"True Blood Season 2": Skin and spoilers

Above you can see Ryan Kwanten in a scene from the second season of the HBO vampire series True Blood (and while you're gazing at that pic, once again let me point out that Ryan did not gain entry into this year's AfterElton Hot 100.)

Ryan's character Jason Stackhouse is being recruited into a cult ... a hot, sweaty, shirtless cult. Will he be brainwashed? We've got spoilers for the first few episodes plus a new preview of the second season, which premieres June 14th.

Gay reporter sprite Michael Ausiello has a rundown of the first three episodes, which shape up this way:

June 14 - A shocking murder outside Merlotte’s has Bon Temps reeling. Meanwhile, Sookie’s (Anna Paquin) relationship with Bill (Stephen Moyer) is tested when she learns about Jessica (Deborah Ann Woll), and of his involvement in her uncle’s death. Sam (Sam Trammell) recalls a shape-shifting encounter he had with Maryann (Michelle Forbes) as a 17-year-old. Jason (Ryan Kwanten) gets a sudden windfall that allows him to pay for a leadership retreat with the Fellowship of the Sun. Two adversaries find themselves sharing a mysterious dungeon and, possibly, the same fate.

June 21 - Sookie is forced to cope with Bill’s obligations to Jessica, as well as the romantic inconveniences the teen vampire’s presence creates. At the Light of Day leadership conference, Jason makes a favorable impression on its ambitious leaders, Steve (Michael McMillian) and Sarah Newlin (Anna Camp), though not on his jealous roommate ,strong>Luke (Wes Brown). Maryann casts her spell on Merlotte’s patrons, and Sam proves helpless to stop the revelry.

June 28 - When Sookie is attacked by a mysterious creature, Bill must enlist Eric’s (Alexander Skarsgård) help to save her. At the Light of Day retreat, Jason has second thoughts about the sect’s anti-vampire agenda, but Sarah and Steve counter his doubts with flattery and promises. After snapping at Tara (Rutina Wesley) and new employee Daphne (Ashley Jones, Sam decides to cut and run. A bored Jessica heads over to Merlotte’s, where a smitten Hoyt (Jim Parrack) falls under her spell. At another Maryann-hosted party, Tara finds her attraction to Eggs (Mehcad Brooks) interrupted by a swirling, aphrodisiac fog.

Unfortunately, nowhere is the name Lafayette (Nelsan Ellis), so our fears about the murder of our favorite gay short-order cook may be realized.

Any thoughts about what you see in these descriptions? Anyone you'd like to see more, or less of, and any hook-ups you'd like to see happen, whether they be live ... or undead?