And on this episode of Bill Behaving Badly . . . I am loving Bill this season. That whole snippet from the time they pulled up outside the strip club to the blood gushing out the closed limo door was tragic and gorgeous. And he never looked so good. Suffering and evil really suit him. The obstacles keeping Hoyt and Jessica apart are becoming Sweet Valley High level ridiculous now. He glimpses her chatting up another boy from afar, but they were really only talking about their science fair project but he thought Chet was asking her to the big dance so he left. Enough already. They have enough to keep them apart. Some forward momentum on this storyline, please.

I'm also really enjoying Sookie and Alcide. Seems I like her with pretty much anyone but Bill. That whole Mississippi plotline with the murky vampire politics is great, much more intriguing than last year's MaryAnnefest. And poor Pam. Don't make Pam scream. I would not want to get on the wrong side of the Magister. He's not a nice man.

I feel so badly for Jason. When he was confronting hotshot quarterback? So sad. I think him blackmailing Andy into making him a cop is totally in character. Jason tends not to think his cockamamie schemes through. I also think it will make sense if Andy does go along, 'cause let's face it, he's not a very good cop. That whole thing can't help but end badly.

Sam's family storyline just seems superfluous, as does the Terry/Arlene baby storyline. But since I love Terry Bellefleur, I am still enjoying that whole deal. Sadly, I do not love the Mickens' and since it seems telegraphed that they will abuse Sam's trust and get him into hot water before all is said and done, I kind of don't see the point. My most hated storyline right now, however, is Tara and Franklin. I do enjoy the Franklin character. He's an appropriately creepy yet disturbingly hot psychopath, but I just am sick of seeing Tara victimized by supernatural forces. Do we really need to see her naked from the waist down, bitten, traumatized and tied to a toilet with duct tape over her mouth? No. No, we don't. If that's the best they can think of to do with the character, I'd rather they just killed her off. It's not enjoyable TV.

This episode was kind of a snooze even though a lot of stuff happened. Maybe it's one that looking back from season's end will seem more impactful. Right now, it was just kind of meh.

I've been trying to figure out what the nine crimes are from the title of the episode. Attempted robbery (Tommy Mickens), kidnapping (Franklin and Bill), assault (Various - Franklin, the Magister, Bill, Eric), murder (Bill, Russell, Lorena), attempted blackmail (Jason), drug possession with intent to sell (Lafayette), underage drinking/public drunkenness (Kitch, Daddy Mickens), tax evasion (Queen Sophie), public nudity (Everyone at Lou Pine's except Sookie). That's nine, but I bet there were a lot more. This is a very dark season, indeed.

Also, I love that Eric knows who RuPaul is. And I love that he's having reverse sex dreams about Sookie. I didn't know that it worked in reverse. I wonder if he'll have one about Lafayette. Or maybe Bill could have one about Sam because yes, please.

I believe the title of the ep is from the song by Damien Rice. That song was played at the end.

thanks to the local library i've been catching up on my premium cables shows, albeit several seasons behind. Loved True Blood and am eagerly waiting for S2, very fun reading all the commentary here (i don't care about spoilers).

Kinda hated Big Love S1. I thought about watching S2 to see if it could be redeemed, but the first season was so irritating that i don't think i can handle losing that many hours of my life. The only characters i liked were Barb and her kids. I found myself constantly wanting greedy, manipulative Niki to get hit by a car, and then wanting to shake some sense into stoopid Margie. It grated so that i could feel my exasperation levels runnning at peak. Not to mention that the constant sex scenes seemed beyong gratuitous. I get that it's an important theme and drives lots of the inter-wife politics, but i think i spent so much time looking at Bill Paxton's ass that i should be counted as a fourth wife.

Now on to The Tudors, which i expected to be just pretty and completely historically innacurate. Pretty much spot on there. What, they couldn't find a red head to play one of the most famous gingers EVER? Or a brown-eyed beauty for Mistress Boleyn? I nearly swooned when Catharine of Aragon showed up in a round, french-style hood of the style that Anne Boleyn wore, tho i guess it was refreshing for them to portray a court woman actually wearing somethign close to a proper hood. I could spend hours expounding on the inaccuracies, yet the show is still pretty and i expect to watch season 2.

So I think the best season of Big Love was the 2nd season, but I cannot disagree with you that the show is irritating. I could not get into the first season and only remained a faithful watcher because Beau likes the show. The show ran off the fucking rails in the most recent season and I finished the season because my default is as a completist, but Beau walked away from the show in a huff. There are a sequence of events that ticked him off so much that we almost may never speak of the show in the home.

Hmmm, so Franklin's working for Russell.

I wonder if the Jason storyline is going to somehow bring him to Jackson too.

Think Andy's plan is to bore Jason away from wanting to be a cop?

Jessica cracks me up.

I suppose everyone else watches Leverage first.

Ah well. I'm not going to see it 'til 11.

This was a much better episode - I guess they needed the set up last week for this week's pay off. Like the way that the show is hitting the stuff from the books but in its own way.