Can you tell I’m just not that into this show? I’m not sure why. There are characters I love, but they aren’t ones I need to see every week. I started watching the show because I love Raelle Tucker, and the two scripts she wrote last year (”Cold Ground” and the season finale) were the best shows of the season. Perhaps I just don’t have an affinity for vampires.
I enjoy Bill for his old Southern gentlemanliness. His speech to Sookie about her awakening something in him was positively dreamy. And he tries so hard to fight against his vampire nature. It’s sweet. I love Sookie Stackhouse. She’s sweet and somewhat naive, but also wise and caring. I wish I could always say the right thing, like she tends to do.
We catch up with Bill and Sookie in the afterglow of their hot sex. Sookie declares make-up sex is almost as good as you’re-not-dead sex. (Um, except that Bill, being a vampire, is technically already dead, isn’t he?) They also discuss Bill’s trials and tribulations with new teenage vampire Jessica. He says she’s impulsive, stubborn, etc. Sookie asks how that’s different from a normal teenage girl.
Eric’s upset he got blood in his hair chowing down on last week’s victim. I guess vampires can’t wash their hair. So Pam cuts it. Eric looks much better, but not nearly as menacing.
As everyone but me figured out last week, Lafayette is in shackles because his relationship with Eddie led to Eddie’s disappearance. Eric wants to know who took Eddie so that said person can get their just desserts. Lafayette isn’t sure, but believes it was Jason Stackhouse; which does Lafayette no good because Jason is Sookie’s brother and is therefore off-limits from Eric’s perspective. (Damn it! Jason so deserves punishment for his treatment of Eddie. Mourning over crazy Amy’s death doesn’t count.)
Lafayette makes a break from Fangtasia’s cellar during the day but is shot in the thigh by Ginger. Lafayette, being the survivor he is, tries to make deals with Eric, Pam and Chow. (What kind of name is that for a vampire?). The deal ends up being the three vamps chowing down on him.
Jason makes a new friend on the bus to Vampire-Hate Church Of The Sun camp. Once there, Jason impresses everyone, although I’m not sure why. I think it has something to do with a touch football game which allows a sweaty Jason to take off his shirt. His new friend becomes jealous and threatening.
At the camp’s evening session, Jason is asked to role play with the “minister’s” wife. She plays a vampire lover and Jason is supposed to respond as a proper Church Of The Sun vampire hater. Although he’s clearly not comfortable doing so, he quickly becomes riled enough to grab the American flag and threaten the wife with it, causing him to have flashbacks of killing Eddie.
We’re getting a little more insight into towel-averse Maryann. To Sam’s chagrin, Maryann stops by Merlotte’s and orders everything on the menu. She does her vibrating thing (in the back office, thank goodness), which involuntarily turns him into the beautiful collie. (In his younger, formative years, Bill preferred being a beagle. I wonder what made him become a collie. Not that I’m complaining, because I love the collie, or, as Sookie named him last season, “Dean the dog.”)
Sookie stops by Merlotte’s to ask Tara if she’d like to move in with her. Tara’s interested, but wants to keep the plan from Maryann. When Sookie meets Maryann, she tries to read her thoughts, but they’re not English. And since I don’t have a lot of foreign language skills, I’m not sure if it’s French or something else or totally made up; you know, like Klingon.) What’s also not clear is whether Maryann can tell Sookie was trying to read her thoughts.
As the evening wears on, Merlotte’s patrons start dancing and partying and sexing each other up. It’s apparent Maryann has put a spell on the place, starting this love-fest. As the revelers continue their reveling, one of the bar flies looks up and we see she has… black eyes.
Jessica’s parents appear on television asking for information on their missing daughter. Jessica does miss her family, especially her little sister and wants to see them. She starts crying, and is surprised vampires cry blood. Apparently, even though Bill admirably told Jessica to recycle and refuses to give her a cell phone, has neglected to give her the vampire version of the Facts Of Life (so to speak, heh) speech.
Sookie relents and takes Jessica to see her family—from across the street in her car. But you know how that’s going to turn out. Once Jessica sees her mother and little sister, she runs to the door. Everything goes smoothly (although Mom is insistent on providing drinks and sandwiches) until Daddy Dearest comes home. Moments after he’s relieved to see Jessica, he begins scolding her. Jessica, having had enough of Daddy’s belt-wielding “discipline,” attacks him. In the melee, she strikes Sookie to the ground. Bill shows up, glamors the little sister to invite him in, and is about to kick some serious ass when…
the episode ends.
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