Jess ScheulerTrue Blood Recap: Shake & Fingerpop
July 12th 2009 14:18
Category: True Blood (Recaps, News & More), News
Shake & Fingerpop
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Yeah? Then Explain Europe to me…
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Yeah? Then Explain Europe to me…
Just when I thought last season couldn’t be improved upon, we have the magic that is season two. Since the beginning of this new season, every episode has been all killer and no filler. This one is no exception.
Its Tara’s birthday, she’s left Marianne’s and has moved in with Sookie. However, Sookie is off with Bill and Jessica to Dallas for vampire business, so Tara is sitting alone in the house, weeping and watching t.v. But it’s Marianne to the rescue, bringing the surprise party and Eggs to the house. It predictably turns into an orgy, but this one is less sexy and involves sucker punching and drunk people eating dirt.
Sam is getting hit on by the new waitress Daphne, who sidelines his plans to flee Bon Temps for some make-out sessions at Tara’s party. Everyone gets it on at Tara’s party, including the birthday girl herself and Eggs and Arlene and Terry.
Lafayette rejected Tara’s pleas to hang out on her birthday, as well as her attempts to take care of him. Instead he chooses to curl up under his afghan and self medicate until Eric shows up at his door and offers him some of his ultra-powerful blood to heal the infection that has set in to the gunshot in Lafayette’s leg. Initially Lafayette spurns the invitation. But no one can resist the power of Eric Northman when he really wants something, so Lafayette is sipping off his wrist in an instant. Apparently, Eric’s blood packs such a punch that LaFayette is jumping around and humping the couch within minutes due to it’s serious healing properties.
Sookie gets knackered on the private jet they take to Dallas, but even so she and Bill manage to stop the limo driver from kidnapping her. Bill decides to actually explain something about vampires to Jessica, he teaches her how to glamour the kidnapper. Jessica hilariously uses her new found power to make him yell out inappropriate phrases in their upscale hotel lobby, prompting an embarrassed Bill to emphasize She’s New to the check-in lady. They learn from glamoring the kidnapper that the Fellowship of the Sun hired him to bring them Sookie.
Meanwhile, in the saga of the Simpleton (aka Jason Stackhouse), who the fellowship campers, under the leadership of his nemesis, decided to play a nasty trick on. They pretended to be the victims of a vampire slaughter, before laughing and pointing at Jason, who is of course horrified. He punches MacDonald (as in the farmer) in the face for his bitch-assness and awesomely gives a crazy speech about how vampires aren’t a joke and that’s why they are all here. If you need Jason Stackhouse reminding you about morality, you really must be a dick. I’m just impressed Jason wasn’t reduced to tears and crying in a corner somewhere. Later, Jason, MacDonald and some other guys eat breakfast and debate on who the first vampire was, Jesus, Cain or Lazarus. Really guys? Jason suggests Jesus, as he rose from the dead and has people drink his “blood”. Well, he kinda has a point. Then they realize they are proposing that the holiest figures in Christendom were vampires. Hilariously, it ends with Jason asking MacDonald to explain Europe to him. Yes, another Jasonism.
Jason and Reverend Newlin go out on the greatest target practice ever, where Jason reveals himself to be a crack shot and gets another invite to the Newlin’s for ribs. This time Sarah and her awesome hair are grilling up ribs while Jason is having fantasies of her seductively dancing while working the grill. Seriously, it’s been too long since Jason has had a woman. I’m hoping when it does happen it’s not a Newlin's/Jason threesome, because Rev. Newlin looks a little too into Jason, almost as much as his wife is. What is sad is that Jason wants so much to be good. But because he’s not the sharpest knife in the drawer, he can’t do it on his own; he needs someone to tell him unequivocally what to do in order to achieve it. That is precisely what the Newlin’s are doing. The Newlin’s invite him to join their elite inner circle and become a warrior of the light or something and he accepts. Because for once, people are telling him that he’s special.
It’s interesting to watch the Stackhouse siblings on either side of an upcoming confrontation between vampires and the Fellowship of the Sun. Jason with the vampire haters and Sookie working with the vampires in order to find Godric, the missing vampire sheriff. In Dallas, Bill meets Eric down in the bar of the hotel, which by the way the hotel is a vampire hotel, where they provide coffins and people to feed on. Talk about room service. Sookie meets Barry the Bellboy who is delivering Jessica’s “dinner” and realizes that he can read minds too. But he bolts when he realizes she knows what he can do.
Meanwhile Eric and Bill meet in the bar and Bill proceeds to admonish Eric for not warning them of a possible ambush by the Fellowship of the Sun, while Eric points out that Bill complaining about it is really him admitting that he can’t protect Sookie himself. What is interesting to me about this trip so far is that Eric is becoming more obsessed with Sookie. It’s not obvious yet, but several things Eric’s done are beginning to point to the fact that he’s growing more and more into her. He saved Lafayette’s life, because, as he put it, Lafayette is important to Sookie. In a blink or you might miss it moment, the hotel clerk says that Eric booked Sookie and Bill’s room without a bed. Presumably so there was no place for nookie. He arrives at the hotel with a knock on their door interrupting just at the moment Bill and Sookie are getting hot and heavy. Also he offers Sookie his blood when she needed healing because of the scratches down her back. I like that in True Blood even subtle things are important because they foreshadow future plot twists and I can’t wait to see where they go with Eric’s crush.
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