True Blood pilot

I've been trying to watch the True Blood premiere, but I think I need subtitles to follow this. I'm missing half the dialog, or so it seems, because even though I understand more than half the words, I miss one word or so in every bit of dialog, and of course it's inevitably a crucial one. These Southern accents are worse than the mumbling people on SGA.

Unrelated, does anyone know what happened to flambeau that the LJ is deleted?