True Blood Episode 11 Review: To Love Is To Bury
Bill drained the innocent young woman Jessica as ordered by The Magister for his punishment for staking a vampire in order to save Sookie. So here’s how vampires are made in True Blood:
- the human is drained of their blood until they’re almost at the point of death;
- the vampire then gives the human some of their blood;
- the human is then buried in the ground;
- the human rises as a vampire.
Pam is directed to ensure Bill follows through with making Jessica into a vampire. Bill, forever the gentleman, decides to help Jessica through her transformation. Initially, after Jessica rises she doesn’t understand what she’s become. But once she does, she’s ECSTATIC that she’s a vampire. She starts talking about killing people that have been mean to her. Actually, it’s clear that Jessica is a spoiled brat. In the last episode I felt sorry for her. I now hope she falls onto a wooden stake. It’s clear she’s going to be one of those vampires that attacks and kills humans just for the fun of it.
Sookie is afraid that the killer is now targeting her as his next victim. When reading the mind of her attacker in the last episode she saw the uniform of one of the murder victims. The woman in question, Cindy Marshall, apparently worked at a place called Big Patty’s Pies. Sookie enlists the aid of Sam and together they visit the pie shop where they obtain information about Cindy. Turns out she used to associate with vampires like the other victims.
Sookie and Sam later visit the police station where Sookie reads the mind of a police officer and blackmails him into faxing a photo of Cindy’s brother (Drew Marshall) to the Bon Temps sheriff.
Jason, upset with Amy’s staking of the nice vampire Eddie, helps her clean up the gross vampire residue. They were using towels but quite frankly, they needed to use a couple of shovels. Jason is finally seeing more of Amy’s dark side but appears to be unable to cut her off. As such he and Amy do “one last vial” of “V” together.
When Tara gets pulled over by a police officer she tells the officer, Kenya, that she had a car accident in order to avoid hitting a naked woman standing in the middle of the road with a large pig. As a result she winds up in jail on a drunk driving charge; she’s visited by her mother who not only refuses to bail her out but also kicks her out of the house. She’s eventually bailed out by a mysterious stranger named Maryann Forrester, who appears to be a very wealthy social worker. She also looks strangely like the naked woman that was in the middle of the road. She invites Tara to come to her home. Tara agrees.
Lafayette visits his state senator buddy at a political event. During a conversation with the senator Lafayette points out the hypocrisy of what the senator is telling the public. The senator is publicly anti-vampire and anti-gay but is privately both a “V” user and gay. Lafayette’s conversation with the senator is photographed.
Sookie Sookie Now. Didn’t Bill tell Sookie he’d be back as soon as possible? So please tell me why Sookie is convinced Bill will never return. And tell me why she decides to engage in some lip locking with Sam. Bill walks in on them, attacks Sam, pisses Sookie off, and gets his invitation to enter her home rescinded.
Meet Jason The Idiot. Jason calls the police and turns himself in for the murders of the local women. He thinks he may have killed them while on “V”. Jason tells them “I don’t want to hurt anybody else. Lock me up.”
The episode ends with a ditzy clerk at the police officer totally ignoring the fax that contains the photo of Cindy’s brother. Do you recognize him?
Funniest line:
“This is a Texas Special Sawdust Pie. Nobody ordered that.”
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i saw the photo. I knew him right away. sad and he seemed liked the first good thing to happen to his GF in a long time.
Agreed. Arlene tends to attract guys that aren’t good for her. Rene really looked like a sure bet didn’t he?
Ok, Suki thinks Bill will never return because he tells her he doesn’t know what aill happen, a possibility being stuck in a coffin for 5 yrs as we find out at the silly vampire trial which seems oblivious to the threat of mortal retribution of Sukis murder.
Lafayette has probably gone off to blackmail the senator. He isn’t dead. I hope.
Ok…I don’t think it was Terras mom that visited her in jail. It might have been a ghost, or it might have been mary Ann playing dress up. It was not Terras mom for a fact!!!! Even the jail guard said she looked diffrent. Like she glowed. So that is who is in Andys car. It wasn’t a male foot.
I agree on the Sam N Sookie thing… WTF was up with that? Bill tells her he’ll be back and she makes out with Sam while he’s gone for only a couple days? are you kidding me? This episode made me lose faith in the series..
Yes, I’m not sure why the director would take Sookie and Sam’s relationship in that direction. I’m not sure where he’s going here – that scene was out of character for Sookie who had told Sam earlier that she thought she was in love with Bill.
Most of the screewriters’ adaptations has been entertaining, even brilliant. The tribunal scene was shattering and Jessica’s Born Again Vampire scenes are a real hoot. Bill playing Wii Golf – cute! Lafayette and Tara, bring it on! And who can forget Eddie? I even tolerated Amy, sort of. But they need to be a little more circumspect when tinkering with Sookie’s character. This last scene where Sookie kisses Sam and banishes Bill is a hodgepodge of scenes from the books that have totally been taken out of context. Not good. We book fans adore Sookie precisely because she is such a caring and devoted and upbeat woman, not a shallow, angry, immature bitch. I really hope she redeems herself in the last episode.
I agree on all counts. You know, several of the episodes have been directed by different people. I believe the last episode will be directed by Alan Ball, the producer of the series and the person responsible for bringing the story to the small screen. Here’s hoping he returns Sookie’s character to her roots.
Good point about the director. Maybe Alan Ball can do something to put more of the charming rogue in the Eric character too. He seems a little blah to me
Although I haven’t read the book yet, (I’ve just ordered the box set from amazon) and so my idea of Sookie character is only related to what I’ve seen so far in the series, I found the kiss thing completely misplaced. While watching. I feel it coming but I was sure she’s going to avoid, so I got quiet disappointed. Anyway I’m anxious to see what’s coming next!
Me too, I can’t wait to see what happens in the last episode!
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But Suki is always completely impossible to understand, isn’t she?
Ok why is she forcefully open minded about vampires who can kill a person, but totally freaks out when Sam can change into a small collie who can at worst bite your leg?
And why is she like Buffy in episode one taking on two tough characters with a chain, but then she needs to be protected by a guy who can turn into a household pet? How would turning into a collie even help?
Then whats up with knowing what everyone thinks but not knowing a thing about anyone on town? are they thinking too fast for her? She seems only to hear thoughts that are misleading, or about her body.
And why are the vampires not caring if they get caught committing crimes? Erics bar is raided by police, but he does nothing to stop Suki from being murdered while on his property? Isn’t that a bit stupid? Also why do some vampires change personality completey like the annoying girl, but then some like Bill are almost the same after being turned? Which is it?
Please someone explain whats up with all that.
Ok…That said, I think its Terras moms foot in Andys trunk. It didn’t look like a two week old corpse.
i stil lve 2 c’ Lafayette pfmce, he/she gna b’ alright hope so, and for sookie, she’s the only normal young girl, sometime she’s gna tke a wrong decision or unmatured responsibble,,didn’t her? but honestly i’m so much disagree anything ’bout romance scene between Sookie and Sam…
I knew it was renee… i didnt see him on the season 2 so it HAD to be him and this is my first time watching this season and the show to add to that and it’s OSM