True Blood Season Four Commentary: The Plot Building Continues

Episode Commentary: “I Wish I Was the Moon”

Well, it finally happened.

Eric and Sookie did the nasty.

In what will go down as one of the most important moments in the series, it appears that these two are now together.

Make no mistake; this is a definite turning point for the series.

While it’s strange the way it happened, it’s one of the most interesting stories in the season. With Bill Compton [Stephen Moyer] unable to kill Eric [Alexander Skarsgård] like he had hoped, it’ll be intriguing to see where this arc goes over the course of the last half of the season.

Speaking of intriguing, it’s obvious that there is sexual tension between Jessica [Deborah Ann Woll] and Jason [Ryan Kwanten]. Will his dreams come true, minus Hoyt [Jim Parrack] of course? Will he and Jess do the “humpity bumpity” too?

The questions don’t stop there though. With Marnie [Fiona Shaw] and Lafayette [Nelsan Ellis] both now possessed, how will they change the flow of the series? The same thing can be said with Tommy [Marshall Allman], who now has the ability to shift into human beings, following the stress from killing his parents.

Unlike previous episodes and many of the developments in season three, these happenings force you to think what could happen. With the season now at its midway point, there will be plenty of drama the rest of the way. And that’s a great thing, especially considering how disheveled the plot appeared a few episodes ago. While there is still perhaps too much going on at any one time, the show has done a solid job of containing itself. Many of the small storylines involving Tommy, Hoyt’s mother, the panthers, the werewolves, the fairies, the Bellefleur’s and Rene’s baby have either been pushed to the side for a rain day or developed enough to make them viable and worthwhile. This is the type of writing that made the show what it was a few short years ago. It’s nice to see the creative team go back to their roots in a way.

At the same time, this season still has plenty of work ahead of it.

The witches are dangerous beings, but their backstory has to continue to be fed to audiences. It can end up as a huge hit or miss depending on how it’s done. The creative team behind “True Blood” best be careful here. The entire season is riding on it.

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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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