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Alan Ball Says Season Two of True Blood Is "Sexier and Gorier"
The second season of HBO's True Blood kicks off tonight and doesn't waste any time jumping into the scary murder madness that has engulfed the citizens of Bon Temps.
According to the show's creator, Alan Ball, everything intensifies this season: vampires are more monstrous, sex scenes are even sexier, shape-shifters become more, er, shape-shiftery, and the anti-vampire movement becomes even more zealous.
Here are more highlights from the conference call Ball recently held with reporters:
- Talking about the serial killer: "The first season we, the audience, did not know who the serial killer was.
First Look: True Blood Season Two
I was jealous of the folks at the Paley Festival in LA last week when they got to see a sneak peek of the second season of True Blood. Well, kudos to HBO for slipping this clip out to the rest of us, because it's a dark and creepy first look at season two of the vampire series.
The clip focuses on Sookie, Bill, and Bill's new little vampire girl, Jessica.
What to Netflix: New DVD Tuesday
All of the new DVD releases hit stores (and Netflix) on Tuesdays. So each week in What to Netflix: New DVD Tuesday, I sort through the best of the batch and tell you what to add to your queue.
Nip/Tuck: Season Five
Season five finds Sean McNamara and Christian Troy making the leap from Miami to Los Angeles.
Towelhead: Sad, Disturbing, Just Like the Book
There's been some controversy and outrage surrounding Alan Ball's adaptation of Alicia Erian's novel Towelhead, which I might understand more if I hadn’t read the original work. People are calling the film "abhorrent," "ethically reprehensible and irresponsible," and "gratuitously offensive." And yet, this isn't really Ball’s fault.
TV Preview: True Blood
I don't think it will be a revolutionary statement that how one feels about Alan Ball's new HBO series, True Blood, will have a lot to do with how one generally feels about vampires. Me, they've never really been my thing; they're OK and all, but the mere mention of fangs wouldn't necessarily get me to tune in. This review, then, is for (and by) the vampire-agnostic.
Book Review: Towelhead
I first heard of Towelhead when I caught a trailer for the Alan Ball-directed film adaptation of Alicia Erian’s novel. The trailer looked like a sweet (perhaps a little bittersweet) coming-of-age story with moments of dark humor. The book is all of these things, but I was not at all prepared for exactly how disturbing it would be, or how utterly sad.
Alan Ball on Immortality and Why Vampires Are Sexy
This weekend, writer/director Alan Ball of Six Feet Under fame returns to HBO with True Blood. The vampire saga, based on the novels of Charlaine Harris, follows Sookie Stackhouse (Anna Paquin), a waitress who can read minds — except for the one of Bill, a vampire who's new to town.
I've checked out the first two episodes of the show and will give you my reaction before Sunday's premiere.
TV Preview: Alan Ball's Next HBO Show, True Blood
At Comic-Con, I was lucky enough to catch some footage of True Blood, Alan Ball's (Six Feet Under, American Beauty) HBO adaptation of the book series by Charlaine Harris, and I was hooked. Now there's a trailer for the series, which premieres on HBO Sept. 7, so we can all discuss the show: whether or not it looks to be of the same caliber as Six Feet Under, how distracting the Southern accent attempts may be, how smitten we are or are not by Anna Paquin in this role, etc.
True Blood Sucks In the Enthusiasm at Comic-Con
If you combine small-town drama and sexy vampires, the result would be True Blood, the forthcoming HBO series from Alan Ball, the man behind Six Feet Under. The show's cast and creator — along with Charlaine Harris, who wrote the Southern Vampire book series on which the show is based — showed up at Comic-Con on Thursday to explain to a cheering crowd what makes their show different from other vampire stories.
True Blood, which premieres Sept.
Link Time! 7/8
- E!'s Watch With Kristin makes me all kinds of happy by reporting that Michael J. Fox is in talks to return to TV, guest-starring on Rescue Me and reprising his role on Scrubs.
- Joss Whedon told the MTV Movies Blog about one of his next projects: writing and producing the movie Cabin in the Woods.
- TV Filter has an awesome montage of reality show contestants saying they're "not here to make friends."
- If you loved the short film Presto before Wall-E, The Underwire lets you watch it again and again.
- Stereogum has the new video for Death Cab for Cutie's "Cath."
- It's Cheers week on TV Squad, and to celebrate, one of the show's writers, Ken Levine, has shared the episode of Cheers he's still writing in his head.
- Popwatch's Michael Slezak makes a darn good argument that Jessica Simpson's version of "These Boots Were Made for Walking" is the worst cover of all time. Do you think there's a cover song that tops that one?
- TiFaux watched Alan Ball's True Blood, and .
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