in the book, had been murdered. Happily, Lafayette, who was a minor character in the books, lives to sin another day in the TV series. And the maenad of the book, who was a minor though important character in the second novel, was elevated to the level of Season Two big bad. Sookie's brother Jason, who is a moderately important character in the books, continued to function as a major character on the series (though in a more clothed state).

In my opinion TRUE BLOOD might be the finest guilty pleasure show ever made. The very best shows are characterized by the richness and multiplicity of their subtexts. One of the marks of a guilty pleasure show is the relative absence of subtexts. One of the reasons that academics have embraced shows like BUFFY and BATTLESTAR GALACTICA is the extraordinary number of themes and texts running through them. BUFFY alone has produced a prodigious body of literature. TRUE BLOOD possesses subtexts, but not many and none of much sophistication. The show deals with prejudice, of course, with vampires and shape shifters standing in for any kind of

Season Two focused primarily on two arcs, one dealing with the Fellowship of the Sun, a virulent anti-vampire church (pretty transparently a parody of anti-gay Christian activism, and the other with the appearance of the maenad, an immortal being who takes on the identity of Maryann (played by Michelle Forbes, one of the finest actors on TV whose work I normally love a lot, but who sort of irritated me here - her work as Admiral Cain on BATTLESTAR GALACTICA is one of the finest guest roles I've seen in recent years). Intertwined with this are a host of other stories, such as Andy Lefleur's descent into alcoholism, Lafayette's torture for selling V and then his recruitment to do the very same thing, and the tough transition of Bill's ward Jessica to being a teenaged vampire. And through all of this the entire town of Bon Temps, suffering under the spell of Maryann, engage in one bacchanal after another.

There were a couple of nice Arkansas (my home state) connections in the season. Several scenes were shot in a church, which was supposed to be the home congregation for the anti-vampire Fellowship of the Sun, involved in one of the season's major plotlines. I wasn't familiar with the church, but I instantly recognized it as the work of Arkansas's foremost architect, Faye Jones. He is widely celebrated as the architect for the famed Thorncrown Chapel in Eureka Springs, Arkansas, a building that routinely is named as among the most beautiful structures in the United States. If you know Jones work, the church in TRUE BLOOD was instantly recognizable. My brother's late father-in-law was an architect. He was a student of Faye Jones at the University of Arkansas, where Jones founded the architecture department, against the recommendation of his employer Frank Lloyd Wright. The second Arkansas tie in was Sam's being told by his foster father the whereabouts of someone Sam was looking for. Where? Magnolia, Arkansas. What makes that interesting is that Magnolia is the small Arkansas town in which Charlaine Harris lives and where she created the world of Sookie Stackhouse.