“I don’t normally cuss, but you have completely fucked me here.”
Sookie Stackhouse’s desperate words to Jessica Hamby after an ill advised trip to see her family pretty much sum up the first two episodes of season 2 of True Blood. There has been more gore & profane scenes in the first two episodes this season than I remember in ALL of season 1, and that’s a good thing. Not since the Anne Rice’s vampire novels/bad movies of the early 90′s has there been such hype around the idea of vampires. Of course the majority of this is thanks to Robert Pattinson’s hair. This is why it was a stroke of genius by Allan Ball to transform True Blood from a well written vampire series that concentrated more on the inference of blood/gore/sex of the genre to a well written vampire series that realized “Hey, we are on fucking HBO!”. Leave the sappy lack of the sexy side to being a vampire to the Twilight saga and let’s rock and roll.
Where to begin. The four story arc’s we have going on so far are all equally as interesting and alluring.
Maryanne (The human vibrator): The fact that she turned a boring night at Merlotte’s into pretty much an orgy was great. The highlight of which was watching Detective Andy Bellefleur do his self proclaimed “epileptic on meth” dance after he swore he would never dance in public again.
Bill & Jessica: I usually don’t think gay jokes are ever funny, mainly because they are so low brow, but the look that the lady who worked at the clothing store gave Bill & Eric after discussing Eric’s “new look” was pretty priceless. Jessica is much more a part of the show than I thought she would be and when she threatened her father who had obviously abused her when she was “alive” was pretty powerful. The last scene where Bill is invited into the house seemed to be an attempt at a cliffhanger, but I don’t think Bill is going to do anything to f’ed up to Jessica’s family.
Lafayette Reynolds as a vampire: I liken this very much to Jason Stackhouse’s storyline, but more about that in a bit. Lafayette said it himself. He WILL be a badass vampire. In a rare move, I actually cringed a bit when he grabbed that homophobes lower body to yank out the metal replacement hip in an effort to free himself. Another bit of comedic gold was when on the way down from getting shot in the leg he simply stated “BITCH!!”.
Jason Stackhouse & The Fellowship of the Sun: Is it me or is Rev. Steve Newlin the spitting image of Will Forte in any number of SNL skits? What I find most interesting about his transformation thus far is that it’s pretty much the exact thing that Lafayette is going through for the most part. An attempt to atone for his previous transgressions/fuck ups albeit in the polar opposite manner. His showdown with the “Lukinator” next week should provide some good stuff. Also, and I am in no way trying to get controversial or anything, but I got chills during the scene when they had that pop princess/Britney wannabe singing at the leadership conference. I once tried to go to a “contemporary” church service and it was eerily similar.
In the end, I have to agree with Sookie’s advice to Jessica: “Fuck your vampire control issues”. The Twilight saga True Blood certainly is not.
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