So my clever plan of us buying episodes of True Blood S3 from either the Playstation or XBox store? Not gonna work. Neither of them seem to be offering it. Am I hosed, and will just need to wait until the season is done and released?

Thankfully, the MaryAnne business is not representative of what the show can do when it's good.

I think that's what I was watching in the lone episode I saw... at least, I believe that's what they were calling the woman who was planning to be married after the sacrifice. Most of it seemed so muddled that I just kept wondering where all the wonderfulness was that everyone else kept raving about. It's entirely possible that it's just the type of show that you can't drop into without having seen the backstory leading into current events. I was interested in Sam, the bartender with the appparently fucked-up childhood who's now determined to track down the missing pieces of his past, and who was willing to risk his own life for everyone else in the community because he clearly considered them all a part of his extended family. And by -- I think they called him Eggs? -- the man who was so distraught when he came back to himself and found blood on his hands but had no recollection of how it got there.

Jilli, I think so. I'm in the same boat -- was hoping they'd do a season pass for iTunes, and no dice.

I do think TB is a show you can't really drop in. Unlike some shows I could name, if you don't like TB's pilot, you probably won't like the show, so start with the pilot - a lot of stuff gets set up there.

what do you all think of this "review" of "True Blood" (contains spoilers for the premiere ep:

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Netflix the season 1 and season 2 dvds and watch them in one long TB orgy.

My recommendation.

Also, what you will want to do.

(Particularly with season 1.)

The whole Marianne thing was too slow, too long and not that great - but I'm guessing the big pay off was seeing Sam turn into a beautiful white bull and getting him injured so that Bill could heal him with his blood and we'd get Sam's erotic Bill dreams this season.

if you don't like TB's pilot, you probably won't like the show

eh...this is true and not. i wasn't overly impressed with the first season as a whole. it wasn't until season two that i started to feel the love and felt like they hit their stride. i definitely think you have to start with the pilot though. of course, i'm also a purist and have to watch shows from the beginning.

On the whole, I liked the first season better than the second - I think it was because I didn't care for the 2nd season's main plot. The side plots were decent, but the main plot was not.

Interesting. Thanks for the recs. I may have to check it out.

I've only seen Season 1 so far, but I found myself lukewarm about the pilot (except for the Tara and Gran characters) and growing to enjoy it more as the series progressed.