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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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About Patrick Hickey Jr. 13860 Articles
Patrick Hickey Jr. is a full-time Assistant Professor of Communication & Performing Arts and Director of the Journalism program at Kingsborough Community College and is the chairman of the City University of New York Journalism Council. He is the Founder and Editor-In-Chief of ReviewFix.com. He's also a former News Editor at NBC Local Integrated Media and National Video Games Writer at Examiner.com where his work was mentioned in National Ad campaigns by Disney, Nintendo and EA Sports. Hickey was also the Editor-In-Chief of two College Newspapers before he received his BA in Journalism from Brooklyn College. Hickey's work has been published in The New York Daily News, The New York Times, Complex, The Hockey Writers, Yahoo!, Broadway World, Examiner, NYSportScene Magazine, ProHockeyNews.com, GothamBaseball.com, The Syracuse Post-Standard, Scout.com and the official sites of the Brooklyn Aces and New York Islanders. His first book, The Minds Behind the Games: Interviews With Cult And Classic Video Game Developers was released in April 2018 and is chock full of interviews with legendary developers. His second book in the series, The Minds Behind Adventures Games, was released in December 2019. His third book, The Minds Behind Sports Games, was released in September 2020. His fourth book, The Minds Behind Shooter Games, was released in March 2021. The Minds Behind Sega Genesis Games and The Minds Behind PlayStation Games were released in 2022 and The Minds Behind PlayStation 2 was published in January 2023. Hickey is also a contracted comic book writer, currently penning his original series, "Condrey," as well as "The Job," "Brooklyn Bleeds" "Dem Gulls" and "KROOM" for Legacy Comix, where he serves as founder, owner and Editor-in-Chief. Hickey Jr. is also a voice actor, having starred in the 2018 indie hit and 2019 Switch, PS4 and Xbox One release, The Padre (also serving as English language Story Editor), from Shotgun With Glitters. The sequel, The Padre: One Shell Straight to Hell was released in February 2021- Hickey also served as a Story Editor and Lead Voiceover performer. He has also done narration and trailers for several other titles including The Kaiju Offensive, Relentless Rex and Roniu’s Tale. Hickey is also the lead voiceover performer on Mega Cat Studios’ upcoming title WrestleQuest, responsible for nearly 90 characters in the game, as well as Skybound's Renfield: Bring Your Own Blood, where he voices both Dracula and Renfield, as well as several other characters. He also stars in Ziggurat Interactive’s World Championship Boxing Manager 2, where he performs the VO of nearly every male character in the game. He also worked on the Atari VCS’s BPM Boy.

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