True Blood “Burning House of Love”
Original Air Date: Oct 19, 2008
Andi - TwoCents Reviewer
andi@thetwocentscorp.com
Tonight’s episode is pretty much about give and take. It’s about being vulnerable and open to the unknown. All of the characters do something new and different and sometimes that works out for them. Oh, and Eric was back this week, though far too briefly, and he didn’t bring better sex like I had hoped, but he did bring electronics!
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Original Air Date: Oct 19, 2008
Andi - TwoCents Reviewer
andi@thetwocentscorp.com
Tonight’s episode is pretty much about give and take. It’s about being vulnerable and open to the unknown. All of the characters do something new and different and sometimes that works out for them. Oh, and Eric was back this week, though far too briefly, and he didn’t bring better sex like I had hoped, but he did bring electronics!
The episode opens on Sookie and Bill having sex and it looks like just that – sex. I think they may have been having actual sex. Points for realism, I guess, but it could have been more sensual.
Then they take a bath and Bill comes across as a big jerk. Correct me if I’m wrong, but that whole part before Sookie’s flashback to creepiness is Bill being condescending and smug. Maybe I’m reading Moyer’s performance wrong. What do you guys think?
Anyway, he redeems himself by being very supportive as Sookie bares her soul about her Uncle Bartlett and his inappropriate touching.
Jason shows up at Lafayette’s and asks for more V, but Lafayette kicks his unworthy ass out. I love you, Lafayette, but you should have done that long ago.
Bill and Sookie stand around looking at the little hole in the floor that Bill sleeps in and he explains that no one else knows where it is. So, let me get this straight, you give it up to Bill and in return he shows you where he spends his days? Is that so you can kill him later when he breaks your heart? Or is that his way of giving you something in return?
Tara is at home with her mama and her mama is whining over her vodka-spiked coffee (ewww!) about the demon living inside of her. The demon made me drink the booze! The demon mad me act like an ass. The demon made me watch 90210. You get the idea. The demon is bad and Tara’s mama is crazy. I actually disliked this scene more than any in the series so far. It was that annoying.
Sookie goes home after tucking Bill in and finds Jason gathering up some of Gram’s things to sell. He sees the bite marks on her neck and she tells him to shove it. Ah, sibling love. In the end, he only makes it out of the house with a set of candlesticks.
Lassie is lounging in Sam’s driveway, which is just weird if you’ve read the books, and Sam is trying to fix a table, but failing. Tara shows up and she and Sam yell at each other (and Tara uses the best new word ever – unboyfriendable), but finally come to the understanding that Tara sucks at relationships, but she’s clearly trying.
Tara gets a phone call and rushes over to the bank because her crazy-ass mama is trying to get a loan for an exorcism (!). She’s trying everything from race to anti-Christianity to sexual harassment, but mostly she’s just insane.
At Merlotte’s that night, Sookie’s bouncing around like a happy little bee with a conspicuous scarf tied around her neck and you just know it’s getting ripped off at some point. And, sure enough, Sam finds out about her sexcapades and off it goes. But this version of Sam, unlike the version in the book, does it right in the middle of the dining room and everyone in the bar sees. It’s really kind of terrible. Sookie is understandably upset. So am I. Who is this and what have you done with Sam?
Jason, brainless wonder that he is, goes to Fangtasia looking for V. Pam cards him at the door and asks if he’s anything like his sister. He admits that he’s not and she puts the whammy on him, which makes him confess that he’s looking for V. Pam sums it up with, “Go on in. Good luck getting out.”
Tara and her mama go to the middle of nowhere to meet some creepy old lady who claims to be able to remove the demon for $445.00. Is this a Billy Mayes thing? Because if it is, I’m pretty sure there should be a free exorcism thrown in for ordering right now. At any rate, the witch doctor gives them a speech about how removing a demon can damage your soul and you have to be ready and it’s all ooh and ah and sounds scarier than it is. She bangs a drum, builds a little house of rocks, and chants something about earth and leaves and an opossum starts freaking out, apparently having absorbed the demon. The opossum is promptly drowned. Good times.
Eric sits up on his little throne and… wait, is he texting someone? Playing sudoku? Tetris? What the hell? At any rate, his fun is interrupted by a fangbanger asking to take his picture. He says okay, only to have Long Shadow smash the woman’s camera-phone claiming that he did not say she could keep the picture. He’s such an asshole. Isn’t he great? I love that guy.
Jason’s busy being accosted by that girl from Cloverfield whose stomach exploded, but she has V so he’s in like Flynn.
Pretty soon Bill’s questionable friends show up at Merlotte’s and do the stereotypical vampire thing. Sam threatens them, but before any real fighting can break out, Bill shows up, fresh from killing pedophile Uncle Bartlett and dumping him in the river. (Yay, Bill!) Apparently the vampires need a roommate - possibly to make the mortgage payment on their new house - and they want to party like it’s 1999. To appease them and get them away from Sookie, Bill agrees to go.
Meanwhile, Jason and his new friend Amy do V in a new and interesting way and trip out and get naked, which is not new or different for Jason.
Morning comes and several odd things happen: Andy and Terry go fishing, Sam jogs naked, and the rednecks torch the vampire house. But was Bill inside?
That "Girl from Cloverfield" is the BEAUTIFUL Lizzy Caplan. She was on the brilliant but canceled "The Class" on CBS also. And all I can say about here scene with Jason (after watching it over and over again and on pause) is WOW.
ReplyDelete"her" not here. Sorry. I think I'm going blind from watching that scene too many times. LOL
ReplyDeleteThere was just so much in this episode ... and all I'm left wanting to know is WHERE'S BILL?!?!?!
ReplyDeleteEEEP!
I'm not understanding why they keep using Tara's mom. I'm a little tired of the town drunk already. Meh. But Tara & Sam ~ bring it on!
LOVE LOVE LOVE Lafayette! I think that is really becoming my favorite character!
Jason's going to die ... he's too stupid to keep breathing on his own.
I knew she looked familiar so thank you Jeff for cluing me in since that was driving me up the wall. I knew the hair was throwing me so now it is all clear.
ReplyDeleteShe totally should have thrown in a free exorcism. That was so bizarre. So what she's cured now? Talk about trying to rip someone off claiming that Tara has a demon in her now. It took a while but I'm loving Lafayette and Tara. I do wonder why Sam was jogging naked. Maybe he forgot to bring his clothes with him.