Manfred Bernardo is a psychic who has just moved to Midnight, Texas, and wants to keep a low profile. acquired in June 2022.įrom the author of the Sookie Stackhouse series comes a new trilogy with a small town of characters who are not what they seem. “Midnight, Texas” could have been called “True Blood: The Next Generation” or even more precisely “True Blood: The Low-Budget Network Reboot.” Either way, it can’t shake a fang at the original.This post was originally published at and is now at. Harris serves as a consulting producer, and in execution, at least, the series makes the strong case that Harris either has a limited imagination or is a genius for playing to what people want to buy from her. The pasts of various residents seem to take turns threatening the town. There’s a lot happening on “Midnight, Texas.” Things move fast, if predictably, as the Big Bad inches nearer. He runs the pawn shop and is the immediate suspect when his fiancee is found dead.Ĭreek (Sarah Ramos) is drawn to Manfred, but her father goes to drastic lengths to keep them apart. He believes in a prophecy that predicts a great war between good and evil and that Manfred will be needed to lead them in a battle to prevent hell from being unleashed on earth.īobo (Dylan Bruce, a favorite from his “Orphan Black” days) is one of the few humans in the town. Joe (Jason Lewis, “Sex and the City”) is a fallen angel who runs a tattoo shop with his husband and is clued into the evil undercurrent threatening the town. Emilio (Yul Vazquez, “Bloodline”) turns into a weretiger.įiji (Parisa Fitz-Henley, “Luke Cage”) is a witch who has a talking cat that sounds a lot like Truman Capote. His lover, Olivia (Arielle Kebbel, “The Vampire Diaries”), is a sarcastic assassin with an arsenal that would be the envy of any third-world nation. Lem (Peter Mensah, “Spartacus: Blood and Sand”) is a vampire who can also feed off the energy of others. “Usually I’m the freak in the room,” Manfred remarks. Manfred decides to take his granny Xylda’s (Joanne Camp) advice and head to Midnight, Texas, where he will be presumably safe. Then there’s the guy who keeps threatening Manfred on his cell. A reading for a widow goes awry when the deceased takes over his body and tries to strangle his beloved. Manfred (Francois Arnaud, “The Borgias”) is a medium who is too good at his job. NBC hasn’t helped, even in several instances casting actors who look like the “True Blood” originals. You won’t find a telepathic waitress in baby doll clothes, but you will find a group of characters and a set of relationships that bear uncanny resemblance to the HBO series that ended in 2014. (Lame pun intended, but it’s the kind of line that would fit well here.)īased on another series of novels from “True Blood” author Charlaine Harris, “Midnight, Texas” is the tale of a town inhabited by supernatural beings and the few humans who love them.
NBC sure has a series you can sink your teeth into.
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