It was (Strange) Love from the Start:
True Blood Season 2 - Composite Cast Poster :
'Sookie' (Anna Paquin) and "Vampire Bill" Compton (Stephen Moyer) - Early Season One:
True Blood could and maybe should be subtitled:The Adventures of Sookie Stackhouse...which is actually a good thing, at least for now. Anna Paquin rocks as the mind-reading ("Not psychic!") 20-something waitress/barmaid stuck in the northern Louisiana town of Bon Temps. Paquin plays Sookie Stackhouse, who happens to be quite a virginal character. And her new friend Bill (Stephen Moyer) is actually dead. He's 173 years-old so he's not really chipper and seems even a bit glum. But as the show played out you saw that he started to appreciate Sookie's guileless interest in him. At the least she'll make his life such as it is, interesting. Isn't that the beginning of what I'm guessing will become intense attraction? True Blood's Southern Gothic setting is probably necessary as this show features melodramatic vampires. I ordered the book and it should be here in a week maybe less with any luck, as I find the story quite compelling and want to read it while I'm watching the show (not literally, of course). :p
UPDATE 06.29.09/Caught up as of a week or so ago w/the Sookie Stackhouse series, finishing Book #9, "Dead and Gone". It is one of my favourites. In the top four. Read it in a few days (I was in no rush--some folks could easily read it in an evening or two) liked it a lot--would make a good season of True Blood. It'll be interesting to see if Alan Ball takes the True Blood characters in the direction Charlaine Harris does in her 9th Sookie book, Dead and Gone.". I wouldn't be surprised if he did--at least for maybe a season or so.
Across the country, vampires have “come out of the coffin” following the invention of mass-produced synthetic blood. In Louisiana, Sookie Stackhouse (Anna Paquin), a waitress with telepathic abilities, falls under the spell of sexy, 173-year-old vampire Bill Compton (Stephen Moyer) – whose thoughts she can’t read. After saving Bill from the Rattrays (James Parks, Karina Logue), a pair of ruthless “vampire drainers,” Sookie tests the limits of Bill’s gratitude when the two are left alone in the dark. Meanwhile, Sookie’s best friend Tara (Rutina Wesley) goes to work for Sam Merlotte (Sam Trammell) at his bar and grill, while Sookie’s roguish brother Jason (Ryan Kwanten) finds himself in hot water when a “fangbanger” with whom he’s been intimate meets a tragic end.
Written and directed by Alan Ball.
HBO Debut: SUNDAY, SEPT. 7 (9:00-10:00 p.m. ET/PT)
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