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True Blood

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True Blood

Genre SupernaturalDrama

Created by Series:

Alan Ball

Books:

Charlaine Harris

Starring Anna Paquin

Stephen Moyer

Sam Trammell

Ryan Kwanten

Rutina Wesley

Chris Bauer

Mehcad Brooks

Anna Camp

Lizzy Caplan

Lynn Collins

Nelsan Ellis

Michelle Forbes

Mariana Klaveno

Todd Lowe

Michael McMillian

Jim Parrack

Adina Porter
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Carrie Preston

Michael Raymond-James

Stephen Root

William SandersonAlexander Skarsgrd

Lois Smith

Deborah Ann Woll

Opening theme "Bad Things"

byJace Everett

Composer(s) Nathan Barr

Country of origin United States

Language(s) English

No. of seasons 2

No. of episodes 23 (List of episodes)

Production

Executive producer(s) Alan Ball

Gregg Fienberg (Season 2)

Running time approx. 55 min.

Broadcast

Original channel HBO

Original run September 7, 2008present

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Official website

True Bloodis anAmericantelevision drama seriescreated andproducedbyAlan Ball. It is loosely based on

theThe Southern Vampire Mysteriesseries of novels byCharlaine Harris. The show is broadcast on the

premium cable networkHBOin the United States. It is produced by HBO in association with Ball's production

company, Your Face Goes Here Entertainment.[1]It premiered on September 7, 2008.

The show's second 12-episodeseasonpremiered on June 14, 2009. On July 30, 2009, HBO confirmed that a

third season ofTrue Bloodwill be released in the summer of 2010.[2]Alan Ball has said that he plans to start

shooting the third season before Christmas 2009.[3]

True Blooddetails the co-existence ofvampiresand humans in Bon Temps, a fictional smallLouisianatown.

The series centers on Sookie Stackhouse (Anna Paquin), atelepathicwaitress at a bar, who falls in love with

vampire Bill Compton (Stephen Moyer).[1][4]

The first season received critical acclaim and won several awards, including oneGolden Globe.

Contents

[hide]

1 Production

o 1.1 Development historyo

1.2 Opening title sequence

o 1.3 Musico 1.4 Viral marketing campaign

2 Cast and characters

o 2.1 Principal cast3 Plot

o 3.1 Season oneo 3.2 Season two

4 Reception

5 Ratings

6 Awards and nominations

7 International distribution

8 DVD and Blu-ray releases

9 See also

10 References

11 External links

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[edit]Development history

Series creatorAlan Ballhad previously worked with premium cable channelHBOonSix Feet Under, which

ran five seasons. In October 2005, afterSix Feet Under'sfinale, Ball signed a two-year agreement with HBO to

develop and produce original programming for the network.True Bloodbecame the first project under the deal,

after Ball became acquainted withCharlaine Harris'sSouthern Vampire Mysterybooks.[5]One day, while early

for a dental appointment, Ball was browsing throughBarnes and Nobleand came acrossDead Until Dark, the

first installment in Harris's series. Enjoying it, he read the following entries and became interested in "bringing

[Harris's] vision to television".[5][6]However, Harris already had two other adaptation options for the books. He

said she chose to work with him, though, because "[Ball] really got me. Thats how he convinced me to go

with him. I just felt that he understood what I was doing with the books.

The project's hour-longpilotwas ordered concurrently with the finalization of the aforementioned development

deal and was written, directed and produced by Ball.

[1][5]

Cast members Paquin, Kwanten and Trammell wereannounced in February 2007 and Moyer later on in April.[7][8]The pilot was shot in the early summer of 2007

and was officially ordered to series inAugust, at which point Ball had already written several more

episodes.[1]Production on the series began later that fall,[9]withBrook Kerr, who portrayed Tara Thornton in

the original pilot, being replaced byRutina Wesley.[10]Two more episodes of the series had been filmed before

the2007-08 Writers Guild of America strikeshut down production of the 12-episode first season until

2008.[11]That September, after only the first two episodes of the series had aired, HBO placed an order for a

second season of twelve episodes of the show, with production scheduled to commence in January 2009 for a

summer premiere.[12]

[edit]Opening title sequence

True Blood's Emmy-nominated title sequence was created by Digital Kitchen, a production studio that was also

responsible for creating the title sequence ofSix Feet Under. The sequence, which is primarily composed of

portrayals of the show's deep South setting, is played to "Bad Things" byJace Everett.[13]
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Digital Kitchen wished to explore themes of redemption and forgiveness in the opening title sequence.

Conceptually, Digital Kitchen elected to construct the sequence around the idea of "the whore in the house of

prayer"

[14]

by intermingling contradictory images of sex, violence and religion and displaying them from thepoint of view of "asupernatural, predatory creature observing human beings from the shadows ..."[13]Digital

Kitchen also wished to explore ideas of redemption and forgiveness, and thus arranged for the sequence to

progress from morning to night and to culminate in abaptism.[14]

Most of the footage used in the sequence was filmed on location by Digital Kitchen. Crew members took a four-

day trip toLouisianato film and also shot at aChicagochurch and on a stage and in a bar

inSeattle.[14]Additionally, several Digital Kitchen crew members made cameo appearances in the sequence.

In editing the opening, Digital Kitchen wanted to express how "religious fanaticism" and "sexual energy" could

corrupt humans and make them animalistic. Accordingly, several frames of some shots were cut to give

movements a jittery feel, while other shots were simply played back very slowly. Individual frames were also

splattered with drops of blood.[14]The sequence's transitions were constructed differently, though; they were

made with aPolaroidtransfer technique. The last frame of one shot and the first frame of another were taken as

a single Polaroid photo, which was then divided betweenemulsionand backing. The emulsion was then filmed

being further separated by chemicals and those shots of this separation were placed back into the final edit.[13]

Eight different typefaces, inspired by Southern road signage, were also created manually by Camm Rowland for

cast and crew credits, as well as the show's title card.[14]

[edit]Music

Gary Calamar, the music supervisor for the series, said that his goal for the soundtrack to the show is to create

something "swampy, bluesy and spooky" and to feature local Louisiana musicians.[15]ComposerNathan

Barrwrites the original score for the series which features cello, guitar, prepared piano and glass harmonica

among other instruments, all of which he performs himself.[citation needed]The main theme song is "Bad Things"

bycountry musicartistJace Everett, from his 2005 self-titled debut.[16]

Elektra/Atlantic Records released aTrue Bloodsoundtrack on May 19, 2009, the same day as the release of the

DVD and Blu-Ray of the first season.[17]

Nathan Barr's original score forTrue Bloodwas released on CD ontheVarse Sarabandelabel on September 8, 2009.[18]

BothNathan BarrandJace Everettwon 2009 awards fromBroadcast Music Incorporatedin the BMI Cable

Awards category for, respectively,True Blood'soriginal score and theme song.[19]

[edit]Viral marketing campaign
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Promotional poster

The premiere ofTrue Bloodwas prefaced with aviral marketing/alternate reality game(ARG) campaign, based

atBloodCopy.com. This included setting up multiple websites,[20][21][22]encoding web address into unmarked

envelopes mailed to high profile blog writers and others, and even performances by a "vampire" who attempted

to reach out to others of their kind, to discuss the recent creation of "TruBlood", a fictional beverage which is

featured in the show. AMySpaceaccount with the username "Blood"[23]had, as of June 19, uploaded two

videos;[24]one entitled "Vampire Taste Test - True Blood vs Human",[25]and one called "BloodCopy Exclusive

INTERVIEW WITH SAMSON THE VAMPIRE". Aprequelcomicwas handed out to attendees of the

2008Comic-Con. The comic centers around an old vampire named Lamar, who tells the reader about how

TruBlood surfaced and was discussed between many vampires before going public. At one point, Lamar

wonders if TruBlood is making the world safe for vampires or from them.

Several commercials featured on HBO andFacebook[26]aired prior to the series premiere, placing vampires in

ads similar to those of beer and wine. Some beverage vending machines across the US were also fitted with

cards indicating that they were "sold out" of TruBlood.

Promotional poster for second season

Thousands of DVDs of the first episode were handed out to attendees of Midnight Madness, a special screenings

event of the 2008 Toronto International Film Festival.Blockbuster Videoprovided free rental of the first

episode of True Blood several days before it was broadcast on HBO. The video had a faint promotional

watermark throughout the episode.
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On April 16, 2009, HBO released the first teaser poster for Season 2. The image uses a perspective technique

that shows observers one of two images.[27]A minute-long promotional video advertising season two, which

featuredBob Dylan's "Beyond Here Lies Nothin'", was released viaEntertainment Tonightin early May.[28]

On September 10, 2009, HBO.com will begin sellingTru:Blood, the fictional drink that appears in the show. Inreal life, it is a blood orange carbonated drink, developed and manufactured byOmni Consumer Products, a

company that specializes in defictionalizing brands from television and movies.

There is also a website forThe Fellowship of the Sun, antagonists from the book series, featuring videos about

hot-button issues such as becoming a vampire.

FX (UK), the UK and Ireland broadcaster of the series, launched an extensive promotional website for the

series.[29]

[edit]Cast and characters

Main article:Characters of True Blood

True Bloodemploys a broad ensemble cast composed of regular, central characters and a rotating group of

impermanent supporting characters. Though the series is based in the fictional town of Bon Temps, Louisiana, a

noticeable number of the actors comprising the cast are originally from outside the United States. In an

interview, Ball explained that he didn't intentionally seek out "non-American" actors, but was willing to go

anywhere he needed to in order "to find the actor who makes the character breathe." Ball went on to explain

that, in casting, there was more of a focus on who would portray the character in a compelling way rather than

who would physically resemble the characters from the book. Noting that there's a definite difference between

the characters portrayed inTrue Bloodand the ones depicted inThe Southern Vampire Mysteries, he described

Harris as being very understanding in terms of how her work was being reinterpreted.[30]

[edit]Principal cast

The series is set within the fictional town of Bon Temps,Louisiana. The show acknowledges the reality that

supernatural creatures such asvampires,telepaths,shapeshiftersand other mythical creatures exist.

In thefirst seasonvampires have recently come "out of thecasket" and many are trying to integrate, or

"mainstream", into society, a process made easier by the sale of artificial blood called "Tru Blood". The maincharacters for the series areSookie Stackhouse(Anna Paquin), a telepath and waitress at the local bar, called

"Merlotte's", owned by shapeshifterSam Merlotte(Sam Trammell). Sookie's best friendTara Thornton(Rutina

Wesley) begins working at Merlotte's in the pilot episode, and enters into a brief relationship with Sam during

the first season.

In the first episode the viewers are introduced to the vampire culture viaBill Compton(Stephen Moyer), who is

rescued by Sookie when a local couple attempt to drain his blood. After drinking Bill's blood Sookie becomes

psychically connected to Bill, and soon after they begin a relationship.
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Sookie lives with her grandmotherAdele(Lois Smith). Her older brother,Jason(Ryan Kwanten), is a road

crew supervisor andwomanizer. The main mystery of the first season concerns Jason Stackhouse and the

murder of several women he has relations with, beginning with Maudette Pickens (Danielle

Sapia),Merlotte'swaitress Dawn Green (Lynn Collins) and his girlfriendAmy(Lizzy Caplan).

Jason works withHoyt Fortenberry(Jim Parrack), andRene Lenier(Michael Raymond-James). Lenier becomes

engaged toMerlotte'swaitressArlene Fowler(Carrie Preston), and is later revealed to be the Bon Temps serial

killer.

DetectiveAndy Bellefleur(Chris Bauer) investigates the murders in Bon Temps and favours Jason Stackhouse

as the chief suspect; when he is proven wrong at the end of the season, he falls offthe wagon. Bellefleur's boss

is the town sheriff,Bud Dearborne(William Sanderson). Andy's cousin,Terry(Todd Lowe) is a former

Armyveteranwho works in the kitchen atMerlotte's. Working with him is Tara's cousinLafayette

Reynolds(Nelsan Ellis), who also works as a drug dealer, dealing in vampire's blood, know within the series as"V".

Tara's mother, and Lafayette's aunt, isLettie Mae Thornton(Adina Porter), an alcoholic who undergoes an

"exorcism" in the middle of the first season to exorcise her "demons". She sobers up and kicks Tara out towards

the end of the first season.

Humans who indulge in sex with vampires are referred to as "fang-bangers" and in the first season the main

destination for "fang-bangers" is the local vampire bar called "Fangtasia", which is owned and operated byEric

Northman(Alexander Skarsgrd), a vampire who is sheriff of Louisiana, known as Area 5 by vampires. Eric

employs Sookie to find a thief in his bar, but once the perpetrator (a vampire) is revealed and attempts to kill

Sookie, Bill stakes and kills the thief to save her. Bill is thus punished for killing another vampire by being

forced to create a new vampire. She isJessica Hamby(Deborah Ann Woll), a seventeen year old girl. Once

turned she proves to be a handful for Eric and at the end of the first season she is taken in by Bill.

Alexander Skarsgrd plays vampire sheriff Eric Northman
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Towards the end of the first season, Tara is involved in aDUI, following being made homeless by her mother,

and meets "social worker"Maryann Forrester(Michelle Forbes), who agrees to take Tara in. While staying with

Maryann Tara is introduced to"Eggs" Benedict Talley, to whom she feels an attraction.

During the first season the anti-vampire movement is represented by the "Fellowship of the Sun", a Dallas-basedchurch run byReverend Steve Newlin(Michael McMillian) and his wifeSarah(Anna Camp). After turning

himself in for his girlfriend's murder in the penultimate episode of season one, Jason Stackhouse is recruited by

the church.

During thesecond season, the influence of Maryann Forrester and the conflict between vampires and humans is

expanded. Most of the cast from the first season returns and several new characters are introduced. Maryann

Forrester is revealed to be a supernatural being with the power to influence humans, beginning with Tara and

Eggs, but soon spreading to the whole town of Bon Temps.

Sookie is recruited by Eric to investigate the disappearance of a vampire in Dallas.Godric(Allan Hyde) is a

vampire over two thousand years old who is kidnapped by the Fellowship of the Sun, although it is later

revealed he gave himself willingly in an attempt to calm relations between the two species.

In Bon Temps,Daphne Landry(Ashley Jones) joinsMerlotte'sas a new waitress, though she later reveals to

Sam that she is a shapeshifter. At the Fellowship of the Sun camp Jason meets a rival calledLuke

McDonald(Wes Brown), who competes against Jason. AtFangtasiaEric Northman's second in

commandPam(Kristin Bauer) gets an expanded role, and at the end of the second season she approaches

Lafayette and tells him to begin selling "V" for Eric.

Bill's makerLorena(Mariana Klaveno) returns for a mid-season arc, where she tries to get Bill to admit his love

for her; she later reveals that she never stopped loving him after the split. In Dallas we are also introduced to

Godric's lieutenantIsabel(Valerie Cruz) and her human loverHugo(Christopher Gartin). Also in Dallas the

public face of the American Vampire League,Nan Flanagan(Jessica Tuck) finally meets Sookie and Bill, having

previously only being shown on television programs.

In the penultimate episode of the second season the vampire queen of LouisianaSophie-Anne(Evan Rachel

Wood) is introduced. Both Bill and Eric visit her in an attempt to find out how to defeat Maryann.

[edit]Plot

Main article:List of True Blood episodes

Following the creation of synthetic blood, vampires have progressed from legendary monsters to fellow citizens

overnight. Sookie Stackhouse (Anna Paquin) is atelepathand waitress atMerlotte'sin the smallLouisianatown

of Bon Temps, owned by Sam Merlotte (Sam Trammell), ashapeshifterthough this secret is kept hidden. One

night, Sookie meets Bill Compton (Stephen Moyer), a handsome 173-year-old vampire who has returned to Bon

Temps following the death of his last remaining relative. As she cannot hear his thoughts, she finds it easy to be

in his company and, over the first season, the two become romantically involved.

[edit]Season one
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Main article:True Blood (season 1)

The main mystery of the first season concerns the murders of women connected to Sookie's brother, Jason

(Ryan Kwanten). Maudette Pickens and Dawn Green are both strangled shortly after having been alone with

Jason. Though Detective Bellefleur has little doubt that Jason is the killer, the town sheriff does not suspect him.Jason and Sookie's grandmother is murdered shortly afterward. At the end of the season it is revealed that

Arlene Fowler's fianc, Rene Lenier, is actually a man named Drew Marshall who created a fake identity, Cajun

accent and all. He has been killing women he considers "fang-bangers".

The first season also focuses on Sookie's relationship with Bill and Sam's relationship with Sookie's friend Tara.

Bill explains the rules of being a vampire to Sookie and, after he finds himself killing a vampire to defend

Sookie, he is forced to turn a young girl, Jessica, as punishment. In the last episode of the season, this new

vampire is left with Bill under his care. After Maudette and Dawn's murders, Jason becomes addicted to

vampire blood and has a short relationship with another addict, Amy Burley, which ends when she is murderedby Drew. Season one ends with the discovery of a body in Detective Andy Bellefleur's car in Merlotte's parking

lot. The first episode of season two reveals the body to be that of Miss Jeannette, the drugstore clerk who has

given phony exorcisms to Tara and her mother.

[edit]Season two

Main article:True Blood (season 2)

Season two centers on the disappearance of the 2,000-year old vampire Sheriff of Area 9,Godric(Allan

Hyde).Ericenlists Sookie's and Bill's aid in finding Godric. With Sookie and Bill in Dallas, a

supernaturalMaenadnamedMaryanncauses mayhem in Bon Temps.

[edit]Reception

Critical reception ofTrue Bloodhas generally been favorable, despite the fact that initial impressions were

mixed. TheNew York Postcritic wrote of the opening episodes: "If HBO's new vampire show is any indication,

there would still be countless deaths - especially among vampire hunters and the viewers who love them -

because everyone would be dying of boredom. And so it is with HBO's new series from death-obsessed Alan

Ball, creator of the legendarySix Feet Under, whose new showTrue Blood, won't so much make your blood run

cold as it will leave you cold."[31]

WhereasUSA Todayconcluded: "Sexy, witty and unabashedly peculiar,True Bloodis a blood-drenched

Southern Gothic romantic parable set in a world where vampires are out and about and campaigning for equal

rights. Part mystery, part fantasy, part comedy, and all wildly imaginative exaggeration,[True] Bloodproves

that there's still vibrant lifeor deathleft in the 'star-crossed cute lovers' paradigm. You just have to know

where to stake your romantic claim."[32]

By the end of the first season,True Bloodhad a score of 64, indicating generally favorable reviews,

onMetacritic, an aggregator of critical responses.[33]The second season received a more favorable score of 74

on Metacritic.[34]
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[edit]Ratings

The first episode ofTrue Blooddebuted at a very modest 1.44 million viewers compared to the network's past

drama premiers such asBig Lovewhich premiered at 4.56 million, andJohn from Cincinnatiwhich debuted at

3.4 million.[35]

However, by late November 2008, 6.8 million a week were watching: this figure included repeatand on-demand viewings.[36]The season finale's viewership was 2.4 million.True Bloodhas reportedly become

HBO's most popular series sinceThe SopranosandSex and the City.[37]

The second season premiere of the series on June 14, 2009, was watched by 3.7 million viewers, making it the

most watched program on HBO since the series finale ofThe Sopranos. The total number of viewers for the

season premiere, including the late night replay, was 5.1 million.[38]The tenth episode of the second season

(August 23, 2009) was seen by 5.3 million viewers, a new record for the series, with an overall weekly second

season average of 11.5m viewers, including repeats.[39][40]

[edit]Awards and nominations

Year Group Award Result For

2008

Satellite Awards Best Actor in a Supporting Rolein a Series, Mini-Series or MotionPicture Made for Television

Won Nelsan Ellis

Satellite Awards Best Actress in a Series, Drama Won Anna Paquin

2009

AmericanCinema Editors

Best Edited One-Hour Series forNon-Com Television

WonMichael RuscioandAndy Keirforepisode "Strange Love"

Art DirectorsGuild

Episode of a One Hour Single-Camera Television Series

NominatedSuzuki Ingerslevfor episode "BurningHouse of Love"

GLAAD MediaAwards

Outstanding Drama Series Nominated

Golden GlobeAwards

Best Performance by an Actressin a Television Series - Drama

Won Anna Paquin

Golden GlobeAwards

Best Television Series - Drama Nominated
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Mr. SkinAward Best TV Show Won

Mr. Skin Award Best First-Time Nude Scene Won Lizzy Caplan

Motion PictureSound Editors

Best Sound Editing - Short FormDialogue and ADR in Television

NominatedFor episode "The Fourth Man in theFire"

Writers Guild ofAmerica

New Series Nominated

Alan Ball,Brian Buckner,RaelleTucker,Alexander Woo,NancyOliver, andChris Offutt

Saturn Award Best Syndicated/Cable TV Series Nominated

Saturn Award Best Actress on Television Nominated Anna Paquin

NewNowNextAwards

Best Show You're Not Watching Won

NewNowNext

AwardsBrink of Fame: Actor Won Nelsan Ellis

Broadcast MusicIncorporated

True Blood Original Score Won Nathan Barr

Broadcast MusicIncorporated

True Blood Theme Song Won Jace Everett

TelevisionCriticsAssociation

Outstanding New Program of theYear

Won

Teen ChoiceAwards

Choice Summer TV Star: Female Nominated Anna Paquin inTrue Blood

Teen ChoiceAwards

Choice Summer TV Star: Male Nominated Stephen MoyerinTrue Blood
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Bravo A-ListAwards

A-List TV Show Nominated

Bravo A-ListAwards Sexiest TV Moment Nominated Bill and Sookie's Love Scene

Emmy Outstanding Main Title Design NominatedRama Allen, Shawn Fedorchuk,Matthew Mulder, Morgan Henry,Camm Rowland and Ryan Gagnier

EmmyOutstanding Casting for a DramaSeries

WonJunie Lowry Johnson & LibbyGoldstein

EmmyOutstanding Art Direction for aSingle-Camera Series

Nominated

Suzuki Ingerslev, Cat Smith & RustyLipscomb for "Burning House ofLove", "Cold Ground" and "Sparks FlyOut".

Emmy Breakthrough Performance Nominated

Scream Award Best TV Show Nominated

Scream Award Best Ensemble Nominated

Scream AwardBest Actress in a Horror Movie orTV Show

Nominated Anna Paquin

Scream AwardBest Actor in a Horror Movie orTV Show

Nominated Stephen Moyer,Ryan Kwanten

Scream Award Best Supporting Actress Nominated Rutina Wesley

Scream Award Best Supporting Actor Nominated Nelsan Ellis

Scream Award Best Villain Nominated Alexander Skarsgrd

Scream Award Breakout Performance - Male Nominated Sam Trammell
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14/20

Scream Award Best Scream Song of the Year Nominated "Bad Things," byJace Everett

Ewwy Award Best Drama Series Nominated

Ewwy AwardBest Supporting Actor in aDrama Series

Nominated Nelsan Ellis

[edit]International distribution

Country Date of Premiere Channel

Brazil January 18, 2009 HBO andWarner Channel

SwedenDenmarkFinlandNorway

October 22, 2008 Canal+ Scandinavia

Spain December 4, 2008 Canal+ Spain,Cuatro

France December 23, 2008 Orange Cinemax

Portugal December 23, 2008 MOV

Israel January 6, 2009 Yes stars Action

Canada

Quebec

September 7, 2008

January 5, 2009

HBO Canada

Super Ecran

Latin America January 18, 2009 HBO Latin America

Belgium(Wallonia)

February 1, 2009 be.tv

Czech Republic

Slovakia

February 3, 2009 HBO
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