SpaceGypsies would like to give a big CONGRATULATIONS to The Gates star and fellow Chicagoan Janina Gavankar! According to several sources, Janina has been cast as a series regular on the HBO smash hit True Blood. Janina will join the fourth season of the show as Luna, a public school teacher with some serious sex appeal who just so happens to be a shapeshifter like the ever so yummy Sam Merlotte.
Other cast additions include Alexandra Breckenridge, Fiona Shaw, and Vedette Lim as Wiccans and an underground cage fighter. But we’ve got to say, as Chicago girls and Gates fans we’re the most excited to see Janina flex her shapeshifting muscles!
Can’t wait until Season 4 airs to see Janina? Don’t forget to check her out on FX’s The League as Shiva, the hot namesake for the League’s annual Shivabowl! You can download her episodes now on iTunes or check them out on FXnetworks.com.
Don’t forget to follow Janina on Twitter for all the latest news and updates!
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As SpaceGypsies’ resident True Blood fangirl, this was by far the panel I was looking forward to most for Dragon*Con 2010, and it didn’t disappoint. It’s always exciting to see actors whose personalities are so different from their characters on-screen, and this group definitely delivered on that. Nelsan Ellis, who plays the flamboyantly fabulous Lafatette is quiet and softspoken with a quick wit, and Kristen Bauer, who plays dreamy Eric Northman’s progeny Pam, is smiley and funny. Sam Trammell, well, pretty much is Sam, but that’s why we love him anyway, and the gorgeous Michelle Forbes (Maryann from Season 2 — seriously, she’s 10x more beautiful in person, which seems impossible) is brilliantly eloquent without a lick of crazy.
The panel was enlightening and entertaining, and the actors made it even better by engaging each other and asking one another follow-up questions. It’s one of the best Dragon*Con panels I’ve seen, and we’re thrilled to bring it to you here. (A camera mishap made us miss a couple minutes in the middle — sorry folks!)
The True Blood folks are loading us up with UST (unresolved sexual tension) this time around, and we’re only two episodes in!! Smoldering snippets have littered the first two episodes of the third season, including the impossibly sexy blood dream featuring a gloriously shirtless Bill & Sam (“I hear the water in Arkansas is very… hard…”)and, of course, plenty of delicious Sookie and Eric tension. (Spoilers in white; just highlight to read it!… trying to keep it exciting for all y’all)
Season Three has also introduced us to some new characters and is delving deeper into the rich histories of our favorites. The growth in others is simply brilliant. Lafayette continues to be fabulously deep, Terry just makes you fall in love with him every damn time he’s on-screen, and my love/hate relationship with the Beautifully Broken Tara continues.
Both new episodes have continued the tradition of leaving a brilliant cliffhanger that not only leaves you wondering what happened, but that opens doors to a thousand new possibilities for the remainder of the season. We’re only two episodes in, and it promises not to disappoint.
Like just about everyone I know who has fallen completely and unashamedly in love with HBO’s True Blood, I was reluctant to give it a try. I even rejoiced when I didn’t much like the pilot episode. “Just give it ’til the third episode,” everyone told me.
So I gave it ’til the third episode… and then I was well and truly hooked. (To date, everyone I know—male, female, vampire-hater, you-name-it—who has given it ’til the third episode has ended up hooked.) My husband and I blew through the first season in a couple of nights, then waited with bated breath for each weekly episode of Season Two. Every couple weeks since the delicious cliffhanger of a finale he’s asked me, with a voice flattened intentionally to belie his impatience, “Hey, um, when does Season Three start?”
Little tidbits have held us over. The Minisodes offered on HBO’s Web site were supposed to satisfy our hunger but proved only to stoke our appetites. And now, after so much waiting, tonight’s the night.
I would write a preview of the third season and a recap of the second, but I’m not sure anyone could do as good a job as NPR TV Critic David Bianculli’s fantastic article and review. So go there, read or listen to his review. He’s said it better than I possibly can, and I’ll be back with my thoughts after the show, most likely in the beginning stages of withdrawal as I wait, impatiently, for the next episode.
fellow Chicagoan Janina Gavankar! According to several sources, Janina has been cast as a series regular on the HBO smash hit True Blood. Janina will join the fourth season of the show as Luna, a public school teacher with some serious sex appeal who just so happens to be a shapeshifter like the ever so yummy Sam Merlotte.
