True Blood: The Complete Second Season [Blu-ray]
by Adam Davidson, Daniel Minahan, John Dahl, Michael Cuesta, Michael Lehmann
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Actor: Anna Paquin, Rutina Wesley, Ryan Kwanten, Sam Trammell, Stephen MoyerDirector: Adam Davidson, Daniel Minahan, John Dahl, Michael Cuesta, Michael Lehmann
Brand: Warner Brothers
Writer: Alan Ball
Blu-ray: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), DTS-HD High Res Audio; English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Portuguese (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); Dutch (Subtitled); English (Original Language), DTS-HD High Res Audio; French (Dubbed), DTS 5.1; Spanish (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo
Format: AC-3, Box set, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, Dubbed, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.78:1
Running Time: 720 minutes
Published: 2010-05-01
Blu-ray Release Date: 2010-05-25
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: HBO Home Video
Product features:
- Condition: New
- Format: Blu-ray
- AC-3; Color; Dolby; DTS Surround Sound; Dubbed; Subtitled; Widescreen; Box set
Blu-ray Reviews of True Blood: The Complete Second Season [Blu-ray]
Blu-ray Review: Another fine season for one of TV's more entertaining shows
Summary: 5 Stars
In its second season TRUE BLOOD remained something of a phenomenon, one of the highest rated shows ever on HBO and widely discussed across the Internet by critics and fans. As in Season Two, the show more or less followed the storylines laid down by the Sookie Stackhouse novels, but Alan Ball and his team of writers felt free to make significant alterations. For instance, Season One ended with the impression that Lafayette, who does indeed die in the book, had been murdered. Happily, Lafayette, who was a minor character in the books, lives to sin another day in the TV series. And the maenad of the book, who was a minor though important character in the second novel, was elevated to the level of Season Two big bad. Sookie's brother Jason, who is a moderately important character in the books, continued to function as a major character on the series (though in a more clothed state).
In my opinion TRUE BLOOD might be the finest guilty pleasure show ever made. The very best shows are characterized by the richness and multiplicity of their subtexts. One of the marks of a guilty pleasure show is the relative absence of subtexts. One of the reasons that academics have embraced shows like BUFFY and BATTLESTAR GALACTICA is the extraordinary number of themes and texts running through them. BUFFY alone has produced a prodigious body of literature. TRUE BLOOD possesses subtexts, but not many and none of much sophistication. The show deals with prejudice, of course, with vampires and shape shifters standing in for any kind of
Season Two focused primarily on two arcs, one dealing with the Fellowship of the Sun, a virulent anti-vampire church (pretty transparently a parody of anti-gay Christian activism, and the other with the appearance of the maenad, an immortal being who takes on the identity of Maryann (played by Michelle Forbes, one of the finest actors on TV whose work I normally love a lot, but who sort of irritated me here - her work as Admiral Cain on BATTLESTAR GALACTICA is one of the finest guest roles I've seen in recent years). Intertwined with this are a host of other stories, such as Andy Lefleur's descent into alcoholism, Lafayette's torture for selling V and then his recruitment to do the very same thing, and the tough transition of Bill's ward Jessica to being a teenaged vampire. And through all of this the entire town of Bon Temps, suffering under the spell of Maryann, engage in one bacchanal after another.
There were a couple of nice Arkansas (my home state) connections in the season. Several scenes were shot in a church, which was supposed to be the home congregation for the anti-vampire Fellowship of the Sun, involved in one of the season's major plotlines. I wasn't familiar with the church, but I instantly recognized it as the work of Arkansas's foremost architect, Faye Jones. He is widely celebrated as the architect for the famed Thorncrown Chapel in Eureka Springs, Arkansas, a building that routinely is named as among the most beautiful structures in the United States. If you know Jones work, the church in TRUE BLOOD was instantly recognizable. My brother's late father-in-law was an architect. He was a student of Faye Jones at the University of Arkansas, where Jones founded the architecture department, against the recommendation of his employer Frank Lloyd Wright. The second Arkansas tie in was Sam's being told by his foster father the whereabouts of someone Sam was looking for. Where? Magnolia, Arkansas. What makes that interesting is that Magnolia is the small Arkansas town in which Charlaine Harris lives and where she created the world of Sookie Stackhouse.
Description of True Blood: The Complete Second Season [Blu-ray]
When we last checked in with Sookie Stackhouse, the mystery surrounding a Bon Temps serial killer had finally been solved, to the town?sinfinite relief. Sookie is thrilled that her vampire soulmate, Bill Compton, has escaped with his life (or is it death?) after coming to her daylight defense. On other fronts, Sookie?s pal Tara Thornton sets downnew roots with an affluent benefactor, Maryann Forrester; Sam Merlotte resolves to get in shape-shift shape after a forest foray; roguish brother Jason finds new purpose with an anti-vampire sect; and detectiveAndy Bellefleur licks his wounds after being proven wrong about Jason?s guilt. But just as things are settling down, some deadly new twists threaten to ratchet up the saga of Sookie Stackhouse to bloody new heights!DVD Features:
Audio Commentary
Featurette
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True Blood's second season, with episodes involving a new cast of monsters invading Louisiana swamp town Bon Temps, is notably gorier and more camp than the first season. While thematically the central focus in these 12 exciting episodes still revolves around faith and loyalty, these questions are complicated by displays of pagan ritual and obsession. Though the vampire/human relationship dilemma continues, spearheaded by lovers Sookie Stackhouse (Anna Paquin) and vampire Bill Compton (Stephen Moyer), there is less emphasis on addiction to V, or vampire blood, and more time dedicated to outsiders whose supernatural talents make some episodes feel like superhero battles.
Episode 1, "Nothing but the Blood," sets the gory example with a brutal opening scene in which the local shaman has been eviscerated. While gruesome murders continue throughout the season, we become familiar with a new femme fatale, Maryann Forrester (Michelle Forbes), who hosts bacchanalia, such as the one in episode 4 ("Shake and Fingerpop") that gives Bon Temps a collective hangover. Also developing in this season are relationships between Sookie and Bill's vampire colleagues Eric (Alexander Skarsgård), Eric's master Godric, and a vampire queen who plays Yahtzee throughout episode 11 ("Frenzy"). The ever-increasing vampire interest in Sookie leads to her questioning her own supernatural psychic identity, especially in the final episode ("Beyond Here Lies Nothin'"), a semi-ridiculous, over-the-top segment that is more humorous than scary. Also corny but funny are the episodes featuring Fellowship of the Sun zealots Steve and Sarah Newlin (Michael McMillian and Anna Camp), and Jason Stackhouse's evangelical dedication to them (with Ryan Kwanten as Stackhouse). Perhaps the best episodes are those dedicated to the endangered plights of Sam Merlotte (Sam Trammell), Lafayette (Nelsan Ellis), and Tara (Rutina Wesley). New characters, like Tara's lover, Eggs (Mehcad Brooks), and the young, tempestuous vampire Jessica Hamby (Deborah Ann Woll), also add greatly to an already fabulous cast. Though the extras in this DVD set, "The Vampire Report (Special Edition)" and "Fellowship of the Sun: Reflections of Light," offer lighthearted, pseudo-documentary fun, they feel quaint next to the many wonderful episodes of this horror serial. --Trinie Dalton
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