True Blood is back for a fourth year of Southern Supernatural and Sexual Shenanigans. The writers immediately engineer an off-screen time-jump of roughly a year, which allows them to significantly shuffle the cast deck chairs and create a bunch of new dynamics, especially of the bedroom variety. There's so much of that going on in fact that the season's inevitable Looming Supernatural Threat sometimes feels like it's the B-plot to the latest iteration of romantic relationship bingo. I mean, there's a reason the DVD cover is all about Sookie and her three paramours, with nary a witch to be seen.
Yep, witches will be out antagonists this year, along with a little vampire-on-vampire action because True Blood vamps are really not good at getting along nicely with each other. 'Woman with magic powers leads coven' could easily have felt like a big re-tread of season two's 'woman with magic powers leads cult', and I will give credit to the show for working hard to make this season's main antagonist very different from season two's Maryann. They did not, unfortunately, manage to make her especially interesting or memorable. But she is different. And her presence does lead to silliness like vampires with rocket launchers, so it's certainly not all bad.
True Blood is unashamedly melodramatic, over the top sex and violence and vampires. By season 4, I expect you already know whether or not that is your thing.
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