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Blood Lust: True Blood, "Keep This Party Going"
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Blood Lust: True Blood, "Keep This Party Going"
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For those not in the True Blood-know, here's a quick recap: Creator Alan Ball, responsible for the late, great Six Feet Under, happened upon Charlaine Harris' Southern vampire mystery books while browsing in a Barnes and Noble and was quick to see promise in Harris' fictional world. In the first season, a synthetic material called True Blood is released on the market, allowing vampires to reveal that they live among humans. Despite this, vampires are still widely persecuted. In the Louisiana town of Bon Temps, the mind-reading Sookie Stackhouse (Anna Paquin) falls in love with sultry vamp Bill Compton (Stephen Moyer), admist cries of vampire-phobia by her . We'll be re-capping True Blood each and every week here on Crit Mass.
As Bill and Sookie lie languidly in post-coital bliss, Bill discusses the emotional difficulties the newly turned vampire Jessica is facing, his Civil-war era drawl makes the conversation seem epic and thus quite trite. But moments like this reaffirm the uniqueness of the show, and where there is no real excuse for overt narrative exposition, within lies an homage to the Southern way of storytelling.
Jessica (Deborah Ann Woll) sees her family on television pleading for her safe return, as they are unaware that she has been abducted and transformed. Sookie makes the mistake of allowing the impetuous nubile vamp to go observe her family home, under the condition that she may not interact with her relatives. Trouble ensues when Jessica super-speeds ahead of Sookie's grasp, only to be found by her mother and sister, who are unaware of Jessica's transformation. All seems peachy and darling, as Jessica plays it human, until her father arrives home and their abusive relationship becomes apparent. Jessica's fangs come out as she throws her father against the wall and it is Bill that comes to stop her as Sookie looks dumbly on. But first, in a nod to vampire lore, Bill must be invited inside the house in order to enter and he hypnotizes Jessica's little sister into doing just that.
Meanwhile, the flamboyant V dealer (V short for vampire blood, which induces a high when had by humans), Lafayette Reynolds (Nelsan Ellis), is held prisoner by the fanged track-suited aficionado Eric Northman (Alexander Skarsgard) and his band of loyal vamps at the local vampire-only bar Fangtasia. Lafayette pleads for his life, and when this fails to interest his captors, pleads to be made into a vampire, saying, 'Not only will I be a badass vampire, but I'll be your badass vampire.'
Why nobody over at the human-hangout, Merlotte's, is wondering where Lafayette has disappeared to is a weakness in plot, but bar-owner and Lafayette's former boss Sam Merlotte (Sam Trammell) seems too preoccupied with the oddly powerful Maryann (Michelle Forbes), a strange woman from his past who quickly turns his bar into an orgy. When he complains about her influence in the safety of his office, she shakes and simmers and suddenly turns Sam into his dog form (as he is a shape-shifter, naturally), threatening to do the same in front of his customers who are unaware of his powers. Earlier, Sookie hears Maryann's thoughts, which are in a masculine voice and another language, leading the audience to know that something's up, but still a bit confused as to Maryann's origin and why she wants people to get it on so bad.
But the best storyline is Jason Stackhouse's, Sookie's dolt of a brother (Ryan Kwanten), trip to a pseudo-fundamentalist bible camp. There, he and the fellow followers are treated to a rendition of 'Jesus Asked Me Out Today', an overtly sexual rock-and-roll tribute to the man upstairs, and a song that sure to be climbing the Christian music charts.
Next week's episode, 'Scratch My Back,' promises a lot of drama with Sookie and Bill, and maybe even a love interest for Jessica, but what hopefully comes to fruition is a Lafayette with fangs.
True Blood airs Sundays at 9 p.m. on HBO.
I love the show, I have been watching it since last year.
Regarding Lafayette's disappearance, it was explained in the finale of last season that Lafayette is known to disappear for weeks (or months) at a time.
I am confused because I read an interview with Nelson Ellis just yesterday where he said he was not going to be turned right away.....duh! what were those vamps doing to him in the last Sunday episode when the lunged at his neck, arms, etc.?
Hi guys-
I'm a huge fan of the show, and I wanted to share a tidbit of interesting news you might all be interested. There's a movie that Sam Trammell did called "Childhood's End" that's now being featured on Gigantic Digital for $2.99 (http://tinyurl.com/ltbakj) In one scene he has a full frontal and nobody seems to be in any hurry to yell "cut." His acting is pretty damn good too. Enjoy.
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