Adding to that, Anna Paquin’s pregnancy requiring a reduced episode count, the sixth season could’ve easily played out like a rote shrug, satisfying nothing save various contractual obligations. That’s a lot of behind-the-scenes shuffling for a single season. But at some point during production Hudis also stepped down, and Brian Buckner (on the show since the beginning) was set as the show’s EP instead. So: Alan Ball leaves the show in Season 5 and Mark Hudis (an addition to the writing team for its fourth season) was installed as executive producer. RELATED: 'True Blood': Anna Paquin Is Optimistic About the Reboot, Even If She's Surprised it's Happening Let's sift through the red cups and confetti to determine which seasons kept the energy going, and which had us wishing we’d stayed in bed.
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Based on characters from the Southern Vampire Mysteries book series by author Charlaine Harris, its cast was stacked with talent: Stephen Moyer, Alexander Skarsgård, Rutina Wesley, Nelsan Ellis, Joe Manganiello, Ryan Kwanten, Lizzy Caplan, Denis O’Hare, Kristin Bauer van Straten, Deborah Ann Woll, and loads more.įor a couple of seasons, it was the best party on television. Paquin - weaponized Southern accent locked and loaded-had chemistry with nearly every scene partner the show gave her, and delivered even as the show started to crumble around her. It was led by Academy Award-winning actress Anna Paquin doing a career reboot, early-adopting television as the place for actors to be taken seriously.
Created by Academy Award-winning screenwriter Alan Ball-who gifted HBO one of its post- Sopranos critical darlings in Six Feet Under, a remarkable dramatic achievement that helped to cement the network’s reputation as the home for elevated drama- True Blood was elevated camp, with a strong metaphorical backbone, but it debuted with a relative whimper.īy the end of its first season, though, it was the highest-rated show on its network, thanks in part by Twilight entering the chat during that season’s run, partly because it was a revelation of talent. It debuted in September 2008, that’s before British zombie miniseries Dead Set (October 2008), vampire blockbuster Twilight (November 2008), teen vampire drama The Vampire Diaries (September 2009), nihilist zombie drama The Walking Dead (October 2010), and white-walking fantasy powerhouse Game of Thrones (April 2011). True Blood may not be remembered as the opening salvo in the great undead fiction resurrection of the late aughts/early 2010s, but it was.
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