True Blood Season Four Coverage: Forgetting More Than the First Episode

July 4, 2011 Patrick Hickey Jr. TV 0

Episode Commentary: “You Smell Like Dinner”

After a mediocre first episode, True Blood bit back stronger than expected in the second episode of the season. Not only did it begin to develop several storylines that promise to deliver this summer, it did something the first episode didn’t.

Entertain.

While the first episode merely began to set the scene for the season, this episode provides a closer look at all of the characters and shows what they’ve been up to.

It’s a lot more than you were led to believe.

While there are developments aplenty, two storylines in particular appear the most interesting. The first involves the witches and what they’ve done to Eric. Apparently in a state of shock and without his memory, Eric is in serious trouble. After so original skepticism, it appears the vampires had it right to be afraid of what the witches might do. In spite of originally appearing as if he had everything he wanted, Eric is now perhaps at his weakest moment of the series.

Can he recover? And if so, how?

If you thought Eric was in dire straits, Jason is about to be turned into a panther against his will. What will be this character’s fate? Always a bit of a knucklehead, it’ll be interesting to see how Jason responds to life with some supernatural power.

If that wasn’t enough, it’s obvious that Bill still loves Sookie, in spite of his sexual tendencies with other women. Providing the back-story that led Bill to become a vampire spy, it appears that more pieces are beginning to come together.

Even better, it appears that there will be far less of the fairy world this season, ending what was easily one of the most lackluster segments in the series’ short history.

But wait, it gets better.

Between all of this, Jessica’s continued development as the resident secondary sex kitten on the show, the exploits of Arlene and Rene’s demon child and some focus on Sam and his new shifter friends, the show has the depth it had around the time it was at its creative best during season one and the beginning of two.

The only question is, can it keep it up all season?

All in all, the show appears it has reclaimed its overt sexiness, sense of danger and multiple strong storylines.

As a result, after an improper start, True Blood is back.

Bring on the blood, breasts and hard bodies; it’s going to be fun.

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About Patrick Hickey Jr. 14316 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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