True Blood's Super Moon Night

Supermooniacs have a safe, fun night howling and watching (ironically) "The Sun", tonight's second episode of True Blood season 6.  The season of Puffy Chest Bill, I'll be counting his chesty puffs tonight. Episode info here, I told y'all already about Niall, love Rutger in this role.

We get to meet Ben and his contrived lame way to meet Sookie, didn't she learn anything since bullet sucking with Eric?

Rutina talks to Zap2it about shooting nights now that she's a vamp.
"Oh, my God, so many long night shoots!" the actress gasps, then laughs. "Sometimes I kind of miss being human. In some of the early episodes this season, we were shooting on a beach near the ocean, and we shot, like, all night, and it was very cold, and it sucked. But don't get me wrong; I love my job. And there is an advantage, really, because when you're playing a human character, you can be doing a scene at any time of the day or night, but when you're a vampire, when the sun comes up, you have to stop shooting!"
I love that she has been keeping her Facebook page updated.

Good interview at RollingOutMag with Rutina-

As the show enters its sixth season, the actress acknowledges that her character has gotten mixed reactions from some African American fans. Some have been critical of what they see as a stereotypical “angry black woman” on-screen.
“I’ve always let the writers do what they do and I just go to work and act. I’ve never really complained about anything and I’ve just let it be and tried to do my best to act it out appropriately and make sure Tara has layers and she’s not just an ‘angry black woman,’ ” Wesley explains. “She has definitely got her reasons for being so defensive. I try to create layers so that the audience can see this is a wounded girl. Hopefully people get that, some people don’t.”
That ‘angry black woman’ criticism stings Wesley at her core—as a black woman andas an actress. “I’m like ‘Can you not see her vulnerability?’” Wesley says. “That makes me feel [like] I’m not doing a great job as an actor. Or are they just not seeing other scenes where I’m, like, crying? We can stereotype ourselves and that’s really not fair.”
“I feel like I’ve gotten a lot more opportunities — especially since I’ve been a vampire,” Wesley concedes. “People see me in a different light. I get to be really sexy, instead of [always wearing] a tank top and jean shorts ripped at the bottom.”

Ep. 62 Inside the Episode

Ep. 62 Recap

The Moon is on the Rise

Will Tara pull through, is she the death that brings Bon Temps together?? Stay tuned folks, but I think they get that bullet out of her. Was it wooden or silver, or both?

From MegaBuzz- So what the heck is going on with Bill on True Blood? — Jonah 

NATALIE: That's what he'll be trying to figure out over the next few episodes, much to Jessica's chagrin. As Bill tests the boundaries of his newfound powers, he'll have some disastrous results. "Jess is terrified," Deborah Ann Woll tells us, "absolutely out-of-her-mind terrified. He's the last tether for her. She doesn't have Hoyt. She doesn't have Jason anymore. It's really scary to think that the one person she used to rely on is in this internal battle." 
Part of the interview Stephen Moyer from THR-

"Working with Anna is a blessing in many ways because I’ve been doing this 23 or 24 years, she’s been doing it 22 years herself, and she is just so professional on set," he tells THR.
"She is so clear, and the way that Anna learns lines, for example, is not the way I learn lines," he says. "She has a photographic memory. So she can read that piece of paper in your hand, and she’ll be able to quote it back in two full reads of it."In the season premiere of True Blood, Moyer's Bill has been reborn as a new version of himself after drinking the blood of the first vampire, Lilith. Paquin's Sookie feels that the new Bill is nothing like the Bill she once loved -- and asks him to leave her alone forever.
"Bill has changed so much," says Moyer, thinking back to the season-one Bill, a mysterious vampire who fell in love with human Sookie.
Moyer reveals that season six is very much about "identity" for many of the residents of Bon Temps, including Sookie and Bill.
"For Bill, we find out what this thing is that he's become and what it means and what it is to him," says Moyer.
For many fans, the loss of love between Bill and Sookie has always been a point of sadness. From what we've seen of season six already, it doesn't look like the two star-crossed lovers will be reuniting anytime soon, with Bill struggling to figure out what his new powers mean with a war between humans and vampires on the horizon.
"I don't know if Bill and Sookie are ever getting back together," says Moyer. "I don't know whether that's even possible at this stage."
"I don't know if it even is what the fans want," he adds. "I think she has so many suitors around her -- it could go all sorts of ways."

Lafayette, why can't one damn love interest stay alive on this show? Sookie Darlin'

I think children of the night can see in the dark, just saying Sookie. That was dumb.

The Campblood campers are back!  Yes, against all odds and the advice of medical professionals, we are back once again to recap the final season of True Blood. Join us as we try to figure out what the eff is going on with Warlow, Jess, Luna, the Governor, and all the rest.
Stephen's Q&A with HBO Connect is up- 
lucaswhore- What's your favorite villain till now? Rene, Maryann, Russell or Marnie?Stephen Moyer says:
Hmm... I would say it is a joint 1st place between Maryann and Russell. She is such an amazing woman and brilliant actress. Season 2 was really special. We didn't think we'd be able to find anyone like her. Not knocking Rene who we all absolutely loved! I would have to go with Denis just purely because he is just brilliant too. I sort of thank the show for bringing him into my normal life too, and to him for elevating our show into a different stratosphere. He's so brilliant, he brings everyone's game up to a different level.

New promo for E2.

Sneak peek for The Sun

Sneak peek for E3, You're No Good.

Pam needs to get all her cash and valuables together, and take it on the road with Tara,at least until Nora is dispatched (make it fast).

Monday Premiere Fangover Continued

"When you stick Mr. Happy inside somebody's hoo-ha without a raincoat on, babies come out!" -Sex ed from Arlene. She hit that nail on the head.

Yesterday the HBO True Blood site said there was a new BabyVamp Blog, I kept looking, they finally put it up hours later after the episode. Guyism photos.

TVGuide's recap (in full at link)-I'm going to start the season with a bold statement: I wish Bill had just died. I think Stephen Moyer has done a fine job portraying Confederate soldier Bill Compton, but his genteel, fair-minded manner has long grown tiresome since, well, Sookie dumped him. On the other hand, Anna Paquin's quasi-romantic chemistry with Alexander Skarsgard's Eric and her relationships with her dim-witted brother and her vampire best friend Tara  have proven to be far richer, narratively speaking. On a show with too many characters to follow/care about already, Bill has seemed, of late, extraneous. I defy you to name one interesting thing that Bill did last season -- besides have sex with Salome. His death would have galvanized the cast, particularly Sookie and Jessica. I suppose one could argue that the writers agreed with me and, as a result, gave him a real doozy of an acting gig this year.

Glad LuvTheViking is still doing the Eric scenes this season.
Screenrant's take on the new season, all at link-  At six years of age, True Blood has already defined itself as a series, so any complaints of its complicated, disorganized structure are a bit of a moot point, and there’s no real opportunity for anyone – even the showrunner – to change that. And it shouldn’t change, really.
Because no matter how numerous or ridiculous the storylines, no matter how operatic the series itself is, there’s an undeniable allure to its madness which leads you to continue tuning in. There’s a reason why soap operas were so successful on television for so long, and True Blood has, for better or worse, successfully made use of such elements. Will this be one of the best seasons of television you’ve seen? Not likely. But you’ve got to give credit to a series that can get you to watch it on its terms where even if, at times, you’re frustrated, you’ll tune in next week.

Driving around with pop pop still under the influence of a concussion, hmmmmm?

Thanks to Tumblr GIF-ers JohnKrasinski and I'mhereforSookie. Love to Sandy Cooch too.

HBO is posting the TBLive from the set on youtube later.

  If you asked the cast a question TBLive, this is where the answers are.
The Fangover: Super Strengths and Undead Weaknesses
'True Blood' is back with a healthy dose of blood, lust and bloodlust. In this week's Inside the Episode, Stephen Moyer explains that he directed the Season 6 premiere as a thriller, which is evident in the explosive escape from Authority HQ. But there's also a hint of mystery in the episode, which poses the question of its title: "Who Are You, Really?"
For Bill, the answer is up in the air—like a levitating glass of Tru Blood. Telekinesis is just one of his new superpowers. Another nifty trait: surviving a staking. Sookie's failed attempt to goo-ify her ex had critics buzzing. Jessica was shocked and excited by her maker's transformation: "This is phenomenal and religious and impossible, really," the baby vamp gushes in her blog.

While Billith has no apparent weaknesses, Nora learned of Eric's biggest one: Sookie. The vamp gives Sook back her house (with a promissory note in blood, no less) and she rescinds his invitation in an effort to get her old life back. While Sookie pines for normalcy, Eric pines for Sookie, Pam pines for Eric and Tara pines for Pam. The viewers have their own longings. I would've liked to have seen [Sookie] at least kiss solemn, sensitive, real Eric goodbye,"
As if there weren't enough problems in Bon Temps already, the new governor believes V is for vendetta; he's fervently anti-vampire and is making laws to prove it. Between his press conference and the new powerful anti-vampire bullets, Rolling Stone names vamps as the losing species of the week: "Humans now have the ability to bring vampires to their knees, as Pam can attest. And it's not like they have an ally in Bill anymore–more like a potential dictator." Vulture agrees that vampiring is no picnic: "If the stress of it all makes you feel like eating your feelings, guess what? It's blood. You will be eating blood."
Things were no better for shifters this week, as we said goodbye to Luna. This wasn't her first on-screen death, actress Janina Gavankar tells TV Guide: "We shot one at the end of Season 5 where I died, but it didn't work or something [and] they cut it out," she says. "So, I had to come back and re-die this season."

TV.Com has some screencaps captioned this season, nice and I agree on the wolf statements. The premiere answered a lot of our prayers by cauterizing two unpromising storylines: Luna died with all the tragic farewell of someone who hops out of a car and races off to find a toilet. (“It’s dead” felt like a summation of the audience’s dispassionate reaction to the Luna-Sam relationship finally getting excised from our screens.) And Andy Bellefleur’s stint as Mr. Mom may be mercifully brief, what with his little pumpkins turning five years old overnight and swarming Andy in a charming cutaway scene. Thank goodness, because the ol' “a MAN changing DIAPERS?!” shtick gets on my last damn nerve.Obviously Mark Hudis—True Blood's new showrunner, but not for long—is no clearer on werewolf mythology than Ball ever was. Every time we cut back to the werewolves, someone was explaining some new clause in their wolf constitution (which I assume is carved into a chrome panel at a Waffle House in Ed Hardy lettering). Now Packmaster has to “inherit the flesh” by eating a chunk of arm? It all felt a little pulled-out-of-thin-ass, although I appreciated the Lena Dunham homage.

Great guy but he is as close to DEATH itself as it comes, see Sam and die.
EW's Recap, it's a long one (scene by scene) at the link- Eric wanted to know from Nora if there's anything in the Book of Lilith to explain what they just saw. She said she'd never read about a resurrection, but that it only took one drop of "Lilith's blood" to make her forsake her family and Bill drank the whole damn vial. If Lilith is walking the Earth in any form, it had to be destroyed. Jessica knew they were talking about killing Bill. She darted off, and Sookie told Jason that Jessica needed him. He wouldn't go to her. Pam, meanwhile, crushed some sand castles (classic!) on the beach we didn't realize they'd stopped at, and Tara went to her. Pam said she hated the beach -- "fish piss and sand in your cooch" -- but Tara knew what was really bothering her. She told Pam love doesn't have to be a competition between her and everybody else. Pam started to cry and wanted Tara to leave. Instead, Tara put her arm around her, and Pam eventually put her head on Tara's shoulder and sobbed. Enjoy that tender moment now, folks. You know with our Pam it will never last.
So Truebs, who will kill Nora? The Gov's men, Sookie, Eric (if she fucks with Sookie) Pam (I hope so)?

I was waiting for MW's Pros and Cons to finish this off-  
Pro: So that's 1, 2, 15 characters down time to catch up with Sam again HOLY SHIT LALA. We missed you. Of COURSE Lala is sleeping off tequilla on the floor and OF COURSE he still has the mental facilities to find and pull a gun on an intruder because Lafayette is THE BEST. THE BEST. THE BEST.Con: "My mom is dead I'm hungry." ALRIGHT THEN.
Pro: Lala offers the little werewolf girl, "something deep fried dipped in sugar and then fried all over again."
Con: There was not enough Lala in this episode. Not NEARLY enough.
Con: Hitchhiking in Bon Temps. ALWAYS A GOOD IDEA.
Pro: Jason is picked up by THE Rutger Hauer! Who is amazing and I'm VERY excited about his presence in this episode.
Con: Jason and Rutger Hauer spend the rest of the episode in a fake car pretending to drive and talking.

The Monday Fangover Begins AGAIN.

Warlow started the signing in blood trend, who else will join in this season?

6 Weeks Ahead trailer. 
WSJ's Speakeasy Recap (in full at the link) 
Sam carries Emma into Merlotte’s and is startled by Lafayette who says he saw Luna on TV and it was the sickest thing he’d seen, and he watches “Dance Moms.” He shows Sam the clip. Emma says, “My mommy’s dead. I’m hungry.” Lafayette asks her if she wants something dipped in sugar and fried and deep fried all over again.

A taste of AVClub's review- True Blood’s insistence that the werewolf storylines are anything but an interminably boring excuse to strip Joe Maganiello down to his birthday suit is at the point of being laughable. In this premiere Alcide accepts his place as pack leader—which he does by ingesting human flesh while in his human form, which is disgusting—and then has a threesome. Mostly off camera. That’s the whole story! Werewolves are the redneck id of True Blood, all eating and fucking and killing in the most uninteresting way possible, and that shows no sign of changing here. Photos/GIFs from ImHereforSookie, TrueBloodGifs

I still dont buy him as Warlow, it's a ruse I tell ya!  It's Jason's brain not right, hope he makes it through the season, I'd miss Ryan.

From Kristin's twitter.

TVGuide's interview w/Anna. Sookie gets a new love interest in Rob Kazinsky's Ben this season, but is she open to love yet?
Paquin: Sookie usually starts out every season saying, "I'm not getting involved with anyone. I'm going to be my own person and stay away from trouble." But that doesn't make interesting television. [Laughs] She ends up in these situations with guys that usually end up being very complicated. Needless to say, it always gets more complicated than it should be. She always intends for things to be more simpler than they turn out.

How is Ben a different love interest than Bill, Eric or Alcide?
Paquin: There's a common ground there because they're both faeries. She hasn't, until very recently, been around many of her kind that she likes, so at least starting out, there's some hope.

SPOILER ALERT FOR BOOK FANS: Charlaine Harris, the author of the Sookie Stackhouse novels, paired Sam and Sookie together in the final book. Do you feel like that would translate well to the series someday?
Paquin: Yeah, I heard she ends up with Sam! I think there's always been a really strong connection between Sookie and Sam. Whether or not that is really plausible considering what has gone on in each other's lives and what they've been through and what that's done to their friendship, I'm not really sure it would work. I definitely think there's at least a decent shot that they could be happy together. There's no really major wounds to be healed as far as their relationship is concerned. Who knows? That kind of stuff is not up to me.

Given that Louisiana has declared war on vampires, and Warlow is coming after her, how will she be handling that this season?
Paquin: The world, as usual, is a very dangerous place for her. What's interesting this season is that she's a lot less naïve and wide-eyed about it all. She goes in with a — cynical is the wrong word — but she's not quite expecting the world to be a beautiful place, which, how could you be after all these odd and traumatizing things have happened to her? She's more mature and realistic about her situation.

My reaction to werewolves being cannibals, they are in the crapper the same way as Hot Shotters at this point. 

TVGuide has more on Anna Camp's return, of course Jason is in the mix.

Holier-than-thou horndog Sarah Newlin was last seen on HBO's True Blood as a minister's cheating Mrs. back in 2009. When the crazed character reappears in Bon Temps on June 30, we'll learn "she's written a best-selling book about what it means to be a Christian fighting vampires," Camp says. "And she's working her way into politics, because she's craving more power and fame." (also in spoilers).

The Night of True Blood

Finally, one long dry spell is over. Tonite Billithbloodyclot will shower and get some clothes on his ass. Hope for the best and maybe some laughs too. Premiere episode info is HERE. 

Carrie our seating arrangement for the live show. How hilarious is this?

  

Sam Talks about the new season, his new movie and more.

#RussellRules over all of the #TrueBlood villains. He should win Baddest Baddie on #TrueBlood: Live From the Set at 8:45PM.

No one knows how happy I would be to see dressed alike Marcellus and Ike back.

Ryan Kwanten sits in the crowd while enjoying the Ryan Bingham concert held at James Perse Highland in Hollywood.

Charlaine talks about the SVM series and the haters.
Q: You’ve just wrapped up the series with “Dead After Dark” and gotten a lot of up and down feedback from that. I’ve seen a lot of anger displayed. Has that subsided now since it’s been over a month?
A: A lot of the hating has. There are some people who evidently have no life what so ever, that are evidently going to pursue this until they drop dead of old age, and I don’t know what to think about that. Are their lives so empty that they cannot get over a book series ending in a way they had not anticipated? The accusations have been really vile and disgusting. I can only think that these people would not say that to my face or hope that they wouldn’t because I just think the Internet is responsible for a lot of this overly invested entitled attitude.
One reader said “You should turn over characters to someone who can write them they way we want them.” I said “You know, you don’t get it. It’s not like going into a bakery and ordering a cake where you say ‘I want butter cream filling and chocolate icing and I want a decoration of pink roses.’ Writing a book is not like that. You don’t get to vote on how I write my books. They’re mine,” and they would have never have met any of those people if they hadn’t come out of my head. They say “You sold out” and I say “To whom?” To whom did I sell out?
After some painful painful days and thinking I might not ever come out of my house again, I’m kind of coming out of the other side of that. I’ve gotten an overwhelming expression of support and pleasure in the book from many more people than ever told me they hated it, and it’s in its fourth week on the New York Times best-seller list.

Sam Trammell talks to TVFanatic -Watch out, Shape Shifters!

While vampire and werewolves take center stage most of the time on True Blood, Sam Trammell (Sam Merlotte) says there's trouble ahead for his kind on Season 6.

And it's mostly due to the presence of the ruthless Louisiana Governor (played by guest Arliss Howard), who has strong methods of taking care of all non-humans... and the fight is going to be a good one.

Will Sam find love in the midst of fighting? Who will he butt heads with these season? I asked the actor all these questions and more in our exclusive Q&A...

Rob Kazinsky talks to Marc Malkin, the video is at the link.The 29-year-old British ginger joins the series (season six premieres tonight on HBO) as Sookie's new faerie love interest, Ben Flynn.

"I was told that I'm most naked character they've had over the course of one season," Kazinsky told me at the season six red carpet premiere in Hollywood. Whoa! That's no small feat for this show.
But get this—Kazinsky says he doesn't work out as much as you may think. "I really wish I could say a lot [but] on your first day when you come to set and you got Joe Manganiello and you got Ryan Kwanten, you just realize that no matter how much you work out, genetics do everything," Kazinsky said. "There's no point in trying too hard."
Funny enough, Kazinsky had no choice but to pack on 40 pounds to muscle up for his role in director Guillermo Del Toro's upcoming sci-fi action flick, Pacific Rim. He ate up to 12,000 calories a day and worked out five hours a day six days a week for four months.
"It's really really really hard," Kazinsky said. "And we did it because in the original script there were a lot of topless scenes but then when we got up there after putting all that effort in, just Charlie Hunnam's getting naked."

On set at #TBlive #TrueBlood …with Rutina Wesley Nelsan Ellis

Carrie and Todd talk to NBC, some spoilies 

"It's a vampire show, so the stakes are always high!" Preston joked. "(Terry and Arlene) did something very drastic last season, which is they had to kill somebody -- Patrick. They will be dealing with the ramifications of that. ... What they did last season continues to weigh heavily on them."
"That's drama that's only going to add to his PTSD," Lowe said of his character. "It wouldn't be 'True Blood' without more problems for everybody, specifically Terry. I can say it's another emotional season for me."
Yes, the couple rid their family of the curse and the Ifrit that was after them at the end of last year by offing Patrick, but as Lowe pointed out, just because the curse is over doesn't mean it's truly gone.

"Susanna": Episode 1 of 12 -- When Susanna learns that her older sister Katie is in trouble, she jeopardizes her job to help Katie.