Tedium, thy name is the first two episodes of this season of “True Blood.” Sure, some things have happened. Vampire Bill gets kidnapped by vampire-blood-addled werewolves, who we learn in episode two are under the charge of the vampire king of Mississippi, who rides a white horse and has his own piano recital theme music. Eric, when not flashing back to WWII, where he and Godric posed as SS officers and killed a naked lady werewolf, pushes up on Sookie in the latest portent of the inevitable fang bang to come. Sam visits Arkansas, where he enjoys some brotherly hazing from his shifter sibling, who tries to make Sam roadkill. Jessica and Pam (above) share a nice moment, when Jessica asks for advice on feeding without killing and Pam offers that she always thinks of “crying children with saggy diapers” and “maggots.” And a vampire with a British accent, breaks into casa de Compton, rifles through an incriminating “Sookie” drawer, absconds with the trucker Jessica’s killed and helps Tara beat up racist rednecks who you might recognize from “Justified.”
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