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Temps. He and Sookie fell in love. Turns out, a fake-blood bever-
age isn’t nearly as much fun as slurping the real thing; thus, “True Blood” knows it must offer at least one vicious neck-gnaw- ing per hour. It also giddily obeys some old vampire lore, es- pecially the one about hiding from the sun, but also the quaintly helpful protocol that vampires cannot come into your house unless you formally invite them in.
Since Season 1, the show has
largely abandoned its obvious gay-rights metaphor (“God Hates Fangs,” reads a sign in the opening theme) in favor of the much more interesting battles among factions and territorial kingdoms of vampires — going
from Miss Manners-style social dilemmas to full-on politics. The second season ended with Bill proposing marriage to Sookie; she went to the bathroom to get over her shock and decided to tell him yes; when she came out, Bill had been kidnapped. By werewolves. Who, it turns out, are merely werewolf ser- vants who report to someone else. (And that’s all I’m saying here, except to indicate that this season finds Bill committing the kinds of mortal sins we’d not ex- pect him to.)
Sookie asks her local vampire
sheriff, Eric Northman (Alexan- der Skarsgard), to help her find Bill. “True Blood” now complete- ly belongs to Skarsgard’s beguil- ingly strong performance; al- though Paquin and Moyer are still the stars of the show, the camera loves Skarsgard more than anyone. So long, Bill Comp- ton — I’ve learned from teenage girls how to switch vampire alle- giances, and I’m Team Eric now. To be honest, I want most to
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— a vampire king of Mississippi and his trophy boyfriend; a werewolf named Coot who is hired to protect Sookie; a new vampire named Franklin — make me wish that “True Blood’s” writers would pink-slip most of the original ensemble, including just about everyone who works at Merlotte’s. The show grinds to a halt whenever it turns its attention back to Soo- kie’s brother (Ryan Kwanten), best friend (Rutina Wesley) and boss (Sam Trammell), who’ve each been sucked dry, character- wise.
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tricky to decipher as far as ex- plaining their current popular- ity. (It means we’re all just wait- ing to be bitten by the right thing? We’re so terribly lonely and afraid of death?) “True Blood” and other popular fran- chises lend vampires an erotic superpower, the same prowess Bram Stoker and Bela Lugosi conjured, only without the capes, the blousy shirts and the Hot Topic goth accessories. Vam- pire social mores and manners have been rewritten; blood is willingly exchanged between monster and victim, no big whoop. It’s a little like finding out that middle-schoolers don’t think oral sex is really sex. In “True Blood” vampires ex-
tract a little bit of you, and dis- pense mind-blowing orgasms in return; their own blood func- tions as a drug, which addicts buy on the black market. But enough about sex. This season tantalizingly indicates that the vampire world is un- dergoing a power struggle. It turns out these restless crea- tures have their own politics. Who isn’t looking for a new par- ty to join these days?
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