Articles about True Blood: Season 2

Zeljko Ivanek (@BackTheFuckDown) has been an actor for more than 30 years, but his profile took a upswing in 2007 after he received Emmy acclaim for his performance on "Damages." Since then, Ivanek has been pulling guest-star spots on Lost and True Blood as well as recurring roles on Heroes and Big Love. He can currently be seen in "The Mob Doctor."

As the fifth season of "True Blood" dawns, the @LATimes is taking a look at one of the more regular folks: Todd Lowe, who plays Terry Bellefleur.

Ostensibly about vampires and werewolves, the HBO series paints a complex, historically sensitive portrait of rural Louisiana.

Raelle Tucker wrote True Blood's season 1′s "Cold Ground" and the season finale, "You'll Be The Death of Me". For season 2, she wrote "Scratches" and the upcoming "Release Me". The folks at @trueblooddotnet talked with Raelle about all things True Blood, plus how she became an 11-years-in-the-making overnight success, her unusual childhood, and writing for Supernatural.

Alexander Skarsgård starts off this @guardian interview with a taste of pickled herring, then talks "True Blood" and "Melancholia"

The area in and around Bon Temps, Louisiana is known for a lot of thing, but one thing you don't usually get is high fashion. Here the Fug girls rank the residents of Bon Temps on whether they're surviving it all with style.

Carrie Preston, a veteran of stage and screen who has lately begun to move beyond smaller character parts in movies and on television gets profiled in @theAVclub about her Random Roles.

In a show where everyone has some sort of supernatural power, one character stands out for being entirely conventional

The creator of True Blood, Alan Ball, spoke about his creative approach to the series — though he was careful not to reveal too many details about what to expect from the upcoming episodes.

Vampires are everywhere in film, television, novels, comics and beyond and there's no end in sight. But when did they shift from malevolent predators to conflicted antiheroes?