"There's werewolves? Big Foot, is he real, too? ... Santa?"

I was a little bit unsure as to whether or not I should post my thoughts on the new episodes of True Blood. Because I've read the books, I was concerned I may inadvertently give things away thinking it's happened in the show already because it happened in the books. But, by request from my lovely friend Snow White, I've decided to go ahead and do it. Since I neglected to post last week, I'll make this a two episode recap.

In the first episode of the season, Bad Blood, we pick up pretty much from the exact moment the 2nd season finale left off: Sookie returns to the table after her post-proposal freak out to find that Bill's been abducted, Jason and Andy deal with the fact they just killed Eggs, Tara also deals with Eggs being killed, Jessica accidentally kills a trucker and Sam has set out to meet his biological family. Now, I have to say, the majority of this episode was mostly setting up the new season, which is fairly typical of season premieres. They don't want to go in guns blazing to end up puttering out in the end. Although we do discover a learn about a new breed of supes getting thrown into the mix: werewolves. Plus, we get to see the two best parts of the show, lots of gratuitous scenes of both Jason Stackhouse and Eric Northman. What more do you need, really? I guess that's how Alan Ball decided to start things off with a bang! For which, I applaud him.

Moving along to last night's episode, Beautifully Broken. We get to meet a few new characters this week, which is always fun. After Tara tries to kill herself, Lafayette takes her to see his mother in a psychiatric facility, whom he fears Tara will end up like should she continue down the path she's on. There he meets the conveniently dreamy nurse Jesus. From what I've read, and hopefully not giving too much away, he will become a regular feature in the fabulous Lafayette's life this season. But love isn't only in the air for Lafeyette. While accidentally ending up on a meth lab bust with Andy, Jason sees an enigmatic blonde who will most likely be popping back up in his life in the near future.

We also get to meet three new vampires: Russell Edgington, the kind of Mississippi who we learn orchestrated the kidnapping of Bill, his boytoy Talbot and Franklin Mott, a mysterious character who broke into someone's house (was it Bill's or Sookie's) looking for information about Sookie and a possible love interest for broken Tara.

Beyond meeting the newbies, we (finally) learn that Lorena was also involved in Bill's kidnapping, we get a touching moment between Pam and Jessica about how to dispose of bodies (vampire mentoring at its finest), we get some sweet brother/sister love moments between Sookie and Jason and we are treated to some great sexual tension between our favorite vamp Eric and Sookie.

All in all, a very good start to what's looking to be a very good season. I'm not shy about the fact I'm not team Bill, so let's continue to keep him out of the picture to allow for much more Eric/Sookie time. I'm excited for next week when it looks like we'll finally get to meet Alcide!

Until next time... xo

Title quote: Jason Stackhouse, "True Blood"

"Sometimes the bitch wins."

The wait is almost over! Only a little over a week left until the season 3 premiere of True Blood.

Yesterday we were treated to a brand spankin' new trailer with a pretty in depth look at the drama to come over the next 12 episodes.



I don't know about you, but I think this looks even better than I expected. Club Dead was one of my favorite books of the Sookie Stackhouse novels so I've been really looking forward to seeing how Alan Ball translates it on to our television sets each week. I am also looking forward to seeing much more Sookie/Eric interaction and meeting all the new characters, Alcide in particular.

If you need more True Blood to tide you over until Sunday, June 13, click HERE for HBO's True Blood page, which includes all the trailers and original minisodes.

Until next time... xo

Title Quote: Sookie Stackhouse, "Club Dead"

"I always thought as different as we are, some how we could still be together. And now I don't know."

Lots of new True Blood stuff for you!

Season 3 is right around the corner and today we are being treated to a new poster, featuring most of the cast.

In case you don't remember, in the last moments of the season 2 finale Sookie and Bill were separated, after his proposal to her, by his kidnapping. The HBO/True Blood marketing team, as always, has come up with some clever promotions revolving around that fact...which leads us to believe his disappearance will be a big part of season 3, as it is in book 3, Club Dead.

Last week this poster was released:

And in perusing HBO's True Blood site, I came across this video:

Another thing Alan Ball has done this year to promote the show is create 6 minisodes, "A Drop of True Blood", which begin to air May 2 on HBO. However, we got a sneak peek of one featuring Eric and his lovely assistant Pam today.

Now, I can't help but wonder if Alan Ball got the idea to do this from Charlaine Harris' collection of Sookie Stackhouse centric short stories, A Touch of Dead, that was published last year.

Until next time... xo

"Giving Jason Stackhouse vampire blood is like giving Ho-Hos to a diabetic. You know he can't control himself."

This month's Details magazine features not only 1, but 3 of the main men of Bon Temps. True Blood stars Stephen Moyer (Bill Compton), Alexander Skarsgard (Eric Northman) and Ryan Kwanten (Jason Stackhouse), grace their own covers of the May edition. I wonder if Sam Trammell (Sam Merlotte) the local shape shifter, feels left out...

Also, the magazine provided us with a sneak peak of the behind the scenes goings-on at the shoot.



Now if I could only choose vampires, I would definitely be going with Eric, but alas, here is my favorite of the bunch:

The Ryan Kwanten cover will definitely be the copy I pick up! Who knew I'd choose a human over a vampire?!

Until next time... xo