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True Blood’s first episode of season 2 is finally here!  ***Some spoilers follow if you haven’t read the Sookie Stackhouse novels.***

To start with season 1 left us on a huge cliffhanger!  Is LaFayette alive or dead?  This is actually the reason I started reading the novels by Charlaine Harris.  LaFayette is one of my favorite characters and I had to know what happened.  Nelsan Ellis plays LaFayette, the flamboyant but tough fry-cook of Merflotte’s.  The last episode, showed LaFayette attacked monster-cam style, and it looked like he was probably attacked by a vampire.  Then at the last moment of the episode a dead foot with brightly colored toe nail polish fell out of a car.  In the books I was sad to find out that this was LaFayette’s foot.  He was most definitely dead.  But, back by popular demand, this season we find him chained up in Eric Northman’s basement.  In the books we know very little about LaFayette other than he’s the chef at Merlotte’s and he’s gay and that Sookie is friend’s enough with him to try to solve his murder.  But with the back story that we were given in season 1, it’s obvious that LaFayette’s days of dealing “V” and the fact that his “V” supplying vamp mysteriously disappeared, has all finally caught up with him.

Unfortunately, now there is no need for Sookie to solve this mystery, which accounts for about half of the book.  A possible theory about why Sookie would want to solve this mystery, which is now the death of Ms. Jeanette, would be if Tara is considered a suspect and Sookie has to help clear her name.  If they stick to the book and Andy Bellefleur is the main suspect, we could find out a little earlier that Bill Compton is related to the Bellefleurs.  But enough about that, I’m glad LaFayette is still around and I’m pretty excited about the fact that anything that will happen to him is a complete mystery to me.

I really don’t have a lot to say about this particular episode though.  There are a lot of exciting things that happen to Sookie in this book and not one of them happened in this episode.  It was a great opening to season 2 though.  We found out the identity of the body in Andy’s car, we got to see Jessica begin integrating herself into Bill’s life (she is not in the books what-so-ever), Sookie finally found out that Bill killed her uncle, we saw via flashbacks the previous relationship of Mary Ann and Sam.  All in all it was a perfect starter episode.

The last 10 minutes are particularly good.  There is some serious nudity from Sookie and Bill after the two exchange their first “I love you” ‘s.  Apparently, that sex scene had to be seriously edited down even for HBO’s standards.  And last but not least, Eric’s first appearance, played by Alexander Skarsgård, was saved until the very end of the episode.  Very disappointing to the members of “Team Eric” , but the next episode looks promising for more Eric content.

I’ll be once again counting down the hours until the next episode, “Keep This Pary Going”, at 8:00 pm cst Sunday on HBO.