The Shark That Jumped Itself: Bad Blood and True Fans

The second season of True Blood has wrapped its crazy self up, leaving us with a bad hangover and a case of the heebie jeebies. Did our eyes really go black and round? Did we really roll around howling like a banshee with our disgusting next door neighbor/mechanic/teacher/crazy street person? Are the pictures on Facebook?








Like the residents of Bon Temps, we are wondering whether the good times rolled right out of town on the back of a Maenad.







Season one built on the anticipation of the trailer and milked the suspense of the new, hooking viewers with its strange universe. Season two relied on endless cheesecake and replaced suspense with tedious exposition and dialogue that exposed the limits of the accents of many of the actors.

The Victorious Actor Nelsan Ellis

The only cast member who was able to withstand the ridiculousness of season two is Nelsan Ellis, who managed to make sweet music of the sorry lines he was given. His channeling of the gay, vamp-bitten, gun-shy, outrageous, self-possessed and tender character of Lafayette may forever mark his career, and certainly redeems the overall implausibility of this season: the entire town gone mad, orgiastic, consumed, destructive, cutting off their own fingers and flinging themselves around like a fourth grade production of Hair. Season three seems doomed to drown in its own shark bait. If only the show could be more like the trailer...or as good as the fan videos on YouTube.

Lafayette FanVid (Lily Allen's "I Could Be Your Fag Hag")





Eric Northman Fan Video





Eric Sexy Back Fan Video





True Blood Fan Video: It's Raining Men





Jessica Gelt Recaps the Finale

In the Beginning: A Guest Correspondent Reports from Pennsylvania

Excellent production. Parking, seating etc. was well handled.-Violet Murphy, Greer, SC

Recently a dear relation attended the cultural offering at the Sight and Sound Millennium Theatre in Strasburg, Pennsylvania entitled "In the Beginning." Her account follows; one is tempted to think it is a tad exaggerated until the Site and Sound website proves otherwise.

"The show itself was in a huge, new theater almost like the Taj Mahal in the middle of nowhere surrounded by farmland. Huge cast, much elaborate scenery as they depicted the story of Adam and Eve. Audience was mostly made up of bus loads of people like us.

Site and Sound Millenium Theatre

Music was contemporary which means that I can't remember any of the melody. Huge cast letter perfect but there was much use of smoke machines, thunder, lightning, ascensions into heaven, angels with flapping wings, live animals, and huge stuffed animals with people inside moving them about.

Eden

Angels on stage wore sneakers with the built-in rollers so they could move swiftly across large areas. The theater was enormous and with a huge surround. God was depicted throughout. He was played by a frail young man with waist-length black wavy wig and he wore a white chiffon robe with sequins and spangles showing from beneath that looked like an evening gown.

God Created Adam In An Evening Gown

Excellent voices but the play was long, dialogue was strange....Adam at one point said, "God is acting different today." Lots of climbing up rocks and hiding in caves and, best of all, there was a huge stuffed wooley mammouth that pulled a cart across the stage. Program note said they'd taken 'liberties with the story.' "

mezzaine direct center seats with no one in your view, Excellent -Ralph Caiazza, Meriden, CT

We will never know, really, whether woolly mamouths and giant turtles lived at the same time as a couple named Adam and Eve. In a follow-up interview, our correspondent added that in the course of the production, Eve disappeared frequently into caves and emerged with babies, producing 43 children. And when God needed to ascend, the angels, who wore white and gold glitter masks with feathers on them, would come stand in front of him flapping their wings while he fastened on the flying gear. No effort was spared, just as God would have wanted it.

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Religulous Holy Land Theme Park

"Experience God's pleasure at his most awesome creation, Adam and Eve, and the complete beauty of their unbroken relationship with God."