Monday, August 9, 2010
True Blood True Blood: XXX
Posted by Lindsey Millar on Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 12:42 PM
"Werebitch" Debbie sets the tone early, blubbering to the King of Mississippi, "They killed my Cooter!"
A sly bunch, the "True Blood" writing staff.
Sookie, as usual, is where the action is. Her response to nearly dying from fang-rape has three acts:
1. She casts Bill out, telling him, "I can't even imagine beginning to forgive you." Good for her, we all say. Because he nearly killed her and is duplicitous, but mostly because he's a huge bore. On his way out, he tells her to lie in the sun and have babies while tears of blood stream down his face.
2. She takes his advice and sunbathes. Tara, taking a break from trembling her lip (seriously, when is someone going to do a montage?), sparks relationship talk. Sookie: "What we had was real, and I can't just flip a switch and turn my heart off.” Yikes. Tara, almost redeeming her terrible accent and all the lip trembling — actually, not even close, but still positive: “You know what you sound like, one of those sad country songs about dumb bitches that let their man cheat and beat on them all for the sake of true love.”
3. Russel and the were-bitch come for Sookie. Lots of girl-fighting. Bill lives only because Erik has seduced the King of Mississippi's consort and consummated the union with a stake in the back, and the King of Mississippi feels the pain and flees. Sookie and Bill celebrate near death by choking each other out during sex.
Elsewhere, in case you didn't get that Erik is masterminding a complex, multi-step plan for revenge that involves collateral damage, he plays chess. Jason, after killing Eggs last season, seems to have developed a vigilante blood lust. Good to see him on his way to doing something darkly misguided instead of just plain dumbly misguided. Bill and Jessica practice Matrix moves. Alfre Woodard escapes the mental hospital to say funny things and warn Lafayette that bad things/people are after him.
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Tara's "terrible accent"? You must not get out much. Try any Wal-Mart, Walgreens or EZ Mart in the neighborhood and you'll run into at least a handful of women who sound just like Tara. Then again, maybe they have bad accents too.
Man, I stretch dipthongs so much that I'm a party trick when I visit my inlaws in the Midwest. Lindsey, say "oil," say "pie," they crow. I quite playing along after the first couple of times, so now they just try to mimic me.
Their stab at a Southern accent sounds about like Rutina Wesley's (the actress who plays Tara): nothing but misplaced Hee-Haw twang. A typical take on the Southern accent by a non-Southerner. But I think she's especially egregious.
Also, Southern rural black folks don't sound like hillbillies. Even those who grow up with hillbilly best friends.
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