That is all we get as a teaser for the upcoming season 5 of True Blood. You can watch the teaser above and see for yourself. Unfortunately it doesn’t disclose much for what we are in for in the new season. It was announced on August 11, 2011 that HBO had renewed True Blood for a fifth season of 12 episodes to air in summer 2012. 

If you ask me, the teaser was a bit disappointing. It doesn’t show a damn thing regarding the new season, but fans can guess that it has something to do with vampire Russell Edgington.

If you remember, in season 3, the 2800 year old vampire was the king of Mississippi. After Eric kills Russell’s consort Talbot in retaliation for Russell murdering Eric’s human family centuries ago, Russell becomes hysterical and kills an anchorman on live television to address a statement to the world, in which he announces his view that vampires and humans aren’t equals and vampires will rule over them. This has widespread fallout as shown in season 4 with the vampires focusing hard on improving their image. Eric, Sookie and Bill manage to dispose of Russell at the end of the third season by tricking him and burying him underneath concrete.

In the season 4 finale it is implied that Russell has escaped the concrete, when Alcide finds a mysterious hole in a parking garage floor with silver chains discarded near it.

The actor had stated last year that his character was indeed not gone forever. He implied that while he would be absent from season 4 he would return again sometime later.

Could this teaser be the opening into a new storyline with Russell? It seems very likely. With the actor enigmatically stating he would return and the ending of season 4 implying that Russell has escaped his cement tomb, it can only mean one thing, Russell is back (or zombies are coming but that seems far less likely.)

Some fans have stated that it could also possibly mean that Tara will return in some form, either as a vampire herself or some other mystical form, as she was shot and killed at the end of season 4. I personally doubt this storyline is part of the teaser although it could still happen.

True Blood is based on The Southern Vampire Mysteries series of novels by Charlaine Harris, detailing the co-existence of vampires and humans in Bon Temps, a fictional, small town in the state of Louisiana. The series centers on the adventures of Sookie Stackhouse (played by actress Anna Paquin), a telepathic waitress.