Blood Lust: True Blood, "Scratches"

POSTED: Monday, June 29, 2009, 9:55 PM

Filed Under: TV | True Blood Watch

Re-capping True Blood each and every week.

After arguing with Bill (Stephen Moyer) about new vamp Jessica (Deborah Ann Woll), Sookie (Anna Paquin) storms off into the dark woods. Left alone, she is charged at by a beast with the head of a Minotaur, and it scratches her little blond-haired body to pieces. Bill hears Sookie's screams with his heightened vampy-sense and flies to her aide. His vampire blood, which normally is a cure-all for humans when ingested (in a limited quantity, of course), is rejected by Sookie's body, and foam starts pouring out of the poor girl's mouth, rabies-style.

Desperate, Bill brings Sookie to vamp hang Fangtasia, and with the help of frienemy vampire Eric (Alexander Skaarsgard), enlists a local human doc who knows what's up with our fair heroine. Turns out, whatever attacked Sookie not only scratched her to bits but also left behind its poison. With a bit of patience and a lot of pain, on Sookie's part, the good doc removes the poison and Sookie gets seconds on Bill's wrist, only this time her body is more than eager to accept his blood.

When Sookie awakes, fully healed, she's the only one in the bar ' all the vampires have gone underground for the day. Suddenly, the perky human servant Ginger (Tara Buck) appears. When Sookie does some mind-reading, she uncovers that Lafayette (Nelsan Ellis) is chained in the bar's basement and she manages to grab a gun under the cash register. Weapon in hand, Sookie finds her friend, still fangless (unfortunately for all those viewers hoping to see Lafayette's sass taken in a monsterly direction). She convinces Eric to let him go, under the condition that Sookie search for some missing vampires in Texas.

While Bill and Sookie are away saving lives, Jessica (Deborah Ann Woll) sneaks out of the house and over to Merlotte's for some entertainment. Her preternatural glow attracts more than a few human eyes as she saunters in, but it's good ol' Hoyt (Jim Parrack) that really strikes her fancy. Jessica tests his true motives when she asks him to buy her a bottle of B+ TruBlood instead of a beer, revealing that she's isn't among the living. Hoyt's reply: 'Awesome.'

Over in Maryann's house of hedonism, Sookie's friend Tara (Rutina Wesley) and Tara's housemate and recent lover, Eggs (Mechad Brooks) share sultry looks as a party at the residence turns from puritanical to orgasmic. Maryann delights in her guests' wantonness, with bare breasts and grinding bodies abound. But it doesn't get truly sinister until the guests' eyes go all black, and you're reminded that Maryann is up to no good.

Jason's (Ryan Kwanten) still hanging out at the Fellowship of the Sun conference, but he struggles to justify the other members' hatred for vampires with his own more positive experiences with the undead. Pastor Newlin's wife Sarah (Anna Camp) seems to take an ever-increasing liking to Jason, in a more than spiritual way.

'Scratches,' ends again with an homage to the mysterious beast from the beginning, as Sam (Sam Trammell) is surprised to find his bumbling employee Daphne (Ashley Jones) join him in the lake for a nighttime skinny-dip. But she's got scratch scars on her back that look just like Sookie's. Leaving viewers with another mystery to add to the others, marking how much more there is in store for Bon Temps.

True Blood airs every Sunday on HBO at 9 p.m.

Yvette

Posted 2009-06-30 13:09:49

Not to mention the fact that the next episode is in two weeks to give the audience the chance to catch up on the storyline. AH! I dont like to wait for my True Blood.

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Posted 2009-08-08 16:58:38

I love this show! I have read all the Sookie Stackhouse books by Carlaine Harris and have loved them all. However True Blood does not allow the series to well it has more of book guide line to it but that is ok because everything seems new to the old readers.

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