Strange Love (True Blood)

Infobox Television Episode
Series = True Blood
Title = Strange Love


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Season = 1
Episode = 1
Airdate = September 7, 2008
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Writer = Alan Ball
Director = Alan Ball
Episode list = List of "True Blood" episodes
Season list = Template:Infobox True Blood season one"Strange Love" is the first episode of the first season of the HBO television series "True Blood", the pilot episode of the series. It was written and directed by series creator/executive producer Alan Ball. It originally aired on September 7, 2008.

Plot

It has been two years since vampires "came out of the coffin" and Sookie Stackhouse is a telepathic barmaid working at Merlotte's Bar in the small town of Bon Temps, Louisiana when a vampire named Bill Compton, whose thoughts she cannot hear, walks into her life and changes it forever.

Production

The pilot was shot in the Summer of 2007. [http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117969971.html?categoryid=14&cs=1] Actress Brook Kerr originally played the role of Tara Thornton, but when the show was ordered to series she was replaced by Rutina Wesley. In the original pilot an unidentified woman is seen in the woods overlooking the fight between Sookie and Mack. It is implied that the unidentified woman is responsible for the telekinetic choking of Mack.

Viewership

About 2.1 million viewers tuned into the premiere episode, with 1.4 million coming from the original 9 p.m. broadcast and an additional 700,000 viewers from a 10:30 p.m. rebroadcast. [http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117991937.html?categoryId=14&cs=1]

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