My Blood Red Swingline Stapler

Last week may have been the most enjoyable episode of True Blood yet. It still had some eye rolling moments with Sookie still enraptured with her post vampire coitus mood, but that was almost entirely saved by snort-able vampire blood and LaFayette’s hilarious gold thong. The truth is, I’m not sure if my initial disappointment with the show had to do with the show or with my own preconceived notions of what the show was supposed to be. On the other hand True Blood just might be like mold, it just has to grow on you.

The Vampire nest was burned and Sookie believes that Bill was killed along with them. Its a sucker’s bet, its only a question of how they bring Bill back, not if. Tara’s mother seems to be demon free as well, even going so far as to act like a normal church going person. Jason and his new hippie girlfriend have some great post drug induced pillow talk. They seem to even be falling in love. I can’t believe something good is happening to Jason. His inevitable downfall is going to be absolutely epic to make up for it.

Of all the characters on the show, I find myself to be continually disappointed by Sookie. She’s lame. Even when given the opportunity to shine, Paquin can’t seem to get her beyond wide-eyed lovesick child. Even as she cries over Bill’s “human” grave it feels false. Even her giddy-ness over Bill being alive felt contrived. It isn’t real clear how he got away and ended up buried in the graveyard, but he did.

Speaking of contrived, Eric the not very impressive “sheriff” of this region’s vampires demands Sookie’s assistance in finding out who’s been stealing money from his stereotypical vampire goth bar. Bill relents and acts like an absolute wuss in the face of Eric’s authority. Sookie stands up for herself and gives the super dangerous bartender up as the thief. I’m sure the bartender is killed in the next episode. Its a shame, I was really digging his Latino Dusk ‘til Dawn look.

As usual LaFayette and Tara are my favorite components of the show. Tara now also believes she has a demon inside her. She assumes because she can’t commit to a healthy relationship she has a demon inside her? There are a lot of demons running around these days apparently. We get to see how LaFayette gets his vampire blood. Its both hilarious and frightening to see Lafayette in his jiggelo role seducing a pathetic vampire for his blood. Adding to the cringeworthy-ness of the scene, Lafayette’s client is played by Stephen Root who you might know as Milton from Office Space.

Jason’s downward spiral is beginning. His new hippie girlfriend is fiending for V and the couple follow Lafayette in the hopes of finding his source. Stunningly, hippie jumps the gun and kidnaps Milton. That is total madness. Regardless of how impotent Milton is, he’d still have enough strength to take down Jason and a hippie.

A good episode for the most part, this one had all the ingredients. Tara swearing at everyone, LaFayette being a vampire escort, bumbling policemen, lame wide-eyed Sookie and even a cute scene from Rene the only man with a Louisiana accent on the show.