Blood Lust: Episode 4, "Shake and Fingerpop"

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Blood Lust: Episode 4, "Shake and Fingerpop"

POSTED: Monday, July 13, 2009, 7:41 PM

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Bill interrupts Hoyt and Jessica's little love tryst, but Jessica's enthusiasm over her new love strikes Sookie in a soft place and she encourages Bill to allow Jessica to tag along on their Texan adventure so they can search for Godric, a missing vamp.

Sam is still swimming since last episode and he and Daphne continues to tread water for what seems like a Vampiric lifetime. It was difficult to really pay attention to their flirtation ' I was more worried Sam may get a Charlie-horse and suddenly drown. But they both manage to make it out OK, and Sam gets a glimpse of Daphne's scratch-scarred back, so the audience is no longer the only one in the know.

Tara tells Maryann that she's leaving to live with Sookie, but ends up in Gran's big house all alone on her birthday as Sookie has already left for Texas. Maryann with her own motives, surprises Tara, arriving with eggs and a giant wedding cake, announcing that since Tara left them, they are bringing a birthday party to her.

Over in Texas, Sookie gets off the plane alone as Bill and Jessica are in travel coffins. She is greeted by Leon the limo driver, who plans to abduct her. Fortunately, the trio's plane has arrived after dark, and Bill is able to break through his coffin and come to her aid. He paternally guides Jessica through her first try at Glamouring (hypnotizing a human) and they learn that Leon was contracted by the Fellowship of the Sun, the creepy Christian cult that Sookie's bro Jason is a member of.

Back at Gran's house, Tara's party is hopping. Sam shows up to drop off a present from Tara's estranged mother, but is quickly roped in to Maryann's hornball-spell. But it's partly Sam's fault, for he seems only to consider the staff of Merlotte's as a viable dating pool. When Maryann goes into the woods and chants, the eyes of all the party participants go black as they writhe and grind into one another or start smushing cake onto their faces. Sam is prompted by this same eye-blackening energy to tell Daphne about his secret identity, but she stops him to tell him that she already knows.

In Texas, Eric meets Bill in his hotel lobby to discuss the search for the missing vampire Godric, leaving Sookie and Jessica upstairs in the suite. A bellhop arrives with a 'Male, straight, B negative' that Jessica sheepishly takes to her room. Sookie and the Bellhop have an accidental conversation within their minds, as he appears to have the same powers as Sookie. Once he realizes this, he takes off down the hall and Sookie follows quickly after him.

'Shake and Fingerpop' was heavy with exposition, as creator Alan Ball, who also wrote this episode, juggles the show's multiple storylines, but humor eases his burden, like Jason Stackhouse's encounters with the Bible-thumping Fellowship of the Sun and the porn Sookie comes across on the hotel TV, with the titles Intercourse with a Vampire, His First Fangbang, and Co-Ed Chowdown.

"Shake and Fingerpop' is the best episode to date of second season True Blood. Finally, Bill and Sookie move past the 'stalwart protector and damsel in distress' storyline and the show revels in its own camp.

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