TRUE BLOOD Episode 3:"Mine" - Review
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In the third episode of HBO'S "True Blood", things get cranked up alot from episode two. These first two episodes, "Strange Love", and "The First Taste"...have set the tone very well to usher in the series. But the writers know watchers and viewers won't stay tuned unless there's some action which comes into play, and it should be sooner rather than later. So ep 3 "Mine" delivers said action. Picking up where episode two left off...after Sookie is confronted by a few vamps when she swings by Bill's place..(a confrontation that if it were not for Bill...could've ended very badly for her), she starts to have regrets and second thoughts about her feelings for Bill. |
And the budding relationship in general. It seems that this is the first time that Sookie is actually questioning her relationship with a member of the undead. His lack of human functions such as brainwaves and a heartbeat...begin to spook her. Which keeps Sookie and Bill apart for most of episode 3. Bill tries to woo her back once during the episode, but Bill's lack of human traits, along with the fact that Sookie was nearly killed the last two times she was around him, force her to shrug off Bill's advances. This causes Bill to confront the other vampires, and it's in this moment that we learn more about the vampires that live in town. We learn that one of them is older than Bill, and that there are two more, a male and a female...yet to be shown which seem to have seniority over the group. This is revealed when Bill threatens to take his complaints about his fanged-friends recent behavior to a higher authority since there's not much he can do about it.
The conflict here in this episode is that while Bill has fallen for Sookie, and wants to "dull his fangs"...so to speak, to fit in with what the vampires call "breathers"...aka humans, the other vampires don't want to. They enjoy everything that comes with being a vampire such as killing, drinking blood, etc. And the "Tru-Blood" Japanese synthetic drink (advertised prior to the shows debut), is something they have no interest in settling for. Bill leaves after a heated confrontation with the trio of rogue vamps, setting up a scenario in later episodes I'm sure where he might have to do battle with or kill the three vampires who are more than likely to try and drain Sookie should they cross paths with her again, and Bill isn't around.
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On the human side of things, Sookie's grandmother is a bit concerned over Sookie's fading relationship with Bill, and the final straw is broken in the relationship between Tara and her alcoholic mother who during one of her fits...pops Tara in the head with a liquor bottle. Leading to Tara splitting and deciding to stay with Lafayette for awhile. More revelations come about in "Mine" regarding Lafayette, some very stomach turning ones...but one funny one also. |
Meanwhile Tara has her own problems, after she has a fling with someone very close to Sookie. Lafayette is a busy guy in this episode though, and he is the root of two sure-to-be-intriguing future storylines, one of which involves Jason who buys vampire blood from him for "viagraesque" purposes. This episode has alot more intrigue and action than the previous two eps did, and it's probably because now the characters have been cut loose a little bit by the writers. With Sookie and Bill's "relationship" going through a rough patch, Tara and Jason's maybe relationship still on the front burner (which could change if the fling is revealed to Jason), Tara and her moms relationship coming to a head, and the vampires seemingly ready to declare a quiet war on the towns human population (a notion made more evident with previews of upcoming episodes)...it looks like "True Blood" will be heating up big time from here on out. Oh and did I mention at the end of episode three...there's the death of a pretty significant character with no real clear suspect in the murder?
Although the writers are just clever enough to leave us with a tease of who may have done it and why. "True Blood" is certainly living up to it's potential really quickly. My problems with episode 3 though were that there is still is too much sex in this show, and I really feel that it's because the writers wanna be raunchy, the scenes really don't seem to fit any advancing of the storylines. Also the comedy is very flat on the vampire side of things. And I think it would be a better idea to use subtle humor (such as the sort of humor that comes with the Sookie and Bill scenes)...rather than the attempted humor that comes in the scenes where Bill has verbal duels with the other vampires in his clan.
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