Air Date: Sunday, August 21, 2011 9PM ET/PT on HBO
“They’re coming for you, Bill. Run!” How quickly we have fallen, oh writers of True Blood. This has to be the worst line ever delivered by an Academy Award winner. I can only shake my head.
Marnie/Antonia (Fiona Shaw) has a new pet, Bill (Stephen Moyer) and Alcide (Joe Manganiello) join sides momentarily, and well, not much else grabs my attention.
Is it possible Debbie (Brit Morgan) has a heightened sense of smell? She’s always smelling someone, *ahem* Sookie (Anna Paquin), on Alcide and she smells him long before he’s in the same room with her. I’m wondering if it has anything to do with her V addiction—some residual effect of her imbibing vampire blood. Now that would be interesting. But no… that can’t really be the case because Tommy (Marshall Alman) smells other Supes as well. Inconsistency is my problem here. Why doesn’t Alcide smell Debbie when she was follows him? Why don’t any of the other shifters or Weres smell their kind when they’re around? By the way, Morgan’s doing a fantastic job in her portrayal of the troubled Debbie. She’s a woman fighting for her man, sanity, and sobriety. Two out of three ain’t bad.
Observations:
Love the fight between Nan (Jessica Tuck) and Bill. We finally see some tug of war between two powerful (using the term loosely when it comes to Bill) forces. I always expect Nan to win and she doesn’t disappoint.
I want Hoyt’s (Jim Parrack) alarm ring tone. NOT!
Is Andy (Chris Bauer) so high he doesn’t realize how screwed up he is? He’s become Jason (Ryan Kwanten) and it doesn’t seem to faze him one bit. Though he doesn’t seem to react to it the same as Jason does. You know, using it as Viagra.
There is no way Sookie loves both Bill and Eric (Alexander Skarsgård). I’m not eating this bullshit for breakfast. Does she not remember how Bill hurt her? I know she’s expressing these “feelings” in a dream but come on! There’s no freaking way Sookie would cling to Bill knowing what he’s done to her. How silly of me to forget. We’ve seen the signs that she still harbors feelings for Bill after only a few hours of being away from Bon Temps (the year she’s been missing), seeing him with another woman, and “falling in love” with Eric. Seriously?
Can someone please burn that damn dirty doll? Or at least wash it.
Oh, and did you catch that Debbie was watching Cheaters?
Funny lines:
Bill to Alcide: “Werewolf, I’m going to need you to shut the fuck up!”
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Jason when Jesus (Kevin Alejandro) arrives on the scene: “Jesus! What are you doing here?”
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Jason to Jesus: “Whenever you role play, does Lafayette ever pretend to be a woman named Mavis?”
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I don’t know what to say about this episode. It falls flat for me. Now that I understand what the drama around Mavis (Nondumiso Tembe) has to do with Lafayette (Nelsan Ellis)—he’s a medium, needs to understand his function in life—I still think it’s odd. Ellis does a great job channeling the spirit of a grieving mother, but Alejandro digs deep as a supportive partner. These two do a much better job when they aren’t involved in intimate scenes. At least I don’t feel like they’re faking it.
This brings me to the rest of the episode. What the hell did I watch? While I truly believe everything Morgan does in this episode (she is fantastic), I’m floored by Paquin’s disingenuous… everything—the dream, the puppy eyed looks with Moyer—I do not know this Sookie and I want season one Sookie back. Now. Please.
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