I am – Hercules!!

Sookie’s hands get all glowy when she touches Maryann. I bet we see more of that tonight.

It’d also be great to see Lafayette stop cowering on floors already.

The penultimate season-two episode from two weeks ago was “Frenzy,” the first with Alan Ball’s name on the teleplay since 2.4 (the episode that brought Bill and Sookie to Dallas).

Highlights:

* Bill Compton learned from the vampire queen that everything that exists imagined itself into existence. And that the vampire queen hasn’t enjoyed sex with men since the Eisenhower administration.

* Jason Stackhouse and Andy Bellefleur learned Sam can turn into any animal he “imprints” on. (I imagine he’s imprinted on quite a few if he’s ever visited a zoo.)

* Lafayette learned Sookie now works for Eric and that they’ve both been dreaming about Eric since they drank his blood.

* Eric flew to the queen! Like he was Neo! Or Nathan Petrelli! Which makes you wonder why Bill bothers with trucks and planes and special caskets!

* An accommodating foreigner offered to have sex with Bill, who politely declined then settled in for a friendly game of Yahtzee.

* Bill learned Sookie’s cousin hangs with the vampire queen. Is that as big a coincidence as Jason and Sookie winding up at the exact same Dallas anti-vampire camp a few episodes ago?

* And, of course, Sookie discovered Tara and Eggs building a nest for a watermelon-size egg.

HBO says of tonight’s season finale:

Episode #24: “Beyond Here Lies Nothin’”
Debut: SUNDAY, SEPT. 13 (9:00-10:00 p.m.)
Bon Temps reaches a fever pitch as Maryann prepares for her ultimate bestial sacrifice, conscripting Sookie to be Maid of Honor at the bloody nuptials. Meanwhile, Sophie-Anne warns Eric to keep the lid on Bill's inquisitiveness; Jason leads Andy into the heroic abyss; and Hoyt struggles with Maxine's endless stream of insults. Deliberating on what may be his final move to save Sookie and the town, Sam places his trust, and his life, in a most unlikely ally.

9 p.m. Sunday. HBO.

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