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 EllisThe 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
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