Here's probably the last time I'm looking at my (ironically, silver) watch, just to let you know that we're roughly, say, eighteen hours to the second season premiere of True Blood.  Roughly twelve more episodes of the romance between Sookie (Anna Paquin) and Bill (Stephen Moyer)--provided that it doesn't get pushed by secondary plots and everything else.  I admit I wasn't paying that much attention in the first, but at least I somehow got it.  As far as things go, well, we'll have the distractions.

Now that the whole story of who's killing Jason's (Ryan Kwanten) girlfriends is over, we can perhaps look at other things, right?  Like, say, the relationship itself?  Bill suddenly has a kid, and her name is Jessica (Deborah Ann Woll), and it's not necessarily a good thing, considering Sookie's yet to figure that out.  Oh, not after all the will-she-do-it-or-will-she-not drama, not this, a let down?  You've probably seen the spoilers, the one bit about the two girls not getting very comfortable with each other, and I believe that'll be a take-off point.


Or, as always, Jason will get himself into some trouble, even if he's now part of the Fellowship and has weaned himself off V-juice.

And I told you I haven't read the books, right?

One more thing to watch out this season: Eric (Alexander Skarsgard) will lose his spotting when this Sophie girl (Rachel Evan Wood) comes in.  I'll bluff here by expecting some sort of struggle that'll drag the rest of the vampires.

All of that, of course, has to begin somewhere, and in tonight's season premiere, we'll be reeling from the stuff that happened at the end of the last season.  Yep, that body found at the very end, everybody (me included) believes it's Lafayette... and then there's the issues between Sookie, Bill, and Jessica, and it'll turn things around--and then some.  Sam (Sam Trammell) remembers a few things, and Jason continued being anti-vampire and all.  We'll get back to it from 9pm on HBO.



-Henrik Batallones, BuddyTV Staff Columnist
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