"True Blood" fans can remember back to the first season when a campy gem was born. The fangs was shorter - almost Ricky Gervais-size - while plots focused around the social strife and political tensions between vampires and humans, with overtones of heated 1960's race relations . We met a motley crew of characters , lovable, hated and some in-between. Alan's Ball's HBO creation was funny and dark in that deep south way where danger seems to lurk behind the kudzu and Spanish Moss. Love interests , requited and not , sprouted . We marveled at the raunchy vamp speed sex ' ( a ramp up to this season's vamp speed texting ! ) and lurid human copulation set a standard. But gore was almost more inferred in Season One.
Then Season Two rolled over us in a weird wave, topping out with frenzied, bloody cult orgies that climaxed with eating fresh hearts and group slathered in blood. Those scenes were not likely to be topped , right ?
Don't under-estimate Season Three's tricks. The "True Blood" team seems to know third seasons are clutch and must hit hard and fast : shock and awe type of stuff. And so far , that's just what Ball and his team have done. Oh yes, there will be blood.
The sultry and sadistic Lorena , evil sexpot and Bill's maker, takes her time torturing Bill within an inch of his life. Bill lays splayed on the floor covered in blood . "Just make it quick," he pleads. She lovingly peruses her array of blood-spattered mid evil-looking torture devices, as she berates Bill, her unrequited love, for rejecting her and the traditional vampire ideals.
'True Blood' iseducational, in a really gross way: We now know what happens to a vampire when they're staked. Earlier in the season, Bill has a violent bout of hate sex with his maker Lorena (he twists her head ully around and she's still smiling ). In this highlight from last week . Sookie impales her and gets showered with gooey, vein-filled , stickey, bloody, web-like viscera that looks awfully hard to wash off. What'a left is a mangled pulp.
We love this season's breakout star, the vampire freak Franklin. He's crazy as a loon, dangerously insecure, passionate, joyous to embrace carnage: A beautifully cracked deviant that gives "Blue Velvet" sociopath Frank Booth a good run for his money. After beibg held hostage as a forced lover , Tara escaped by channeling her inner cabe man and graphically bashing in Franklin's skull, leaving his bloody noggin caved in and crumpled loke a discarded yogurt cup.
Weird, charming and foppish Vampire King of Mississippi Russell Edgington show some depravity in Season Three. After reading the vampire magistrate the riot act, explaining he holds the reigns to the vampire nation, he suavely lops off weasel's head as if popping a fine champagne with a sword. A beheading never looked so debonair. Leave it to the King to pull of a bloody, yet somehow classy , Sabrage.
My spin: This series is not for the week of heart, but take a sneak peek...'True Blood' comes on HBO...check your local TV guide for date and time.
Kicking back having fun and keepiing it real...see you in the movies...
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