17 Facts About True Blood

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True Blood is an American fantasy horror drama television series produced and created by Alan Ball.

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True Blood became the first project under the deal after Ball became acquainted with Charlaine Harris's Southern Vampire Mystery books.

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True Blood read the entries that followed and became interested in "bringing [Harris'] vision to television".

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4.

Nathan Barr's original score for True Blood was released on CD on the Varese Sarabande label on September 8,2009.

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5.

The second True Blood soundtrack was released on May 25,2010, to coincide with the third season's premiere in June.

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6.

The comic centers around an old vampire named Lamar, who tells the reader about how TruTrue Blood surfaced and was discussed between many vampires before going public.

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7.

True Blood employs a broad ensemble cast composed of regular, central characters and a rotating group of impermanent supporting characters.

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8.

Major characters of the first season of True Blood are introduced among various intertwining plot lines that surround the Bon Temps bar "Merlotte's".

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9.

True Blood begins by manipulating Tara and Eggs to achieve her goal of summoning her god to earth, and eventually takes control of almost the entire population of Bon Temps.

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10.

True Blood turns to Eric for help, who is not interested, but he ends up sending werewolf Alcide Herveaux for assistance after it is revealed that Bill was taken by V-addicted werewolves in the employ of the 3000-year-old vampire king of Mississippi, Russell Edgington.

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11.

True Blood will help Sookie and Jason discover the truth about their parents' murders.

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12.

True Blood soon meets the "true death", but shortly after, he "rises from the blood", as an even more powerful vampire reincarnation of Lilith.

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13.

Sexy, witty and unabashedly peculiar, True Blood is a blood-drenched Southern Gothic romantic parable set in a world where vampires are out and about and campaigning for equal rights.

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Part mystery, part fantasy, part comedy, and all wildly imaginative exaggeration, [True] Blood proves that there's still vibrant life — or death — left in the 'star-crossed cute lovers' paradigm.

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15.

True Blood was the subject of a Sesame Street sketch parody titled "True Mud", featuring puppet versions of Sookie, Bill, Lafayette, Sam, Tara, and Sheriff Dearborne.

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16.

Struggle for vampire equality in True Blood has been interpreted as an allegory for the LGBT rights movement.

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17.

David Bianculli of NPR wrote, "True Blood is big on allegory, and the tension about accepting vampires into society is an obvious play on civil rights in general, and gay rights in particular".

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