History Trivia / Haven

* ActorAllusion: Creator/NolanNorth guest stars as an archaeologist who helps a character played by Creator/EmilyRose solve a supernatural mystery. [[VideoGame/{{Uncharted}} Hmmm...]]
** William (who is played by Creator/ColinFerguson) in Season 4 is introduced thusly:
-->'''Lexie''': Are you a cop?\\
'''William''': [[Series/{{Eureka}} Not even a little]].
** This isn't Creator/ChristianCamargo's first time playing a [[Series/{{Dexter}} serial killer]], who is [[spoiler:killed by his more positive brother]].

* CastingGag: Wrestling/{{Christian}} playing an old friend of Wrestling/{{Edge|Wrestler}} - aside from their history as tag team partners in the WWE, the two have been best friends since childhood.

* NamesTheSame: Audrey Parker was the name of a OneShotCharacter on ''Series/TheFortyFourHundred''.
** The supernatural powers are referred to collectively as The Troubles. Not to be confused with the [[UsefulNotes/TheTroubles name for the constant low-level war]] between republicans and loyalists in Northern Ireland from the late 1960's through the late 1990's.

* CastingGag: Wrestling/{{Christian}} playing an old friend of Wrestling/{{Edge}} - aside from their history as tag team partners in the WWE, the two have been best friends since childhood.

* MutuallyFictional: ''Haven'' has an interesting relationship with the larger Creator/StephenKing canon. The writers are hyper-aware it's based on a King novella, and love a good MythologyGag, but they aren't treated equally. Criminals are released from [[Film/TheShawshankRedemption Shawshank Penitentiary]], characters visit or grew up in Derry, and Audrey receives a book in the ''[[Literature/Misery Misery Chastain]]'' series as a gift, but Duke also owns a copy of ''Literature/TheTommyknockers'' and Howard dismissively refers to Audrey's work with the Troubled as being like ''Literature/ChildfrenOfTheCorn.'' ''The Tommyknockers'' being fictional is especially [[CelebrityParadox weird]], since the series takes its name from that particular work.

* FanNickname: "Fraudrey" for [[spoiler:the second Audrey Parker who showed up at the end of season 1.]] Ironically, it turned out that Fraudrey [[spoiler:was in fact the ''real'' Audrey Parker and the first one is the fake!]]

* ForcedPerspective: There's a [[HugeGuyTinyGirl ''13-inch'']] height difference between Creator/EmmaLahana and Creator/EricBalfour, but it's hardly noticeable most of the time thanks to creative camera angles. They're often on different planes within a shot, such as one of them in the mid-ground while the other is in the foreground, which makes them appear much closer in height than they actually are. It's used so often that scenes that don't are jarring, like in "When the Bough Breaks," where a close-up has them talking eye-to-eye...only for the wide shot to reveal they're eye-to-eye because she is standing and he is ''sitting down.''

* ForcedPerspective: There's a ''13-inch'' height difference between Creator/EmmaLahana and Creator/EricBalfour, but it's hardly noticeable most of the time thanks to creative camera angles. They're usually on different planes within a shot, which makes them appear much closer in height than they are. It makes any scene in which their height difference is actually shown rather jarring, like in "When the Bough Breaks," when they are talking eye-to-eye in a close-up, only for the wide shot to reveal she is standing and he is ''sitting down.''

** John Dunsworth was best known to most audiences for playing the antagonistic, perpetually drunken jerkass Jim Lahey on [[Series/TrailerParkBoys]]. Here he plays a decent, sober, logical fellow.

* DistancedFromCurrentEvents: "Reunion" was pulled at the last minute due to the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in Newtown, Connecticut. The episode, coincidentally, features violence in a high school. It was aired in mid-January instead.

** It even bears a resemblance to the [[NamesTheSame similarly named]] real town of North Haven, Maine, which is on an island near Rockland.

** The supernatural powers to collectively as The Troubles. Not to be confused with the [[UsefulNotes/TheTroubles name for the constant low-level war]] between republicans and loyalists in Northern Ireland from the late 1960's through the late 1990's.

* CaliforniaDoubling: PlayedWith. The series is set in Maine and filmed in Nova Scotia. While Nova Scotia is doubling for Maine, the fact that Nova Scotia is on the east coast and geographically close to Maine means the aesthetic is very similar. The outdoor shots of Haven look very mid-coast Maine. In some cases, even ''moreso'' than ''actual'' coastal Maine town.

* IWantYouToMeetAnOldFriendOfMine: Minor character [=McHugh=] is one of Dwight's helpers and is portrayed by Creator/WilliamReso. Reso's also best friends with Adam Copeland (who plays Dwight) and they had [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edge_and_Christian a successful wrestling career together]] before Haven.

* RealLifeWritesThePlot: Jennifer disappears in the Season 5 premiere because Creator/EmmaLahana had to go home due to a family emergency (she's from New Zealand and the show is filmed in Nova Scotia).

** Creator/ClaudiaBlack (Moira in "Magic Hour Part 1 & 2") and Creator/NolanNorth (Will Brady in "Last Goodbyes") worked with Emily Rose in VideoGame/{{Uncharted}}.

** Creator/ClaudiaBlack (Moira in "Magic Hour Part 1 & 2") and Creator/NolanNorth (Will Brady in "Last Goodbyes") worked with Emily Rose in VideoGame/{{Uncharted}}.
* TooSoon: "Reunion" was pulled at the last minute due to the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in Newtown, Connecticut. The episode, coincidentally, features violence in a high school. It was aired in mid-January instead.

** [[spoiler: Acting for Five: Emily Rose as Audrey Parker, Lucy Ripley, Sarah Vernon, and as of Season 4, Lexie [=DeWitt=] and Mara. And, finally, Paige.]]
* ActorAllusion: Nolan North guest stars as an archaeologist who helps a character played by Emily Rose solve a supernatural mystery. [[VideoGame/{{Uncharted}} Hmmm...]]
** William (who is played by Colin Ferguson) in Season 4 is introduced thusly:

** This isn't Christian Camargo's first time playing a [[Series/{{Dexter}} serial killer]], who is [[spoiler:killed by his more positive brother]].

* DirectedByCastMember: Jason Priestley (Chris Brody) directed "Lockdown" and "Real Estate", Lucas Bryant (Nathan Wuornos) directed "Enter Sandman", and Colin Ferguson (William) directed "Just Passing Through".

** The actors are never told spoilers, so that their reactions to any new development or revelation is genuine. The actors have expressed in interviews that they're dying to learn the truth about The Troubles and Audrey's origins as much as the fans.
** Emily Rose has stated that she used her frustration at finding out that [[spoiler: she isn't really Audrey Parker]] and all of the training to be a believable F.B.I agent and the emotional life she had been building as an actor was basically not true as motivation and emotional subtext for how her character must feel about her own life.

* ItsASmallWorldAfterAll: The actors for Dwight and Nathan found out they grew up 20 minutes away from each other. Emily Rose (Audrey) noted they even share a very similar sense of humor.
* IWantYouToMeetAnOldFriendOfMine: Minor character [=McHugh=] is one of Dwight's helpers and is portrayed by William Reso. Reso's also best friends with Adam Copeland (who plays Dwight) and they had [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edge_and_Christian a successful wrestling career together]] before Haven.

* OutOfHolidayEpisode: Invoked in the Christmas episode "Silent Night," which was released around Christmas in reality but took place in July in-universe. Someone's trouble was creating Christmas in Haven [[spoiler: by trapping the town in a snowglobe,]] and only Audrey, who is immune to the Troubles, knew something was wrong. Everyone else just assumes she's a Grinch for not liking Christmas (and thinks she's crazy when she says Christmas is ''not'' in July).

** Colin Ferguson, known for playing genial, bumbling {{Everyman}} [[Series/{{Eureka}} Jack Carter]], turns out to be both [[spoiler: evil and the BigBad of Season 4.]]

** Lucas Bryant's wife Kirsty Hinchcliffe plays Rebecca Rafferty, a minor cop in Haven PD starting in season 4.
** John Dunsworth's (Dave) daughter Molly plays Vickie.

** Emily Rose (Audrey) and Lucas Bryant (Nathan) starred in a 2010 movie called ''Perfect Plan''.