I doubt that True Blood will ever be completely set in the small hamlet of Bot Temps again. The story of Sookie Stackhouse, Bill Compton, and Eric Northman has expanded such to cover Dallas last season, and Jackson, Mississippi this. Fortunately the disparate story lines this season, which have yet to be pulled together, are creating a much better story than Maryann the Maenad. Now, if only we could find a way to bring back my favorite crazy couple, the Newlins.
I’m not sure what to think about Alcide, Debbie, and the rest of the Werewolves. The whole initiation process was interesting enough, but I’m not sure I get Alcide. His and Sookie’s conversation the morning after Bill fake dumped her felt entirely too domesticated for two people who just met days before. I expect these characters to be bad-asses (Alcide, not Sookie), and we can only have one “polite” monster on a show at a time, a position, despite his procuring duties tonight, still held by Bill.
I had actually hoped that Franklin might have actually been a “good” character. Charming, feeding from, and then tying up Tara pretty much rules that out. Those things, though, don’t hold a candle to how creepy he was when he came back, with the flowers and the licking. Or the kidnapping. I didn’t expect his employer to turn out to be who it was. I’m interested to see where things lead with the curious Mr. Mott.
Damn if Lafayette is just having a run of bad luck that just won’t quit. Between getting abducted and tortured by Eric, and now being his little whipping boy, he can’t catch a break. Getting a car is one thing, but at what cost? Especially now that Eric might not be able to protect him anymore.
The storm has finally caught up to Eric. I doubt it is the Queen that set him up to take the fall. There’s a certain level of sophistication to a move like that, intelligence we just haven’t seen out of the young ruler of Louisiana. More likely it is the machinations of Mississippi’s monarch, and, it would surprise me, the Magister. I did, though, love the loyalty that he showed to Pam, and the complete lack of it he showed to Bill.
Lying down with werewolves doesn’t seem like the smartest plan, especially considering how the King of Mississippi is trying to take down his neighboring Queen. Specifically werewolves that he’s been feeding V. This relationship has been going on for some time, obviously since at least World War II, but likely long before that. The politics of this world are something I can’t wait to learn more about (The first reason I might think about reading the books).
I’m not sure why the episode was titled “9 Crimes,” but it did allow for playing a cover of a song by the same name by Damien Rice during the credits. Can any of our intrepid CliqueClackers fill me in on who did the cover? Shazam couldn’t figure it out for me.
Notes & Quotes
Clacked by Ivey West 
on Jul 12, 2010 @ 09:00 EST5EDT
Another great episode. One thing about the werewolf bikers though. You’d think that a werewolf biker bar would have some intense death metal playing or something. A lot of series that try to use ‘edgy’ ‘underground’ music end up chickening out, and instead opt for some lightweight emo music, instead of playing Hacked up for Barbeque by Mortician, Split Wide Open by Cannibal Corpse, Messiah of the Double Cross by Krisiun, or As He Destroys So He Creates by Nile (my favourite song at the moment). True Blood’s werewolf bikers didn’t seem to have a jukebox at all. So all we had was the sound of cheering, then howling. That scene desperately needed some death metal. Kind of reminded me of a scene in Battlestar Galactica, when Boomer is doing pull ups, and listening to some colonial metal. It was the fruit tea of metal basically. Boomer should have been listening to something like Napalm Death. But, apart from that, True Blood (and Battlestar Galactica and Caprica) is one of the best dramas on television.