Episode Commentary: “Nine Crimes”

This past week’s episode of “True Blood” was easily the weakest of the season.

However, in the long run, it may figure in as one of the most important.

Marking what appears to be the end of the Sookie Stackhouse-Bill Compton era, the series may never be the same again.

Add in the new werewolf elements and the problems Sam Merlotte is having with his new family, Eric Northman’s drug dealings gone astray and Jason Stackhouse’s trials and tribulations and this show feels almost completely different from the steamy and sexy show it was just a month ago.

However, one can only hope, after beginning to shed some more back story on some of the show’s newer characters over the past few weeks, that it will go back to its roots- before the less exciting and more drawn out ones it’s been growing as of late begin to take hold.

Because after a few weeks of lukewarm episodes and a weak second half of Season two, this vampire epic needs to get provocative and fast.

After the end of the episode before this one, with one of the craziest sex scenes in Cable TV history, you wouldn’t have been wrong to think the show was going to pick up in the action department.

Not the case at all here though.

Make no mistake about it- if this episode was indeed a vampire, its fangs would be capped and rendered useless by the dentist from “Little Shop of Horrors,” but without the charisma of Steve Martin and a blood-thirsty plant.

Mirroring the storyline of Merlotte and his family, which is intriguing, but losing steam each week, and frankly getting boring, “True Blood” needs a big week this upcoming Sunday in worst way possible.

With a new sheriff in town, Tera involved with a vampire and Eric seemingly falling for Sookie more by the minute, the intangibles are there for that to indeed be the case.

The jury is out when those intangibles will induce a full-blown fangtastic episode however.

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