True Blood Recap: Insextigations

True Blood

By McWeanis | Wednesday, June 27, 2012 | 9:00 am | 11 Comments
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Bwahh! Why do I always pick the shows with a bajillion plot lines going on? Oh yes, I pick shows based on male nudity percentage, not ease-of-recap. Well, I certainly got enough man parts this week, so I guess all is forgiven. Anyway.

Whew! There’s a lot of seemingly unrelated plot lines. How do these different species tie together? As for werewolves, Alcide doesn’t want to be pack leader; Debbie and Marcus are dead, and Luna’s daughter is a werewolf. In vamp land, Pam misses Eric, Tara’s a vampire (the most exciting development in my opinion), Russell Edgington is back (another exciting development), Steve Newlin’s a gay vamp, Jason and Jessica are just friends… That’s not including the complicated Authority politics. On the human front, Terry is increasingly crazy, and we have no idea why. And this week, the faery powers check back in. Let’s see if any loose ends are tied up this week.

Tara & PAM!!!!

We pick upon Tara, who has just escaped Sookie’s house. Unfortunately, Sookie’s little silver spray trick backfired, and just pissed off Tara even more. (What was even the point of that?? Did she think it would stop Tara??) Luckily, Tara’s got her brand new heal-y powers – and some way kicked up senses to boot.

it’s like tripping, for eternity!

She can see  little possums in trees with her sweet night vision, and all the stars in the milky way, and she can smell a possible victim, who’s having car trouble. She can even hear her blood pumping. Despite the girl’s claims that she’s all for vampire rights, Tara grabs her and pins her down to the car.

After the credits, Tara glimpses herself in the car reflection, and backs off, apologizing. I guess she isn’t as hardcore as Jessica taking down all those truck drivers. Tara still hasn’t popped her murder cherry.

Sookie stomps into Fangtasia for help with Tara; she wants Pam to summon her. Pam is distracted doing lightning fast vamp texting, though – she’s still looking for the missing Eric. Anyway, Sookie hasn’t held up her end of the deal and found Eric or made him forgive Pam. When Pam tells her to fuck off, Sookie blasts her with her faery light. Hmm, haven’t seen that in awhile. Relevance?

still got it!

Pam has one of her endless great lines, as her Fangtasia patrons stare: “Go back to dry humping each other and buying my overpriced drinks or get the fuck out!”

Sam, meanwhile, sniffs out (literally) Tara, who’s in the woods behind Merlotte’s. He finds her crying blood, suffering in her hunger. She’s downing True Bloods like crazy, cleaning out Sam’s whole stock, and then he puts her to bed in the walk-in freezer.

The next morning, Sookie wakes up a sleeping Sam in his office to ask about Tara. He tries to conceal his thoughts – “Look at her boobs.. think about anything but the walk-in.. damn damn!” Now Sookie knows where Tara is, and Sam has figured out Sookie’s role in the turning. He’s surprisingly sympathetic, though, wondering if he should have saved Tommy the same way. (THAT would have been a fun vampire.) “It may not be the kind of life she had in mind, but it’s up to her now what she wants to do with it.”

OOOH more Pam flashbacks! Yay! My favorite part, and so reminiscent of “Fool for Love” for all you Buffy fans out there. Eric’s visiting Pam’s brothel, and she’s showing off her goods.  But he’s not there for the ladies, he’s there for PAM! Not to bone, though – to show her who’s been killing her girls. Bill and Lorena. That’s right, it’s the newly minted Bill, and he’s super sassy.

i would take angel and drusilla any day. just saying.

Adorable first confrontation, with Eric all suave and human-saving and Bill all blood hungry. Awesome. Eric gives them a good talking to, and Lorena promises to keep Bill in line. And then… Eric and Pam get down to business aka BOOONE! I’ve been waiting so long!

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McWeanis
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first thing's first: the origin of "mcweanis."

It is not because I have a giant weanis (look it up) although it is usually unusually bulbous and crusty.

it is in fact because as a child i was dubbed Weanie (it rhymes with my first name, because i'm awesomely named)  by my older sister Drunk, which my friends co-opted and which eventually evolved into weanis and finally mcweanis or MC weanis depending on how gangster i am at the time.

i am a huge nerd of all kinds, especially tv, books, and school. i'll be going to harvard law school in the fall cause i'm so SCHMANCY! i plan to put my excellent time management skills to work in balancing my courseload and my must-watch-tv-load.

11 Comments

  1. 1
    SuburBint
    Posted June 27, 2012 at 10:00 am

    Buffy reference? Check.
    Veronica Mars reference? Check.
    Shutting down the sexy time in favor of sweats? Check.

    Quit spying on my life, McWeanis. I still have 30 days in which to turn in that restraining order paperwork, you know.

  2. 2
    motown
    Posted June 27, 2012 at 10:05 am

    The silver spray is to keep Russell out when he inevitably comes to kill Sookie.

  3. 3
    Classy Drunk classy drunk
    Posted June 27, 2012 at 10:19 am

    I just read the comment but Motown why would the spray have been turned towards the house if it’s to ward off Russell. Wouldn’t it have been turned out? I really think it was to keep Tara in.

  4. 4
    motown
    Posted June 27, 2012 at 10:37 am

    Truth: I am hating this season and was folding laundry while watching the episode, but I didn’t think the silver sprayed out in one direction. Also, didn’t she go to the shop to buy something to protect her from Edgerton? A stake-gun or something and then settled on the silver spray.

  5. 5
    chooch850 chooch850
    Posted June 27, 2012 at 11:43 am

    Great recap! You got all of those story-lines nailed. I hate the Bill/Eric one. It’s a real bore! I could care less about all this mainstreaming the vampires politics…snoozefest. The best part of that was bringing in the newly vampired Reverend as back-up for the masses when it comes time for them to be swayed. That could be fun.

    As for Tara backing off on that girl who’s car was broke down, I think it was because she had a crucifix hanging from her rearview mirror.

  6. 6
    Laura Gill Laura Gill
    Posted June 27, 2012 at 12:04 pm

    Pam wouldn’t have said “TB” or even “tuberculosis” back in 1905; it was known then as “consumption.”

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    carol
    Posted June 27, 2012 at 4:57 pm

    Maybe I am alone on this, but I really wish Tara had just died and not been reborn as a vampire. I hope that she does fry in the tanning bed. I don’t like the character at all, haven’t from the start. The actress only has one facial expression, and compared to Anna Paquin, she is still not that good. That being said, if more Tara time means more Pam time, it might not be a bad thing.

    Veronica Mars. Thank you so much for the reference. The actress looked familiar but the character was the one I recognized. Even if they weren’t going for a crossover, it was a funny one.

    How did Tara ever get into Snookie’s home? Snookie never invited her in. If I remember correctly, Pam told her to go inside. Is the house still owned by Eric so it is vampire friendly? Wouldn’t this mean that Russel could just walk into the home?

  8. 8
    NikkiHughes
    Posted June 28, 2012 at 1:46 pm

    Kinda makes me sad that everyone keeps saying Mac from VM and no one has the love for Deb from Napoleon Dynamite! :(
    (She was also in Big Love)

  9. 9
    Classy Drunk Classy Drunk
    Posted June 28, 2012 at 1:58 pm

    You’re not Carol. I hope it’s the true death for Tara.

  10. 10
    Derek Hazelton
    Posted June 28, 2012 at 2:23 pm

    @Carol, @ClassyDrunk, I love Rutina Wesley and I think Tara is one of the few breakout characters on the show, but I do think that the character has devolved over time (especially when we see how she was a ballsy girl and turned out to be a such a desperate, clingy woman). Did you guys read the EW article a few weeks ago where she said she had such a grasp on Tara, the character? I don’t even know what that means since the character has sucked for the past two seasons. I guess she knows the character sucks and has sucked for so long and will continue to do so.

    @NikkiHughes, in my Napoleon Dynamite voice, TOTS! I always think of that actress as Amanda Seyfried’s fat friend from Big Love, more so than Veronica Mars and Napoleon Dynamite.

    @McWeanis, I actually like the recaps as broken out by storyline because it’s much easier to follow than the actual episode. Thank you so much for simplifying it! Hopefully, this plot driven crapfest will be easier to recap than Mad Men.

  11. 11
    iwantadventure
    Posted June 29, 2012 at 9:08 pm

    This was a great recap! I liked that it was divided by plotline. It’s too bad the episode the week before this wasn’t recapped. And you forgot the best line of the episode when the Authority Tech said, “Think of it like a training bra.” And Eric’s response was, “It’s been a while since I wore one of those.” Anyway, I’m glad someone picked up the recaps, can’t wait for more!

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