Very shrewd casting there, Alan Ball.  Yum.

Joe Manganiello, probably best known for parts in Spider-Man,  One Tree Hill, and How I Met Your Mother, has won the coveted role of Alcide (al-cee) Herveaux.

In the novels that the HBO series is based on, the character plays a major part in the third book, when Eric calls in a favor Alcide’s family owes the vampires to help Sookie search for a MIA Bill.

Alcide also just happens to be a werewolf. 

A plucky heroine attracted to a werewolf but in love with a vampire….hmm sounds familiar.  Before any of you get on a soapbox, Club Dead, the novel that introduced Alcide to the “Sookieverse”, predates those “other” human/werewolf/vampire novels by about three years. 

Unfortunately, we’ll have to wait until next summer (boo) to find out how much season three of True Blood follows or strays from the original source material. 

Cue the countdown for the inevitable “Who’s hotter, Alcide or Eric?” debate.

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