Now True Blood's period has truly begun.
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Not that the first three incidents haven't been great, gory, sexy fantasy fun, or that it hasn't been a delight to see new characters arrive and new stories begin. But with Sunday's episode, the first this term written by creator Alan Ball, you can just feel the show's main plots kick into another gear.
That is, by the way, par for the True Blood course: It was around this same time last go-round that Gran died, the event that jump-started the first season. Nothing quite that series-shaking happens Sunday, but major answers do arrive, including some important new information about that heart-coveting enormous, as major shifts send the characters off and running in new directions.
projected for Sookie and her much-loved blood-sucker, Bill (the perfectly teamed Anna Paquin and Stephen Moyer), that means a trip to Dallas to hunt for a kidnapped vampire sheriff, with Bill's vamp ward Jessica (an amusingly petulant Deborah Ann Woll) in tow. No, the show hasn't left the backwoods of Bon Temps. But by taking a big-city sojourn, True Blood can explore a whole new humorous side of its out, loud and proud vampire metaphor, complete with comfort vampire hotels that play vampire porn. (Sample title: interaction With a Vampire.)
