So for all of you out there reading this, I usually don’t do TV reviews but I loved this show so much last year I thought I’d take this opportunity to do episode to episode reviews for this show. At this point I’m not sure if I will be doing this for other TV shows out there, but let’s see how this goes and then we’ll worry about that later. Also, let it be known that these reviews will contain spoilers for the episodes and episodes that came before, so consider yourself warned and don’t come crying to me when you read spoilers. I WARNED YOU!

The show returns exactly where we left off last season with Lafayette missing, Tara staying with Maryann, Bill having to teach Jessica how to be a vampire and most importantly a dead woman in Andy’s car. With all these plots to start off the show with you can imagine that Alan Ball has a lot to address coming back after the debut season’s finale. This show continues along its great streak that it ended on last year.

At the end of last season one of the biggest questions was if Bill had fed on Lafayette. It was pretty obvious that he was attacked but it was unclear as to whether he was killed or whatever else. Here we find out that Lafayette was taken into captivity and we are not sure where. He’s stuck in a basement and he’s being held without knowing by whom or why and he’s left to figure these things out as he goes along. Here is going to be the show for me, they have introduced a whole new murder plot that I will talk about in a minute which I’m sure will span the season, but this is the most interesting bit of the show. At the end of the episode we find out that Lafayette is being held by Eric in where must be the basement of Fangtasia. I find this most interesting because even though we knew from the first season that Eric was the sheriff of the area and we never saw him actually using his power in anyway against those humans that wronged the vampires in season one. It made you feel like maybe the vampires had gone softer than we had assumed and only punished their kind and left the humans to frolic all they wanted. I can’t wait to see this side of the vampire world that we have yet to be shown by Mr. Ball.

Another interesting plot line that I’m very curious about and is hinted at in this episode is Maryann. It is made very clear in the last couple episodes that Sam and Maryann have a history. It is also made clear that Maryann is not what she seems. She’s not just some really nice white lady that helps strange black women, Tara, when in dire need. She is after something and more importantly something to do with Sam Merlotte. I’m still not sure exactly what Maryann is, but given that the show already has mind readers, vampires and shape shifters what more are they ready to throw at us?

The biggest question which will probably take us the entire season to answer is who or what is killing now and taking out their hearts? I mean I remember the first season while we would find lots of dead women piling up but I was never as affected as I was when we saw the body of Ms. Jeannette, the con artist posing as an exorcist, in the back of Andy Bellefleur’s car. The next question is there a reason why she was killed or was it just a random killing? These questions we will only be able to address with more facts and more hours of True Blood Season Two under our belt.

Overall this episode is a great episode to start the season and I can’t wait for the next one to come.I can never have enough HBO in my life.