True Blood Re-Up: Hard-Hearted Hannah; You Can’t Do That in Church
After last week’s underwhelming episode, True Blood came out sucking with Jason getting a consecrated BJ from Sarah in the church choir loft. I’d say the show really got back to its roots with this installment: fucking and Bill’s accent. The Fellowship stepped up their creepy game by leaps and bounds this week, as Reverend Steve practically busts in his pants thinking about the construction of a platform so that they can watch vampires burn alive in the sun. Then there’s Luke constantly spouting homosexuality-is-a-sin rhetoric. Luke will most definitely take a dick this season.
Later on, Sookie and her pretend fiance Hugo attempt to infiltrate the Fellowship, fail miserably, and in perfect, over-the-top True Blood fashion, are dragged down to a basement which looked impossibly furnished. Steve seemed to already know that Sookie was a mind-reader, so there must be some kind of vampire informant working for the Fellowship. Who can it be? I dunno, I don’t think too hard about the twists of True Blood and I like it that way. Tits and fangs.
The episode’s biggest pay-offs were the flashbacks of Bill not as the wise, restrained vampire-saint, but as the young, enthusiastic devourer of humans. What a great moment in the history of television: Lorena grinding Bill on a bloody bed with a still-living victim on it, their fucking only interrupted when Bill takes a necklace from the bloody, gushing throat of the woman. Gory, funny, sexy, and self-aware…that is True Blood. FYI: The song Bill was singing/playing on the piano was “Hard-Hearted Hannah,” a song which references a vamp from Savannah, GA. How subtle.
In case anyone hasn’t seen it yet or for those who don’t wake up at 5:00am to write about tv shows before work, here’s the preview of the rest of season 2 which was shown at SDCC.
- Oh Mars
July 28th, 2009 at 9:35 am
I liked that we got to see a little more from eggs this episode other than the mindless marryanne follower that he normally is. I would’ve like to see them break up that trance fuck session or for ANYTHING at all to happen but instead they cut to a different scene and when we return eggs is blasting Tara all doggy like. They did show some wobbly H action which I appreciated.
I’ll be curious to see what the angle is for Pam getting Lafayette to sell V again. I’m also curious to see what’s going to happen with Hoyt and stephanie. I predict that she’ll turn him or at least try.
July 28th, 2009 at 10:51 am
Jesus Christ at that preview, dude! I was contemplating not watching it, but it took all of four seconds to break down. It was amazing, save for Sam being chased through the woods by Admiral Kain while she was wearing that dumb helmet.
Did we see Erik and Sookie laying in bed together?
And was it Erik that was bound down in the Church?
Also, this episode was pretty fantastic, like you said. This show continually amazes me with it’s bizarre shit. We get a forest orgy, and something I had never seen before – fucking in quarts and quarts of blood.
I had thought that Eggs was a douchebag, but at this point it looks like he may be the savior of Tara. Also, here’s hoping that Jason is going to be the one that saves Sookie’s gap-toothed’ ass.
This show’s ending reminded me of S1, when every episode ended with a “Holy fuck, wtf?!” Very stoked for the remainder of the season.
July 28th, 2009 at 10:21 pm
Did anyone else notice that Sam turns into a bird at 0:44 in the preview?
July 29th, 2009 at 11:38 am
Oh shit @Frogman! That must be how Sam escapes!
July 29th, 2009 at 1:32 pm
Yeah, like a full fucking eagle.