Tonight On True Blood: “Beautifully Broken”

True Blood gets an infusion of new characters in tonight’s episode, titled “Beautifully Broken”. We’ll be meeting Russell Edgington (Denis O’Hare), Talbot (Theo Alexander), Melinda Mickens (J. Smith Cameron), Joe Lee Mickens (Cooper Huckabee), Franklin Mott (James Frain), Crystal Norris (Lindsay Pulsipher), Calvin Norris (Gregory Spordleder), and more. Plus we get a flashback to WWII. Here’s the official synopsis:

Russell Edgington, the Vampire King of Mississippi, concocts a plan to consolidate his power. Eric remembers his past; Sam tests the strength of his family bonds; Tara finds an ally in a shady vampire named Franklin Mott.

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