True Blood

Amazing casting alert. True Blood has gone and cast best-theater-actress-of-her-generation Fiona Shaw as basically head villain for next season. She'll play Marnie, a timid two-bit psychic who winds up possessed by a very powerful witch. [HOLD FOR CHRISTINE O'DONNELL JOKE TKTK] Shaw is known in the film world as Aunt Petunia in the Harry Potter series, but in the theater world she's known as creating a definitive Medea, for a gender-bending Richard II, and for doing a one-woman performance of T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land. I saw her do the mostly-a-monologue Happy Days at BAM and it was grrrreat. Plus she's a lesbian! So, basically, excellently done True Blood. Perhaps this will make up for them completely underusing Alfre Woodard last season? (What happened with that anyway?)