'True Blood' ratings: Fangtastic!

By Michael Ausiello
Updated on July 29, 2020 05:07PM EDT

The ratings for True Blood‘s second season premiere on Sunday are in — and they don’t suck.

According to HBO, the bloody good episode averaged 3.7 million viewers, making it the pay cabler’s most watched original program since the series finale of The Sopranos two years ago. What’s more, the opener was up a staggering 157 percent over the season 1 premiere, and 51 percent over last November’s season finale.

Those are numbers you can really sink your teeth into, right?

Sick of all my vampire puns? Bite me.

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