True Blood News at The Nest

L.A. Times photos by Tom O'Neil

Alexander Skarsgård did just participate in an Emmy Round-table, so we shouldn’t be too surprised that HBO is looking ahead and thinking ’bout the gold.

So how does all this work? HBO shipped 14,000 campaign boxes to members of the TV academy. The boxes contain various samples of the programs HBO thinks should be considered. For a full listing, click here. For True Blood, two episodes were included, “Shake and Fingerpop” and “I Will Rise Up.”

Just as a quick refresher, “Shake and Fingerpop is 2.4, written by Alan Ball. It opened with Jason at FotS camp and the fake-out death scene, and included Bill threatening to throw Hoyt out of a window that’s closed, the one Maryann orgy that played well on-screen, the hilarious Sarah Newlin bbq stripper-tease, Sookie’s “booze for dolls” line, Eric heals Lafayette before flying to Dallas and having a lovely chat with Bill in the bar, and Sookie meets Barry. “I Will Rise Up,” which was nominated for a Writer’s Guild Award, opens with Lorena’s “I wish you hadn’t said that” as she runs off (I think that might come back to bite), and then Luke blowing up the Dallas nest. Eric takes the opportunity to get Sookie to suck his bullets, which results in a sexy yet also disturbed  dream featuring both Eric and Lorena. Back in Bon Temps, the jail is bursting at the seams with Maryann’s revelers, and Sam escapes Maryann’s wrath by turning into a fly. Jessica meets Hoyt’s mother, which is mostly a disaster, and Lafayette and Lettie Mae wrestle Tara from Maryann (literally). And the episode ends with Godric being reprimanded by the American Vampire League, and the scene on the roof between him and Eric, and finally Godric and Sookie.

What I would like to know is who picks the episodes because they didn’t ask me. Like Terry Bellefluer, no one ever asks me, but they should.

Good luck, HBO and True Blood!

Booze for Dolls

This week on True Blood, someone put too much white paint on Bill (for shame, Makeup!), Lafayette is not gay for Eric, but finds him delicious, Jason continues to be brainwashed by smiley, terrifying church folk and some zombie orgy-goers have a food fight in Sookie’s house.

Welcome to citizenerased’s weekly roundup of the various goings on in our favourite alternative universe. If you’re expecting a serious, objective discussion of events exciting in Bon Temps (and now Dallas), then my apologies in advance.

This week’s awesome episode was brought to you by the acid wit of Alan Ball, who wrote the script, and it shows. It was the most funny ass show so far this season, and skipped along at a dizzying pace, setting up future events nicely without giving too much away. We opened with a charming bunch of Fellowship of the Sun jocks playing a prank on Jason with ketchup, which kind of backfired when he gave them a rousing anti-vampire speech (nicked from everything the scary Newlin’s had just spouted forth at their cosy dinner together). Jason continues to be so unbelievably stupid it’s almost, but not quite, endearing.

Sweet talking at the stairs

Then we switch to outraged and fangy Daddy Compton snarling at poor, sweet Hoyt, and egads! They give Bill something funny to say, and it continues throughout the show. Enjoy it as he’ll be back to being miserable soon enough. That man got crazy women trouble plus Eric on his back; he’s supposed to be tortured. Hoyt leaves, Jessica storms upstairs hiding her fangs, and more astonishment, Bill and Sookie have a nice, grown up talk on the stairs without any shouting! I could get used to this.