I’m going to take a different approach here. I don’t think my “review” was very good last time. It was more of a summation with comments sprinkled in. I’ll admit it wasn’t written for a stranger as there were spoilers and junk in it. Whatever. So I’m sticking with a similar format, it’s just more pronounced now.
- Evan Rachel Wood plays a wimsical, happy go lucky queen. I know this is only the first episode with her but it seems to be a character mismatch. I envisioned a more refined queen and she was supposed to be really young. Honestly, I’m glad they made her older (though ERW still looks young) but it is a difference.
- Erik flew in this episode. They didn’t make it look fake or anything but they didn’t focus on it either. I’m glad they added that element in as it comes in handy in the books. He also had a funny line asking if Sookie has asked about him. Unfortunately, we didn’t see much of him.
- Sookie inquires about any side effects of drinking Erik’s blood after she learns from Lafayette that he had some. Lafayette mentions vivid fantasy/dreams which address a question I had earlier.
- This episode was very slow and had a lot of filler dialogue that didn’t do anything for me. They made Jessica’s part small which sucks because I wanted to see what happened after she bit Hoyt’s mom. (Nothing happens!) Instead we get to see Maxine’s horribly crooked teeth and a pointless rant and rave between mother and son. Jason and Andy team up and have more boring dialogue though a few gems were thrown in like Jason complaining of Andy cockblocking him with a zombie woman. Now that’s funny, I don’t care who you are! Tara flips her mom into letting her go and she goes back under Mary Ann’s control along with Lafayette and that’s how the episode ends (with Sookie screaming, of course.)
That’s pretty much it, I really don’t have anything else. It was all about Mary Ann which is a boring storyline to begin with. I’m surely getting tired of this. Luckily, the season finale is coming up and hopefully they settle this and bring on the werewolves!
