sits next to Ash.

As I said to Allyson, "I really thought Alan Ball was a better writer than this."

I keep hoping the arrival of Alexander Skarsgard will make it better.

I keep hoping that he'll be encrusted with barnacles, and clutching a bottle of rum. Or possibly singing ABBA numbers. But I'll settle for him being hot instead. (His dad not so much with the hot, imho. With all due respect.)

No True Blood love this morning?!

A buddy and I have restarted the Sunday night HBO tradition left bereft by the end of Rome.

I'm really enjoying it.

No naked Jason (except maybe a flashback) and !mercy! his box of hair stoopidity really did him in this week. I absolutely LOVED that Tara correctly identified acute priapism.

I also loved her explanation of why she didn't bother with college. I've disliked the character greatly until this ep.

The TWOP recapper thinks he knows who the killer is. [link] To which I could only say....Nooooooo. And, huh. Why didn't that occur to me when I was watching the show? Because I lurve that character and simply refuse to believe he's a bad doggie .

He is all unrequited and stuff though, so yeah.

I thought the Bill glamouring the trooper scene went on too long and the final shot of the trooper's humiliation was unnecessary, but beyond that...the buddy checked her watch as the end credits came up and said,"Was that just a half hour? It ended too soon!"

I thought the Bill glamouring the trooper scene went on too long and the final shot of the trooper's humiliation was unnecessary,

I agree. Peeing down the leg was cliched and silly. And not silly in a good way.

Hmm. You know another thing that bugs? The way Sookie goes from all mannerly to super bitchy? I mean, it's too extreme. She just says some things that are too abruptly rude and teenagery and it clashes with the mannerly behavior she usually acts with and insists on.

I didn't find Eric as compelling as he needed to be.

I guess I'm still watching, but it's just not as good as I want it to be. Le sigh.

Last night's episode was my favorite so far. I loved that Dawn's crime scene became an impromptu block party. I loved Renee and his valiant yet ultimately doomed struggle against the doily. (I had a friend whose mom was the exact same way about the doilies. We'd be eating out back in their rec room which they made by converting half of their garage, sitting at some old, rickety card table and she'd insist on placemats and doilies.) I loved that big, cornfed boy getting sunscreen lathered on by his momma.

I thought Bill and Sookie were adorable on their non-date date. And for the first time, I kinda got the Bill hotness, a little bit. Not just the Bill/Sookie chemistry, which has been there since the beginning, but just him being kinda hot in his own right. He had the sexy little sly smile moment when Sookie was protesting the non-date-iness of it all. He was giving good smolder in the car (both before and after the date) and he was funny in the crazy vamp bar.

I wasn't really feeling Eric, but maybe it takes a while for the vampires on this show to grow on me. Or at least the male vampires because Pam was awesome.

The one thing I am totally over is the Jason storyline. It was better this week than the non-stop Jason sex show, but I just do not care about this character. I don't care about him becoming a V addict. I sure don't care about him and Tara, who continued to bug. Ooooh, you know about Miranda rights. Congratulations for catching one of the million reruns of Law and Order. Please, please get over yourself. But really, if we could just get rid of those characters, I'd be a lot happier.

Is it the greatest story ever told? Egh, not really. But it's Sunday night and I'm easy.

For the first time, Jason and Tara didn't bug me (as much) and I think it was because they inserted the scene about them dealing with the alcoholic mother.

Sam on the bed at the end? Twenty ways of weird. I really liked him up to that point. The show itself hasn't won me over as a fan, but I'm interested enough to follow the story. It even prompted me to buy the first book in the series, so that's a good thing.

I liked Tara better than I have so far in this show. I liked that we saw where the irrational hero worship of Jason came from, although the simpering look on her face in the car was nauseating.

Again, this show is relentlessly sexual, but it's not as bad as last week.

I loved Renee and his valiant yet ultimately doomed struggle against the doily.

I love this sentence.

Jason's storyline is all about fast-forwarding. I do regret that time wasted on this story could not be given to, say, the scene with Bill & Sookie & Pam & Eric, but at last I have fast-forwarding to get me through the bored now.

I am still watching, though.

I really thought I was over the whole, dark, handsome, broody, mysterious vampire dude. *sigh* Apparently not.

This episode was a lot better than the first two. I like Tara more but she still bugs. Jason's priapism was well deserved.

Bill's hot. I like that he's playful.