True Blood, Season 2; Bloodier and Badder than before?

HBO’s smash hit success, ‘True Blood” is back! And for those wondering what twists creator Alan Ball and his team of writers were going to cook up for us this season, after having wrapped out the clencher last season [spoiler alert for last season] and snuffing out fang-banger-hater Rene Lenier, the opener seems promising in the blood department so far.

This season’s premiere on June 14^th definitely opened up with a blood bath, as they unveiled the corpse in the bloody garbage bag conveniently wedged into the back seat of Detective Bellefleur’s car, and [oh my, another spoiler alert] showed us a less sparkly side of Lafayette, the likes of which we haven’t seen before; a beaten, bruised and imprisoned Lafayette.

Most amusingly though, I must say is the sight of Bill Compton, vampire and 1/3 of the Sookie Stackhouse love triangle, as a (he, he) father? Having witnessed the dehumanizing (quite literally) act of turning a teenage girl into a vampire last season, an act that Bill was forced to commit as a punishment for having killed a fellow vampire to save the life of Sookie, we knew that it was something Bill would probably want to keep secret from his mortal girlfriend. But when the ever-infantile vampire, Jessica, is left on his doorstep, a vampire-daddy is born and Bill must reveal the dark truth of what atrocity he had to commit for his crimes.

However, with that great admission, comes fighting, mistrust and makeup sex? Oh yes, and quite the makeup sex it was. Bighting, banging, and boobies (he, he). As for Anna Paquin, the New Zealand born actress that plays Sookie Stackhouse, not a bad pair, if I do say so myself. Not that this show hasn’t already a proven to us that HBO is “not just television” with it’s no-holds barred fang banging sex tapes, and of course Jason’s wily ways. We’ve been quite privy to Jason Stackhouse, played by Ryan Kwanten of Sydney Austalia (I know, I thought the accent was real too!), and his sex-capades with the women of Bon Temps, but who would have thought that Bill and Sookie would be “getting” more than Jason and Lafayette.

Whereas Lafayette is being held in detention, Jason has been detained by what seems like some sort of body snatcher, at least that’s the conclusion that us viewers would be left to assume as we watch him get sucked into the sinister darkness of the vamp-hating cult, I mean church, known as the “Fellowship of the Sun”. But will Jason be pledging his full-time servitude to the church this season? Jason the, um, minister? I don’t think so. In a recent interview with Ryan on fancast.com, [spoiler alert, and this is the last one I promise] we get the impression that Mr. Stackhouse will see the light, so to speak, and realize that the fellowship is blinding its followers to the more sinister intentions of the cult. According to Kwanten “As more and more information unfolds, even someone as simple as Jason sees the cracks in the foundation.”

I wonder if these cracks” have anything to do with the vampire slayer that the less civil vampire, Eric, is looking for... We’ll have to tune in and see.