Joe Manganiello Says He’s Not A Fan Of How ‘True Blood’ Ended

Joe Manganiello isn’t too pleased with how the hit vampire series “True Blood,” ended.

Appearing on Andy Cohen’s SiriusXM show this week, the “Deal or No Deal Island” host said he feels “like there was a lot that was left unexplored” when the HBO series wrapped up in 2014.

The hit horror series was based on the popular “Southern Vampire Mysteries” novel series written by Charlaine Harris. Manganiello joined the cast of “True Blood” in 2010, in the show’s third season, and played an ultra-buff werewolf pack master, Alcide Herveaux.

“I thought there was so much left on the table for me,” Manganiello told Cohen during the episode that aired Tuesday. “The thing about it was they never planned for me to be on the show past one season. I was signed up as a guest star my first season, and when my character really broke and people really loved the character, they were kind of unprepared for that to happen.”

But Manganiello’s character was unexpectedly shot and killed early on in True Blood‘s seventh and final season, much to fans’ disappointment.

“I wound up on the show for five years in total, but my character had to get out of the way so that Sookie could wind up settling the A and B plots with Bill and Eric,” Manganiello said, explaining why his character was nixed before the show’s end.

He added, “The only way to get me out of the way was — spoiler alert — you know, to shoot me in the face.”

Despite being bummed out over his character’s demise, Manganiello previously told Entertainment Weekly that at the very least he was thankful that his character wasn’t murdered by what Alcide hated the most: vampires.

“I think that might have been emasculating,” he told the outlet in 2014. “He hates vampires so much, then he gets