True Blood 301 Bad Blood – Season Three Premiere
June 21, 2010 by admin
Filed under True Blood
It took awhile for me to review this episode because I was so underwhelmed by it. After months and months of waiting… and yes waiting sucks… I was kind of let down by this episode. After watching episode two, I almost think MOST of the premiere episode could have been cut and added to the second episode instead.
The lone exception to this was the basement scene in which Sookie confronts the naked Viking whilst he is doing the nasty with one of his dancers. Eric doesn’t skip a beat or reach for the robe and decides to converse with Sookie in the nude. The playful banter was welcome and interesting in an otherwise boring episode.
It picks up where the season two finale left off. Sookie realizes Bill is missing from the restaurant and she goes searching for him, convinced it is foul play and silently hoping he didn’t just up and leave after her lack luster reaction to his marriage proposal. She is unable to get law enforcement in Bon Temps to take her seriously so she goes to Eric, initially to accuse him of having something to do with Bill’s fate and then to seek his help.
At Merlotte’s the Sheriff is questioning Arlene and Andy about Egg’s shooting death. Arlene is milking her moment in the spotlight and Tara becomes angry, which spurs a fight between the two. This scene presents us with some winning dialogue:
Arlene: “I’m sorry you fell in love with a serial killer… but really, who here hasn’t?”
Tara is dragged away by Lafayette who grabs a bottle of Tequila for the road.
At the Compton house Jessica is overwrought by the fact that her trucker date is dying. He begs to be taken to the hospital but Jessica explains that she can’t do that. Sookie interrupts so Jessica takes the man and puts him in her resting place under the house. After telling Sookie that she will call her if she hears from Bill she goes back to the trucker to find him dead. After he dies she attempts to revive him with blood but it does not work.
Then we get to see what happened to Bill. He is being held captive by werewolves in their human form, who are draining him for recreational purposes as they drive to some unknown destination. He overpowers them despite his weakened condition and the car is overturned on the side of the road. Bill calls out for Jessica and we see her wake in a panic, unsure of what just happened.
Andy and Jason discuss their plan to keep everyone from finding out it was Jason that killed Eggs. Andy insists that Jason go back to his womanizing ways despite Jason’s insistence that he has changed and doesn’t want to do that anymore.
Andy: “Conscience off, dick on.”
Lafayette takes Tara to Sookie’s house and after Sookie’s visit to Eric she joins them there. Lafayette explains to Sookie that Eggs wigged out after learning all he done under Maryann’e influence (aka killing several people). Tara wonders how in the heck he remembered any of that and Sookie relates that she helped him remember. This does not go over well with Tara who attacks Sookie and accuses her of signing Egg’s death warrant.
Back in the basement of Fangtasia Eric is going off on some sap on the phone (bluetooth) who was supposed to bring Bill to Eric. The caller insists that Bill was gone by the time he got there and Eric demands that he be found or heads will roll the next night. Pam tells Eric he needs to calm down and tell the Queen that Bill is missing. Eric does not want to do that.
From there we are taken to Sam’s hotel room. If you recall from the end of season two, Sam is looking for his birth parents, the Mickens. Bill knocks on his door and Sam wonders how in the world he could find him in Arkansas but since Bill gave Sam his blood last season they are bonded now. Bill asks if he can have Sam’s shirt which Sam removes. Then he asks if he can take a shower and would Sam care to join him??? Sam says that yes he would and they almost kiss when Sam’s phone rings and he is woken from this dream… yes it was only a dream. Sam is very happy to be woken up with news of the Mickens who have a son who works nearby.
Lettie-Mae returns to take care of Tara by bringing Jesus into her life. Tara acts as though she is coping better, only to retreat to the bathroom where she decides to attempt suicide by pills.
Sam finds the man he believes to be Tommy Mickens, even though the man denies it. Sam follows him home after work and looks in the mailbox to see a final notice letter with the Mickens name on it.
Bill, the real one, climbs out of the ground where he slept after the crash. He goes searching for a meal and finds a little old lady living by herself. He feeds on her and then in a rather sweet scene he gives her money and explains that her wayward son brought it over for her.
Back at Fangtasia Eric, is surprised by a visit from the Queen and the Magister who explains that his home is becoming the V capitol of the world. The Magister makes it clear that he is out for blood and this makes Eric understandably uncomfortable since it is he and the Queen who are selling it to pay off the Queen’s debts. After the Magister leaves, Sophie Anne instructs Eric to move all the product and when Eric hesitates she grabs him and grinds a heel into his crotch to show him who is boss.
Back in Bon Temps Jason tries to entertain two young ladies as the old Jason would but he cannot perform and when he tells the young women that he keeps imagining that they have bullet holes in their heads, they pick up and run. At Merlotte’s Arlene figures out that she is pregnant.
Pam goes to see Sookie to pay her for her service in finding Godric last season but has to leave in a hurry when Eric “calls” for her. This makes Sookie wonder if Bill can connect with Jessica in this way so she goes to Jessica to ask. Pam makes a side trip to see Lafayette and tell him to sell off all the V they have NOW.
Sookie and Jessica go for a drive to find the place that Jessica felt when Bill called for her the previous night and they find Bill’s overturned car with a body in it. Upon inspecting the body they see weird symbol and Jessica uses her smart phone to identify it as a symbol for “Operation Werewolf” which has Nazi origins and thus epsiode one of True Blood season three ends….
I give this episode 2 out of 4 Nazi Werewolves
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This episode and season are based on Book 3 in the Sookie Stackhouse series:
