If you miss True Blood, the sexy supernatural series based on Charlaine Harris’s bestsellers, you might want to add some tasty Midnight, Texas barbecue to your summer fantasy menu. NBC’s new thriller is adapted from Harris’s most recent trilogy, about a Lone Star berg populated by freaks hiding themselves away from normal society.
The otherworldly drama begins when a medium named Manfred Bernardo (Blindspot’s Francois Arnaud) arrives in Midnight. “He’s on the run because he’s done some very bad things to some very bad people,” Arnaud explains. “He wants to settle down in a calm, peaceful place—and his dead grandmother suggests he’d fit right in there.” Yep, Manfred communicates with spirits.
The latest Charlaine Harris TV adaptation is coming this summer and the cast gave an early preview.
True Blood was driven by sex and desire, “but the theme in Midnight,” says executive producer Monica Owusu-Breen (Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.), “is community—people who are different wanting to live in peace with their tribe.” That wish, already threatened by suspicious cops and a vicious gang, could face total destruction as the season goes on.
The new series tells the story of a remote town in the Lone Star state populated by otherworldly misfits.