Kelly Overton (The Ring Two) and Louis Herthum (The Last Exorsism) have landed major recurring roles on the HBO vampire drama True Blood. Overton has been booked for 6 episodes and Herthum has been tapped for 5. I hear that the deals for both include series regular options for next season. Overton, repped by Innovative Artists, will play a dirty, beautiful werewolf named Rikki who demands to know what’s become of the pack leader. Herthum, repped by Main Title and Progressive Artists, will play a particularly large Marine-type werewolf who refuses to bow down before the new pack leader. He is also recurring on A&E’s Longmire.
Source: Deadline
True Blood - Season 5 - 2 New Recurring Characters Cast
Nov 19, 2011
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And the enormous cast grows even bigger.
ReplyDeleteYeah, the major problem True Blood has had is too many characters. Now they're adding more.
ReplyDeleteIt's not a new problem. I've commented on that several times. Season 3 already had to many characters and storylines for my taste and ever since they only added a lot more cast members and gave most of them a little story line on their own.
ReplyDeleteCouldn´t agree more. I love some of the characters, but they don´t get enough screen time. There are too many stories with no point.
ReplyDeleteI read the books aswell and wish that the series was sticking to the books a lot more. Sookie needs to be the center of the show.
The problem is that ever season Alan Ball decides to use the book plots as a guide and needs to introduce new characters to achieve those plots, but unlike the books he continues to give past characters (and utterly unimportant characters) their own stories and everything just gets more convoluted as time goes on.
ReplyDeleteIF he wrote all new material using the available characters I may like it more.... despite being a big fan of the books and not liking how the show veers away from the books plots most of the time.
Imagine how tight the show would be if he stopped doing Bon Temps residents plots and just kept them as background for the main Sookie plot....
ReplyDeleteOh yeah it would b like Season One which was the best season BY FAR and only nominated for awards (in the non-technical categories I mean).
I agree, there are too many characters even with the deaths last season.
ReplyDeleteI wouldn't mind all of the additions if the were leveled out by some subtractions. This show needs more permanent character deaths. I could start a list.
ReplyDeleteOh no, more regular characters.... please HBO side-line a few or we are never going to see too mcuh of the main characters as mroe and more time will be devoted to side plots that no one cares about.
ReplyDeleteWhy can't it just be Sookie, Sam, Pam, Eric, Lala and if it is really necessary, Bill and whenever they need a favor, we can bring in some of the lesser characters, they totally wasted the Crystal story, they shouldn't have brought Tara back just to have her go out like that, they just gave a (sh---y) glimpse of fairy land, the writers write on set, so why couldn't they see that it wasn't coherent and totally not gelling together, sorry, I am not going to rant...just huff and sigh and cross my fingers for a better season, return to season 1 roots and what not
ReplyDeleteI am kind of the odd one out here.
ReplyDeleteI find that Ball keeps Harris charm alive, but also takes his own road. He wants to point out the xenophobic aspect to series via political motivations in order to challenge identity. Granted I have not read the books, (I chose to read a different Harris series, which I can still see that Ball kept the most important aspects of Harris' work alive, as strangely that series really related to Balls season for), so to some degree I understand the frustration of reading a work first and then constantly compare it...I often try to do it backwards, then I find I understand the book better and don't begrudge the adaptation.
I am enjoying the series and look forward to season 5 and it's new important and not important characters.