Tara’s a Fighter, Bill’s a Lover (Spoiler Alert!)

Sandra at EW.com has some minor True Blood scoop for us this week involving Tara and Bill:

If you thought things were going to get bad among the True Blood monsters and creatures after last week’s episode, you were right. But you might not be able to predict how bad, says True Blood actress Rutina Wesley. “When you’ve got shifters and werewolves and vampires and witches, there’s bound to be some tension,” says the actress. “There’s going to be some craziness this season, and because her best best friend is Sookie, Tara is going to get swept back into everything. But I can’t tell you whose side she’s going to be on.”

True Blood Recap: How Bill Became King

In the season 4 premiere of True Blood, the show jumped forward one year and we found out Bill is the new Vampire King of Louisiana. How did that happen, you ask? This week we find out, and we also get to enjoy Jason having his clothes ripped off, Eric taking a shirtless midnight stroll down the road and more naked Sam than you can shake a stick at.

Bill's flashbacks begin when Sookie shows up to see him, interrupting his violent sexual encounter with his coven spy Katerina. Sookie looks for some help getting rid of Eric, but King Bill can't do much. That sends us to our first flashback of the night, set in 1982 London.

Ten Things Sookie Missed While Hanging With the Faeries

True Blood’s Season 4 premiere was an eye-opening experience for Sookie (Anna Paquin) when she realized that what she believed was only about ten minutes in Fairyland was actually more than a year on earth. It was a well-played move by the producers to give the series a slight reboot and use Sookie as the means in which to guide us past it fairly seamlessly.

What Sookie learned to be true about Fairyland – that they were trying to collect all their earthbound fairy kin in order to cut itself off from earth – was only the tip of the iceberg. She would return to a much different Bon Temps where her friends believed she was dead and most had moved on with their lives.


Here are 10 things Sookie missed while she was fraternizing with fairies:

True Blood Season 4 HBO Press Release

HIT HBO SERIES TRUE BLOOD KICKS OFF FOURTH SEASON JUNE 26

At the conclusion of season three of TRUE BLOOD, vampire king Russell Edgington was buried alive in a pit of concrete, apparently ending his plans for world domination. But what happened to Sookie, who disappeared into a flash of light? Will Bill be able to make things right after breaking Sookie’s heart? And what awaits Eric, who nearly joined Russell in limbo?

The Emmy®-nominated TRUE BLOOD kicks off its 12-episode fourth season SUNDAY, JUNE 26 (9:00-10:00 p.m. ET/PT), exclusively on HBO, followed by other new episodes on subsequent Sundays at the same time. Mixing romance, suspense, mystery and humor, the show takes place in the not-too-distant future, when vampires have come out of the coffin, thanks to the invention of mass-produced synthetic blood that means they no longer need humans as a nutritional source.