Welcome to Truest Blood, the official True Blood podcast.

I'm Kristen Bauer, and I'm Deborah Ann Moore. And you've been invited in.

I want to do bad things here.

On the truest blood.

Welcome back to Truest Blood, where we sink our fangs into the series Bight by Byte.

Deb, I'm already getting leapy.

You can't cry already. You're not allowed to cry yet. Hold on.

Keep it in.

I'm trying. Oh, my God. I didn't think it would happen this soon.

All right. Well, it's discussion week for the finale season of the show. I know. So this is going to get a little spicy, right? Because there's a lot of opinions on this season. And there always is in the last season of the show, you know, how it ended.

And we're not excluded. In fact, we were very involved.

We were. Yeah. So we're very excited to share all of it. But I think we also really want to reiterate that if there's anything that you've gleaned from this podcast, it's that, you know, making this TV show was enormously fun, but it was also really extraordinarily hard. The hours, the amount of effort. And so we may not always agree on the direction of a storyline, but ultimately, we all have absolutely nothing but the utmost

respect for every artist involved, you know, whether we're in the project ourselves or as an

audience member. So we really want to make sure that you are all aware of that as we discuss this

very polarizing season of True Blood. Yeah, exactly. There's a lot of emotions involved. There's a lot of

investment that we had over the years. So it's a heavy task. And we need all the help we can get.

So we brought in a ringer. Yes. You know her as Holly, the Wiccan Waitress of Merlotz. She is always a voice of reason and compassion, and we are thrilled to have her join us today. Welcome Lauren Bowles to the podcast, everyone.

Thank you guys. It's such a treat to get to see your gorgeous faces and to revisit our crazy-ass world.

Yes, that is an appropriate way to describe this series.

That is exactly appropriate.

Everyone, I'm going to just tell you a little tidbit about this amazing lady.

Well, first of all, she was born in Washington, D.C., which I think is so cool, because I love that city.

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