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TRUE BLOOD |
Sookie Stackhouse - Anna Paquin Bill Compton- Stephen Moyer Jason Stackhouse- Ryan Kwanten Tara Thornton - Rutina Wesley Sam Merlotte - Sam Trammell 
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Bad BloodVampire Bill Compton has been kidnapped by a group of people who know what they're doing and want to drink his blood. Sookie can't get anyone interested in finding him, not even Eric. Sam is searching for his lost family. Tara is mourning her lost love and Andy is taking credit for the killing of a man in order to keep Jason out of prison. Jessica has a corpse in her sleeping place. TRUE BLOOD is back and there is business to be attended to with the kidnapping of Bill, but there are so many stories going on here at the same time that they all tend to get lost in one another, none of them getting the attention that they need or the room to breathe. It's understandable as there are so many colourful characters demanding screen time of their own, but the failure to concentrate on any one of them leaves the episode diffuse and unfocussed. It's the first of the new season, so there will hopefully be a tightening up on this as there seriously needs to be. TopBeautifully BrokenBill learns that his werewolf captors are working for the vampire king of Mississippi who has plans for his new 'guest'. Eric, it appears, has had dealings with him from the past. Lafayette appears to have plans to help Tara heal and Jessica's appears to have trouble when the corpse disappears from its hiding place. Bill's story gets the majority of the running time here and provides some badly needed focus for the episode. Giving Eric a past with these particular werewolves, or their vampire leader at least, also feeds into this focus, but there are still too many characters demanding screen time and distracting from the main storylines. Sam's family get together is truly pointless and events at Merlotte's are even more trivial. Lafayette's revelation aimed at getting Tara to feel less sorry for herself feels forced and the arrival of another vampire in Bon Temps is adding to a pudding that is already overegged. TopIt Hurts Me TooBill agrees to help the king of the Mississippi vampires to save Sookie, but she is looking for him in the company of a werewolf. Jason has decided to become a police officer, Sam's having problems with his new family and Jessica finds out what happened to her corpse problem. None of the storylines are going anywhere with any sort of speed thanks to the sheer number of them. It also doesn't help that there is another flashback, this time Bill thinking back to the time his sire and wife met. That leads to a quite frankly disturbing sex scene that finishes off the episode. The head in the bag is a really good special effect and gives the new vampire in town real threat value, but some of these storylines need to start tying up sometime soon. Top9 CrimesBill dumps Sookie over the phone and betrays Eric to the vampire king of Mississippi. Eric, meanwhile, uses Bill's name as a scapegoat to get out of the trouble that this causes him. Sookie goes into the werewolves' den to get a lead on Bill's whereabouts and Tara is brought to the Mississippi king by her new vampire master. The storylines are starting to converge with a speed that is surprising considering how they haven't seemed to connect in any way in previous episodes. This gives the show more of the focus that it has been lacking to date. Seeing Sookie transformed into a biker chick is a blast and Bill's slow turning to the dark side of his nature is something to see, making the dark promises for the future all the more interesting. TopTroubleSookie learns who the packmaster is and where Bill is. Bill finds out that Sookie is far too close. Tara tries, and fails, to escape and Eric learns that he has personal business with the King of Mississippi vampires. The focus of the main storylines gets every sharper now that the majority of major players (Bill, Sookie, Eric, Tara, the King) are all together in one place and all scheming at cross purposes. This makes it more exciting and interesting. Unfortunately, the events back in Bon Temps with Jason and Sam and Lafayette just distract from this and rob the rest of its impetus. TopI Got A Right To Sing The BluesSookie is in the hands of the King of Mississippi vampires and Bill has been sentenced to death, a sentence to be carried out by his maker,Lorena. Tara, however, has a plan of her own about how to escape for real this time. The main story forges ahead through a sea of blood this episode as Bill is put through a very nasty torture scene, Tara bits chunks out of her vampire paramour's neck and then pummels his head to mash with a mace. This is about as graphically violent as the show has been so far and it ain't pretty, but the slow unfolding of the plot is interesting. Which is more than can be said for what's going on back in Bon Temps. The travails of Sam, Jason and Lafayette are tedious and really, really annoying. Not to mention irrelevant. TopHitting The GroundSookie's rescue attempt of Bill goes horribly wrong and leaves Sookie in a comatose state with a blood group that nobody can identify. Sam, meanwhile, tries to save his brother from a dogfighting ring. There is so much blood-swapping going on here that it's hard to keep up. By the end of it just about every member of the cast is Mississippi is deluged in the stuff. The rescue/escape goes so wrong that it quickly becomes ridiculous before then sitting at Sookie's bedside for the rest of the episode twiddling its thumbs. Even so, that's all more interesting than Sam's attempts to get to his brother who is being forced to take part in dogfighting by his parents. This is a completely irrelevant storyline and is just tedious. The King of Mississippi's declaration that he is going to overturn the whole of vampire order in his insane quest for power and the subsequent death of the Magister is both brutal and graphic as this episode becomes just about the most bloody that the show has produced and that is saying something. TopNight On SunSookie and Bill have to deal with the fallout of the bloody aftermath of Bill's rescue. Lafayette is visited by both his mother and the hot nurse who is supposed to be looking after her. Sam forces some dramatic decisions on his family and Jason gets involved deeper with Crystal and her dysfunctional family. The King of Mississippi stages an attack on Sookie and Eric finally gets a centuries old revenge. Until the attack on Sookie and the all out battle between Bill, Sookie and the vampires, this is another unfocussed episodes that rambles all over the place through far too many stories about too many characters that were perfectly fine in the background, but who aren't worth their own storylines. The bloody attack and Eric's revenge try to make up for everything that went before, but fails. TopEverything Is BrokenThe vampire powers that be capture Eric at his club and hold a hearing to determine his future. Sam continues to have issues with his family. Tara is once again threatened by her vampire stalker and Jason fails to figure out which side Crystal is on. Bill and Sookie are back together and Bill learns about her true nature, whilst she meets a new member of the family. This episode has the whole show in a holding pattern whilst the whirl of pointless and uninteresting stories continues to speed around going nowhere. At one point, Sam is involved in telling his brother to keep his sex noises down. Yep, that's about as interesting as the storylines here get. The vampire attack on Tara is tense and scary, and Eric's plight has some interest, but it is left to the last few moments when the King of Mississippi takes his revenge on the whole vampire organisation with a single television appearance for anything of any true interest to actually happen. TRUE BLOOD has been many things, but it has not often been this dull. TopI Smell A RatBill reveals that Sookie is a member of the Fey, a race of fairies that were thought to be wiped out by vampires. Following his violent actions, Sam remembers some even more violent actions from his past. Lafayette and his boyfriend go on V-induced trip. Jason confesses to Tara that he killed Eggs. More filler is dumped into the mix as new storylines are piled in for the minor characters in an attempt to hide the fact that nothing is going on with the main story. After killing a human on live TV, the vampire king of Mississippi indulges in some grief, Eric indulges in some planning and everyone else is just tedious. TRUE BLOOD has completely gone off the boil and is floundering in too many characters, too many subplots and not enough focus. TopFresh BloodEric goes to the King of Mississippi and offers him the ability to walk in the light and all he needs is to get Sookie. Even Bill can't save her. Meanwhile, Lafayette's seeing demons, Sam's gone mental and Jason tries to understand that his girlfriend's a shapeshifter. The central story around Eric and the King of Mississippi continues to be a good one, but everything else is just padding and distraction and a sign of just how far this show has fallen. It's been a lot of things, but only recently has it become tedious. TopEvil Is Going OnSookie interrupts Eric's revenge and tells Bill that she wants nothing more to do with him. He claims to have always been protecting her, but Eric has another opinion. Sam challenges his half-brother, Tara makes a decision about her future and Jason becomes the leader of a tribe. As a season finale, this seriously underwhelms, but then that has been the theme since the start. The main strand of Bill, Sookie, Eric and the King of Mississippi is brought to a conclusion that might be chilling had it not already been used in TORCHWOOD:CHILDREN OF EARTH. All of the others stories, though, just fizzle out. Sam's is left on a cliffhanger, but one that it's hard to care about since his sudden change to full on bad guy. Tara figuratively rides off into the sunset and Lafayette is left seeing demons everywhere. Crystal walks out on Jason, telling him to look after her people. It's been impossible to care about these stories throughout the season and it's damned hard to care about them here. TRUE BLOOD will return, but it's hard to care about that either. Top |
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